sandra: a fox news aler. u.s. and nato forces reporting two american service members have been killed in an operation in afghanistan. no word on what they were doing at the time. their names are being withheld pending family notification. the deaths bring the number of u.s. service members killed in afghanistan this year to four. jon: as democrats debate increasing justices on the supreme court one republican lawmaker wants to cap it at nine and introducing a constitutional amendment to do so. congressman mark green joins me to discuss his proposal. you want to make that number nine permanent. yeah, thanks for having me on the show. it is crazy that they want to basically pack the court with activist judges who will interpret the constitution as
about what was happening in the area that is a typical task for military and intelligence officials to do. in these kinds of areas. so we know at this hour family notification is going out. there were also three u.s. service members wounded in the attack. it s a concern to the pentagon for so many reasons to take care of families, but to get a better understanding of who might have been behind it. isis claiming responsibility, but that s not investigatverifi. so who is targeting and killing americans. we ll stay on this as we get more reporting from you and from the military. barbara, thank you very much. in the meantime, the government shutdown is poised to do more damage to the u.s. economy than previously thought. that s according to the white house. the reason federal workers aren t spending money because they aren t getting paid. this news is coming from global
want to protect lives. ron took the lead, got some round off. we re not sure if they went to the suspect, if that was what killed him or if the suspect killed himself, but they were able to engage in some gun fire and it was his last heroic act in doing what he needed to do and standing the ground and being brave. it was amazing. and that highway patrol officer that never worked before and here they are, partners trying to save each other. the two went in and rescued him and pulled him out. that s what we do, man. we re family. we save each other. i m proud to be a part of that family. it s extraordinary what you do in law enforcement each and every day. it s also not lost on me, sergeant novak, that a lot of you are moms and dads as well. we were just talking to our reporter about now comes the time of family notification.
12, and sergeant helus makes 13. [inaudible] n no, we have not. we have not found any type of assault rifle inside the location. the only weapon we have found that we believe was used was a handgun. but, it s still early on and we haven t gone through the scene in detail yet. do you believe the gunman died at his own hands? it would appear that way, but it is certainly well too early to know if he actually did take his own life. [inaudible] we have to wait for the medical examiner to get here and family notification. it will be hours and hours. [inaudible] we don t know anything about the suspect. we haven t talked to anybody that had any contact with him prior.
on the way out of that meeting, an afghan opened fire on them. general miller not injured but two were. two officials standing close to general mill. we know now one was another senior u.s. military officer said to be in stable condition. he s not been publicly named because they are awaiting family notification said by the military to be in stable condition. two others were wounded. these are people that stand very close to a cop manner when they are out in the field. general miller doing what so many senior commanders have done, going into the field, meeting with local forces, this time in kandahar, afghanistan, taking many of the same risks that the troops take every single day in places like syria, afghanistan, and iraq and many places around the world. no one would ever suggest that the president of the united states take those risks, nobody