i embedded in iraq and afghanistan with them. and to spend time with veterans of my era of the vietnam war. they have had, hard to say this since the wars were equally silly, they have had an easier time than you guys had. they were all volunteers. many of them volunteered on september 12, 2001. they went over as units and came back as units. vietnam veterans went over alone and came back alone. because of the experience of vietnam veterans the doctors and many clinicians at the v.a. and elsewhere knew what post traumatic stress disorder -- i have dropped the disorder part of it because it is not disorderly to respond to the experience of combat by having some troubles reintegrating into a society that knows nothing of combat. and they have treated each other differently from the vietnam generation. they formed their own organizations to help each other and help us. 90% of them according to polls want to continue service in their communities because they are a generation of volunteers. and they have looked now more recently to th

i embedded in iraq and afghanistan with them. and also to spend time with veterans of my era, of the vietnam war. they have had -- it's hard to say this, since the wars were equally silly. they have had an easier time than you guys had. they were all volunteers. many of them volunteered on september 12th, 2001. they went over as units, and came back as units. vietnam veterans went offer alone and came back alone. because of the experience of vietnam veterans, the doctors and the -- and many of the clinics at the v.a. and elsewhere knew what post-traumatic stress disorder -- actually i've kind of dropped the "disorder" part of it because it's not disorderly to respond to the experience of combat by having some troubles reintegrating into a society that knows nothing of combat. they -- and they've treated each other differently from the vietnam generation. they formed their own organizations to help each other, to help us. 90% of them, according to polls, want to continue service in their communities because they are a generation o

i imagine you have bumped into more than a few in iraq and afghanistan. can you talk about the difference and the feelings of isolation that veterans feel when they come home? grace: yet, sure. before i do that, i would like to correct something. i did not serve as a medic. i was a volunteer for three and half years for capital relief. what happened is that when they went to research me on the website, my community free clinic made a mistake and took when the swallow, who is -- linda swallow, who was an army nurse and medic in vietnam. i am her and she is me. [laughter] i think it just got messed up a little bit. that was our fault and not the lbj library. you guys are good. [laughter] coming out of vietnam after three and a half years, people say why did you go? when you are young and you are 17 years old and you think you know everything and you are bulletproof, you are going to do things that may be later on in your life you will regret it i do not regret this at all. i grew up very fast and learn to care. ok to saythat it was to somebody, yeah, i have

ambassador to afghanistan, iraq, and the united nations. of all those jobs, which one was a most interesting for you? mr. khalilzad: they were all interesting in their own ways. afghanistan was in some ways the most rewarding because i had been born there, and i had always paid attention to afghanistan even when i was hadg other things, and i afghans had done something huge in the 1980's, and they stood up to the soviet union, and they did something that a lot of very smart people who were studying the soviet union believed it would not happen, which is to push them out because the soviets had this doctrine that once you go in, you don't need at that time. the soviet union disintegrated, which was a huge achievement, their archaeology got discredited. afghanistan may have contributed to that. but then, we abandon afghanistan -- abandoned afghanistan afterwards, and a lot of afghans that killed. there's it is not destroyed in a civil war that occurred. i thought about that given what we had done together. after 9/11, to have had the opportun

i am not sure we mastered that in iraq, afghanistan, to what we learned in vietnam. on military strategy, i have shared this, and i have a lot of friends still on active duty, and i support what we are doing because the decisions have been made in afghanistan. as a marine, as somebody who studied the south vietnamese perspective, i am not sure the -- ifan military is built you look at our training and heritage and victories, we are built to kill and win. what you ask a young marine, a combat unit to go to vietnam, iraq or afghanistan, and take a one-page note out of the vietnam war, something we took out of general abram's latter years in vietnam, cleared the area, hold it, and build it so we can leave and they take over. i am not sure that is the model. i just know when you have an allied military like the south vietnamese, the iraqis, the afghanistan, and a first world military like the united states, with close air support, with drones and all kinds of weaponry if you really want to train the world military, you take away the fancy stuff. it is hard to do big comp

ambassador to afghanistan, iraq, and the united nations. of all those jobs, which one was a most interesting for you? mr. khalilzad: they were all interesting in their own ways. but one in afghanistan was in some ways the most rewarding because i had been born there, and i had always paid attention to afghanistan even when i was doing other things, and i had felt that afghans had done something huge in the 1980's, and they stood up to the soviet union, and they did something that a lot of very smart people who were studying the soviet union believed it would not happen, which is to push them out because the soviets had this -- the soviets had this brezhnev version of doctrine that once you go in, you don't need at that time. and then, the soviet union disintegrated, which was a huge achievement, their archaeology got discredited. afghanistan may have contributed to that. but then we abandoned and a lotn afterwards of afghans that killed. there's it is not destroyed in a civil war that occurred. i thought about that given what we had done to

