at the same time the taliban remains a threat.hey've gained ground in some cases, continued attacks and suicide bombings including in kabul. because the taliban distribute rattly target innocent civilians, more afghan men, women and children are dying. and often overlooked in the global refugee ice sis, millions of afghans have left their homes and many fleeing their country. as president and commander in chief, i made it clear i will not allow afghanistan to be used as safe haven to attack our nation again. that's why i constantly review our strategy with my national security team, including our commanders in afghanistan. in all these reviews, we're guided by the facts, what's happening on the ground. to determine what's working and what needs to be changed. that's why at times i made adjustments, for example, by slowing the drawdown of our forces and more recently giving u.s. forces more flexibility to support afghan forces on the ground and in the air. i strongly believe it is in our national security interest, especially after

at the same time, the taliban remains a threat. they have gained ground in some places. they have continued attacks. because the taliban deliberately target civilians, more afghan men, women, and children are dying. and often overlooked in the global refugee crisis, millions of afghans have fled their homes and many have been fleeing their country. as president and commander in chief, i have made it clear that afghanistan toow be a safe haven for terrorist in. terrorists again. all of these reviews are guided by the facts of what is going on the ground, to determine what is working and what needs to be changing. that is why at times i have made adjustments -- for example, by slowing the drawdown of our forces and more recently, by giving u.s. forces more flexibility to support afghan wars is on the ground and in the air. i strongly believe it is in our national security interest, especially after all of the blood and treasure we have invested in afghanistan over the years, that we give our afghan partners the very best opportunity to succeed. general nicholson conducted

he had a direct message for the taliban.ause you will not prevail militarilily. >> reporter: the diplomacy has been as complicated there by the fact you have competing interests and a very weak central government secretly under attack. it's almost like john kerrys diplomacy and trying sto get a cease fire in syria. iraq is under threat from isis and under terrible attack. syria and afghanistan are all three fronts. this administration is going to leave office facing battles that they never anticipated and this president in particular came into office to draw down krcrits on the hill, john mccain and others, said he drew down too quickly in iraq and he's now paying the price. >> you mentioned that some of the generals had wanted to keep an increased troop presence more than the 8,400 that we learned about today. is that feeling widespread on capitol hill as well? >> reporter: it is widespread at least among the republicans and some of the more hawkish democrats. we don't know about the current chairman of the joint chief but

another part is run by the taliban and there is then areas that go back and forth.has been progress because we used to have over 100,000 troops and it was a difficult situation. and now the afghans are taking the war, the afghan troops to the enemy. and our role has declined significantly but still very critical. >> the taliban definitely an enemy or not? i feel like we go back and forth about deciding whether to work with the taliban, and i feel the afghan government feels this way. sometimes they want to work with the taliban. sometimes they want us to push them back. explain. >> the hope is that the taliban would join what's called a reconciliation process, a peace process and join the political process, give up on violence, on working with terrorist groups and accept the afghan constitution. and the administration has been hoping that pakistan which hosts the taliban, sanctuaries in pakistan, would bring the taliban to the negotiating ta e table, but this hasn't happened. if it's happened, the president would have reduced the force to 5,500. since this hasn't ha

during that same time, there was a taliban attack on the u.s.nd the nato headquarters in kabul where we were covering that story. at the same time, they say look, we're trying to build up their confidence and skills, but it has been a very frustrating experience, carol. >> to wolf blitzer now. the president expected to speak at any moment. i would suppose he chose this moment because of the wave of terror attacks across the middle east and also criticism from john mccain about troop levels in afghanistan. >> the president's got to make a very important decision. does he keep a lot of those troops in afghanistan for a lot longer. he wanted to get those troops out of there, most of them, if not all of them, by the end of the year. when you have troop deployment, it takes a long time for the u.s. military to get ready. if there are about 10,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan right now, and this has been the longest war in american history, going back to october 2001, right after 9/11, the u.s. began deploying troops to afghanistan, they've been there e

