we don't need to tell each other. >> joining us now to discuss this chuck nash, our fox news militarygood of you to join us today. hope you're doing well as always. >> indeed, thank you kelly. >> this deadline for a total withdrawal of troops from afghanistan is just two years away and now president beganny, rebegan reghani reexamining -- >> i think he's a realist. this guy is not somebody that just got plucked off the street. he's a well educated man, set on the faculty at berkeley and johns hopkins, doctorate from columbia, finance minister of afghanistan and worked for the world bank. he was ranked the number two intellectual in the world on a poll by foreign policy magazine. he is sharp and knows what he's doing. he's sharing power with abdullah abdullah who he ran against in the september election. that presents a problem because you've got the military, which the u.s. has built and trained and it's a $5 billion a year operation to run that military. the government of afghanistan cannot afford that. so i think what ashraf ghani is saying, i have to share power with my political a

captain chuck nash retired navy captain, fox news military analyst. morning and said wow, he is lucky. where do you start? >> well, anything you can walk away from, right? here's the situation. when he realized that he wasn't going to make hawaii which a little back of the envelope tells me was probably at about 100 miles west of california about 900 miles east of hawaii, he notified the coast guard, kept drilling towards hawaii because he was past of no return, i.e., he was already past halfway where he could turn around and go back to california. so he elected to continue. he called coast guard. sent somebody out. based on imagery we're looking at that is probably out after c-130, where they put the flir, forward-looking infrared on the aircraft started tracking him. they had contact or saw a cruise ship. probably contact ad cruise ship on radio and knowing that he wasn't going to make hawaii, he probably could have gotten closer to hawaii, but you never pass up the opportunity especially with a serious when you can pop the chute. bill: do you just

let's bring in captain chuck nash a retired navy captain and a fox news military analyst. it is always good to see you, thank for being with us. >> my pleasure, harris. >> a little bit earlier i was talk being this idea with amy kellogg. she is in europe right now d. fact in the u.k. they know they have 600 jihadists who left to have gone to syria and iraq and have come back to the united kingdom. do beef that same thing here en masse where we have hundreds of these guys coming back? >> i don't think it is as big a problem as they have in the u.k. they have massive problem because a lack of integration of the muslim populations that come across from subsaharan africa and from the middle east. our immigration issues come from the south, from mexico, and central america. >> sure. >> so you've got a dramatically different population that you are looking at. so it doesn't appear to be as large here in the united states. are there sleeper cells here? depending how you want to define and call a sleeper cell, are there people who sympathize with the islamic state and other radica

chuck nash is a retired navy captain and fox news military analyst. good to see you. >> nice to be with you. >> absolutely. i would like you to start by telling me a little bit more about these u.s. assets over there and what they will be doing. what role will they be playing? it's got a robust crew. it carries two sh 60r romeos that are helicopters you show them the lead in. you can put people on either side of that looking back with binoculars, as well as the two pilots in the front. you can coordinate with the samson and p8 flying. that's really important because you want to optimize the search area, and you don't want to cover ground or water in this case that you have already covered because there just isn't time to do that. once you start picking up remains or debris, the next thing you'll do is drift analysis where you start looking at the prevaluing winds and tides and currents. then you trace it back and hopefully that will lead to the site of the main wreckage, and we can begin the recovery operation there. much smaller crew size. it's carry

. >> chuck nash in washington.o yemen the united states-backed president forced from power by islamic rebles in a country that is a base for al-qaeda. is the united states changing strategy? >>> and blizzard-like conditions heading east. the brand new storm warnings for the weekend and beyond. >> this is horrible. i mean i cannot even get home without worrying about sliding. >>> the national weather service is issuing a series of winter weather advisory with a foot of snow in the texas panhandle and freezing rain and heavy snow from the central appalachians to new england. >> reporter: we are looking at the next big storm for the northeast and so far it has been a quite season. we need snow at there. take a look at the totals. only a couple inches have been reported in philadelphia, new york and in boston. parts of texas and western texas picked up 13 inches of snow fall that is headed our way so we will see how much we pick up across the area. it will be a tricky forecast. we don't have the ideal setup. we usually