he deployed to afghanistan and three times to iraq, earning a bronze star for valor. earlier this month while assisting local forces in iraq would come under attack, he gave his life . a few days later, one of his platoon mates sent charlie's parents a letter from iraq. please tell everyone chuck saved a lot of lives today, it said . he left us with that big signature smile on his hands and face as always. chuck was a lovable half but was also a ferocious warrior. but today we honor keep special warfare officer charles keating before . lois cardin was the sixth of seven children, a californian with an infectious wit will also have a joke at the ready to help someone get through a tough time. when his siblings ran around the house as kids, his mom pat would yell out to them watch that baby's safety margin. today, she realizes that what she was really doing was raising a marine . as a teenager, he probably signed up, graduated high school three days later on a monday morning and the marines came to pick him up. that was 10 years ago. one morning this march, a marine kno

brian: we have lost 6877 americans in afghanistan and in iraq. here is some criticism of the whole event by a fellow named joby warrick. we himplay this so that we can background on somebody who disagreed with some of the stuff we did. this was recorded back in 2015. [video clip] >> i strongly believe that the iraq invasion was the original sin. not the invasion itself, which give the jihadists the cause that they wanted. they predicted the fight would take place in iraq and was ready for the americans were ready in 2003. anybody was a professional inside iraq in the early 2000 had to be a member of the party. he dismantled the armed forces. there was plenty of iraqis that would've thought the americans anyway. he was able to melt this religious extremism. those people, the start of that movement, 2004, 2006, that is isis today. [end video clip] brian: you were in government in 1991 with desert shield? mr. khalilzad: i was. brian: what impact did you have on the 2003 invasion? mr. khalilzad: well, i think he had some good points, particularly, wh

time it was veterans of the iraq and afghanistan wars. called recent book was charlie mike which means continue the mission. about the veterans of those wars. to spendy interesting time with them as they have over the last four years. to spend time with veterans of my era. the vietnam war. the words were equally silly. time you guyssier head. they were all volunteers. ony of them volunteered september 12, 2001. units andover as quebec as units. alonenveterans went over and came back alone. because of the experience of vietnam veterans the doctors known all the posttraumatic stress disorders. it's not disorderly to respond to the experience of combat. having some troubles reintegrating into a society that knows nothing of combat. they treated each other differently. they are generation of volunteers. they've looked more recently organizations like team rubicon. disaster relief internationally and nationally. know thatrtant to when you see this horrifying statistic the 22 veterans of day commit suicide. which i had veterans of all wars and

the names were read of more than 100 veterans killed in vietnam, iraq, and afghanistan. >>> these volunteers in montgomery county spent their saturday placing american flags on the graves of veterans. members of the vfw placed dozens of flags throughout the calvary cemetery in west conshohocken. they say it reminds them of the true meaning of the holiday. >> people still remember. that's what memorial day is about, remembering those who serve our country. >> earlier this week, vfw members placed flags at graves at three other local cemeteries. >>> take the free nbc 10 app with you for the memorial day plans. you can check your first alert forecast and personalize it for your neighborhood, plus get traffic alerts and push alerts

we at iraq and afghanistan veterans of america we do a member survey. we try to survey them to get firsthand sponsors from them on just exactly responses to your questions. what are some of the primary issues they are dealing with? what we found in our seventh annual survey is that the top three issues they are noting our access to mental health care, housing and the third is employment. employment is probably the number one issue their dealing with today. ,hen they join the military more often than not the primary thing they're looking to do is serve a bigger purpose than themselves. when they come out of the military they are looking to continue to be able to do that just at a different point. they are not just looking for a job come other looking for a career. they're finding it is hard to find that same level of fulfillment that they found in the military and the civilian world. i would say that employment is number one. host: is that something that is unique to veterans of the iraq and afghanistan war or is that something you hear as a struggle for

the: robert gates reminding administration that are still troops in iraq and afghanistan. he accused the white house of avoiding troops in being engaged in a combat mission. somema spokesman said troops are sometimes in a combat situation, but not a combat mission. gates made that comment on msnbc. they promise no boots on the ground, no new comment and now we have 3000 some troops around the area. we have had three u.s. servicemembers killed over there. the white house is desperately trying to say this is not a slippery slope explanation into another iraq war. host: the next call is in texas. margaret on the democrats line. caller: good morning, c-span. i have a question. i'm one of the 65,000 widows whose husband died from a service-connected illness. democrats line 65,000 i'm one of the whose husband husband died. to s wondering are we able get back our svp that my husband our paid into during marriage and now i'm being denied because i'm receiving dic. that in the like budget this year? guest: there is. up for a minute. his is an incredibly complicated issue. what the