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the taliban get as vote.ressing afghan government, afghan military has not been performing as they would like. 38 americans have been killed in afghanistan this year alone. that according to the president, martha. martha: jennifer, thank you very much. bill: the truth is the world's a mess. whether it is afghanistan or iraq or syria. you think about terrorist attacks in turkey and bangladesh with that country's experience now. it just goes on and on. martha: every day. bill: orlando, and, wow. success -- martha: whoever takes the job will have a very, very full plate. the president acknowledged that in those statements so. bill: fbi decision on hillary clinton server sparking widespread uproar. while we were listening to the president, paul ryan went off. hear what he is saying live on the hill in a moment, next. you didn't read your car insurance policy. you just stuck it in a drawer somewhere and forgot about it. until a dump truck hit your pick up truck and now you need a tow truck. does your policy cover

afghan forces have beaten back attacks and pushed the taliban nevertheless, the security situation innistan remains precarious. they are still not as strong as they need to be. logistics, 80 8 -- aviation, and commander control. threat.ban remains a they have gained ground, threats and suicide bombings, because the taliban and deliver it -- deliberately target innocent civilians, more afghan men, women, and children are dying. in the globaled refugee crisis, millions of afghans fled their homes and many are fleeing their country. as president and commander in clear i have made it will not allow afghanistan to be used as a safe haven for terrorists again. i constantly review our strategy with my national security team, including our manners in afghanistan. all these reviews were guided by the facts. what is happening on the ground, to determine what is working and what needs to be changed. i have made adjustments, for example by slowing the drawdown of our forces and more recently, giving u.s. forces more flexibility to support afghan forces on the ground and the air. i strongly believ

i was happy to go to jail and meet the taliban and who had been arrested. and i was happy to have them come to meet me in hotels. friends of mine meet the taliban and you are going to get kidnapped and it would happen. >> it is a case-by-case thing we all have to deal with. >> good point and if the story is the same when you talk to somebody it is very different. jenin will talk about this in a minute. >> what is interesting is different things trigger why you went there. then you went there and got hooked. i want to read a passage from christina's book towards the end of her book called war never leaves you. november 2014, in the end i went back, i missed afghanistan with the yearning i could not explain. i had a house in washington with a rocking chair on the porch and a white picket fence where a yellow school bus came to collect my son like in the american movies. i had a great job and wonderful friends but part of me was somewhere else entirely dreaming of pomegranate, if i drove through rock creek park with my roof down, the scent of pines reminded me

seth: the taliban does not control any serious urban terrain.ovincial capitals or any major district capitals. they do not control kabul. strategic ground they do not control. laura: what would you advise the next president to do in afghanistan? seth: many of the serious decisions will be up to the next administration. interesting news is that the u.s. will keep open 6 major bases to provide an ability to move up forces if the next administration decides to. laura: we have been talking about lessons learned. what are the lessons learned by u.s. presidents in afghanistan? seth: no foreign country, the u.s., british, or others, can win one of these wars for locals. and the early stages, the u.s., british, and italians tried to win this for the afghans by doing the bulk of the fighting. we are doing a different model where the afghans are doing the areting and nato forces providing training, advice, and assistance. that is better over the long run. laura: thank you for joining us. you are watching "bbc world news america." still to come, oscar pist

the pakistanis after the soviets left afghanistan, the taliban came about. they as i said earlier, cultivated the taliban as an important ally against india and so what we had on 2001 in 9/11, an old ally that was certainly not -- certainly not the same level of trust as there had been in the cold war but it was still seen as a country that had drifted from the united states' sort of same interest but still quite important. >> if i could quickly add, on the soviet records pertaining to the separation of bangladesh from pakistan in 1971 just became available last august. and again, because they were only so recently available, i haven't gone through all of them. but i did look at some of them and because as mark mentioned india was a close ally of the soviet union, the soviet intelligence service and soviet foreign ministry were basically quite happy about the outcome in the -- that bangladesh had been able to be separated through india's intervention. and saw this as a new arena in which it would be possible opportunities for intelligence gathering vis a vis

