that's why i went to afghanistan.rch of 2001, i moved to afghanistan to join a relief agency called shelter now international. their objective was developing small business enterprises for women and programs to teach job skills to street kids. >> there were a number of internationals in afghanistan who were doing humanitarian work there. who really wanted to serve the afghan people. over half of the population is female. of course, in islam any contact with women with whom you are not related by blood outside of marriage is absolutely forbidden. and so just from a humanitarian standpoint, yeah, there was a very important role that female humanitarian workers would have in a place like afghanistan. >> my plan was to be there forever. i bought a one-way ticket. i wrote my will. i told my parents where to bury my body if i was killed. that motivation to make a difference in the world was a big factor in choosing afghanistan. i wanted to go to a place where the need was great. >> there were a lot of ngos that were active

to italy and afghanistan last week. we discussed a range of issues with foreign leaders and met with military leaders and servicemen and women. their bravery and dedication is inspiring to all of us. in italy we met with the archbishop who is head of the council for justice and peace. we discussed immigration and security and global poverty reduction. these are critical issues that face our world and the u.s. has an important role to play. the united states cannot and must not put its head in the sand whether they are fighting zika or addressing the other global issues. we thank you again leader pelosi, and let me turn it back to you. i'm sorry, congressman steve israel. >> when it comes to national security, it is not just that republicans are doing nothing, they are doing damage to our national security. leader pelosi led us on a trip to meet with nato partners in italy and afghanistan. i felt like we should have brought brooms and mops to clean up the damage that donald trump is creating for the allies and partners.

can have a contraction one day of force from inside afghanistan.was the president's desire, but it is not something he's been able to achieve. >> again, it's like i said earlier. we have to build the capacity of this country to defend itself. and we have to put in the institutions, the personnel, they have to work through their experience. >> the very people that are going to be doing that. >> well, the taliban themselves have their own entire organization where they can flow in without going to school. they just learn to become come pat ta bat tants. they are full scale combatants. the army is building that like the iraqi army. we're building its capacity so its constitution liezed to maintain security and control of the government of afghanistan. so it doesn't descend back into a taliban-led government. >> malcolm, thank you for your time. reuters reporting that one student dead, 14 injured in an attack on that campus. >>> this takes place in florida. donald trump making a pitch to minority voters on the campaign trail. >> to the african-american

actually, we encouraged women in afghanistan. it's a thing they otherwise wouldn't have ran for office and become security guard giving the sort of things which is good. now we have left those people behind. i think we have a moral responsibility to do something about that. so, i feel really passionately that we shouldn't forget. >> there's a responsibility to let them know. it was touched bi was touched be passage in the book when my son was born after the occupation of iraq i was unable to cut his nails. it was visceral rather than emotional reaction. i would pick up the scissors and look at his translucent fingers and feel as though i had a vision of a man i knew who had no fingernails. then it goes on at length about this man that used to come into the office and then tortured in all his fingernails taken off and how every type of the baby and it's incredible. you met these people, stayed close to them and wrote for a -- horrific things. are you going to go back? >> i feel committed to it. i find them absolutely horrific. i d

more people were killed in afghanistan than in any year of the war. it's a situation with women there. you remember when the taliban the discussion was how every going to make women free. and people gave a radio addresses and talked about it. actually we encouraged women to do things they would never had done become security and do all sorts of things which is good but now we've left this people behind and were them were not protecting them and they stood up and have done things that were not traditional in their culture and other being targeted and were not there to help them. i think we've a moral responsibility to do something about that. i feel really passionately that we shouldn't forget that. and once you're so deep in the story you feel a responsibility let the world know. in her book she writes these images of things i was touched by this one passage in her book when my son was born shortly after the american occupation of iraq i was unable to cut his nailsit was this rule rather than rational reaction. i would pick up the tiny baby scissors a

