similarly with afghanistan. you in the state department, your whole function is supposed to come get people who know what's going on. the lesson from vietnam is it's not a good idea to support an unpopular government. you can't at the end of the day. that's why we're taking fallujah for the third time. and ramani the third time. you in those meetings, you said you were things that the people carrying the weight didn't hear. so what did you hear and did they really, did they just know what they were doing but not communicate it to the people who make the decisions? >> read my next book because i'm going to tackle some of those. it's a very important question. my dad and uncles were in vietnam. my dad again was there when neil armstrong landed on the moon. added to make connections between my boat in vietnam. i think when richard holbrooke was criticized for bringing up his vietnam experience in this debate i think that was unfortunate and unfair. to questionable we didn't know. we didn't know a lot. and i didn't

role in afghanistan is very important that afghanistan hag made an effort to increase self-reliance, obviously it has serious challenges, and we will be discussing those challenges today. as a part of our discussion is dr. mohammad taqi, a medical doctor by training, a well-known columnist and somebody who has had an active role in pashtun nationalist causes in pakistan. let me begin inviting ambassador mohib to make an introduction where you see afghanistan at the present juncture, the challenge of the taliban. why do you feel that the iran peace process, which president obama invested heavily in, has not moved forward, and why do we hear the taliban resurgence, which is not always completely manifest itself because -- not going defeat the taliban nor are you in a position where people will say, the taliban are winning tomorrow. so, it's a kind of stalemate. why does that stalemate exist? yawed yawed conversation [inaudible conversations] >> ambassador, colleague from the diplomatic corps, government officials, journalists, and friends of afghanistan, good afternoon. from the out se

we talk about there's afghanistan and terror in afghanistan. yes they have operated there, but i point you to this facility here on the map. let me have the laser point er if i er if i may. is there a laser pointer? okay. i can pinpoint. okay. this is where the seminary was back in the 20th century and then it took the root and then it's a complex and about a hundred thousand students there. right next to it it's the center for the pakistan army. this is the special services group and the common elite force anding right here behind that is is the regiment headquarters and this is where i am from madrassah. this is the complex and that's the hub of pakistan air forces and head ware and engineering and some home to nuclears alleged allegedly. where do the terms come from? it was name after huk and from there it was and the graduating and it was educated in 1970 and he participated in the election campaign in the 1970 pakistan election. this is just to give you a quick perspective of where the hub of those things lie. you have heard of addressing

when i started out afghanistan didn't have a telephone system so i was going into afghanistan for weeks and only being able to call back my stories when i went back to pakistan, even then there was no direct dialing, there was telex or dictate to go copy tapers in london which is quite difficult thing to do because you -- dictating a long story and you have got someone at the other end is there much more of this? [laughter] >> so that side has become a lot easier, the technology. the other side that's become much harder is that we've -- it's become much more dangerous. we've become targets in a way we weren't when i started out. i find it very frustrating that there are places that we can't go to and report from because it's become so dangerous and that -- it's something i never thought i would say ten or 20 years ago, i just can't go there because it's too dangerous. >> i think it's also the nature of the news business has changed so much in the last 10 or 15 years as we have been doing to these wars and there's just so much information out there and it's not like people feel like they

landlord is in afghanistan now. been trying with two administrations to raise $2 to -- farmers to grow cotton. we encourage alternative crops to poppy. -- we encourage that kind of approach. administration is actively alternative crops. caught and others have done very well. they are will by the communities as well. -- they are welcome by the communities as well. host: daniel, you are armed with the afghan ambassador to the u.s.. caller: good morning, and thank you for taking my call. i am a retired military man. i served in the united states marine corps and did some time over there in the middle east. i feel very bad for your nation, the long history of intervention from other countries with russia , our country over there doing whatever, i'm not sure what they are doing over there right now. believe is really the core reason why united , i know talk about terrorism and a lot of us americans don't understand the telegram, al qaeda, isis, these are all different organizations, a fight amongst themselves. people try