the taliban is so strong.gnite the problems that have existed in that world for so long. it was quite absent for so long in history where the shia and sunnis were killing each other like they are now. once we got involved, we've reignited the dove award and that is what is going on and we can't possibly settle that. they will ask for more money. already a request from afghanistan who is proposed that nato appeared $5 billion a year for five years to take care of that. the american people don't have the money and it won't do any good. it's time we changed the policy and think about nonintervention and look at the field intervention in the last 15 years. ashley: let me talk to carl he read, former navy seal. you're very familiar with this part of the world. what do you think of the comments? >> i generally disagree with renegotiating policies. i think he did have one point and the fact things have gotten worse since we've intervene. we go in there with a regime or general reader. the mission as we have to unders

and then support the taliban? why do they support what they would support terrorist groups that fight the indians in kashmir but also conducts attacks like the mumbai attacks in 2008, and why are they building up their nuclear arsenal so rapidly and creating smaller nuclear weapons and so on, they do all of this because they view india as a mortal threat still, 70 years later, they do not believe still treats india as an xo sense jill's threat they don't leap in their their existence and does not want them to survive. they would like to see them fail and be absorbed within india. so that mentality is nothing new. that came out of these just a few months in 1947, that 47, that mentality was cemented within the pakistani establishment within ordinary establishment. they have been able to rule the country from half of this existence because every time they took power they say you need us to defend you against india. we are going to protect the country. they blended this with his mom, they use other excuses but that i

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is isis an ally of the taliban or a rival?> caller: well, ideologically, looking at, they have the same mentality and the same ideology of overthrowing the afghan government and bringing chaos to the say the. but, they have been in skirmishes and war between each other between taliban and isis in eastern afghanistan. and this is the first kind of attack, sophisticated attack by isis on soft targets on minority groups in kabul. >> and can you tell me how members of the ha-zahrah whun community are reacting? and is the government trying to accept a send any messages to reassure members of this long-persecuted community? >> caller: yes, the afghan government has reacted angrily. and they knew isis was planning to infiltrate kabul to attack and do attacks. so of course they knew. and before this protest happened, the afghan government warned the community who were planning this protest about a possible attack. but it still went through. and sadly, a lot of people were killed in yesterday's attack. >> and it's worth, again, noting

at the same time, the taliban remains a threat. they've gained ground in some cases come to continue attacks and suicide bombings including in kabul because the taliban deliberately target innocent civilians. more afghan men, women and children are dying and often overlooked, millions of afghans have fled their homes and many have their country. as president and commander-in-chief, i made it clear i will not allow afghanistan to be his first defeat in for a terrorist attack our nation. that's why constantly review our strategy with national security team including commanders and afghan and good and obvious route is guided by facts, what is happening on the ground to determine what is working and what needs to be changed. that is why at times i've made adjustments. for example, slowing the drawdown of forces in the recently giving u.s. forces or flexibility to support afghan forces on the ground and in the air. i strongly believe it is in our national security interest, especially after all the treasure we've invested in afghanistan

at the same time, the taliban remains a threat.e gained ground in some cases, and continued attacks and suicide bombings, including in kabul, because the taliban deliberately target innocent civilians, more afghan men, women and children are dying. and often overlooked in the global refugee crisis, millions of afghans have fled their homes and many have been fleeing their country. now, as president and commander in chief, i've made it clear that i will not allow afghanistan to be used as safehaven for terrorists attack our nation again and that's why i constantly review our strategy with my national security team, including our commanders in afghanistan. in all these reviews we're guided by the facts, what's happening on the ground, to determine what's working and what needs to be changed. and that's why at times i've made a adjustments, for example, by slowing the draw down of our forces and more recently giving u.s. forces more flexibility to support afghan forces on the ground and in the air. and i strongly believe that it is in

to fight the taliban? to think they can. [inaudible] >> the nobel peace prize -- >> it when i did my ten years at newsweek i oversaw the war in afghanistan and i wish i had a good answer. i think you're right that there has to be a negotiated solution. i think all the parties our work right to work towards that. but even though they give the taliban safe haven they don't control them or kick tell them what to do. i do believe the pakistanis generally want the telephone to come to the peace table now. they're not able to do it. on the other hand, if they said were not given you anymore safe haven whatsoever and were kicking out all the leaders or we will arrest you, then i think they might change their not minds. the pakistanis are are not ready to do that yet. the one positive development i've seen so far and it is not a breakthrough yet is the fact that china is now involved. china has much more interest and stability in afghanistan than it ever did before partly for economic reasons because they want to develop minerals th