, by the leadership in afghanistan. the afghanistan president and the chief executive officer abdullah abdullah. when the president took the action, it was before the warsaw meeting and had a positive and soon our nato allies they have chimed in with more resources for our action in afghanistan. our nato relationships is not only important in europe in the transatlantic partnership, but infighting isis and terrorism in afghanistan. i also want to talk about when she talked about meeting at the vatican about issues relating to migration. i quoted then, and i will now, pope paul the sixth said if you want peace, work for justice. that is exactly what we're trying to do working together to address underlying causes of poverty, the fury of this -- despair that is fertile territory for the recruitment of that deal but despair. i was proud of the delegation. they are so informed. we had some lively conversations which will serve us well here. that is about information and intelligence and knowledge. that that is what is so fr

and likely, in afghanistan, we have wild pistachio. we have hoards of pistachio, so trying to see how we can become a main exporter. we have a project with uc davis, washington state, texas a&m together, that they are working with extension programs in afghanistan. their extension officers are working out with the ministry. so they will be the key partner of us to let them know how we can adopt some of those technology. at the same time, we'll be sending some of our students, our government employee, to learn and work in these research stations. our researcher will come here to learn the new technology -- at the same time, to see how we can adopt it to the context of afghanistan, where we are suffering from the lack of electricity, other issues. >> i think so many people have an image of afghanistan as a violent place where the only thing that's grown are poppies and the drug trade. >> people are engaged -- they have a life out there. they go to school, our girls going to school. our kids are going to school. we have hospitals, we -- a

ever built put never occupied in all of afghanistan. courtesy of american taxpayers. >> pentagon rejected all of his recommendation for discipline saying the officers involved did nothing wrong. and final note, the millions of tax dollars to build 64 k didn't even benefit u.s. company but british contractor. >> still ahead on fuel measure it is not hard low gas prices labor day i mooep families planning 1 last summer road trip before fall. fueled part by lower prices at the pump. according to tote tore club aaa those cheaper gas prices are due surplus of oil on the market. but as we discovered, the scores of families with ties to the oil industry that low costil comes at high price. >> i am taking adv as i can. >> >> gauges at the gas pump are spinning lower and lower under $2 a gallon moment states. 24.52. save me lot of money. >> i get to drive my truck again. >> the job jaw cheap prices became bragging points in president obama recent state of union address. >> it you are buying gasoline. two bucks gallon terrible news if the wells t

link to more insecurity in eastern afghanistan. isis posting images of sensitive items the terror group claims it seized from the u.s. military, including dpgrenades, other equipment and a u.s. flag. also shown, identity documents for an american soldier who is not being held by isis. the military confirms that the soldier was part of an anti-isis operation in eastern afghanistan and some of the equipment was used in that operation, as well. while there were clashes between the two sides, the u.s. military simply says the gear was lost. >> late today, the u.s. military confirmed to box news that three soldiers suffered injury when their vehicle was targeted by ied in the east. afghanistan remains dangerous turf. >> greg, thank you. >>> president obama is doing what he can in his final months in office to fulfill a promise he made on day one, shut down the terrorist prison at guantanamo bay. lucas tomlinson tells us about a major exodus coming soon from gitmo, despite real concerns about who's leaving. >> i'm absolutely committed to

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service man killed in afghanistan yesterday.much a nation in conflict both in the battlefield and in the cities itself. you mentioned the american university there being targeted recently with those professors who were kidnapped. do we have any sense of what security precautions might be being taken at that university? with the name the american university in afghanistan you know it's the type of place that would be targeted. >> absolutely. as we had understood it, after the previous incident, that security had been really, really bolstered. especially as this is a very prestigious institution. much of that prestige is derived from the ability to attract a certain caliber of faculty members from all around the world. they know they are a target. the fact their security was breached, this is something that will be very, very worrying for those faculty members and 1,700 students, john. >> the latest is the reports of an explosion, reports of gunfire at the american university in afghanistan in kabul right now. nima just telling us

and in iraq as well as afghanistan and syria. are we putting too much emphasis on isis and in your estimation does it represent a threat to the united states? >> what is isis? at this point it is around 20,000 fighters that are vile and vicious. they don't have an air force, they don't have weapons of mass destruction, they don't have any significant resource base to draw. they don't have any allies and they are what, 7,000 miles away. it is no doubt true that an organization like isis can inspire people to be brave and initiate small-scale attacks. it could be the destination for the incident in san bernardino. it is not the case that isis poses any large threat to the united states of america. and to your point, it seems to me that the preoccupation with isis, the obama administration and the larger sort of political world here in the middle of a presidential campaign is deeply unfortunate because it distracts attention for how we got to where we are today. the purpose of writing a history of the war for the greater middle east

