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Troops who just left. a chillout area, christmas ornaments, care packages, and hundreds of very usable vehicles, nearly all white. some fire trucks, too. and the heart of the base, the runways. i borrowed a bike soldiers left behind and pedaled down what was one of the most active runways for strikes against the taliban and al qaeda. >> it feels post apocalyptic. >> no tumble week, a can of energy drink bobbed along. not long ago. it was the epicenter of the war, up to 100,000 troops planned and executed counterterrorism missions here. this was the command center. when u.s. troops left, they c...

Post-apocalyptic. when u.s. troops left, they cut the power. the afghans, a soldier told me, can't get it working. how do you feel about the way the americans left this base? i don't want to talk about it, he said. you hand over a base, but you can't turn on the power, it's not too useful. the main battle planning room is off-line. here are the racks that had all the computers and servers, that's all been stripped out. the americans say they handed over this base to the afghans in an orderly way so they could continue the fight against extremists. they left them a base that the americans, it l...

And pedalled down what was one of the most active runways for strikes against the taliban and al qaeda. it doesn't just feel like a ghost town. it almost feels post apocalyptic. no tumble weed. a can of energy drink hopped along. not long ago, bagram was the epicenter of america's longest war. up to 100,000 troops planned and executed counterterrorism missions here. so this was the command center. there is no light? >> reporter: when u.s. troops left, they cut the power. the afghans, a soldier told me, can't get it working. how do you feel about the way the americans left this base? >> transla...

Militias see it as opportunity to seize control of the country. >> we get readouts of the conversation our president has with other leaders. today a read out from the white house with the prime minister of iraq and i read it and it said there was a promise from the white house to help in iraq. then i look though and the person having the conversation with, the vice president. it was vice president biden and not president obama. should i read something into it that he is speaking to the prime minister of iraq and not president obama? >> i think what you can read into it is what has been happeni...

You look, poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. dr. king made the last case, you have the right to vote but you also need the right to eat and have health care and housing. the governor has rejected billions of dollars in medicaid money, having taken $100 million in education grants and spend it on prisons rather than schools and teachers. i was caught between the joy of the moment, the look on the face of those before us and that is the need to address poverty and racial disparity. >> indeed. the president said himself, he said listen, of course we have come a very very long way but there ...