orders are issued from the base to military units across southern afghanistan. troops spend many hours training every day. the elite special forces are taking on an increasingly important role in missions to destroy taliban targets. >> translator: we are getting weapons and training from u.s. troops. >> reporter: u.s. military officials take part in operational meetings at the base. u.s. military is focusing on southern afghanistan because a massive training camp for taliban and al qaeda fighters was spotted last autumn. the lack of intelligence by the afghan military on the camp shocked the u.s. the close ties between taliban and al qaeda militants alarmed an afghan military commander. >> translator: there are many al qaeda training camps in southern afghanistan. taliban fighters are receiving training there. >> reporter: general john colson is the commander of international forces in afghanistan. he visited kandahar to meet local influential figures. >> translator: we want the international forces to support the afghan military to wipe out terrorists. >> and w

and likely, in afghanistan, we have wild pistachio. we have hoards of pistachio, so trying to see how we can become a main exporter. we have a project with uc davis, washington state, texas a&m together, that they are working with extension programs in afghanistan. their extension officers are working out with the ministry. so they will be the key partner of us to let them know how we can adopt some of those technology. at the same time, we'll be sending some of our students, our government employee, to learn and work in these research stations. our researcher will come here to learn the new technology -- at the same time, to see how we can adopt it to the context of afghanistan, where we are suffering from the lack of electricity, other issues. >> i think so many people have an image of afghanistan as a violent place where the only thing that's grown are poppies and the drug trade. >> people are engaged -- they have a life out there. they go to school, our girls going to school. our kids are going to school. we have hospitals, we -- a

similarly with afghanistan. now, you were in the state department. your whole function is supposed -- there are people who know what's going on, and the lesson from vietnam is it's not a good idea to support an unpopular government. what did you her and did they really -- did they just know want they were doing but not communicate it to the people who made the decisions? >> read my next book. i'm going tackle this. tell you, my dad and uncles were in vietnam. i had an uncle almost died in vietnam. my dad was there when neil armstrong landed on the moon, some i make connections between my back and vietnam. tommy coal's story, you don't here the ebb. when richard hole brook was criticized for bringing up his vietnam experience in this debate that was unfortunate and unfair. to your question what we didn't know. we didn't know a lot. and i didn't know a lot. so i'm not here to just point fingers at my government that i work for and that supported in the my role and could have fired me for legitimate reasons. i think we were naive and i have to back took

i will say that the united states ignores afghanistan and it did ignore afghanistan between 1989 and 2001. as a result, 9/11 happened. then the united states and the people that think about those issues in this sit down amount ne also need to look at the big picture and how to find a solution in which the taliban can be forced to the table or be forced off the map, and either one of those solutions would probably be acceptable to all three of us at the podium. thank you so much for joining us. we will soon have events up here. those of you that are not already on the hudson mailing list and hudson south mailing list, give the names to the young people here that are working with us, and we look forward to staying in touch. >> thank you ambassador and doctor. >>> our c-span campaign to you 26 bus continues its travels throughout the country to honor winners of our students camp competition. recently we stopped in washington, d.c., in silver spring maryland. 41 students were presented with awards in front of classmates, teachers, warrants and local elected officials for producing 14 win

this conflict in afghanistan. i believe and so do the afghan people, that if we put ourselves together, the united states, afghanistan, and our other allies in the right way and focus on the right places have extremism is raised and radicalism is supported and where the sanctuaries are, we'll have a solution to the issues we're facing. >> but so many years, so many lives lost. the u.s. still has about 10,000 troops in zpafghanistan right n. the american people look at afghanistan and say why aren't the afghan people getting the job done? >> we are getting the job done. we lose daily, people. our soldiers, our police, our civilians, our institutions. we are doing it. it's a major difficulty there, and there has to be a concerted and bigger effort in order to address it, and it takes us to the difficulties in the past. today i will not talk about them. today there's a tragedy in america, and i want to be here to support the american people and to give them our best wishes. >> is there an element in afghanistan today