has gee voted more than $113 billion to help rebuild afghanistan. in 2012 president obama appointed investigator john to lead the job of policing want fraud and abuse in that spending. this is it the story of what happened when some generals on the ground at u.s. military base tipped him off to strange circumstances surrounding a building project called 64 k. building i had seen and still have seen in afghanistan. >> inspect tore general talking about his tour of this building, bigger than football field, shown on satellite photos at the u.s. military's camp in south central afghanistan. >> it is beautiful building. it was well done. fully furnished it was huge >> 64,000, approximately, square feet. >> nick named 64 k, because of its size, congress intendeded to be tennessee military surge of 30,000 troops to fight taliban islamic extremists. there was just one problem. >> marine commander the general in the grounds running the surge said, i don't want it. i don't need it. don't build it. >> and two other generals above him, said the same thing. don

either in iraq or afghanistan advising u.s. forces and working with them, local authorities and others. there's a medal for heroism that wasn't common not only for the amount of time he was posted in iraq and afghanistan, but also for the rage of his contacts and the depth of his involvement with american troops and local civilians. his new book the mirror test recount his personal journey and provides a close-up for any emotional portrait of the war that america has been engaged in now for well over a decade. he's very critical of america's failures and conflicts and remind us of the tremendous human cost of conflicts of the dead and wounded troops and of the many civilian casualties. it ended in a helicopter crash killing the marines and one navy command. it remains the single largest casualty incident in iraq or afghanistan and one for which he feels personally responsible. he reminds us from the title of the book through to the last pages how important it is for all of us as citizens to reflect on what this has meant. his w

link to more insecurity in eastern afghanistan.sting images of sensitive military items the terror group claims it seized from the u.s. military, including dpgrenades, other equipment and a u.s. flag. also shown, identity documents for an american soldier who is not being held by isis. the military confirms that the soldier was part of an anti-isis operation in eastern afghanistan and some of the equipment was used in that operation, as well. while there were clashes between the two sides, the u.s. military simply says the gear was lost. >> late today, the u.s. military confirmed to box news that three soldiers suffered injury when their vehicle was targeted by ied in the east. afghanistan remains dangerous turf. >> greg, thank you. >>> president obama is doing what he can in his final months in office to fulfill a promise he made on day one, shut down the terrorist prison at guantanamo bay. lucas tomlinson tells us about a major exodus coming soon from gitmo, despite real concerns about who's leaving. >> i'm absolutely committed t

killing isis members in afghanistan.here was a report a couple days ago that got almost no attention that in any other political environment would get a lot of attention from the same pentagon reporters. that five rangers were injured in a single incident. that's an unusual kind of report. how were five rangers -- did a helicopter go down? they were involved in combat in a very significant battle just along the pakistan border. and there is a perception that the core of isis leadership in afghanistan is under attack. in libya the group has also been losing ground. mostly in serte and the u.s. got very little attention, did its first air strike against isis in libya. direct air strike. that's a significant escalation. >> it is. >> the third was the egyptians have just announced just a few hours ago that the leader of isis in the sinai peninsula, man blamed for the take this brought down or indent that brought down, because there is ambiguity in which a russian charter plane in which over 220 people were killed, was killed

i don't think that i could do this job if i didn't feel hope even for afghanistan. i would give an entire speech about how things are going in afghanistan and somebody will say shouldn't we just pull everybody home? i feel like what you were saying is the same. we do have a chance and there have been improvements. just the very fact of having cell phone coverage in afghanistan and having the internet and tv stations and the reality tv shows where they feel so empowered that they would do the presentations this one woman on the international women's day, i watched her performance and you are the bravest we have ever seen so there are positive things happening. and i think you try to hold onto those. the idea that if we don't walk away and we give them stability enough for the next generation to take over would be the biggest mistake. we are looking around saying the world is falling apart. look years ago you can go back through generations, world war ii was no picnic. we happen to know more about it now because of the internet and all the news. there is hope in every

remembering a soldier from wisconsin who was killed in afghanistan. why those who knew him say he was one of a kind. plus - residents in a washington neighborhood on alert after finding a man's pet pythons roaming the area multiple times. how the snakes keep escaping - next. an unusual investigation in sheboygan after a woman gets a we're finding out what she found a bizzare story out of sheboygan this morning. a man is accused of sending his already investigating eric burrows this month. he was suspected of being responsible for a series of threatening letters, e-mails, and phone calls to his ex- girlfriend and her ex-husband. then last week, a suspicious package was dropped off at the woman's apartment. inside...a live ball python. authorities say it's an extremely disturbing pattern of behavior... sometimes crimes, you make one bad decision and you steal something from a store, for example. in a case like ths, who has calculated a move, has done it again, and then planned the next move. we also spoke with a woman who runs a sheboygan reptile sanctu

