over when they really are not. but with 10,000 american troops still stationed in afghanistan, if this war really is back onto the point where the taliban is going to be taking and holding significant territory, how much do we expect american troops to be participating in this fight? if this fight is going the way it looks today, does that mean that american troops don t get to leave? and how does this affect everything else that we re tied up in with and without our allies around the world as this remarkable pile-up of world leaders copies this week in new york city. joining us nbc news national security producer court nit kube. thanks for staying late to be with us tonight. thanks for having me raich. we ve heard there were two u.s. air strikes in support of some sort of taliban effort in kunduz. do you have any sense of how big a fight is happening for kunduz in do we know what the air strikes were for. we were told late tonight by
that american troops don t get to leave? and how does this affect everything else that we re tied up in with and without our allies around the world as this remarkable pile-up of world leaders copies this week in new york city. joining us nbc news national security producer courtney kube. thanks for staying late to be with us tonight. thanks for having me, rachel. we ve heard there were two u.s. air strikes in support of some sort of taliban effort in kunduz. do you have any sense of how big a fight is happening for kunduz in do we know what the air strikes were for. we were told late tonight by senior u.s. military officials there are thousands of after gan security forces massing around kunduz about to take on the taliban. there are several thousand taliban there reportedly, as well. these air strikes what we learned was early today there was one that took out a tank that the taliban had stolen from
joining us nbc news national security producer courtney kube. thanks for staying late to be with us tonight. thanks for having me, rachel. we ve heard there were two u.s. air strikes in support of some sort of taliban effort in kunduz. do you have any sense of how big a fight is happening for kunduz in do we know what the air strikes were for. we were told late tonight by senior u.s. military officials there are thousands of after gan security forces massing around kunduz about to take on the taliban. there are several thousand taliban there reportedly, as well. these air strikes what we learned was early today there was one that took out a tank that the taliban had stolen from the afghan security forces and was threatening the coalition that s there. later today there have been several more air strikes late tonight including one that was early wednesday morning afghan
proposal. in order to orchestrate that you have to find the right sponsor, probably the united nations but maybe the european union might be one. and then you have to select the right kinds of people. plenty of european nations have very talented and expensed observers who have worked in similar situations around the world and we could easily put together a team of several hundred that could be in the ukraine within days. barbara, several senators wrote a letter to defense secretary hagel saying his budget is short sighted, creates risk to our national security, many of them sit on defense related committees. today we have the news that china is increasing its defense budget by, i think, roughly 12%. how big a fight does chuck hagel have in front of him? i think he s mainly facing this domestic political fight right now. you know, cut the budget but not
there are no throwaway neighborhoods. just because folks are poor does not mean that they do not deserve the same high-quality service as anybody else. and we need to have firm conversations about this and put money towards those efforts. lina taylor, how do we fix it? what should the approach be for communities? i think there s no question that senator turner hit the nail on the head. when you look at justice reinvestment initiatives, where what we do is create that reconnection with policing and communities where you target where your needs are, you try to make sure that you re looking at what are the triggers. so, for example, in our state, we lead in the nation in incarceration, and we know our triggers are mental health, so you have to fund the services that you need to you have to fund the services. and you go through all of these cuts and the attack on public employees, you know, you re not going to have the resources to do what you ve got to do. sharnell hearing, how