alibah served five tours in afghanistan and iraq. he was injured when he was struck. this will allow him to perform the routine tasks a lot of us take for granted. >>> to florida now where tropical storm colin is just bearing down on the sunshine state. governor rick scott has declared a state of emergency in 34 counties as the storm approaches the gulf of mexico. the tampa bay region, panhandle, and counties along the atlantic beaches are included in the declaration. so everywhere except miami. heavy rain is expected in many coastal communities. providing sandbags to residents in low lying residents proned to flooding which is state. [ laughter ] >> exactly. >> that's true. >>> for colin, good news, not becoming a hurricane. it'll make landfall in about an hour and a half. and other good news, staying south of us. is the projected w field. as it begins to prove across the florida panhandle tonight. it races out to sea. so winds along the southeast coast to charleston never exceed 50, 55 miles per hour. you do see a little orange in the center of that. winds over 60 w

let's not walk away from afghanistan. the question is what will happen between now and the sum or between now and the beginning of next year? both the the u.s. troop presence and the commitment of nato allies, who appear increasingly ready to state course in afghanistan despite so many years of engagement. >> sreenivasan: how much of this ends up on the next president's desk? >> that's exactly right, yeah. i mean, whoever gets elected next year is it going to be inheriting a very long war that shows no signs of ending. and the afghan security forces, despite some improvements and the military commanders are talking about those improvements, still face a very resilient, a very troublesome taliban enemy. last year, there was a report to the pentagon, gave a report to congress that showed casualties among the afghan security forces spiked 27% last year and their air force is still a long way from being capable, despite gaining aircraft and having real progress in some areas of the afghan military. they're a loang way from be

s amendment to end the futile war on drugs in afghanistan. in the most recent quarterly report from april of 2016, the special inspector general for afghanistan said that the united states has provided a total of $8.5 billion in funding for cournlt narcotics efforts in afghanistan since 2002. but these efforts from failed and has been a failure. afghanistan remains the leading opium supplier and provides over 90% of the world opium today and since our efforts in afghanistan to counter poppy production and opium production, would you believe that their production has doubled? that's right. we spent over $8 billion counternarcotics efforts and they doubled their production efforts. if this isn't a measure of failure, i don't know what that is. we provide funds through the counterdrug accounts and properties drug interdick shon funds through the international law enforcement accounts and through the drug enforcement administration. my amendment would specifically end d.o.d. fnding for the afghanistan drug war and cut the united states' spending.

landlord is in afghanistan now. been trying with two administrations to raise $2 to -- farmers to grow cotton. we encourage alternative crops to poppy. -- we encourage that kind of approach. administration is actively alternative crops. caught and others have done very well. they are will by the communities as well. -- they are welcome by the communities as well. host: daniel, you are armed with the afghan ambassador to the u.s.. caller: good morning, and thank you for taking my call. i am a retired military man. i served in the united states marine corps and did some time over there in the middle east. i feel very bad for your nation, the long history of intervention from other countries with russia , our country over there doing whatever, i'm not sure what they are doing over there right now. believe is really the core reason why united , i know talk about terrorism and a lot of us americans don't understand the telegram, al qaeda, isis, these are all different organizations, a fight amongst themselves. people try

not all, but most troops out of iraq and afghanistan. and i think -- we haven't talked about it, but i think an issue that people ought to think about is whether we really want the executive branch of the government keeping a list of people who we are willing to kill based on evidence that no one outside the executive branch sees, based on a process of deliberations that may be well intentioned, but i think needs some oversight either from the congress or from the judiciary. we don't wiretap people in the united states without the fbi going to a federal judge and offering a reason this is necessary. and i think that in a democracy we shouldn't pill people in target -- kill people in targeted killings without the cia or the justice department having to go to a federal judge and present the evidence and say this is why this is justified. >> very good, very good. i think we have time for one short question, and then i think we're going to have to conclude. so please step to the microphone in the center. thank you, sir. go ahead. >> thank yo

