they financed the taliban in afghanistan. could they tell us what is the incentive to finance the taliban. i think there should be an approach at all stakeholders should be included in that negotiation. >> i'm a founding board member of the largest women's group in afghanistan called afghanistan women for women and i have in a dod contractor supporting that. there seems to be an agreement that a political solution needs to happen. there's a large to satisfaction with the national unity government and there are talks of new elections. this is what i have heard from my afghan colleagues -- they say if there was a loya jirga today, they would scrap it entirely or call for new elections. i wanted to get your thoughts on that. what other solutions might work politically? the afghans say if the u.s. leaves us alone, we might create a new government, but if the u.s. insists on a new government, it might continue. i went to get your thoughts on that. >> one of the misperceptions commonly repeated in afghanistan is a national unity gov

the taliban watched the debate from a secret location. or like a literal man cave, that is what this was. (laughter). >> trevor: although like taliban, you don't have to say you are in a secret location, you're the taliban. we just assume you are in a secret location. hey, describing her new boyfriend as new, we get t we get it i wonder what the taliban thinking, you know, watching that debate. even just seeing hillary clinton up there, how does the taliban process that information. they probably have to cut out a burqa and just tape it over her side of the screen. and by the way, by the way, my favorite part of the story, and this is all true, is that the taliban releasessed a statement. this is completely true, calling donald trump a nonserious candidate who says anything that comes to his tongue. this is the taliban. the taliban. (applause). >> trevor: the taliban sees donald trump, and even they think he is crazy. they're like we may be serious, but donald-- terrorists but donald trump is going to end the world. have you not seen this?

a drawn operation against the afghan taliban leadership, in particular in this case the head of the taliban. we never had a drone operation before. at least a drone operation with the actual use of a missile there before. that mission is very controversial. you'll hear people on different sides say it killed the peace process. you'll hear people on the other side say there was no peace process to kill. there was a terrorist leader to go after. i think it should become a that mission is very controversial. model. i think the next president ought to consider this and look back an how we have progressed against al qaeda in thinking about how we have progressed against al qaeda, and afghanistan, afghan taliban. by that i think we ought to think about carrying out operations like the operation in other parts of pakistan in the future. we do not need to have the tempo of operations that we had against al qaeda in pakistan. we're not going to destroy the afghan taliban through drone operations, nor should we try to, but we should try to disrupt and to seriously dismantle the sanctuaries and safe h

it was the taliban and it was 30 years of civil war. it spawned a breeding ground for al qaeda from which they attacked the united states. i'm an ardent supporter of pursuing stability in places like afghanistan. one of the things i pledged the agency to continue to work on with them is what should we have learned about how we do this the next time around, wherever it might be in the world. as an agency or interagency what should we be better at to be as prepared to bring all instruments of national power to bear, find most economical and effective ways to do this. i really appreciate your observation with respect to the time that's required. you may be able to go into afghanistan as we did in 2001 and topple the government there very quickly. but you cannot rebuild the state in an equally quick period of time. there's a further confusion in some of the community of interest that if you double the amount of money you spend, you will therefore double the rate of change in the national government. i appreciate, too, the growing recognition

he was resisting the taliban and in afghanistan. he had worked against the soviets during the soviet occupation. their occupation was 79 internet and then there was a period of civil war for a while and then when the taliban and took over he had to go to the mountains. the taliban allied themselves with al qaeda they had military assistance to the taliban and the taliban allowed them to plan and exit and recruit and train on this territory. : >> pretending to be journalists and wanting to interview, but in fact we are working for al qaeda. and they blew themselves up. this was a favor that of al qaeda was doing for the television and it was an exchange for what they must have known that al qaeda leadership was coming which was an attack on the united states. by doing this favor they had hoped that in the coming crisis the taliban and it was a huge favor to get rid of the opposition that existed. in fact, the taliban taliban did not turn over al qaeda and osama bin laden after 9/11 when president bush gave him the option of either tur