he was on his first deployment to afghanistan but previously served in iraq. almost 10,000 troops remain in afghanistan supporting the government's fight against the taliban. his death is the second u.s. casualty in afghanistan this year. >>> three children kidnapped found safe today after a nationwide man hunt but the couple suspected of taking them on the loose. the children found at a motel in albuquerque this afternoon. 27 year-old brittany and 28 year-old joshua apparently left them in the care of a good samaritan then left. her body was found on a remote road near gorman in southern california more than a week ago. the two suspects should be considered armed and dangerous. >>> a vacation gone wrong for bay area teen. >> i remember waking up in the hospital seeing my mom and my family. >> her near death experience after she was bitten by a very poisonous snake. >>> it warmed up in many areas even though it maybe didn't feel like it. it'll cool off by the end of the week, how cool coming up. for twenty years, box tops for education has helped schools earn

the constitution in afghanistan isn't half bad. every year, stanford law school sends the young attorneys to be over to afghanistan to walk the lawyers through the content of the constitution of afghanistan to explain to them what their options are. that's what we want, and i have no doubt that what they are going to choose if they behave in the way the general flynn is advocating with the will to win and the confidence in our own values and so forth. the reason why it is so unpopular right now is there's different kinds of anti-americanism. one of the most lethal is because they think america isn't up to it. because we are not there. those are the people that have big signs saying where are you. we are not there. we have to be there. >> let me talk about this business of the field system. another area that we need to be seen as and i think in some cases taking the action of the local leadership perspective is how did you change and economic system thaan economicsystem thae element i and how do you talk about education? there's a r

. >>> we are learning more about the victims of a horrific attack in a university in afghanistan. at least 13 people were killed when militants stormed the american university of afghanistan in kabul yesterday. the gunmen used grenades, automatic weapons and a car bomb in the attack. seven students, one professor, three police officers, two security officers were killed. at least 35 students and police were wounded. police ended up killing two attackers. so far no group has claimed responsibility for the attack. >> one of the victims of that attack in afghanistan had ties to the bay area. as ktvu's maureen naylor reports, he was a law professor, fulbright scholar and former fellow at stanford university. >> reporter: among the 13 people killed in wednesday's attack naqib ahmad khpulwak. he was a visiting fellow at stanford's law school in 2013. he returned to afghanistan to teach law at the american university in kabul where he delivered the opening prayer at the graduation ceremony in may. stanford university describes the fulbright scholar as an extraordinarily charismatic and c

obama went into afghanistan creating another problem. it was hillary clinton and her incidents in libya. they armed the rebel and funding them. >> you're saying barack obama took the country into afghanistan post 2009 is that what you're saying? >> what i'm saying is, the policy -- you just said we weren't in afghanistan. >> barack obama and hillary clinton -- that was obama's war, yes. >> okay. >> mr. trump is saying -- >> we've got -- >> the policies of barack obama and hillary clinton ignoring intelligence created the hot bed for global terrorists to travel the world under the name of isis. >> katrina, thank you, stay with us. we've got more questions here. we're going to do this for another block. katrina pearson, spokes woman for the trump campaign staying with us, we'll be right back. a . ...that stood up to the humidity of a shower this steamy... ...or even this steamy? if it's a matte finish paint, and can resist any amount of moisture... ...is it still paint? aura bath & spa from benjamin moore. paint like no other. ♪ the sun'll

people of afghanistan as it relates to their security situation. >> the u.s. embassy is advising all u.s. citizens to avoid the area. >>> now, the attack comes two weeks after two university staff, one american, one australian were kidnapped begunmen. their where abouts are still unknown. >>> donald trump takes his name calling attacks on hillary >> hillary clinton is a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future. >> and clinton hit the billionaire republican right back. >> he is taking a hate movement main stream, he's brought it someone who's questioned the citizenship of the first african american president, who has courted white supremacist, who's been sued for housing discrimination against communities of color, who's attacked a judge for his mexican heritage and promised a mass deportation force is someone who is you know, very much bigotry and paranoia. >> check out the look of a woman during his speech. rolling her eyes and looking away during his speech. critics are calling it a disingenuous smoke screen

an american and an australian have been kidnapped in kabul, afghanistan. officials say five gunman wearing military uniforms abducted the two from their vehicle near the american university of afghanistan. the two are believed to be employees of the university. three other foreigners who were