in afghanistan, talib has killed 16 people and attacked dozens more. it's just the latest attack to the war-torn country. the ongoing fight for control continues to force a huge number of afghans to leave their home. right now, it is estimated some two point four 6 million people have left the country. a report by amnesty international has shed light on the number of refugees living inside afghanistan. it says 1.2 million people are internally displaced, and double the number of just three years ago. in 2012, the figure was half a million and the germanic increased him and straight how fighting between the taliban and then government is spreading. most people have been seeking shelter in the capital but as the number increases, the resources available have shrunk. >> this way has lost his father. he was on board one of the buses ambushed by the telegram. anyone venturing onto the road is in danger of eating targeted. it was from here that this woman and her children fled. now they live in a camp for displaced people. >> we arrived one year ago. there w

-- the taliban and in afghanistan. this is half an hour. welcome the secretary of defense, ash carter. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for being here, and digging around -- and .ticking around it is a thrill and honor to have secretary carter here. those of you at home or watching at home as well. a few points from his bio. he became secretary last year. before that we knew him in the pentagon for a while. he was the deputy secretary of defense. the guide that is supposed to know where things go and probably where things are buried. before that he was the under secretary of defense for html -- , which was the pentagon weapons buyer. the clinton in administration he was the assistant secretary of defense for international security. the guy that has to go around the world. he has been through it all.

mission in afghanistan. thousands of brave men and women put themselves and their families at risk to help our soldiers and diplomats accomplish their mission and return home safely. and we must not turn our back on these individuals. we must not imperil our ability to secure this kind of assistance in the future and a no vote today would do exactly that. so i urge this body to move forward to allow a vote on a compromise that has been supported by everybody who was raising concerns about this program. and now i would like to yield to my colleague from south carolina. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from kansas. a senator: mr. president, thank you very much. i appreciate the opportunity to be here on the senate floor today with my colleagues. mr. moran: i, too, have an amendment to strike, section 1023 of this bill, national defense authorization bill 2943. this is amendment number 4068. and this amendment we will seek unanimous consent for it to be considered, but what if does i

i was going to afghanistan. i know it's the real deal over there. >> april 2009, the unit captures on camera a frightening day when they're hit with multiple ieds. >> we're driving down the road and we get hit in the middle of nowhere. there was no indicators, there was no markers. there is just an ied in the middle of nowhere. >> no one is hurt in that explosion, but the ied takes out the platoon's mine roller, a critical piece of equipment. the repairs take hours, forcing them to wait until morning to move again. and leaving them exposed on the dangerous road. >> i talked to the village elder. and he told me that the taliban >> each time when your friend's blown up, your heart stops and you don't know. you wait for the dust to come down and wait for the radio to crack back up and hear something. >> good to go. >> everybody is good to go. nobody's injured. >> so we recover the vehicle and then we continue on the road. >> finally the group makes it safely to its destination. battered and shaken, but alive. phil

and the only afghanistan specific training i was supposed to get was in afghanistan culture brief that was just a power point i was supposed to click through on my own and i opened it up and it was actually a briefing on iraqi political history and i went to the guy and i said, i'm sorry, i think i have the wrong one and am i sitting at the wrong computer, he said, no, that's it, that's the brief. so that was pretty much it for what i got. subsequent to that, i had some better training, i think some of the best training out there is when they gave you -- they give civilians the tactical combat care training which they give to the military, which is quick and dirty, how to stop -- something like 80% of injuries are one of five things and if you know how to deal with those things, you know how to help people in the field. that gave me so much confidence to feel that there was a chance i might be more than dead weight if stuff went really wrong. but it is always a struggle. and in 20 10, for deployment was supposed to do around helmand for four months in the summertime on the roads, i req