but our belief is that it will be necessary to bring bat political settlement, have the taliban come to the table and this why we have repet lid called for both ewan latllly and threw verious multilateral mechanisms to for the taliban to come to the table. unfortunately they have not been prepared to do that. this was an important factor in the president's decision to take the action he did against mansour earlier in the summer. so, we continue to believe that will be the way forward, and that is the belief of president ghani as well. >> i look forward to following that up on the second round. 'll say why i abhor pakistan's activityies and typed their duplicity hard to take, and my sense is you'll see a lessening to a grow of support for for pakistan because they know that our end goal is to negotiate with the taliban. that beats some over the duplicity because they're hedging thunder bets. >> thank you, chairman corker and thank you both of your service and what is an awful difficult situation there in afghanistan. mr. sampler, you used the metaphor that corruption is like a cancer.

it was said they financed the taliban in afghanistan. could they tell us what is the incentive of pakistan to fina nce the taliban? >> that is it. >> i think there should be a regional approach and all the stakeholders should be included in the negotiation. >> thank you. and now we will hear the last question, please. >> hello, i am a founding board member of the largest women's organization in afghanistan called afghanistan women for women, and i have been serving as a dod contractor. there seems to be in agreement that a political solution needs to happen. there is a large to satisfaction with the national -- there is a large dissatisfaction with the national unity government and there are talks of new elections. this is what i have heard from my afghan colleagues. they say if there was a loya jirga today, they would scrap it entirely or call for new elections. i wanted to get your thoughts on that. assuming that the nug is not working, what other solutions might work politically. the afghans say, if the u.s. leaves us alone, we might c

said, we have seen the taliban resurgence be problematic in the past year or so. taliban in the north have become a challenge. moment, nearief humiliation for the afghan ultimatelyrces, but they were able to take back crisis significant human and the disaster of the friendly still, for hospital theh we all still regret casualties. we have seen a resurgence in security.iban a loss of the number of forced thehat has american commander in conjunction with the leadership to put additional american forces on the ground to at least capital.district that we will see that negative trend reversed, largely because the leadership core, the area of hellman, just , has beenndahar replaced, and i think we will see improvement in the relatively near future. wasprevious commander largely incompetent. the challenge we face going forward is stabilizing of our to continue to affect relationships that we need to have with the afghans , not just a training world but include role to providing additional air support to the afghan national security in ways that we were unable to do before

the taliban in the north have become a challenge.e had that brief moment near humiliation for the national security forces, but ultimately they were able to take it back but not insignificant human price. we had the disaster of the friendly fire on the hospital there for which we all still are -- regret those casualties. we have also seen a resurgence in afghan taliban activity in the helmund province as well. a loss of a number of the districts which has forced both the american commander in conjunction with the afghan leadership to put additional american forces on the ground in the helmund province to at least hold the district capital. i do believe we'll see that negative trend reversed. largely because, in fact, the leadership in the 215th corps, the corps that sits upon that particular area, helmund, just west of kandahar, had been replaced and i think we're going to see some improvement in relatively near future. the previous commander was largely incompetent. i think the challenge we face going ahead will be the stabilizing o

that's the headquarters of the afghan taliban. they're looking at the devices closely, the pressure cooker devices, having a pretty potent explosive of mixture, we're talking about aluminum powder, ammonium nitrate, hmtd. put that all together, you're talking potentially about an explosive device significantly more powerful than the boston. bolling devices back just a few years ago. hmtd, likely the primary detonating explosive which set off the main charge, pretty tricky to make, we've seen very few cases in the west of islamist terrorists, managing to make that without some kind of terrorism training overseas. could this guy have linked up with al qaeda or the pakistani taliban or a group like that in afghanistan or pakistan? remember the times square bombing attack? he was directed by the pakistani taliban to launch that. >> htmd, is that one of the biggest clues they have? does that tell them how he became radicalized? who he was working with? correct? is that what you are saying? >> it's possible to learn how to make this off