this is american university of afghanistan in kabul.have not independently confirmed these reports. as soon as we get more details, we will bring them to you . jenna: katherine harris has been covering all the email issues that hillary clinton has been confronting, there's a few different storylines well watching catherine and we wanted to provide your expertise to our viewers. >> even my kids are asking about emails, let me tell you . jenna: let me go to one from a viewer that gets to the criminality question. nate was wondering can hillary clinton see charged by congress or perjury from lying under oath from what we've seen so far? >> what congress can do is they can send a referral to the us attorney in washington dc which the house government oversight and judiciary committee have done. that would prompt, get the necessary okay from the justice department and fbi to investigate which will be a comparison of what hillary clinton told congress in 2016 and also what she told the fbi during her july 4 weekend interview and where whether

. >> they moved into afghanistan, it was nicaragua, it was in the caribbean. was a feeling that the united states and i felt it, the united states could lose the cold war. >> there was a model of behavior during the cold war, and the way i often described it, it was the red side of the map and blue side of the map, separated by the iron curtain. the rest of the world we competed for. >> that fundamental clash between communism and capitalism, between dictatorship and freedom divided the world. but it is a revolution starting to stir. >> there has been an unexpected development abroad. polish workers in the baltic area are standing firm in their strike against the government. >> the demands of striking polish workers concluded free press, release of political prisoners and right to strike. they assumed the risk of striking illegally. >> along comes solidarity, but not a union run by communists, it is a union run by polish patriots, so it is a tremendous threat to the ussr because of possible contagion, it would wipe out communism if allowed to spread. >> in thi

thompson died on tuesday from wounds he suffered in afghanistan. in a statement, the commander of special operations task force-afghanistan said thompson was ' an exceptional green beret, a cherished teammate and devoted husband. his service in afghanistan and iraq speak to his level of dedication, courage and commitment to something greater than himself'. lt. col. kevin m. trujillo, commander of special operations task force-afghanistan those who knew him well, say thompson was one of a kind. 'he was just so positive and just so happy with everything that he was irresistible you just wanted to join in.' both of thompsons former universities issued statements offering their prayers to his family. the elmbrook school district also issued a statement, saying ' we offer our deepest condolences to matthews wife, parents and sisters, as well as our sincere gratitude for his service to our country.' reporting live tonight at brookfield central high school, rachelle baillon fox6 news. brad thanks rachelle marquette and elmbrook on our website-- fox6 now d

southern afghanistan is the spiritual home of the taliban. it's also where the poppy crop is grown to make opium, major revenue source for them. local afghan officials say the taliban now control 80% of helmand province. bret? >> lucas, thank you. now to a much more serious aspect of war. the u.s. of children as weapons of it. connor powell tells us tonight it is an age-old practice that's surging right now. >> reporter: this child was sent by isis to kill civilians in kirkuk. he wasn't recruited. his bomb detonated before it could explode. reclaiming large swaths of territory from the terror network. isis has increasingly started to rely on children who can more easily move past security forces to carry out attacks. >> they're available. they're maleable. they're spendable. we'll see more, not less of this. >> a child no more than 14 carried out an attack on a kurdish wedding party in turkey over the weekend. turkish authorities are still investigating the claim, it's a growing pattern. isis has long boasted of its army of child soldiers. th

but what is very clear, that this is an attack on afghanistan's future. the american university of afghanistan is a symbol of american and afghan friendship. this is also sign of the americans telling the afghans that we are here to help you, we are here to train your future generations. and i can simply tell you actually the top of my head, i know more than 50 government officials who have simply gone and got that quality education and they are running very important and key positions within the afghan government. but what it also boils down to is that the life of afghans continues to be fraught with every day risks and dangers. i also can tell you that some american citizens have managed to escape from the university. some western nationals are still stuck inside. we still don't know who have waerd out t carried out the attack but one counterafghan official said this is an attack by those who don't want after afghanistan to pros ter. it is still a very alert situation and many families are also calling local tv stations like radio stations trying simply