and then support the taliban? why do they support what you will call terrorist groups that by the indians in kashmir but alsod conduct attacks like the one in mumbai, and wire they building up their new clear arsenal so rapidly and creating smaller battlefield nuclear weapons and so on? they do all this because they view india as a mortal threat still. 70 years later. they do not believe, the pakistani military still treats india as an existential threat, they don't believe in their existence or want them to survive. and would like to see them fail and be reabsorbed within india. so that mentality is nothing new. that came out of this a few months in 1947. it was cemented within the pakistani establishment, it is wide, the pakistani military has been able to rule because every time they take power they say you need us to defend you against india, we are going to protect the country. they have blended this with islam, they have used excuses but that is their justification is to draw the majority of the budget for t

this from general charles cleveland who said, the taliban have once again shown a total disregard for human life and their increased use of explosive devices, in particular the ieds, are taking a very heavy toll on the afghan people. truer words never spoken. >> kevin corke live on the north lawn, thank you. >>> we are learning more about the three attackers in tuesday's deadly suicide bombings in istanbul, turkey. an attack the turkish government believes was carried out by isis. police in turkey have rounded up 13 suspects so far that they believe are linked to that terror group. the death toll rose today to 44. john huddy reports on the investigation. if you have small children in the room, this story contains graphic video. >> reporter: newly released video shows haunting images of the attackers opening fire in the airport as people scramble for their lives. in one shot, the gunman opens on point blank range. turkish officials say they were from russia and uzbekistan and we don't know whether they lived in turkey or traveled here, either together or separately from another country

the pakistanis after the soviets left afghanistan, the taliban came about. they as i said earlier, cultivated the taliban as an important ally against india and so what we had on 2001 in 9/11, an old ally that was certainly not -- certainly not the same level of trust as there had been in the cold war but it was still seen as a country that had drifted from the united states' sort of same interest but still quite important. >> if i could quickly add, on the soviet records pertaining to the separation of bangladesh from pakistan in 1971 just became available last august. and again, because they were only so recently available, i haven't gone through all of them. but i did look at some of them and because as mark mentioned india was a close ally of the soviet union, the soviet intelligence service and soviet foreign ministry were basically quite happy about the outcome in the -- that bangladesh had been able to be separated through india's intervention. and saw this as a new arena in which it would be possible opportunities for intelligence gathering vis a vis

have beaten back attacks and pushed the taliban out of some areas. meanwhile in another mile stein stone we recently removed the leader of the taliban. nevertheless, the situation in afghanistan remains precarious. even as they improve afghan's security forces are still not as strong as they need to be. with our help we are still working to improve critical capabilities such as intelligence, logistics, aviation, and command and control. at the same time, the taliban remains a threat. they have gained ground in some cases. they continued attacks and suicide bombings, including in kabul, because the taliban deliberately target innocent civilians, more afghan men, women, and children are dying. and often overlooked in the global refugee crisis, millions of afghans have fled their homes and many have been fleeing their country. as president and commander in chief i have made it clear that i will not allow afghanistan to be used as safe haven for terrorists to attack our nation again. that's why i constantly review our strategy with my national security t

added some areas we recently removed the leader of the taliban. nevertheless the security situation remains precarious even as they improve the security forces they are still not strong as they need to be the with our help they're still looking to improve critical capabilities such as intelligence, logistics' aviation and command and control at the same time the taliban remains a threat. they have gained ground and the suicide bombings because they deliberately targets more afghan men women and children are dying and with the global refugee crisis many have fled their homes and many flee the country i will not allow afghanistan to be used as a safe haven that is why i review the strategy with my national-security team including commanders afghanistan and i made adjustments with more flexibility to support the afghan forces on the ground. with the national security interest especially after all we have invested over the years. far end with a very best opportunity to succeed general mickelson conducted a review of the security situation in the milit

