david martin joins me from the pentagon. pleased to have him back on the program. thank you for joining us. >> sure thing. >> rose: let's talk first about the raid. tell me what we know now in terms of what was the intent, the success and what does it imply about the future? >> well, the intent was to rescue what were thought to be kurdish prisoners before they were executed and the belief that they were about to be executed came from aerial surveillance of the prison compound which showed mass graves being dug. they went in there led by peshmerga special forces backed up by u.s. commandos, a firefight broke out. one american commando was killed in the firefight, but they managed to save or rescue 70 prisoners being held by i.s.i.s., and those prisoners had since told the united states, now that they're back in some form of safety, that they had been told that they were going to be executed after morning prayer, and if you back up the time of the raid, that means that those commandos landed at about five or six hours before the scheduled execution. one other intere

charlie: david martin at the pentagon, thank you so much. david: you bet.harlie: back in a moment. stay with us. ♪ charlie: former secretary of state hillary clinton ran a marathon on thursday, answering questions in front of the longest running select committee in the united states congress. at issue, the deadly 2012 attack in benghazi, libya. at the end, the republican chairman conceded that there were no big revelations. to all theout republican members of the select committee to appear on this program. of those that responded, none were available. welcome to the program. >> it is great to be with you. charlie: where are we and where are we going? >> that is a good question. it is hard to say. all the other hearings that were planned were canceled once the hearing with secretary clinton was scheduled. 10-12going to be hearings, defense secretary, cia, but those were all put off or canceled for good, so we are waiting to hear from the majority, and of course we will have to evaluate based on their plan going forward what that means in terms of our partici

david martin has a rare look. >> reporter: scott, this is the nerve center for the air campaign against isis, and operations floor where all the missions are being tracked, including the ones over syria where russian aircraft are also operating. you can see it on the screen, the yellow aircraft the russian, the green, mesh. -- american. u.s. pilots out of turkey first picked up the russian planes on radar. the russians closed to within 20 miles, at which point the american pilots could visually identify them on their targeting cameras. lieutenant general charles brown, commander of the air campaign, says the russians have come even closer than that to his unmanned drones. >> the closest has been within a handful of miles into some of our remotely piloted aircraft, but for our manned aircraft, not closer than about 20 miles is about the closest we've seen. >> reporter: brown says he intends to work around the russians. could they just crowd you out of syria? >> no, i don't think so. we're up a lot more often than they, are so if we do have the move around for separation, it's for a small

scott. >> pelley: david martin, thanks. well, the key to northern iraq is the city of mosul, which has been occupied by isis for more than a year. iraqi forcrc have pledged too ke the cityy of one million people back, but noct has happened. elizabeth palmer is in northern iraq for us tonight. liz. >> reporter: the operation to take mosul back should have gone ahead about six months ago, and yet the iraqi army is stalled more than 100 miles away. commanders here say that the iraqi army simply can't do it alone, but even with american firepower and intelligence, there is another huge problem. the iraqi army is largely shiite. mosul is a sunni city, and that means it's filled with people who actually, crazy as it sounds, support isis, or at least they think rule by isis is preferable to having their city taken by a shiite army backed by a corpt government in baghdad. bottom line, this is not going to happen any time soon. >> pelley: the two major factions of islam opposed to each other there around mosul. lizalmer, thank you v

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>> pelley: david martin at the pentagon, david, thank you. the cost of 14 years of war in afghanistan has been more than 2,200 american l les and nearly $700 billion.. former u.s. speaker of the house dennis hastert has struca deal with prosecutors. hastert is charged with violating banking laws and lying to federal agents about it. hastert was reportedly paying hush money to a man who claimed that hastert sexually abused him decades before when hastert was a high school wrestling coach. hastert will plead... will change his plea to guilty, likely in return for a reduced sentence. six x mbers of a church have pleaded not guiltyo chargesf manslaughter and assault. police say two teenage brothers were beaten by their parents, their sister, and other members of the secretive word of life church in upstate new york. one of the brothers died. michelle miller is there. >> reporter: today police were seen serving what they describe as court papers to members of the word of life church, the site of sunday's brutal assault. the victims' parents, debor

david martin is at the pentagon. >> reporter: a pentagon official said american special forces will spend up to 60 days at a time in the headquarters of u.s.-backed fighters in syria. they will north, for the foreseeable future, go out on operations against isis. their mission-- to coordinate a drive by various bands of arab and kurdish fighters on the isis capital of raqqa with the help of american airstrikes. the number of jets flying strikes out of a nearby base in turkey will quadruple from just six to 24. many isis targets as possible in syria," the pentagon official said. american and allied jets have been bombing raqqa for months. earlier this year, a jordanian pilot had to bail out over raqqa. he was captured by isis and burned alive. >> we are near iraq every day. >> reporter: but as lieutenant colonel mike jones told "60 minutes" earlier this morning at the command center for the air campaign, a lot of time and fuel is wasted flying those strikes from bases 1,000 miles away. >> all of our fighters coming out of the arabian gulf, way down here, two and a half to three-hour transi

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david martin tells us who russia is fighting for. >> reporter: the pentagon counted eight russian aircraft attacking two areas in western syria, well away from where u.s. aircraft normally operate, but also well away from territory controlled by isis. the targets, which russia said were weapons, ammunition and other military equipment belonging to terrorists, were in areas controlled by groups fighting to overthrow the regime of bashar al assad. in other words, russia is not joining the u.s. in the fight against isis but instead intervening on the side of assad, a brutal dictator president obama has repeatedly said must go. defense secretary carter said it amounts to throwing gasoline on a fire. >> the result of this kind of action will inevitably simply be to inflame the civil war in syria. >> reporter: carter was also miffed by the way russia notified the u.s. of the strikes, one hour ahead of time, a russian general walked up to the u.s. embassy in baghdad and announced russian aircraft were about to begin flying over syria and american warplanes should stay away. >> this is not the kin

