To my afghan colleagues but certainly they are and they are making news interestingly. I will give you an example. The u. S. Army sergeant whos being taken hostage by the network there was some discussion saying the u. S. Was open to negotiating the release of the telegram prisoners from guantanamo and the taliban about two days after that report came out very quickly so w that we at negotiating this issue at all rightparen so they are savvy in the global media environment. If they become more influential in the post 14 afghanistan or if they are candidates that are sympathetic and win a seat or two if they are going to be a part of the game or if they are going to be fighting, which i guess they are in some places. If they might somehow get engaged in governing, could they possibly tolerate other voices . Can be mature to the level they allow other people to speak as well as them in a more serious afghanistan than the one they ran previously. The short answer of that is probably not.
Mistake and a bad thing, what kind of consequences . Im not going to outline what the consequences would be. Obviously, i think the International Community would look closely at any intervention by the russians or anyone else. But im not going to stand here and outline consequent says. What does that mean, the International Community would look closely at . Trying to warn the russians away from doing something that would be bad, and the best you can say the International Community will look closely . There will be consequences, but that is not our goal, our first path. That whenyou believe you say the International Community, i am presuming that you mean the united nations, but you do realize that any attempt to punish russia with the Un Security Council is not going anywhere, right . I understand what you are saying, matt, but i am not going to much further other than to say there are a lot of countries that are watching that feel that territorial integrity is an important component w
Across the border a major assault in the key city of mosul. At many as 20,000 iraqi troops could be involved in the assault along with u. S. Air power and possibly u. S. Ground troops as well but its also several months away. So why Start Talking about it now . Richard engel is nbcs chief Foreign Correspondent in istanbul, turkey this morning. Richard, good morning. Reporter good morning. Its good to talk to you. First about that deal that has finally been put to paper between the United States and turkey to train a relatively small number of syrian rebels. They would get some training get some money. Radios. They would get some vehicles. Potentially pickup trucks with machine guns mounted on the back but a lot of analysts here in turkey say it is too little, too late and i think you hit on the key question in your introduction there. What are they really supposed to be doing . The United States wants them to be fighting against isis. Turkey wants them to be fighting against isis and b
Side. We know that senator warren is preparing to give a speech. We are standing outside of an old textile mill in lawrence, massachusetts. This you might know is the site of a historic 1912 labor strike. She will talk about things like worker rights, corruption in government and racial economic discrimination. I should note that she tweeted that shes on her way in the car with her husband driving the car and the dog in the back seat. We could see her any moment now. Well come back to you when that happens. Thank you so much. Lets check in with cnn rebecca buck in marshall town, iowa where cory booker is campaigning. What is going to be his message there . Reporter fredricka, he is making the case that he has a unique set of experience from the other senators running and other candidates running. He is the only senator, cory booker is making the point to have been a mayor previously. Also the only senator that lives in an innercity. He says these experiences, executive experience as ma
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