georgia -- georgia relations from deploying with us in afghanistan or kosovo much more focus on their homeland security needs, national defense resilience, et cetera, so we're working on that. the best antidote to russian pressure is a successful, prosperous, democratic georgia. that's why we work so hard with them on justice reform, on rule of law, on strong institutions, on market access. we're also encouraging georgia in its relationship with the european union as it implements the trade benefits of that, to reach out to the them and make it possible for them through tbilisi to have the benefits of a trade relationship with europe so that some day those parts of georgia may see stronger benefit from tbilisi than what anything being offered by any external neighbor. but you're absolutely right, that it's essential for us to continue to be strong supporters of georgia's aspirations. >> let me actually ask a different question of you, dr. carpenter. you can answer this one as well, if you would like. we have, obsessive in this place about military assistance, military assistance for t

[inaudible] from the trailer park on the cia campus launch the first lethal drone strike in afghanistan on the first night of the war there, october 7, 2001. the story that i tell in detail in my book. three days later, president bush had another national security council meeting said, why can't we fly more than one predator at a time time? we ought to have 50 of these things. and in december of that year, bush gave a speech to the core of cadet at the citadel in south carolina where he said, before the war the predator had skeptic because it did not fit the old ways, now it is clear the military does not have enough on unmanned vehicles.. i think that is when the drone revolution began. now i will leave it to my fellow author scott shane and mark moyar to talk about how the cia's initial reluctant to use an armed drone like the predator changed in succeeding years quite dramatically. thank you. >> thank you very much richard. [applause].. g when >> i'm going to give a quick personal vignette is a turn it over to scott shane. i had the great honor to serve as a research assistant for ad

petraeus: let me talk afghanistan again. first, i would very much extend close air support to support the afghan security forces. i expect that general nicholson, the commander of the force, the coalition force in afghanistan, will provide recommendations here in the next week or two that will caution against further drawdowns. a number of us former commanders in afghanistan, ambassadors all agreed that we'll recommend very strongly against 0-- charlie: a letter to the present? -- to the president? mr. petraeus: this will go to the public. but cautioned against any further drawdown. let the next president make that decision. this fighting seems to be a tough one. wemand province in which made such as american gains -- to alyssa degree kandahar, have been under enormous pressure by the taliban and some districts have been taken back by the taliban. there are some in the north that are very worrisome as well. we have got to watch this or else, again, you could be back in a position where afghanistan is under enormous threat. k

although, his parents are from afghanistan. let's talk more about this devastating news, this horrible day in american history, with senator marco rubio from florida, who serves on the intelligence committee and obviously born and bred in the state of florida. senator, first of all, our thoughts and prayers are with you and the entire state of florida right now. i know that there is -- there's a lot for us to talk about, but you have a message for people in central florida right now, something they can do to help right now. what is that? >> yeah, well, first of all, thanks for giving this the coverage it deserves. it's a horrifying incident, obviously. for people in central florida, they are looking for blood donors, particularly the o-plus and o-negative blood types. i put that up on twitter. don't just show up at the hospital, but get in touch with local blood bank authorities. i linked an article to my twitter feed so people can know where to call. you have this level of mass casualty and loss of life here, you can just imag

from afghanistan. a former afghan president spoke to cnn's wolf blitzer. he strongly condemned the orlando terror attack. >> a great tragedy. we commiserate with the people of the united states, with the families who lost their loved ones, with the wounded. it's a crime that we condemn in the strongest possible terms because we in afghanistan suffer from it daily and for a long time. so we are with the american people on this. >> well, for more on the shooter and his ties to afghanistan, we're joined now by cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson in london. nic, what are we learning? >> reporter: we're learning that his family came to live in the united states and that he was actually born in the united states, that his father, if you will, kept a hand in and an interest, if you will, in afghan politics, keeping up a commentary on an internet television channel aimed at afghans. and he had quite strong opinions. he was very anti-pakistani. he had also -- the fact also, on his facebook page, h