it's not just the taliban. al qaeda was active here and isis is one of the newest players on the scene here, and there are other militant groups as well. you better bet that u.s. investigators are reaching out to both afghan and pakistani officials to hear what they can say about his travels between these two governments -- these two countries. we've reached out to the afghan government, carol. they have so far declined to comment on this. the pakistani government, the spokesman for the foreign ministry, they've said, hey, this man was born in afghanistan. he's not our problem. carol? >> interesting. so, peter, all of that said, we're also learning from an official, you heard evan's report here, that rahami's pakistani wife left a few days before the bombing. with all that ivan said, what does this tell you, if anything? >> well, we don't know. in law school sometimes they say, you know, suicide or flight are usually a sign of potential guilt, but we just don't know. adding to what ivan is reporting, i mean, the

than five percent of the population of afghanistan is under the rule of the taliban. that number fluctuates as the come bad roles around by the vast majority of the afghan people are living much better life than they could have envisioned in 2002. take your point that isn't what you were looking for but in terms of the future of afghanistan one point i like to do after does this for 15 years, we're there we need to continue to support afghanistan. we need to make sure the changes for women and girls and young entrepreneurs are not rolled but but the tub that we with you support in 2002 began to create in afghanistan are reaching true is now and i'd fruition now. i'd like to address your corruption question. ambassador olson talked about the strategic things we're doing elm thus government is supporting the joint interagency monitoring and evaluation commission for fighting corruption in afghanistan and they have reached agreement with civics different ministries to do internal audits -- -- all on their open doing -- can use logging are for signs on corruption and vulne

this is the kind of security problem that afghans face on a daily basis. this talibanack in kabul was particularly brutal and deadly.b first a remote controlled bomb went off. then as help arrived for the wounded, a suicide bomber dressed in an afghan army uniform detonated himself in the crowd of helpers. at least 35 people were killed, including an army general andne three senior police officers. more than 90 were wounded. the taliban aren't the only threat in afghanistan. >> of the 60 designated terrorist organizations that the u.s. has identified, ten of them reside in this region.si so our presence here enables us to keep pressure on those organizations and prevent another 9/11. >> reporter: both al qaeda and the islamic state are in afghanistan. the u.s. commander got expanded authorities this year to fight both isis and the taliban directly. so again, u.s. forces aree fighting here, supported by american planes. but the afghans remain on thee front line. they have a new air force, but it will take years before its at full strength and capacity, and afghan ground

you said that was a strong hold for the taliban, correct? >> it's the headquarters of the taliban. it's an open secret that the taliban are centered there, their leadership are there, they're directing some of the afghan insurgency from this town, which is pretty near the border between afghanistan and pakistan. another data point is just a few months ago in may, the leader of the taliban was killed in a u.s. drone strike. and the tail bang suggesting that this was not going to go unanswered. here's a guy who travelled not only into quetta, but parts of afghanistan where the taliban had a big presence. a lot of opportunities to connect with terrorist groups over there. we don't know whether he did. the boston bombers went back to the caucuses, no evidence they connected with terrorist groups. we just -- they're going to have to find out. >> one thing to say here too, there were other factors here, his family had this lawsuit against their towns related to -- in 2011, related to their restaurant. it was open 24 hours, there are complaints in the neighborhood in this lawsuit, the fam

and he went to facilitate contact with the taliban. ning he spent a year there in 2014. >> why did that stand out to you? >> what that tells me, he had 11 months on the ground in pakistan. and he was there to help his wife get a vis a. a year on the ground allowed him plenty of time to be radicalized if he was not. have his training refined and learn bomb making and counter surveillance and surveillance. and the entire time using his family cover story as deniability to talk to custom's officials. it is it a perfect cover story learning to be a terrorist. >> we'll see if we can pull the map back up. i want it show our viewers from kandahar. there is a board but not like what we are figure with. can they go to kandaharand travel to pakistan easily? >> it is easy. and you may recall we discovered al-qaeda training camps close to the border of pakistan. they are ungoverned and controlled border and hiring a taxi in quetta can drive you to it kandahar. and it is easy to meet members of the taliban there. and a place in pakistan, we know the

