host: our guest is major general gordon davis joining us from kabul. john from utah on the democrats line, good morning. caller: good morning. thank you general for your service, and happy thanksgiving, and stay safe out there. i just have a question. i am a big study of history. these people in that part of the region of the world have wars for hundreds of years. i don't think there has been peace since 1490. this is a religious war we are in. these people fight for hundreds of years. how can we even imagine shaping that fight when we are part of that fight against their religion. we bring people in. and thee a holy war world scenario where we fight them. it justoing there, promotes that en. how can we ever that-- that end. how can we ever hope to end the war? guest: happy thanksgiving. that is a tough question. here is a lot of violence but it is less than over past centuries. century was inh fact quite peaceful. there were some struggles at different times and certainly here but there was some piece in the 1940's through the mid-1970's. it was consid

host: our guest is major general gordon davis joining us from kabul. john from utah on the democrats line, good morning. caller: good morning. thank you general for your service, and happy thanksgiving, and stay safe out there. i just have a question. i am a big study of history. these people in that part of the region of the world have wars for hundreds of years. i don't think there has been peace since 1490. this is a religious war we are in. these people fight for hundreds of years. how can we even imagine shaping that fight when we are part of that fight against their religion. we bring people in. and thee a holy war world scenario where we fight them. it justoing there, promotes that en. how can we ever that-- that end. how can we ever hope to end the war? guest: happy thanksgiving. that is a tough question. here is a lot of violence but it is less than over past centuries. century was inh fact quite peaceful. there were some struggles at different times and certainly here but there was some piece in the 1940's through the mid-1970's. it was consid

host: major general gordon davis joining us from kabul, afghanistan. >> on the next "wall street journal" we'll look at free speech on college campuses, looking at student protests and marches. "washington journal" on c-span and you can join us with your comments on facebook and twitter. tonight the designing and history of the congressional gold medals, america's highest honor. we hear from a graphic designer and then with we'll show the ceremony for the world war ii monuments men. that's at 8:00 eastern here on c-span. the washington center hosted four members of the white house press corps to discuss their roles and responsibilities in coveringing the presidency. his is an hour and 15 minutes. >> welcome, everybody. good morning, ladies and gentlemen. i'm going to have a couple of quick announcements. then we're going to have a short pause and for the cameras to pick up and then we will go to kevin nunnally who will introduce our moderator this morning. good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome. i'm allen gross, senior director of academic affairs at the washington center. we we

. >> on august 3rd 2014 us and afghan special operations forces deployed to charkh district about sixty miles south of kabul to clear taliban from the area. there's nothing unusual about this. us special operations forces often accompany afghan soldiers on these sorts of missions. i was in afghanistan at the time of the operation. a source called me to tell me that soldiers had beaten a man to death. he also told me it was too dangerous to go to charkh, so i drove as close as i could - to the provincial capital. this is the video i shot just days after the operation. >> at first it seemed like another footnote in the war. but after i returned home to copenhagen, more details began to emerge from my contacts in charkh. then six months later the un came out with its 2014 report citing civilian casualties. i found a short reference to the operation in it. >> the operation resulted in 28 civilian casualties (15 deaths and 13 injured). >> fifteen dead. how could fifteen civilian deaths from a joint us and afghan military operation go by almost unnoticed to the outside world? the report said that the international and afghan security

. >> on august 3rd 2014 us and afghan special operations forces deployed to charkh district about sixty miles south of kabul to clear taliban from the area. there's nothing unusual about this. us special operations forces often accompany afghan soldiers on these sorts of missions. i was in afghanistan at the time of the operation. a source called me to tell me that soldiers had beaten a man to death.