droops in afghanistan by year's end. bret? >> james rosen live on the north lawn. >>> a down day for the markets, the dow fell 120. the s&p 500 dropped 19. the nasdaq lost 64. >>> mixed results for the week, the dow was up .33%. the s&p 500 lost .1% and the nasdaq was down a point. >>> coming up, saying good-bye to the greatest. constipated? trust number one doctor recommended dulcolax use dulcolax tablets for gentle overnight relief suppositories for relief in minutes and stool softeners for comfortable relief of hard stools. dulcolax, designed for dependable relief you won't see these folks they have businesses to run. they have passions to pursue. how do they avoid trips to the post office? stamps.com mail letters, ship packages, all the services of the post office right on your computer. get a 4 week trial, plus $100 in extras including postage and a digital scale. go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again. i'm in charge of it all. business expenses, so i've been snapping photos of my receipts and keeping t

security forces fund to the afghanistan infrastructure fund. unfortunately the fiscal year retain the did not house language and provided d.o.d. the authority to obligate funds for the afghanistan infrastructure fund through the end of fiscal year 2017. my current amendment would turn off this authority. mr. chairman, we have spent billions of dollars toward rebuilding the infrastructure of afghanistan. in fact, congress has provided $1.3 billion to the afghanistan infrastructure fund, it was created in 2011. however, funds that have been slow to be spent, ass and as of -- and as of march 31, 2016, $488 million of these infrastructure funds have yet to be expended. reservations have been expressed about the afghans' ability to even operate and maintain these projects upon completion. mr. chairman, i ask with almost 50% of funds remaining to be expended, why take away from other programs and give to this one? i reserve. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition

what happens in afghanistan today? so i hope that any objection would not take place, and i would like to alert my colleagues that in the next 15 or 20 minutes, we will be moving that amendment, asking unanimous consent, and anyone who opposes it, i suggest they come to the floor and be prepared to object. this is -- this is really a matter of what america is all about, and as important as an amendment that is not connected to that is, i don't know of a higher obligation we have than to care for those who have, as i say for the third time, laid their lives on the line and saved american lives in our pursuit of trying to achieve our goals. so i alert my colleagues that in about 15 minutes, we will be proposing a unanimous consent agreement to pass that amendment. i yield the floor. mr. reed: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. reed: madam president, let me join the chairman. he has very eloquently and passionately described the situation we're in. we have thousands of afghans who h

i served all of those people during my deployment to afghanistan. i can say when i preached the sermon that led to my reprimand, i had the full support of the community of faith that attended that service. when i appealed the letter of reprimand, i appealed with more than 30 letters of support from everyone in the congregation as clergy am aerned chaplain's, and citizens across america. so i have had a lot of support. amy: i want to get your response to the presidential election. i want to turn to democratic presidential candidate former secretary of state hillary clinton. in 2014, guardian columnist owen jones questioned her about the use of drone warfare. to the would you say living parents of up to 202 children who have been killed by drones in pakistan in a program which you escalated as secretary of state? >> well, i would argue with the premise because, clearly, the efforts that were made by the united states in cooperation with our allies in afghanistan and certainly with the afghan government to prevent the threat that was in pakistan from c

it would be a boon for war-torn afghanistan. but the country's mining industry is corrupt and violent. early last year, the afghan national security council banned the extraction, a major problem for dealers. >> i invested all my money in it. but since the government banned mining, my business has collapsed. no one will buy it. what should i do with the stones? the only solution is for foreigners to come and buy them. when foreigners buy them, our business will start again and the government will benefit as well. reporter: although it has hurt some, the government banned has not slowed the money flow to violent groups. corrupt officials have illegally extracted about $200 million worth since 2014. stephen carter is a researcher for the corruption watchdog group global witness. >> the situation at the moment is you have a real illustration there is competition among armed groups for resources. that creates the ideal conditions for an insurgency to flourish. everyone has an interest in the government being a hollow shell. reporter