is that why iraq and afghanistan are so hard to get over? are there parallels? guest: there are parallels and differences. the u.s.ne parallel is military in vietnam was faced with an enemy difficult to fight because they are fighting against insurgency, a guerrilla war tactic and the u.s. military at the time was not accustomed to that at all and it was a difficult and it did not go well. ofre was that kind nationbuilding effort at the time, a lot of the nonmilitary assistance and programs that at the time were designed to bolster vietnam as a politically strong entity, which failed. in iraq and afghanistan, same thing where we have tried to fight injures and sees that are a loose -- to fight insurgency that is elusive with nontraditional tactics, which can be frustrating and lethal. we have also tried to build up those governments and nations and political structures and we found it yesterday. we are not bombing the way we did in vietnam, so the military tactics and technology has improved. of course, the politics of afghanistan are different and the taliban i

it's a hot spot with stronghold in syria, iraq and afghanistan. now, some 5500 americans are in iraq. over 9800 in afghanistan and up to 300 expeditionary forces in syria. experts say the battle for fallujah won't be easy. if the coalition triumphs, that's only half the battle. >> they are in rubble. it's how they handle that, how the iraqi government handles the rebuilding of fallujah. >> reporter: the souls of the loss remind us of the cost of freedom. >> they continue to tout the administration accomplishment. the ending of two wars, despite the fact that america's involvement continues to deepen, including the ongoing fight for fallujah. shannon? >> kevin corke live at the white house. thank you. we continue our memorial day coverage with a look at some of the heroes still here with us. here is concerned doug. >> reporter: 16 million american who is served in world war ii, 800,000 survived. a handful in wheelchairs or canes came to washington's world war ii memorial where they were greeted as celebrities and heroes. >> means a lot. i get to me

there are some 15,000 american troops currently deployed in iraq, syria and afghanistan. that includes special forces helping in the war against isis as well as those involved in the coalition air attacks in syria and iraq. they're part of more than 1.3 million u.s. military personnel stationed around the world today. let's talk about the current state of the u.s. military, what the military's needs are. both of my guests have distinguished military careers. lieutenant colonel hurtling served for 37 years rising to role of commanding general in the u.s. army. long deployments in iraq. lieutenant colonel rick francona flying recon missions there in the vietnam war, later assigned as military attache in the middle east and including syria. thank you for your service and thank you for joining me today. >> thank you. >> thank you for having us. >> general hurtling, you said that the major challenges facing the u.s. military, certainly include personnel issues, the strain on forces, but primarily now, funding in the age of sequestration. >> yeah. the 2011 budget control act, j

. >> in iraq and afghanistan, a help to both countries with their constitutions, being a sort of facilitator of key issues among iraqis and afghans. the government is very anxious to meet with you when you ask for a meeting. >> sunday night on q&a, former ambassador to afghanistan, iraq, and the united nations discusses his memoir. extremistshat exploited -- although we then corrected it toward the end of by thee i was there surge, by reaching out to the sunnis, by building up iraqi forces, by establishing a unity bring abouto security. violence was way down. unfortunately, when we left, the vacuum was filled by rival regional powers, and we have isis now. >> sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on q&a. >> now, a panel of political discusses the 2016 elections. they discussed presidential and congressional races and the state of the republican party. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> good morning. ims senior fellow here, and i would like to welcome al

you served two tours tours in afghanistan, you served three tours, one in iraq, afghanistan and guantanamo. thank you for your service. >> thank you, thank you. >> larry: so now what's been your experience with getting health-care benefits after coming back from war? >> from my experience, i would say if you are going into the va, remember the tables are now turned. and are you in charge. you don't have to take the doctor they give you. if you don't like the person's attitude, you can just say give me a different doctor and keep doing it until they give you somebody who is actually addressing what you need. >> larry: and you can seuss that, i was just in afghanistan [bleep]. >> right, but also we're also part of a community. and there are a lot of people, good people in the va who want to help you. but there are also a lot of good organizations, veterans organizations that are out there who can help you navigate this system. so you know, when are you in the military, you have a suck it up and drive on attitude. >> larry: that doesn't help in this situation. >> so don't be afraid to ask oth