you reached out the the taliban and the taliban says "we don't know who this person is." ivan watson, thank you far in kabul. david yanberry is joining me. he's a retired police officer who lived next door to the suspect and his family for several years in new jersey. thank you so much david for joining me. . you're welcome. >> when's the last time you saw him. >> about 2011. >> what was he like, behaviorally? >> very quiet boy. it's a shock he did this. i can't imagine what happened. >> when you would have run ins with him, have conversations with him, would he engage you? was he more reclusive? give me more detail. >> we just talked about his family a little bit, his brothers. he once asked about going into law enforcement. he wanted to go to college. he wasn't really interested in his father's business, he wanted another career. very pleasant boy. i can't believe it. >> i was just going to say he was studying criminal justice so that would make sense if he wanted to go into law enforcement though it doesn't make sense if he did what he's accused of doing. also, david,

the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack, and the defense ministry killed 35 people, and those attacks also claimed by the taliban. >>> with the labor day behind us, the presidential election campaign, traditionally considered the final stretch, but not many boaters -- voters remain undecided. but anything is possible.>> reporter: good morning. this is the final stretch, and election day is just about two months away. a lot can happen in these final weeks, and most of the national polls show this is within the margin of error.>> reporter: hillary clinton, post-labor day push means traveling on a new airplane, and at one point parked almost alongside donald trump's arrived in ohio.>> i am so happy to have all of you here. >> reporter: after nine months, clinton ventures to the back of the plane and finally takes questions, some focusing on the email controversy. >> i take legislation seriously. the fact that i cannot remember certain meetings on whether they have occurred does not in any way effect the commitment that i have and still have to the treatment of classified ma

now, it's important to note that the taliban, the group that's been fighting the u.s. here in afghanistan for some 15 years, we've spoken with a taliban spokesman who's denied any links whatsoever to rahami or to the bombings on saturday in new jersey and in new york. and we do know from its past record that the taliban is often very quick to claim responsibility for deadly attacks carried out here in kabul, and in other parts of afghanistan. the areas where rahami traveled, yes, he went to quetta, a pakistani border town that is known to be a de facto headquarters for the leadership of the afghan taliban across the border in pakistan, but it's also home to many, many afghans going back to 1980s and the soviet occupation of afghanistan. it's important to note, also, wolf, that while the taliban may be denying links to rahami, there are many other militant jihadi groups that are active both on the afghan and pakistani sides of the border including al qaeda, including more recently isis. we have not heard from those organizations yet. we've reached out to the afghan and p

five minutes after that i'm leading the element out and there's a little ravine to our rare and the taliban has underground entrenchment systems and tunnels and they popped out of ground and start to ambush us. the first thing did, i was sick and tired getting shot out. i dove head first into this chest are high ravine. we all did. we started to fight and fight them back. we couldn't see them. they were so well camouflaged but it kept hearing this loud pop noise. thought my ear was going out, my eardrum had been busted. that wag butlets snapping over my shoulder. so i hear this funny sound. sounded like a. smack of a pillow and immediately following that i heard my best friend screaming for his mom. he is returning fire and i heard that snap, and look over and i see his arterial spray from his artery, and then the bloodt started to fill the ravine so i go down, laid down cross-fire as he is crying and stuff like that..stuf my spotter goes over to him to assist and try to put on an the tourniquet. the medics are on me lay and i looked left and my platoon leader there is, i said we need to ge

. >> perhaps hanging out in the taliban in pakistan was how he learned how to make bombs. >> they kept a note using the terrorist. >> this could have been a dry run for the next attack. >> good morning. guys. not since 9-11 hadz the city been targeted and attacked. now 15 year the later much has changed including cameras. now these cameras are equipped to catch any one trying to complete history. this weekend they did. the cameras had been added since 9-11. they have plenty of evidence in the black-and-white image of the explosion. what also led investigators to kr ca ahmad khan rahami was pictures of he and his family. it made note of the bomber responsible for the boston attacks which had homemade pressure cooker bombs. rahami was eventually shot and captured police in len done new jersey by a hero cop after bar owner reported saying someone sleeping? the doorway. >> the officer responded attempting to wake the individual and realized that was the individual that was wanted. within seconds that individual began firing. thank god our officer had a vest on. >> the hero cop angel padea.

