o'connell is a former marine who served as an adviser to general david petraeus when he commanded u.s. troops in afghanistan. he later served as an assistant to the joint chiefs of staff and on the national security council in the obama administration. so, first, there's this premise of the question on why or why we're not winning the war in afghanistan, and you write in a recent op-ed, it's not necessarily ours to win. explain that. >> yes, well, the war in afghanistan is actually part of a number of wars-- five, to be exact. and three of them predate american involvement in the country. most crucial of these is a three-century-long fight inside the postune tribe between kabuly elites and kandahary elites and then people from the rural areas of afghanistan. so that's been going on for a long time, and nothing we can do is really going to change it. >> sreenivasan: considering the amount of blood and treasure that we've spilled there so far, what has been working? >> yes, it's important to note some things have been working. limited counterterrorism strikes against key officials have

know david petraeus picture, his palace in baghdad. i'm in the middle. that's differ on the left and january martin. john was dave's liaison with the embassy. this is on the left there, that's a ricky gibbs, one motor vehicle students at the army war college, ran into in south baghdad. he had a brigade with ten battalions and an occupations sewn of 1.25 million iraqis. this is a colonel. that is a division size element. the whole command structure in iraq was strange. you had divisions that were really corps and brigadeses were divisions, and massive occupation zones. this case he's opening a hospital in the middle of an iraqi opening a hospital in south baghdad. that is the director of the army staff on the trip with us. i was there in october, november of '07. in the might he would goo right from there is and the night running combat patrols in the neighborhoods neighborhoods of south baghdad. one of the petraeus initiatives was out in the field. this is shocker. small combat outpost. about 100 some soldiers, company size element. here i am talking wit

we can look no further handle the general david petraeus whose home was searched in the investigatione revealed classified information in light of the fbi. but it does show that robert mueller is not showing any special deference just because it is an associate of the president of the united states. >> it is an early morning raid that they did in alexandria, virginia on paul manafort's home. what sort of message were they sending? what were they trying to get out of it? >> well, i don't know that there's an intent to send a message but we need to see the warrant itself. any execution of a search warrant prior to 6:00 a.m. would require showing of probable cause by the agent's sworn affidavit that there was a need to do it then. to go in a hurry. there may be danger of destruction of documents, if in fact this was served prior to 6:00 a.m., that would be interesting. i would like the see the warrant. i don't think mr. manafort's lawyers have released it. the message that would be conveyed is that yes, this is a serious matter. moreover, the investigators no longer trust the willingness

it does not allow you to do what david petraeus and stan mcchrystal and others did, more of national strategy to figure out how to take afghanistan the in a different e direction than it is. we've seen the rise of lordism again, not just india and pakistan but iran, the western part of the country. it doesn't allow you to control the country in the way we used to. it prevents kabul from falling to forces that come in. and that's real limitation. we have to ask ourselves why are we there for that? what is the great strategic purpose in just holding up the government for that end? i don't know. one of the things i was with petraeus saturday night and he paid tribute to richard holbrooke, who had been his partner at the state department and of course president trump has disbanded the special representative for afghanistan and pakistan that was designed to try to build civil and social infrastructure inside afghanistan and take it on a different course. that doesn't exist at this point. >> we love the name dropping when it's like i was with petraeus on saturday night. >> well, yeah. but

defense and secretary of navy during the obama administration and served in kabul under general david petraeus and mcchrystal. let me make some sense of this. i think everybody in government is frustrated with afghanistan. i think you're not going to find a lot of americans if you went out there, how do you think we're doing in afghanistan, who would say it's great? what's the right way to think about this? >> first, fthanks for having me. there are a lot of great questions to ask about afghanistan. he's right to ask about the strategy, what can the afghans do better? what can we do better? my problem is the president seemed to be focused on a general instead of the broader strategy. he's been asked to provide more troops and new visionnd hast done that. that doesn't matter who you have in there, you're not going to even make forward progress if the president hasn't clearly articulated the goals and mission and what he wants our troops to do. >> let me ask you, are you talking about broader military strategy or broader strategy overall in afghanistan? what we don't have is -- afghanistan still

. -- and general david petraeus issued a report that makes the case for north america. they argued that the u.s. needs to switch vis a vis of nafta from an afterthought to a central priority in u.s. policy. the question, how do we revitalize nafta in order to strengthen the competitive position of the region and integrate those left behind into the benefits of globalization? nafta countries need to develop a new regional strategy, and such strategy needs to consider a few key elements. the integration of the north american market is the way to boost the region's competitiveness, job creation, opportunities, and innovation. we need to reconcile integration and security. since 9/11, that there has been torn between the driving force and the breaking force to build a fortress to guarantee safe and secure borders. border infrastructure needs to be modernized and more research is needed to be allocated. and a seamless door to door operation should be facilitated. mexico has a demographic bonus. we have a young population. our average age is 26. north america increasingly req

. -- and general david petraeus issued a report that makes the case for north america. they argued that the u.s. needs to switch vis a vis of nafta from an afterthought to a the question is how to revitalize nafta to strengthen that and integrate, in the benefits of globalization. such strategy needs to consider key elements. integration of north american market is the way to boost the region's competitiveness, job creation, business opportunities and innovation. we need to reconcile security, nafta has been torn between its driving force and the breaking post to build a fortress to guarantee safe and secure borders. it needs to be modernized as more resources to be allocated to make integration smoother. a seamless door-to-door operation should be facilitated. mexico as a demographic in the region, we have a young population, average age 20 years old, north america increasingly requires qualified human resources to meet production in the region. a competitive workforce is key to maintaining dynamic region. we need to think about training and development of human resour

search is very common in federal investigations and, in fact, we can look past no further than david general petraeuswhose home was searched in the investigation whether he revealed information. it shows that robert mueller is not showing special deference just because this is an investigation involving associates of the president of the united states. >> it's an early morning railed they did on paul manafort home in virginia. what kind of message were they sending or get out of it? >> well, i don't know that there is an intent to send a message, but we need to see the warrant, itself. any execution of a search warrant prior to 6:00 a.m. would require a showing of probable cause by the agents in a sworn affidavit that there was a need to do it then. >> that is to go in a hurry, because there may be danger of destruction of documents or something look that, if, in fact, this was served prior to 6:00 a.m.. i would like to see a warrant i don't think that mr. manafort's lawyers have released it. the message that would be conveyed, yoerng that is the intent t. miami that is conveyed is, yes, this is a se