not only the words in iraq and afghanistan not over, but a major offensive is under way right now and it's just west of baghdad. iraqi troops and shiite militias by 5,000 america's best, brightest, and most brave pushing to retake the town of fallujah. because isis forces have been holding that important city for more than two years and it is critical to that enemy. i want to bring in cnn military analyst and retired air force colonel, cedric leiten. as we see those scenes at arlington and the battle buddies, as barbara starr reminds us, we have to be, you know, acutely aware of the thousands of troops, i think somewhere around 14. 10,000 in afghanistan, 4,000 in iraq and syria who are a stone's throw from front lines every day right now. >> that's absolutely right, ashleigh. and these stone's throws are distances that measured sometimes in yards and in feet and in some cases, inches. and what we're looking at here is really the ultimate price that people have paid. when policies sometimes don't work out as intended, and we also have to look at it as a factor of preparedness. are we g

he deployed to iraq and afghanistan 14 times. earned 11 bronze stars, 4 for valor. last october as isil terrorists prepared to execute 70 hostages, josh and his fellow special ops went in and rescued them. every single one walked free. we were already dead, one of the hostages said, then god sent us a force from the sky. that force was the u.s. army including josh wheeler. josh was the doting dad who wrote notes to his kids in the stacks of books he read. flying home last summer to be with his wife, ashley, who was about to give birth, he scribbled one note in the novel he was reading just to tell his unborn son he was on his way. ashley wheeler is with us here today holding their 10-month-old son, david. [ applause ] ashley says josh's memory makes her think about how can she be a better citizen, and she hopes it's what other people think about too. today this husband and father rests here in arlington in section 60, and as americans we resolve to be better, better people, better citizens, because of master sergeant joshua wheeler. our nation reveals itself not onl

that windy iraq and afghanistan wars the number of private security contractors outnumbered the u.s. troops? how does that come to be? looking at the unintended consequences to rely on the all volunteer force then the conditions of permanent war we ended up two more years as a policy makers and the pentagon turned to the notion of defense contractors to fill the gap at a very high cost and i argue with little evidence that they were worth the money. >> i know you will sign books. thanks. [applause] we barely scratched the surface i encourage you to pick up a copy will have an "in-depth" and somewhat pessimistic understanding of the war in the middle east. [inaudible conversations] >> dash is thereby explaining myself how life began to write this book was set to mexico in 2010 i thought i would write about ordinary subjects like a regular business our oil or cars or tourism. but just as i rise of the drug war arrived in it was that time when the murder rate what was spiraling in almost doubled in the space of a few years. quickly this is what people want to think about. like the busin

afghanistan, south korea. and just give thanks that we have a great country. >> the eight new homes will go up on the same grounds where general george washington camped with the continue nem army nearly 250 years ago. >> that is so cool. all right. back to your fox 29 weather authority. man do we have weather to talk about. >> we got some relentless rain. and -- >> humidity. >> yeah. >> it was me talk to go. that's so cool. >> i'm in the other box. i kind of like that for second. >> we certainly do have a lot to talk about lucy iain on this memorial day. temperature made it up to 79 degrees. humidity it was very humid. 79% right now. the temperature currently at 75 degrees. after a high temperature of 79 degrees. if you're in the backyard later on this evening it will stay mild and muggy there could be one or two scattered showers otherwise look at those temperatures holding pretty steady in the low to mid 70s. it's going to be muggy but the humidity will take a break as we move toward tomorrow all thanks to

forces being killed not just iraq and afghanistan somalia and sudan and syria the list goes on and on if you look at the behavior over the decades we have tried overwhelming force and anti-counterterrorism in nation-building in peacekeeping humanitarian intervention covert wars it isn't as if the people in the pentagon or wind has single-handedly said the we have taken a variety of approaches that need to get to the bottom line of this evaluation the bottom line is none of those approaches are the results that policy makers anticipated or expected so there are those that secretary clinton that in different ways all represent a elect me and i will try harder i will say we have come to a point where that should not be a satisfactory position. >> you say you don't see a change in policy? >> that they're advocating identical approaches it is certainly possible to find between clinton and trumpet and cruz but that said i would argue the similarities greatly outweigh the differences and at this point assuming that one of those three will be the president there will be no significant rethink

