was killed. it was 22 u.s. navy seals. three u.s. air force airman, five u.s. army and national guard soldiers. seven commandoes from the afghan national art me, seven afghan commandoes and afghan translators, also u.s. military working dog that was assigned to one of the members of the seal team on board. 38 personnel on board, all 38 of them killed. that was the single deadliest combat incident in the history of the u.s. navy seals. that was the single deadliest combat incident in the history of u.s. special forces of all kind. it was the single deadliest incident in the entirety of the u.s. war in afghanistan, for u.s. forces. and at the time this happened, again, ten years ago this month, we were just about ten years into the war. at the time that helicopter was
just been a lucky shot with a low-tech rocket-propelled grenade. but somehow, that gigantic chinook helicopter with all 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 afghan translator. also, a u.s. military working dog that was assigned to members of one of the s.e.a.l. teams onboard. 38 personnel onboard. all 38 of them killed. that was the single deadliest combat incident in the history of the u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s. that was the single deadliest combat incident in the history of u.s. special forces of all kinds. it was the single deadliest incident in the entirety of the
afghan translator. also, a u.s. military working dog that was assigned to members of one of the s.e.a.l. teams onboard. 38 personnel onboard. all 38 of them killed. that was the single deadliest combat incident in the history of the u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s. that was the single deadliest combat incident in the history of u.s. special forces of all kinds. it was the single deadliest s incident in the entirety of the u.s. war in afghanistan for u.s. forces. and at the time this happened, again, ten years ago this montha we were just about ten years into the war. at the time, that chinook was e, shot down, there was something on the order of 98,000 u.s. personnel in country. 98,000 u.s. troops.in it was at a time when our troopi presence there was at one of its highest points, one of its moste sprawling points.in we had more personnel there then and more parts of afghanistan
i have wanted him to weigh in on ever since he left office. so very excited. that s the interview tonight, former attorney general eric holder here in studio with me for his first live television interview since the election. before we bring on the former attorney general, though, we do have some breaking news that i want to start with tonight. part of this was probroken by n news tonight. part of it was broken by voice of america. we have nbc news s national security and military reporter standing by. but what this is about is the deadliest combat incident since president trump has been in office, the loss of four u.s. army special operations soldiers in niger on october 4th. now, our understanding of this story and the loss of these soldiers has evolved on sort of two parallel tracks since we first learned about the ambush that claimed these soldiers lives. there s been these two tracks. domestically it has been strange to the point of perplexing and is now a major story of the trum
highly inappropriate. she said that would be going after general kelly. that would be getting into a debate with a four star marine general and that would be highly inappropriate. general kelly is a four star marine general what he said about congress woman frederica wilson was absolutely untrue and that s the sort of thing that would usually cause resignations from the white house, particularly if the white house refused to give an apology for the remarks, but this is a different time. what started this week of lying on this fraught issue was the president still unexplained decision to not make public acknowledgement, public pronouncement about the deadliest combat incident of his presidency thus far, the loss of those special forces in an ambush attack carried out by islamic groups, so far, no group