just allow them to use the land the way al qaeda did in 2001 and prior to that? nothing. nothing guarantees that. i think the administration knows that. is the u.s. realistically going to ask the taliban, hey, we ll cut a deal but no isis or al qaeda in your presence and expect the taliban to fulfill that? trust but verify, right? there has to be a mechanism. if it doesn t happen then the u.s. can come right back in and do what it has to do but the worry is that once you pull out capabilities that takes a lot of time and time to bring them back in. it is not just a question of dropping in trigger pullers who can kick down doors and go after leadership of these organizations. all of those things require air assets and intelligence and overflight and man power. there is a reason why we have a large base like bagram air base for example outside of kabul to do these operations. you can t just pull and take with forces. it s not exactly the number that matters as much as the capabilit
to what the president is proposing and wants now? i agree with secretary mattis in that the pentagon and military forces do not do stunts. that s certainly true. but i think secretary mattis missed an opportunity yesterday to be a little more transparent, to say what the military forces were going to do. you know, this is a request from the department of homeland security. they do that. i was involved in one of these kinds of missions early in my career. so this is all legal. to sustain the conversation that s going on will not be violated. these forces, as ryan brown just talked about, are almost exclusively enablers. what i mean by that is engineers to build things, construction engineers. military policemen to guard things. lodge titians to supply things, and aviators to move people around. there are no trigger pullers in this contingent or at least not the one that s been deployed so far. and what i mean by that is
contractors have been hugely important and they re deployed at a 1 to 1 ratio. they re not all american. usually american firms with some americans, some afghans, some filipinos. it s a mix. they re crucial in the war and they have been. you can scale up that role a little bit. i don t think we want to turn them into the main trigger pullers. shepard: michael, good to see you. thanks. thank you, shepard. a short time against overheard on capitol hill, with nobody watching, this would have been a good time to raise the debt ceiling. we could have done most anything a short time ago except it s august and they re not there. serious news for the military and a search for missing american sailors after a u.s. warship collides with an oil tanker at sea. this is the second time it s happened to this to a navy ship this summer. now a broadening investigation of that fleet. we ll go live to the pentagon as we approach the bottom of the
not getting into if they were trying to disable the car, where the shots land nd. but all indications at this point that nobody was hurt and that it was criminal in nature, preliminarily no nexus to tear ri i terrorism. the police are trying to find out the motive. seems like that would be one of the key things they re trying to find out. one of the things you think about right away, we re told through pete and the presser that it was a female driver. we have a dtan dancy in america to think of terrorism as male instead of female. but we see terrorists in gangs in japan has hve had upwards of% of females who have been the trigger pullers. you can t discriminate
outpost there in afghanistan. but soldiers who were there and other military officials remind us that when he left that base decreasing the number of trigger pullers, those who protect the fellow soldiers at that base by one, he, in fact, put his fellow soldiers at risk and put them at greater risk when they conducted operations in an attempt to find him so this is a hard, tough trial for all of those involved. jim miklaszewski at the pentagon, thank you jur pentagon, thank you. we have a new challenger to the trump juggernaut emerging. ted cruz. he is up in the the latest poll. one point we hind donald trump. willen to this, though. donald trump had some words for cruz on sunday. i don t think he s qualified