with regard to afghanistan, we went into afghanistan to get osama bin laden and al qaeda. after seven months, we wiped out al qaeda. no osama bin laden, but we could have left afghanistan after seven months and kept our options open for osama bin laden. but look, getting out of afghanistan tomorrow, as bad as that situation might be, we are going to face the same consequences 20 years from now if that is when we decide to get out or forever, according to some. look have we not learned the , lessons of history? it does not work when it comes to, in this case afghanistan. ,mr. drucker: do you agree or disagree with donald trump when he calls the president the founder of isis and also tied hillary clinton, calling her the m.v.p.? gov. johnson: well unintentional. , founder of isis, that somehow has this connotation that they support isis. no, they didn't support isis. but the end result has been that unintended consequence of seeing that happen. but it isn't just obama and clinton. you know, it was going into iraq. it was getting rid of saddam hussein, which was a check when

he was left off air force one when president obama went to afghanistan for his first trip. he was left out in meetings. the anecdote that opens up the chapter is a meeting where he is on the screen and he opens up with a classic flowery opening about the council of lyndon johnson as a precedent faces consequential decisions and president obama cut him off and said richard, do people really talk like that and so he kind of clams up and was, you know, humiliated and snickering around the table. so, t to me, that human story of

we now know 12 people were killed in the attack on an american university in kabul, afghanistan. seven students-- three policemen-- and two security guards died when police investigators say two attackers stormed the campus with guns and explosives. police killed the attackers. about 750 students were on the campus security message-- warning u-s citizens of the attack and advising them to avoid the area. a wisconsin man-- anxiously waiting to hear from family in italy following yesterday's deadly earthquake. what crews found at his cousins' home. more than 200 people were killed in the quake. how you can help the victims in central italy. severe weather-- sweeping across indiana. details on how many tornadoes officials believe touched down yesterday-- and a look at the damage the honey nut cheerios ...get their delicious taste from real, honest ingredients. real honey. yeah, honey. and real patience. hurry up! i like that bee. feingold: that's my grandfather with a brand new truck. it was one of the first to come out of this plant in 1923. but today, too many good manufacturing j

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let's start with that breaking news out of afghanistan. militants attacking the american university of afghanistan in kabul. witnesses say they heard explosions and gunfire. a student at the university saying two grenades were thrown right into his classroom. security forces combing through the campus searching for the attackers. we've seen ambulances going in and out of the scene. officials saying right now one person confirmed dead. reports of at least another 14 wounded. nbc news pakistan correspondent waj khan is in islamabad. i know you've been to that university. you are very well versed in the region. let's start with what we know about this attack and what's going on right now. >> chris, this is an ongoing operation. for all we know it's still ongoing. room to room combat. nbc news is in touch with some of the students holed up inside that campus, they are trapped. they are reporting sporadic gunfire and explosions from grenades. the interior ministry tells me that there is no end date to when this will finish. it's ongoing. we kno

implemented government in afghanistan. without stability there, none of the diplomats, none of the government offices, none of them can do their work and they'll have very little hope of trying to impose order only the rest of the country which is also becoming quickly undone. >> all right, matt baggily, thank you for joining me. i want to the now turn to msnbc news editor, cal perry who joins me, cal, let's talk about this region, specifically central kabul. what is it like there in terms of security? one would make the argument, it's one of the most secure areas. >> certainly this area of kabul, this university specifically as well as the e u.s. embassy are well guarded for obvious reasons. these are compounds. we heard matt baggily talking about a complex attack. usually that is to create a breach in the wall, that's what happened. gunmen then flowed on to the campus and are being engaged by security forces. while matt was talking, he heard from nato. nato has a number of advisors they say quote a small number of nato a

. >> barack obama went into afghanistan creating another problem. it was hillary clinton and her incidents in libya, which was also a reckless decision, to create that vacuum. they armed the rebels. they are even funding them now. >> you are saying barack obama took the country into afghanistan post 2009? is that what you are saying? >> what i'm saying is the policies -- >> you just said that we were not in afghanistan. >> the policies of barack obama and hillary clinton -- that was obama's war, yes. >> pearson later today andy acknowledged afghanistan and the mission to afghanistan was not launched on president obama's watch. this is the second time that she has come out and said something patently not true about important policy. if you consider what she said a week ago about president obama's policy saying they are responsible for the death of captain khan who was killed in iraq in 2004, four years before the president took office. let's listen to that. >> surely, you can understand the confusion considering how donald trump never voted for the i