this year, the taliban tried to take control of more areas in the country, especially in kunduz and helmand provinces. as a result, hundreds of extremist militants of taliban and daesh, many of whom were foreign fighters, were killed or captured. we call on the international community to pay particular attention to the elimination of terrorist safe havens located outside of the country. we are -- to implement their international pledges in the fight against terrorism and to avoid a dual policy of making a distinction between good and bad terrorists which undermines the international order. we ask all of you, what were the previous leaders of the taliban and al qaeda residing. and where were they killed. and this very moment, where are the leaders of the taliban and haqani network cloectlocated? from where and how are terrorists being trained, equipped and financed during a full-scale war? we have repeatedly asked our neighboring country pakistan to destroy the known terrorist safe havens, but we, unfortunately, have yet to witness any change in the situation. afghanistan has always desired

i can hear the taliban's footsteps. and right before i did that i look over my left shoulder andnd i see a good friend of mine he comes running in he's been on the gunfire for about a thousand meters or so. he is coming in to save us he slides in with his team inserts laying down massive firepower. that allowed us to back him. he popped smoke.he r it really did work in our favor. i did a few more targets a few feet away to 200 yards away. five minutes after that i'm leading the element out and then this is a ravine off to our rear and the taliban had underground entrenchment systems they popped out of the ground 25 feet away from us and started to ambushed us. the first thing i did i just dove headfirst into this chest high ravine. we started to fight them back. i kept hearing this loud pop noise at that my eardrum had been busted or something that was just bullets snapping over my shoulder. i edge off to the right side. immediately following that i heard my best friend screaming for his mom.screfo i look over it sprayin

they said at this patrol base and to attack every morning by the taliban. mortar attacks, machine gun fire. they called, they used us, our engagement was different. of engagement a little bit different. we didn't have to get shot at all the time we would always shoot back. they utilized us. with the marine corps. we set out all night. me and my spotter and two of the marine snipers nothing was happening. it was the most boring thing we will ever experience. of sitting out in the middle of nowhere i can sum a sheep it was a really boring time. the sun started to rise and i could see movement out in the village and the marine corps they were coming to clear out the village. about 35 meters from the humvee that was coming through. i was half a mile away and dropped that guy. the firefight happened i'm sweating. the bottom of my bids start to melt. they found our position. i met up with my 75th ranger regiment guys. we planned this mission. we have to finish doing our thing. we went out and started off at 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning. we walked for a few hours th

the taliban in the north have become a challenge. near that brief moment humiliation for the national security forces, but ultimately ey were able to take it back but not insignificant human price. we had the disaster of the friendly fire on the hospital there for which we all still are -- regret those casualties. we have also seen a resurgence in afghan taliban activity in the helmund province as well. a loss of a number of the districts which has forced both the american commander in conjunction with the afghan leadership to put additional american forces on the ground in the helmund province to at oost hold the district capital . i do believe we'll see that negative trend reversed. largely because, in fact, the leadership in the 215th corps, the corps that sits upon that particular area, helmund, just west of kandahar, had been replaced and i think we're going to see some improvement in relatively near future. the previous commander was largely incompetent. i think the challenge we face going ahead will be the stabilizing of our n

the taliban could just creep right over the peak of a mo and rpgs on us and disappear into the mountains like it was nothing. >> reporter: were people getting hit by shrapnel while eating lunch, taking showers? >> yeah, all the time. >> reporter: six years later, kyle boucher is one of the stars of "taking fire" along with his close friend and fellow soldier, j.j. mccool. j.j. was the first to rig his helmet with cameras. for the series the department of defense had the final signoff on what made the cut. >> this was filmed by us. we didn't have reporters out there, journalists. >> reporter: their pov footage tells the raw story of a year on the front lines. the panic. >> we've only got two rockets left. >> reporter: the adrenaline. >> whoa. it's still shooting. >> reporter: and some pretty funny pranks. >> candy has always been somewhat of a passion of mine. you didn't r and hide something from anyone else because no one in our platoon will steal something, even as trivial as a piece of candy. >> mccool probably has the best care packages, when he's sleeping, we sneak into his boxes and