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"this is a start to gauge what's possible." >> pelley: david martin at the pentagon. thanks. now, that is syria, but u.s. special operations forces are already on the ground advising and assisting kurdish fighters in northern iraq, and that is where we find elizabeth palmer tonight. liz. >> reporter: scott, we know they're here bececse we actually ran into a small group of them, quite by accident, in the headquarters of one of the kurdish commanders. they wouldn't say anythi, but the kurds say they're already an important part of the fight ainst isis up here. some of them actually live and work with the kurdish fighters right on the front lines. others help staff a joint command center here in the city of erbil. the mission includes target spotting, helping to coordinate airstrikes, and also going on joint operations like the raid on the isis jail last week that killed master sergeant joshua wheeler. the kurds say they're hoping for more joint rates like that and also further cooperation. >> pelley: elizabeth palmer reporting for us tonight in northern iraq. thanks, liz. for

scott. >> david martin at the p ptagon. thank you. >>> the cost o o14 years of war in afghanistan has been more than 2,200 american lives. and nearly 700 billion dollars. >>> former u.s. speaker of the house, dennis hastert struck a deal with prosecutors. hastert charged with violating banking laws and lying to federal agents about it. hastert was reportedly paying hush money to a man who claimed that hastert sexually abused him decades before when hastert was a high school wrestling coach. hastert will change his plea to guilty, likely in return for a reduced sentence. right back. almost sixty million americans are affected by mental illness. together we can help them with three simple words. my name is chris noth from maine to maui, thousands of high school students across the country are getting in on the action by volunteering in their communities. chris young: action teams of high school students are joining volunteers of america and major league baseball players to help train and inspire ththnext generation of volunte

david martin cbs news washington. >> and that's the "cbs overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others check back with us a little later for the morning news. and cbs this morning. the broadcast center in new york city i'm scott pelley. >>> welcome to the overnight news. the democratic presidential candidates square off tonight in their first debate. the man they're trying to replace, president obama, discussed the race with steve croft of "60 minutes." the first question? his views on gop front-runner donald trump. >> he is a great publicity seeker. and at a time when the republican party hasn't really figured out what it's for, as opposed to what it's against, i think that he is -- he's tapped into something that exists in the republican party that's real. i think there is genuine anti-immigrant sentiment in a large portion of at least republican primary voters. i don't think it's uniform. he knows how to get attention. he's the classic reality tv character. and at this early stages it's not surprising he's gotten a lot of attention. >>

david martin, cbs news, washington. >> and that's the "cbs overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the morning news. and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city i'm scott pelley. >>> welcome to the overnight news. the democratic presidential candidates square off tonight in their first debate. the man they're trying to replace, president obama, discussed the race with steve croft of "60 minutes." the first question? his views on gop front-runner donald trump. >> he is a great publicity seeker. and at a time when the republican party hasn't really figured out what it's for, as opposed to what it's against, i think that he is -- he's tapped into something that exists in the republican party that's real. i think there is genuine anti-immigrant sentiment in a large portion of at least republican primary voters. i don't think it's uniform. he knows how to get attention. he's the classic reality tv character. and at this early stages, it's not surprising he's gotten a lot of attent

david martin has a rare look. >> scott, this is the nerve center for the air campaign against isis. and through this window is the operations floor where all the missions are being tracked, including the ones over syria, where russian aircraft are also operating. you can see it on the screen. the yellow aircraft are russian, the green american. u.s. pilots flying f-16s out of turkey first picked up the russian planes on radar. the russians closed to within 20 miles, at which point the american pilots could visually identify them on their targeting cameras. lieutenant general charles brown, commander of the air campaign, says the russians have come even closer than that to his unmanned drones. >> the closest has been, you know, within a handful of miles into some of our remotely piloted aircraft. but for our manned aircraft, not closer than about 20 miles is about the closest we've seen. >> reporter: brown says he intends to just work around the russians. could they just crowd you out of syria? >> no. i don't think so. we're up a lot more often than they are. and so when they -- if w

here's david martin. >> reporter: aircraft continue to destroy isis targets every day. but the obama administration is frustrated by the glacial rate of progress and about to ramp up the war in ways that could increase the risk of american combat casualties. one plan would use apache helicopter gunships, which are much more vulnerable to ground fire than jet aircraft, to fly missions in support of iraqi troops trying to retake the city of ramadi. other proposals would increase the number of american advisers the front lines. as defense secretary carter made clear in congressional testimony, there is a new sense of urgency about defeating isis. >> i can't tell you how long it will take, but i think that it needs to be soon, which is why we're so intent upon strengthening our effort. >> reporter: last week master sergeant joshua wheeler became the first american killed in action when he was mortally wounded in a raid on an isis prison. and carter said there would be more special operations raids to come. that signals a fundamental change in what had been until now a war o

david martin is at the pentagon. >> reporter: a pentagon official said american special forces will spend up to 60 days at a time in the headquarters of u.s.-backed fighters in syria. they will north, for the foreseeable future, go out on operations against isis. their mission-- to coordinate a drive by various bands of arab and kurdish fighters on the isis capital of raqqa with the help of american airstrikes. the number of jets flying strikes out of a nearby base in turkey will quadruple from just six to 24. "we want to be prosecuting as many isis targets as possible in syria," the pentagon official said. american and allied jets have been bombing raqqa for months. earlier this year, a jordanian pilot had to bail out over raqqa. he was captured by isis and burned alive.