at the same time, the taliban remains a threat. they have gained ground in some cases. they've continued attacks and suicide bombings, including in kabul. because the taliban deliberately target innocent civilians, more afghan men, women and children are dying. and often overlooked in the global refugee crisis, millions of afghans have fled their homes and many have been fleeing their country. now, as president and commander-in-chief, i've made it clear that i will not allow afghanistan to be used as safe haven for terrorists to attack our nation again. that's why i constantly review our strategy with my national security team, including our commanders in afghanistan. in all these reviews, we're guided by the facts, what's happening on the ground, to determine what's working and what needs to be changed. and that's why, at times, i've made adjustments, for example, by slowing the drawdown of our forces and, more recently, by giving u.s. forces more flexibility to support afghan forces on the ground and in the air. and i strongly believe that it is in our national securi

and so they're happy to feed us lots of information on the pakistani taliban. the other thing it's done is that the criteria for targeting are loosened, and the administration starts to permit signature strikes which means you haven't actually identified who the person is by name, but they're doing things that would suggest that they may be a terrorist in terms of how they're traveling, how they're communicating, and so that allows us to strike more targets. we do, as a result of these things, the obama administration is able to hit and kill a lot more people than the bush administration did, and that's a fact that, you know, gets publicized. of previously the drone administration had been kept under wraps but, again, part of the political motive is to try to show the administration is getting tough on terrorism. when you dig into the numbers which, you know, the numbers are just presented without real context, but when you look at them, there's a couple things that stand out. one of them that most of those people who are killed are actually members of the paki

the media all they portray is isis, taliban. don't portray what muslims are really doing in america. what muslims are doing arnold t around the world. >> sergeant bartlet, you were wounded. you put your life on the line to fight terrorism for this country. your thoughts on the dialogue we're having right now? >> i think some great points were made. they were talking about education. we need to educate. the problem is education that we're fighting, you look at iran or any of these countries where these radical regimes are pushing the message. they're saying death to america, jews, christian, anybody who isn't following islam and following their version of islam. they've killed their own people, and they do it often. now they're killing us. how do you combat that. we combat entire regimes pushing that message. it's not just a small band of isis members. it's a very large regime pushing these things out. >> go ahead, karl. >> these are nice ideas. we want to fight it through education and domestic abuse. that's fine. right now we k

if you listen to the president talk about military strategy, whether the taliban specifically or isis in iraq and syria, they're spreading to northern africa and they are certainly relentless, no longer jv. i think he would admit. but every time he talks about strategy, can go as far as economy and jobs numbers, makes it sound we're doing so amazingly well. the hyperbole he uses to describe failure, it is really phenomenal. he should get into fiction writing after leaves office. leaving troops in afghanistan is huge admission of a failure. he was the president who would have a complete drawdown as antonio suggested. harris: it was going to 5500 level. staying at 8400 level. that is not just a big deal as kennedy pointed out, meghan. meghan: he ran on platform he would pull us out. he pulled us out of iraq in 2009. rise of evil of isis is direct result of that. he said 8400 troops was recommended. it was not. it was 9800 troops. for him to do this is is last thing he wants to do in the administration. even liberal obama who ran on this, understands the rise of isis is immediate threat.

the taliban will throw the afghan government in less than a year and half. that's one of the things that helped him make this decision. >> it's certainly important to maintain protection of our troops overseas as well that are fight and serving. but you have on two front as resurgent taliban and isis coing on the march, but you have secretary kerry saying they're desperate and in retreat. they don't seem to coincide at all with the facts. >> they're conducting operations now. obviously they try to inspire home grown extremism. they're moving into an organization, but they have expanded their ability to conduct external operations that they direct and they inspire external operations in places like orlando a few minutes ago. >> senator marco rubio. thank you. >> thank you. >>> as he now gets ready to testify before congress. eric bolling from "the five" will explain how this all plays out. that's coming up. >> i truly believe it's a matter of time before we get the photo in front of the right person that's fouj go able to identify this person. real cheese peo