or was he building relationships with the taliban? and learning how to do this and how to eventually be radicalized. going to the broader question of, what is just him that the taliban or al qaeda or whoever may have trained him send him back to act alone or repeated multiple times into what we have as basically a terrorist cell which these two men may or may not be part of. that's up to the fbi to determine, but if there's a broader cell that is something we need to know because we need to wrap up the rest of the cell and find out where other cells are, too. >> just got, a new image, picture. mike mccall, chairman of the house homeland security put it up pap bloody journal found at the scene of one of these bombings in which this individual wrote out ahmad khan rahami, the alleged terrorist, who's now under arrest, wrote out all sorts of allegiances, if you will, praise for anwar awlaki, for example. the al qaeda leader killed in a u.s. drone strike. american born, about four, five, six years ago. also wrote about the boston marathon

the united states, the leader of the taliban in may, the taliban saying that wouldn't go unanswered.his is somebody that has traveled in these areas. no known connection at this point to any overseas terrorist group. this reminds me a lot of the case of faisal shahzad, times square attempted bomber in may 2010 who tried to blow up his car a few blocks from here on that date. somebody who wasn't on the radar screen of law enforcement agencies and also had that extensive travel pattern in pakistan. he was directed to launch his attack by the pakistani taliban. so it's possible that there is some kind of overseas terrorism connection, because of that trouble pattern, if there is one, we're looking more at taliban groups, al qaeda, probably than isis, because they have a much less great presence over there. >> a lot still to learn. paul cruickshank, thank you. philip mudd as well. peter bergen. >>> coming up, i'm going to speak to a man a lot of people are calling a hero, the businessowner who called police. he saw the suspect sleeping in the doorway of his bar. recognized him from watch

the taliban has claimed responsibility. on monday, a bomb on the roadside near the ministry building in the capital kabul exploded. police officers and civilians gathered at the site to see what had happened, and then a second blast was set off by a suicide bomber. government officials say those killed include police and military officers. the majority of u.s.-led international forces withdrew from afghanistan at the end of 2014. since that time, the taliban has been steadily increasing attacks opposing a major threat to afghan government forces. >>> multiple explosions in syria have killed over 50 people. the islamic state militant group has claimed the attacks through the news agency. on monday morning the city on the mediterranean coast was hit by a car bombing. around the same time blasts in far-flung parts of the country including the outskirts of the capital damascus and a city near the borders with turkey and iraq. a britain-based human rights watchdog says there were six separate attacks killing a total of at least 5

he was actually directed and trained by the pakistani taliban. they taught him how to build those explosives. he wasn't on the radar screen either of u.s. law enforcement agencies when he came back here to the united states. and just like this bomber acted alone in actually going operational with this plot, a lot of similarities with this one. but they're still trying to figure out all this international travel. the bombs, the pressure cookers, we're talking about a bomb mixture with aluminum powder, ammonium nitrate. and it's something that is pretty tricky to make unless up got some overseas training. we've seen a few exceptions to that in islamic terrorists cases on both sides of the atlantic but not many exceptions and that could be a pointer to some kind of training overseas. you need to be taught generally how to make these things, to tinker with them, to experiment, to make sure you've got it right. >> so this suspect, this rahami, bob, he had family in afghanistan, so was there any reason for authorities here to suspect why he visited that

kabul, afghanistan, the taliban staged a deadly attack. ns outside the afghan defense ministry killed at least 24 people. 90 were wounded. the taliban has been gaining ground and increasing its hold in territories across afghanistan. results from the election in hong kong show a strong performance by younger, more radical lawmakers. china is warning that any support for independence is against the law. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more i am taylorntries, riggs. this is bloomberg. francine, tom? tom: let's get to the data right now. ambiguity over the next six minutes -- futures up three, the euro has done nothing. -- x crude post jobs, the vix, great equity markets. francine? francine: what do you mean ambiguity? markets today are on fire, at least a little bit. they were flat in europe. high-yielding currencies rising on the back of the fed. the pound, 1.3338. tom: let me go over to the bloomberg right now. joe from deutsche bank, thank you so much for saying, hey, stupid, this matters.