he was a us citizen born in new york and his parents are from afghanistan. he was not under surveillance, but in 2014 they discovered he had ties to an american suicide bomber. they said the ties were minimal and did not think he represented a threat. authorities said he legally purchased at least two firearms within the last two weeks. his father said his son got angry when he saw two men kissing in miami a couple of months ago. he said that might be related to the attack. the ex-wife of the suspect address the media this afternoon about her abusive relationship with him. >> in the beginning was he a -- he was normal. a few months after we were married i saw his instability and i saw that he was bipolar and get mad out of nowhere. that is when i started worrying about my safety and after a few months he started abusing me physically. very often and not allowing me to speak to my family, keeping me hostage from them. i tried to see the good in him even then, but my family was tuned in and decided to visit me and rescue me from the situation. years ago and we

afghanistan is under u.s. occupation as has to abide by international norms, still, the constitution is defined by devine law and the country is under the shah rea law. 99% of the population favors the law according to 2013 pugh research study. that was the same year that i came out in august of 2013. so when i came out, you can just imagine this is the most hostile homophobic country on the pla t planet. under the law, it means gays must be killed. there is no room for discussion. in the united states, we have this discussion through interfaith dialogue. lgbt americans were able to mobilize and win the hearts and minds of people through teaching them that this is -- teaching them about the science of gay. that we're like this. we cannot change. within the context of secular constitution and international human rights conventions. and in afghanistan, across the muslim world, that does not exist. how can you have an interfaith dialogue when the dominant state religion beheads you, hangs you or throws you off bu

and yes, we did in iraq and afghanistan. i do think you have to recognize in using's tradecraft technology to advance evil objectives, both operationally and ideologically is unprecedented. said, and iequently think is basically right -- if you think al qaeda was an internet generation terrorist group, isil is a social media generation terrorist group. it is different. even though it was just a few years ago. so yeah, we learned some things from there. we can use some of those techniques we used from afghanistan and iraq in those days. but this really is different, even as what is on your disk is different today than it was three years ago, five years ago. so these guys are up-to-date. in general.inking [laughter] >> that's a good point. you said in recent months, the u.s. was engaging in cyber warfare within like never before. -- cyber warfare with them like never before. sec. carter: it is like never before, which is to say that we have never done it. but it is like never before. we have made it a priority. this is probabl

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we're supposed to be fighting the taliban in afghanistan. the military in pakistan in my opinion is taking the money we give them and help support the taliban in afghanistan. they want to have it both ways. u.s. officials later said the taliban leader we took out was plotting new attacks on american targets in afghanistan. we have given pakistan $33 billion of aid since 9/11. and each year, we say that pakistan is the crossroads and needs to decide whether it's going to fight terrorists or fight on our side. let me tell you, we're being played by the pakistanis. they're taking money from whoever they can get it. they support the taliban they claim they support -- they support us. let's make them get a little less money every year. cut it down from $900 million which is in this year's budget, what it was last year, $200 million. mr. speaker, we don't need to pay pakistan to betray us. they're going to do it for free. so i reserve the balance of my time. that's what this amendment does. it cuts money $200 million. the chair: the gentleman rese

in fact, a number of us former commanders in afghanistan, ambassadors to afghanistan have just all agreed on a letter that will recommend very strongly against doing that. >> is that going to the president or. >> this will go to the public, and so forth. but cautioning against any further drawdown. let the next president make that decision after we see how this year goes. this fighting season could be a very tough one. helleman-- hellman province which we made such significant gains, kandahar and some of these others have been under enormous pressure by the taliban and some of the districts in those provinces have been taken back by the taliban. there is some in the north that are very, very worrisome as well. and we've got to watch this, or else again you could be back in a position where afghanistan sunday enormous threat. keeping in mind again it was under the taliban, their control that al-qaeda had the effort there. with respect to the other locations, i think we have actually up gunned very considerably the resources that we are employing in syria, in iraq, in libya. we have actuall

