details the potential offenses being investigated. you can see there, it says willful retention of national defense information, also concealment or removal of government records. also obstruction of a federal investigation. that willful retention that you see there, anderson, it s key because legal experts are telling our evan perez and caitlin polantz that it s that language that points directly to the former president as a possible subject of the criminal probe. something else that was released was the motion to seal, and it has federal prosecutors expressing their concern that, as you can see there, evidence might be destroyed. and, you know anderson, that could explain why fbi agents were really compelled to move in and spent hours taking, you know, 11 steps of classified documents in the end. could you just explain what the doj s main argument against releasing the affidavit is? yeah, they ve been arguing this in their papers, they also argued it forcefully in court
killed by the americans and their drones, and we are proud of that. mohammed hamas is treated like royalty here. his brother is believed to be responsible for downing a helicopter full of u.s. special forces. so, he s taking me to the spot where he says his brother shot down a chinook. it was august 6th, 2011. hamas says, his brother was hiding behind the trees and shot the chinook down with an rpg, as it prepared to land by the river. three americans were killed, the single greatest loss of american life in the entire afghan war, 30. there were a lot of celebrations and not just here, he tells us. it was a big party. i m sure you can understand that it s hard to hear that people were celebrating about the deaths of dozens of americans. [interpreter] this was a heroic achievement because the people who were killed on this plane, they were the killers of osama
pain of this day. goldstar father christopher horton killed september 9th, 2011, during operation enduring freedom in afghanistan and karen fond is goldstar mom of aaron vaughn killed on the deadliest day in afghanistan august 6th, 2011, when a grenade launched by a talented man fighter took down chinook helicopter. thank you for joining us. no one knows more than you both of the pain, before we get to that, think of the situation. our first thoughts go out to the family members who have lost
skill, combat experience. almost unparalleled among the u.s. military. and that second force was sent in on one of these. a huge u.s. army chinook helicopter. there were 38 u.s. personnel excuse me, there were 38 personnel onboard that chinook that went in as that bolsteringr force that night. it was ten years ago this month, it was august 6th, 2011, and that night somehow it may have just been a lucky shot with a om low-tech rocket-propelled a grenade. but somehow, that gigantic chinook helicopter with all l those men onboard was shot down. and the toll was absolutely devastating. everybody onboard was killed. it was 22 u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s, three u.s. air force airmen, five u.s. army and army national guard soldiers, seven commandos from the afghan national army. seven afghan commandos, an
anniversaries. the eve of the 20th anniversary of 9/11. we just came off the 10-year anniversary of capturing and killing bin laden, and just a few weeks ago, we came off the 10-year anniversary of the single biggest loss of life and special operations history. 30 americans in the military were killed on that helicopter on august 6th, 2011, and 10 years later, we now have 13 brave servicemen, 12 marines, and this was tragic, and completely avoidable. i think as americans laura: explain how, edward. edward, if you don t mind, i m sorry to interrupt, but how specifically could this have been avoided, and then, assuming our troops are going to be asked under this leadership to go in and try and pull these