the taliban took responsibility for the blasts outside the ministry of defense.n people have been killed. >>> problem with british airways computer check-in system is causing big delays at u.s. airports like san francisco and boston. also reports in bahamas and mexico as well. officials say i.t. teams are working to fix the problem. they are apologizing for the long lines. it is not clear how many flights have been affected. >>> russian president vladimir putin putting a positive spin on a possible deal with the u.s. for the cease-fire in syria. he told reporters a deal may come within days. talks in china at the g20 summit failed to produce a deal. we have cnn's frederik pleitgen live with more from moscow. we heard there wasn't a deal and now there seems to be something on the table. what were the differences then and what has been resolved? >> reporter: well, it doesn't seem as though everything has been resolved. it seems there are differences there. it is interesting. you have a different read on things coming out of washington and then coming out of here in

simply being an american, you're either supported by the pakistani government, the isisir the taliban. a couple months ago, all the lawyers were killed in the town in one suicide bombing. it's about as dangerous as you can get. you certainly don't go there on vacation nor do you go to kandahar in afghanistan on vacation. too dangerous. all controlled by the taliban. by other radicals. so that's inherently suspicious and if i were immigrations, i would have done more than a secondary check. i would have asked him precisely what he was doing there and ask him for his phone and the rest of it because if you can't answer those questions, something's terribly wrong. i think this guy slipped through the net here. >> tim, would you agree? we also know at one point he was over there for almost a full year. it wasn't like it was a quick in and out visit. a full year in a place, of course, where there are terrorists and terror training camps. >> that's exactly what's there, erin. i agree with bob. there's literally no other reason to go there. even if you have family there, it's much safer to h

so as long as they had bin laden, they could privately tell the al-qaeda groups and the taliban groups in both pakistan and afghanistan we've got your guy. pay more attention to us. keep us informed. they had more control. that was their argument. the second argument they made or extra a nation for keeping them -- explanation for keeping him was the saudis paid them a lot of money. you know, he's a saudi, he came from an elegant, very wealthy family, bin laden family in saudi arabia. big construction family. not royal family, but they were mayor constructionallists and building, building, very wealthy. and the assumption we make and i make is that nobody wanted an american interrogation team to talk to him. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> booktv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend. here are some of our programs this weekend. tonight at 8 p.m. eastern, booktv talks with the new librarian of congress, carla hayden. she's the first woman and african-american to hold the position. then at 10, "after words." new york times' pre

that's the headquarters of the afghan taliban, who are in that town in a major way. recently the united states killed the leader of the taliban in a drone strike in may. and the taliban said that that would not go unanswered. so they'll be looking, as we have heard, at these international connections, the possibility that he got training overseas. and the fact that hmtd was used in the device takes it up a few notches in terms of sophistication on what we saw in the boston bombings just a few years ago. this was a more sophisticated, potentially more deadly device according to the information we're getting in, wolf. very, very disturbing details. >> very disturbing indeed. phil mudd. the fact that he visited afghanistan, that perhaps is not going to raise a lot of red flags. he was born there. his family was from afghanistan. but the fact that he went to pakistan, spent almost a year in pakistan, including in quetta, this sort of hot-bed of taliban activity. spent almost a year there. when he came back and his passport showed he had been gone for a long time, should