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and the cia had been able to penetrate al qaeda and the taliban to some degree. they were able to find the whereabouts of osama bin laden but it was never in realtime and once they found him they could never find a way to kill him and there was a question of did they even have the authority to kill him. again, going back to this ban on assassinations that came in in 1976 under president ford, could the cia carry out an assassination to that extent. would it be an assassination? so there was this intense debate in the summer of 2001 when the military, which had developed an armed predator, basically handed the cia this weapon and the question was, should the cia take it up? and george tenant recalls meetings during that summer at the cia where basically it boiled down to we're spies, not assassins. should we take up this new weapon? should we take on this new mission? shouldn't that just be the military's job? and it somewhat seems quaint now but this debate played out right up until the september 11 attacks. in fact, on september 8, 2001, there was a meeting at t

why do they take billions of dollars to support the taliban. they fight the attacks like the mom by attacks in 2008 and why are they building u up a nuclear arsenal so rapidly and creating smaller nuclear weapons and so on. they don't believe the pakistani military still treats india as a threat that doesn't believe in their existence and want them to survive and would like to see them be reabsorbed within india. it's a few months in 1947 was in the pakistani establishment among the ordinary pakistanis and that's why the military has been able to rule the country for half of the existence. we are going to protect the country they blended this with islam and used other excuses but that is the justification for drawing the majority of the budget when the military you need us to defend. so, for americans and any outside power it's important to understand the roots of this mentality. you can't start to unwind it unless you know where it came from and when it was created there was a certain degree of legitimacy. it isn't the truth now and they have

he said i'm pashtun, and the taliban are mostly pashtun, and we hate the taliban.t them in because we are so tired of the corruption in the government of this society, and they promised to clean up corruption. the taliban rolled in, without much of a fight, because they were promising to clean up the corruption in this society. my dear friend, sarah shays, has written an amazing, an amazing book about the role of corruption in insurgencies and civil wars in which she found, what he found is that in the she babb in somalia and boca that rom in nigeria, isis, the taliban, the common theme in all of these religious insurgencies is the fight against corruption. and that's why they appeal to societies, as horrific and bloody as these movements are. and the irony, the irony when the u.s. went into afghanistan was that we didn't go with enough soldiers, and we paid our way. we paid off warlords so we didn't have to fight them. we wound up even paying taliban commanders, paying them money so we wouldn't have to fight them. in the eyes of the afghan people, we just looked l

. >> the taliban remains a threat.hey've gained ground in some cases and continue attacks instead of going down to 5,500 troops by the end of those year, the united states will maintain approximately 400 troops through the end of next year. charles: that was president obama saying he plans to leave more troops in afghanistan than previously planned. on what this means. peter, certainly an admission that there's some failures certainly maybe the capitalist is all wrong but even he admitted the taliban is certainly has been very unsuccessful as of late but alerting the enemy on how many troops, alerting the enemy on your time schedule. none of that has helped, has it? >> no. i've never been a fan of timetables. i mean you have to base your military operations on conditions on the ground, and you're right to point out that the taliban has doubled down. lasting fall they took the fifth largest city in afghanistan. last fall also took out two al-qaeda -- or last year took out two al-qaeda training camps in afghanistan and i

those missions and capabilities, they believe are sufficient to prevail over the taliban actions and so when the president goes against their recommendations, reduces by 1400 and then some of the missions and capabilities have to go away. that puts the american men and women who are serving in jeopardy. and by the way, in greater risk. i was over there fourth of july. their morale is great. they're tough, strong, ready to do the mission. but they also know, at least at senior leadership level that they don't have sufficient rules of engagement and numbers to carry out the task that they need to in order to prevail and stabilize afghanistan. >> right. and they need some clarity, by the way, also to carry out the mission. senator, can you characterize the threat today? i mean we heard john brennan from the cia just a couple weeks ago, week and a half ago, say that isis is hardly contained n fact, we have been unable to contain them. yet, the president's narrative continues. john kerry recently saying that isis is desperate. that they're on the run. where are we? >> well, by the way, th