we left afghanistan after that year. i figured with the year of training at your combat and your training, i had less than a year left and i thought they would not send me so i am free to go. i am back in italy having the time of my life and working out at the gym and nine months later, my buddy comes up to me, arthur brown from northern california and he has a stupid smile on his face. he asked if i read the newspaper. i'm ready for it. he said we're not going to iraq for 12 months. will go to afghanistan. bummer for you guys. we will go for 15 months, not 12. he said the stop movement is in effect. if you are to go somewhere else, you're not only will stay here and we will deploy again together. i had a buddy going to alaska and hawaii and i just heard they are not going anywhere but afghanistan. i felt bad for my buddies. if the military deems you keen to central, they don't have to let you out of your contract. they will call you back but if you're still there, they just won't let you go. son of a gun, right there, t

we did two tours in afghanistan together. i did one tour in iraq. and did you start the businesses then? we -- we had always talked about starting a business together, right, and -- and just, through our experiences in afghanistan, we -- you know, we found that we wanted to do more for the country other than go over there and be soldiers, right? we wanted to kind of give back. and we -- and we thank you for that. so -- so, i'm gonna speculate that these are your biggest sellers. they are. what does it cost you to make them and what do they cost landed, and then what do you sell them for here? so, our full-leather models -- the ak -- those will cost us $20 to make. and right now they cost us $4.90 to land each. so right around $25 because we're air-shipping them in. why are you air-shipping? well, because we just haven't been able to keep up with demand. we were selling them as fast as we had them. for the past three years, we've been sold out of product. what -- what do you sell them for? what will you sell them for? yes. we're selling them for $70.

ask them are we in afghanistan, i don't think so, where's that? the trauma of those multiple tours is -- it's very, very difficult to measure. the other thing i'd say about afghanistan which is brand-new is the outsourcing. it was done to private companies, my god. and iraq as well. we lost $6 billion cash that went over there on pallets or something like that. the money that's been going out to private sector companies i think is just -- it's morally reprehensible. particularly when you put it up against -- [ applause ] when you put it up against the suffering of these men and women who have done it. look at the suicide rates. even in s.e.a.l. team. i'd never thought we'd have sds in s.e.a.l. team. and that's borne of this long-standing anxiety and frustration. then you come home and you expect everybody else to be changed and they're not. these transitions back and forth from active duty, civilian time are very, very difficult. if you get pulled down underneath and look at what the afghan and iraq war has done, there's nothing comparable to viet

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his family is from afghanistan. the fbi is investigating if this shooting is a affect of terrorism or hate -- as an act of terrorism or hate crime. he went into the nightclub and started shooting and taking hostages. approximate hours later, a swat -- 3 hours later a s.w.a.t team went in to rescue the hostages. police are at his home talking to neighbors trying to figure out a motive. police are working at pulse nightclub, a popular gay nightclub in orlando where victims are still inside the club. a state of emergency has been declared for the state of florida and the city of orlando as officials work to bring in more resources to deal with the aftermath of the shooting. trish hartman channel 6 "action news." >>> thank you so much for that update. >>> turning to accuweather. it's getting nicer. >> reporter: it's good day to fly a kite, too. the forecast for the rest of the afternoon, high temperatures top out around 90 degrees within the next hour or two. and slowly drift off during the afternoon hours. 83 by 6:00 p

the npr team had been travelling through afghanistan's dangerous southern helmand province. the car carrying award-winning his interpreter was hit by shell fire. both were killed. npr correspondent tom bowman, who covers the pentagon, was in another car. tonight, we are told he is safe and unharmed. the pair was back in afghanistan, where they'd been many times to cover america's longest war. this attack, a dark reminder of the ever-present dangers faced by not just those fighting, but reporting as well. gilkey had covered major stories around the world, from gaza to the philippines to haiti. >> i mean, it's hard, but you can't get caught up in it and become part of it. you still need to maintain your state of mind that you are helping tell this story. >> reporter: in 2011, the white house photographers' association named gilkey still photographer of the year. and an investigation on veterans and brain injuries won him the coveted george polk award. david gilkey is being remembered tonight not just as a globe-trotting and talent ed photographer, but for the courage he displa