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>> caught on camera as they come under fire themselves. >> they've been taking incoming rounds from at least two directions on these hills. >> war reporting is as old as war itself, and for journalists covering the wars in iraq and afghanistan it's as dangerous as ever. in 2008, nbc news' richard engel the network's chief foreign correspondent, heads to afghanistan to report the story of soldiers based at restrepo. >> we didn't know what we were going to find. we went to the korangal valley which at the time was the most dangerous place in afghanistan. so we knew we would see action, we would ...

>> complete on one. >> caught on camera as they come under fire themselves. >> they've been taking incoming rounds from at least two directions on these hills. >> war reporting is as old as war itself, and for journalists covering the wars in iraq and afghanistan it's as dangerous as ever. in 2008, nbc news' richard engel the network's chief foreign correspondent, heads to afghanistan to report the story of soldiers based at restrepo. >> we didn't know what we were going to find. we went to the korangal valley which at the time was the most dangerous place in afghanistan. so we knew we would s...

Won't be willing to tolerate karzai's behaviors? >> i think secretary hagel was aastute in the way he was not offended and kind of explained it as a political issue. i think we have interests in afghanistan not having it become a vacuum. so we are looking at the way we pull our troops out in a responsible way, and i think people are beginning to understand this is how karzai behaves. i wanted to ask you about the paperback edition of "prague winter." this is such a beautiful story, a painful story, about your self-discovery and your roots, and it's very instructive for our global threats now...

Challenged given that the team is not pulled together. >> well, the time to intervene if we were going to intervene was year ago. more than a year ago. the fact -- if we do it now, better late than never. but we lost so much ability to influence the outcome there because the president wanted to control the outcome or dictate outcome or didn't want anything serious to do with it at all. better in my view if you provide assistance to opposition tonight a open way and say we're providing assistance to the opposition, in return, we expect certain things of the government that replaces bashar assad...

Broadband as well as the electric network across this country that makes a difference. that's part of the nondefense discretionary account. so what we need to do is to acknowledge we've made deep cuts already on the nondefense spending side. as painful as it may be, as difficult as it may be, the pentagon has to step up. they have to find ways to save money, too. and i think a lot of those on the left feel that we've gone too deep into education and other programs. let's make sure this is balanced from this point forward. >> senator, before we let you go, switching topics a bit, i assume that ...