taliban militants launched an attack on an afghan police cadet convoy killing at least 30 people and wounding 50 more even targeting those who came to help the injured, proof say experts that the administration's plans for the region are only making marginal gains at best. >> right now the administration would like to have you believe the iraqis stepped up taking control of operations in iraq and nat afghan government ising canning a -- that the afghan government is conducting a more positive control of their theater of operations. i think those are more talking point and less solidified. >> reporter: more reaction to the devastating attack by the taliban in afghanistan, brigadier general charles cleveland saying in a statement the taliban have once again shown their total disregard for human life in their increased use of improvised explosive devices are taking a very heavy toll on the afghan people, truer words never spoken. >>> ktvu fox 2 news at 6:00 starts now. >>> tighter gun control laws in california are one step closer to reality tonight after lawmakers in sacramento approve

and a resurgence of taliban fighters. pres. obama i strongly believe that it is in our national security interest especially after all the blood and treasure we've invested in afghanistan over the years that we give our afghan partners the very best opportunities to succeed." the taliban responded to the president's announcement saying what obama could not do with 150-thousand troops he will not be able to do with 84-hundred troops. >> steve:the email probe against hillary clinton is officially closed. attorney general loretta lynch met with the f-b-i director today to finish the investigation. lynch announced the decision just one day after f-b-i- director james comey recommended no criminal charges be brought against clinton. the investigation was looking into the potential mishandling of classified information on clinton's private server. the f-b-i criticized her actions as carless but said quote "no reasonable prosecutor" would pursue a criminal case. experts are changing the way people are washing their clothes.cold water

troops can attack the taliban.will put some additional muscle power against that threat. >> big announcement out of the white house, barbara starr with details from the pentagon, thank you. >>> back to the campaign trail we go. hillary clinton heading to atlantic city today. she'll be speaking live in just a few minutes. it's a pretty sure bet she'll be hammering trump and his business ventures in that city. we she speak for the first time about the announcement she won't be facing charges related to her use of a private e-mail server? i'm terrible at golf. he is. but i'd like to keep being terrible at golf for as long as i can. new patented ensure enlive has hmb plus 20 grams of protein to help rebuild muscle. for the strength and energy to do what you love. new ensure enlive. always be you. for hillary, it's always been about kids. it's in the quiet moments when you see why she does this. and when millions couldn't get health care, this first lady worked with republicans and democrats to fix it. creating the chil

the taliban has been resurgent there. there's a branch of isis that has formed there. militant groups are basically vying to make afghanistan their home and another breeding ground for terrorists. the big concern that many have is that, if the united states pulls out of afghanistan as it did in iraq, there will be a vacuum there. that's why this decision by the president was critical. there had been a review going on in afghanistan for the past several months by a new commander there to assess the situation. for even a broader context of this, remember, this war has been going on for 15 years, a response to 9/11 back in 2001. no one thought american troops would still be there. there's every indication americans will remain in afghanistan for some time to come. >> let's bring in chief foreign correspondent richard engel in us tan bul, turkey. let's talk about the situation on the ground, the dynamics that led the president to this decision. how would you describe afghanistan at this point? >> reporter: well, afghanistan never really was able to form a functioning gover

during his trial hasan claimed allegiance to the taliban but later said he wanted to become a member of the islamic state. in april 2013, joe car and tamerlan tsarnaev bombed the boston marathon. two police officers also died during the subsequent man hunt. joe car told police they were motivated by extremist islamic beliefs and learned how to build bombs from an al qaeda magazine. in may of 2015 two men opened fire outside a prophet mohammed cartoon contest in garland texas. the suspects were quickly shot and killed by police, but isis claimed responsibility. in july 2015, al qaeda follower mohammod abdulazeez went on a shooting rampage in chat nug ga, killing five military members. and last december, husband and wife killed 14 at the inland regional center in san bernardino. isis immediately claimed responsibility. megyn. >> trace thank you. well, with terror again dominating the daily headlines, we wanted to discuss the threat and the answers with a group of people who could bring a unique perspective to the issue. this time, however, we wanted to not only talk with intel pros and