the senate and start negotiating was huge because it showed that paul ryan can herd the cats enough to get the budget that nobody really likes on paper, over to the senate where the real action is going to start. elizabeth: they ve got to try to do that to get that reconciliation process. exactly. elizabeth: i want to ask you about another headline when the president made the move, and allowing companies to deny contraceptive coverage. and hundreds of thousands of losing this coverage, meaning access to contraceptive pills. will a lot of employers say they have a religious reason to deny coverage? about 200 employers brought the original lawsuit. the estimate it s going to affect 120,000 women out of 320 million people. so it s a small group. but the they did a very good job of narrowly, you know, drawing the rules here. you can t simply say, oh, yeah, i don t like that religion
military. it could have been a training patrol and it s in a combat zone. elizabeth: were they ready? was there surveillance? and what i don t know what their state of training and preparation is and was and you bring up a very good point. we have been seeking permission from the government when we re out on patrol like this, we re not by ourselves, we re with others, and we wanted to have flying drones. we made the request and i suspect that s going to change as a result of these deaths, unfortunately. and i think we ll insist on it or else it s going to affect our relationship with the niger army. and you said it was an isis affiliated group and there were 50 armored trucks and by armored trucks, pickup trucks that had weapons loaded on them and they were ambushed.
no group has taken responsibility for the attacks on u.s. troops in the african country of nigiers. a fourth soldier that is been killed, who has not been identified, was originally thought to have been kidnapped. the death of these soldiers shine the lights on operations in africa. and to explain it all is general jack keane. i m curious that the perception understands that we may have a presence in the african contine continent, but it could quickly be turned into a combat role. the role we have in africa, it was started under the obama administration and expanded and now about 6,000 military in. largely the upper half of after
africa. they re in somalia, and all of the places we ve heard of attacks in the last few years. the mission that we have there is two-fold, one is to provide drones so we have people do that, and largely and the second is by special forces referred to common language as green berets and their primary mission around the world is to train other armies and they enmesh themselves in the culture. they re unique to the military and army. no other group does what they do. and they understand the culture, the language, and they train other armies and they re comfortable living in small groups, 12 at a time, and they live in a foreign culture and that was one of the groups that was conducting a training mission, i suspect, for nigers
stocks. those are the completely legal modification the vegas shooter used to turn his semiautomatic weapons into essentially machine guns. fox news correspondent garrett tenney joining us with more. boy, we re still in the very early stages of this, but people are talking. yeah, there are some significant differences in this latest debate compared what we have seen in the past. that s that many republicans as well as the nra are now on board with making these revisions to gun control laws. now, for years, this has been going on. but specifically what they are looking at now after vegas is these bump stock weapons, modifications that were used by the vegas gunman which allow a semiautomatic weapon to function as an automatic weapon. those devices are legal to sell under an interpretation of the gun control act by the obama administration. however, on friday, a group of nine g.o.p. senators sent a let tore the head of the bureau alcohol let tore the head of the bureau of the atf, as