afghanistan. they're really an inspiration showing us that we need to do more to protect the country. many of our republican colleagues seem to have forgotten what it means about military and instead of making choices about what the military has to accomplish, they have reduced support for troops, basic choice of level spending. they dish out un-ending criticism of the president's decisions and policies even when these policies actually work. you know, the decades of successful cooperation, they support a nominee who would pull out of nato and regularly insult the resolve of some of our most reliable partners. we were very eager because we know that keeping our country safe is more than political pandering. 8400 troops will be staying in afghanistan longer than expected and announced that they will be given new authorities to support afghan partners out in the field as they pursue al-qaeda and taliban targets. to be honest, i was a bit skeptical about the decisions going into the trip. our country

lee: well, let's talk about education in afghanistan.now, in the past, obviously, we've all known that it's been very tough especially for girls and women, but i know that things have improved. tell me about how things have changed for the better. fereshte: during the taliban, only 900,000 students were at schools with zero participation women-- lee: wow. fefereshte: in education and in workforce. but one decade after that, right now, we ha around 9 million ududentsn afghanistan at 42% oththem, it's 4 mimiion of them arwowomen and girls. andhis is auguge acmplishshme. we dhave 4 misters, wen minister out of 2 28% of rliamenteat acally belg to wom. so we did lot of progress.o o i think we had auge e imovement in ce of not oy educatn, but al in heal sector, i econy, and eeciallwomen's participion in wkforce lee:nd that's aming, reshte, at yo're sing at this haened in e last decade rlly, but2% participatn of gir and wom in edudution is now-hat--th's anncredible statisti well, y have sothing too with tt, and u'rebviously tryinto push that fo

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but this is an attack on afghanistan's future. this is an attack on a symbol of american/afghan relationship since the fall of taliban, the united states of america have opened this university that is educating a future generation of afghan leaders. we're really seeing senior government officials, young men and women studying at the american university, but they're also running key government offices. i can also confirm that you to at least two american citizens have managed to escape from that attack and as you can imagine, most of the families are still worried. no one really believed that their sons and daughters could be at risk, especially when they are inside their classrooms. you can imagine how much panic there could be for the families of those who have traveled thousands of miles away to help the future generation of this country. >> balal sarwari there in afghanistan, describing to a terrifying scene, speaking to people inside there who say that the attackers have food, they have dates, they have red bulls, they appear

serviceman who was killed in afghanistan. another u.s. service member was also hurt along with six afghan troops. >>> a major milestone for iraq's military as they get ready to retake mosul. it has been under isis control for two years but area near the city. they expect to use it as a launching pad for attacks. >>> shocking video from atlanta capture as dangerous shootout. you can see a man leaving a gas station sunday night with a second man walking closely behind him. one of the men walks to his car, grabs a gun and points it at the other man who dives moments later the two shoot at each other. police said there was actually a woman inside the car who was hit in the shoulder. she is expected to be okay. police are looking for one of the men involved. >>> the nation's growing opioid problem manifested itself in a major way. according to police each overdose victim was revived with the treatment treatmentfar-- narcan. one of the overdoses happened in the parking lot of a gas station and a 6-year-old boy was in the car with his father whe

an american kidnapped in afghanistan.hat we know about the victim and what we're learning now about the suspects. that's next. >>> five gunmen kidnapped an american man and australian in afghanistan. officials say the attackers wore afghan military uniforms and took the two men from an suv last night. happened on a main road near kabul and the american university. officials believe the two men are employees of the school. no group has claimed responsibility. in the past year, kidnappers took three other foreigners in kabul and released them. but in april someone abducted an australian woman and she is still missing. >>> greg palkot is live in london with more now. >> reporter: we have been going to kabul, afghanistan, for the last 15 years by definition it's a dangerous place and looks like it's not getting any better. these two were nabbed in the area of southeastern kabul, near the american university of afghanistan. pretty certain that the american and the australian were professors. the gunmen were dressed as soldiers

as you mentioned we've got more news out of afghanistan last night. two of these foreigners, an australian and american were kidnapped last night in kabul in the western part of the city. this is the afghan capital. this from a senior official with the american university of afghanistan. as we just mentioned the two men were taken by unknown armed commandos, some reports saying that these armed commandos were wearing police or military uniforms and they were taken while they sat waiting in their car, after their evening classes. the university did tell nbc news that it had closed for the day, and will likely remain closed until the situation is resolved. and as you know, betty, such incidents in afghanistan are, of course, tragically common. foreigners in particular make for a very tempting target. multiple foreigners have been kidnapped in the past several years. most of them have been released after they've received ransom payment. and this isn't just the taliban. this is often armed gangs who are doing this sort of thing. just this past week a conv