. >> on august 3rd 2014 us and afghan special operations forces deployed to charkh district about sixty miles south of kabul to clear taliban from the area. there's nothing unusual about this. us special operations forces often accompany afghan soldiers on these sorts of missions. i was in afghanistant

. >> on august 3rd 2014 us and afghan special operations forces deployed to charkh district about sixty miles south of kabul to clear taliban from the area. there's nothing unusual about this. us special operations forces often accompany afghan soldiers on these sorts of missions.

kabul and washington. rosiland jordan joining us from washington, d.c.ecause i believe the findings have already been announced, rosiland, what was said? >> reporter: that's right, the commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan in the past hour announced that it was a combination of human error and systems and processes mistakes that lead to the deadly bombing of the msf hospital in kunduz back in early october. this was a military-lead investigation, not the independent international investigation which doctors without borders want, in order to clarify what it believes happened, which it's calling a war crime. we have heard multiple accounts of we are very sorry from both general campbell and another official there in kabul, talking about the incident. they say people involved in the execution of this bombing have been suspended and they are not ruling out the possibility of yet another investigation. what is important to note is that what general campbell and his aids were describing during this press conference in kabul, has not actually been released pu

from the u.s. embassy about the potential for an imminent attack in the capital of kabul warning americans to use extreme caution. a u.s. official telling me they believe this threat is emanating from the al qaeda haqqani network, a well-known group of very violent operatives that come across the border often from pakistan into eastern afghanistan, long had their eyes on the capital. so there will be a lot of nervousness over the next 48 hours. the u.s. embassy, nato military headquarters also ramping up their security in this timeframe, but not discussing the specifics of their security measures of course, and, wolf, even as all of this is going on growing concern for the u.s. military about russian military moves in syria. a major escalation, that's what one u.s. military official calls russia's latest battlefield move. the russians have now activated this massive air defense missile system in western syria, the s-400. >> translator: we need to have security for our air force. and that is why we have activated the s-400 system. >> reporter: leaving the u.s. trying to figure out what to do next. >> the

embassy in kabul has urged americans in the country to avoid moving around the capital city and they are keeping their own personnel from using roads in the country. officials have not released in i details about the potential targets or how the attack will be carried out. >>> daniel: new this morning emergency responders in boston are seeing an uptick in the number of 911 calls and they say it is hurting how quickly they can get to a scene. globe reports in six years the average response time has climbed from five and a half minutes to 6.8 minutes. it is a trend happening in cities across the country. boston ems chief says so far it has not stopped people from getting the help they need. >> julie: look at drive times, the highest one right now still on the expressway with average speed about 19 miles per hour, 28 minute commute from the braintree split up to the exit for the pike. we will have another look at drive times in a moment. first here is shiri. >> shiri: temperatures struggling, 27 right now, mostly cloudy, 10:00 a.m. 30 , still mostly cloud and he you still mostly cloudy, about 32 with threat of flurries. i had ti

embassy in kabul afghanistan joining us on testifyings trivial analyst, thanks s much for joining us, i have to i guess begin on this threat fromy credential evidence that a terrorist attack will hit kabul within next 48 hours. what kind of controllable evidence do you think we are talking about? >> well most likely we don't have defe have. >> reporting -- against government institutions even u.s. allied forces in cabkabul,e evidence from listening into conversations, chat rs possib filtrate. >> we hear iraq syria afghanistan on global stage here, what risk do you think you afghanistan acts for having possible risk to powers of being a crunch could create a vam as we have seen forces taliban, is can jump in wreak havoc when it happens how much at risk is afghanistan? >> well, the risk has never receded. according to sources in defense and also national security allies in ground they are at least in east and southeast of afghanistan where taliban are omni present we are going after al-qaida when we have information taliban, units or forces, have said said very clearly that would be withdrawal or reemployment they would be target

kabul. >>> back now to the sanctions russia has announced against turkey after the shooting down of that russian fighter jet. lincoln mitchell is an expert on russia and joins us live frome appreciate your time so very much. the list of sanctions seems to get longer and longer every day. can you put the sanctions in some sort of perspective for us. are they proportional to the wrong that russia says has been done to them? or are they really about something else? what what are your thoughts? >> well, it's hard to know whether it's proportionate or not. that's subject tim i think there are a couple of things to keep in mind here, first, sanctions or a tool that western powers have used against a number of country, not least russia a great deal. we are now seeing russia taking a western tool and using it to their own advantage, which should not surprise anybody but demonstrates the way russia will play this and how russia sees themselves relative to the west. one thing that strikes me about these sanction is his that while they hurt turkey, they will not bring a great happy tons the russian people. russians, for russians turk is a a big tourist destination. it's a big vaca