this year, the taliban tried to take control of more areas in the country, especially in kunduz and helmand provinces. as a result, hundreds of extremist militants of taliban and daesh, many of whom were foreign fighters, were killed or captured. we call on the international community to pay particular attention to the elimination of terrorist safe havens located outside of the country. we are -- to implement their international pledges in the fight against terrorism and to avoid a dual policy of making a distinction between good and bad terrorists which undermines the international order. we ask all of you, what were the previous leaders of the taliban and al qaeda residing. and where were they killed. and this very moment, where are the leaders of the taliban and haqani network cloelocated? from where and how are terrorists being trained, equipped and financed during a full-scale war? we have repeatedly asked our neighboring country pakistan to destroy the known terrorist safe havens, but we, unfortunately, have yet to witness any change in the situation. afghanistan has always desired pe

the taliban was tuning in. sman for the group says they were, quote, very interested and watched from a secret location in afghanistan. in the end, the taliban was disappointed because the candidates did not discuss plans for their country. >>> it was one of the most memorable moments from monday's debate. >> one of the worst things he said was about a woman in a beauty contest. he called this woman miss piggy. then he called her miss housekeeping because she was latina. donald, she has a name. >> where did yyou find this? >> the former miss universe, alicia machado is backing up clinton's claims to our megyn kelly. >> i don't need to share this story if i don't believe that person is not the right person, then being a president or trying to being a president. i'm ayala tina. i'm from venezuela. and cuba. you know, i need to share my story. i think i can open a few eyes. >> donald trump now fiercely denying that he ever used those terms against machado. >>> the first debate in the books, what do the voters think

the neighborhood. i think we're trying to say isis, not isis. taliban, not taliban. like we've got somebody who's disaffected in several areas and decided for some reason it's time to move. >> i think investigators right now the picture emerging is somebody who might have a mix of ideologies that might have in1350ii inspired him. we sometimes immediately go to isis. so far nothing has emerged of the hallmarks of isis. usually these guys leave behind something. they're very proud of the isis claim and isis is usually very quick, especially if they've gotten something on social media saying we're doing this in the name of. we haven't seen any of those things. the more time that passes tells us that perhaps it's a little bit more complicated. >> yeah. they claimed a link to the -- >> minnesota. >> -- minnesota attack. they stopped that. deafening silence. at this point pretty unlikely that there was any isis link, any sort of communication back and forth. >> gentlemen, thanks so much for sharing all of your reporting with us. >>> all right. president obama is set to mak

the taliban could just creep right over the peak of a mountain, drop some small arms fire and rpgs on us, disappear into the mountains like it was nothing. >> reporter: were people getting hit by fire or shrapnel while taking showers, eating lunch? >> hear that bomb come in screaming overhead. it's awesome. >> reporter: six years later kyle boucher is one of the stars of "taking fire." along with his close friend and fellow soldier j.j. mccool. >> holy cow. these rounds are hitting inches away from me. >> reporter: mccool was the first in the platoon to rig his helmet with cameras. suffice it to say the trend took off. for this series the sign-off on what footage made the cut. >> this was filmed by us. we didn't have reporters out there, journalists. >> reporter: their pov footage tells the raw story of a year on the front lines. the panic -- >> we've only got two rockets left. >> reporter: the adrenaline. >> whoa. they're still shooting. >> reporter: and some pretty funny pranks. >> candy has always been you didn't really have to try and hide something from anyone else because no one

, the pakistani taliban being the group that directed the times square bomber to launch a car bomb attack here in new york city in 2010. >> you know, juliette, i keep thinking about, you know, when you and i were covering the bombings in boston, the marathon, there was so much discussion of, did those brothers or did one of the brothers, you know, have connections overseas. he had spent time overseas, i think it was in the caucus regions, and as far as i remember, if memory serves me correct, it was never proven that he had any formal training in bomb-making, in building a pressure cooker bomb. >> that's exactly right. and i think -- i think we just don't know yet. it seems to me, at least in terms of biography, that the radicalization process was relatively recent. people had noticed a change in his physique and a growing anger. we don't know exactly what that was related to. but other similarities with what we saw in boston. one is, as bob was alluding to, sophisticated planning, no exit strategy. i mean, he didn't want to get killed. that seems clear to us, because he left