. >> in iraq and afghanistan, help both countries with their constitutions, being a onilitator of an agreement key issues. your influence is suitable. the state or the government is anxious to meet with you. >> the former ambassador to iraq, afghanistan and the united nations discusses his memoir. extremists such as zarqawi exploited. we've when connected to the end of the time that i was there and by building up iraqi forces and establishing a unity government. security,bout violence was way down. vacuum wast, the filled by regional powers pulling iraq apart. on c-span'say night "q&a." tv onrican history c-span3 -- >> we are here to review the major findings of fbi domestic intelligence. including programs aimed at domestic progress. surveillance of law-abiding citizens and groups, local abuses of fbi intelligence and cases of unjustified intelligence operations. >> the 1975 church committee hearings convened to investigate -- the fbi and irs. -- using burglary, electronic surveillance in the opening of mail. black bag jobs until a number of years in 1966, it was successful and valu

iraq campaign medal, afghanistan campaign medal, global war on terrorism medal, sea service ribbon, nato service medal, expert rifle ribbon and expert pistol ribbon. to those who knew him best, he will be remembered as a love son and husband. and father -- loving husband and -- son and husband and father. he will be remembered as a gifted seal operator. to this country he will be remembered as the embodiment of the anyway vess' motto, not for self, but for country. thank you, mr. speaker, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from north arolina is recognized. mr. walker: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from michigan is recognized. mrs. lawrence: we should pass this bill to commemorate the courage and the valor exhibited by petty officer first class caleb nelson and honor the ultimate sacrifice that he made. i urge the passage of h.r. 4975 and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back the balance of her ti

the book talks about comparing iraq to afghanistan to libya. i didn't serve in libya, but i followed it closely. and i went to afghanistan wanting to believe we could surge there the way we did in iraq and see a different can outcome. afghanistan is biblical times with ak-47s and what you can accomplish in afghanistan is very different from what you can accomplish in iraq. of course, this administration cynically told us that was the good war and surged there never actually believing in that cause. you read the memoirs of secretaries of defense, they were never invested there, which is a moral sin. to send men and women to a war you never believed in. and, of course, when you ghei that speech about the war, you told the enemy you were going to leave minute you did. it would be a joke, but it's not funny, and that's the problem. the problem is we also have an electorate today seduced by the idea that american disengagement is what's necessary. so i try to take on some of the trends today on national security and foreign policy and explain why, a

why are we not doing more in afghanistan and iraq and syria? the white house has put handcuffs on our forces. >> general, thank you for being here. we appreciate your perspective. to politics now. a new barrage of donald trump. the presumpative nominee blaming hillary clinton for the rise of isis. crooked hillary clinton foreign interventions unleashed isis in syria and iraq and libia. trump hit clinton against guns and saying she wants to eliminate the second amendment and strip gun owners. a claim he made to the nra. they are winding down the primary system. clinton topping trump in fund raising and organization. clinton's campaign employing ten times more staffers and more offices in battleground states. we have fox team coverage tonight. steve is following the democratic race and starting with peter dossy. how has trump's attack on clinton and guns evolved today. >> trump said he says hypochrissy and tweeting that crooked hillary wants to get rid of gun and yet surrounded by body arms and no more guns to protect hillary. he warned nra membe

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and women in both iraq and afghanistan. more war dead in iraq than under george w. bush under president obama. and it's dismissive, it is tone deaf but pure politics. with our military, and everything they've done in very difficult circumstances, spinning this as a political success story at a time like this, where everything is collapsing, really, in every country, is just -- it does take your breath away, although it shouldn't at this point. >> he sent more troops in to iraq, obviously he had the big surge in afghanistan. 75% of the u.s. military deaths in afghanistan under president obama. in afghanistan. julie. but, you know, you talk to the families, those people on the front lines are in combat. >> absolutely. and, yes, the u.s. footprint in afghanistan and in iraq looks different than when the president inherited it. that is undisputable. but, the idea that you don't have americans engaged in combat, engaged in what a lot of us, frankly would say is war is just simply not true. the administration knows. this i mean,

comparing iraq to afghanistan, i didn't serve in libya and i went to afghanistan wanting to believe that we could surge the way we did in iraq. afghanistan is biblical times with ak-47's, what you can accomplish in afghanistan is different from what you can accomplish in iraq. read the memoirs of the secretary of defense. they were never invested there which is a moreal sin. anynever sent the amount of troops your commanders wanted and you told the enemy you were going to leave the minute you did. it would be a joke but it's not -- it's not funny and that's the problem. the problem is we also have an electorate today see >> whatever it is, but every single generation is going to have to contribute to this generation at every turn. we are not cogs in an american empire. we are engaged, good citizens in an ongoing experiment. we literally stand at the doorstep, at the foot mat of another woodrow wilson who teddy roosevelt famously tangled with. a man who said on multiple occasions and was derided for saying he was too proud to fight, too proud to fight vicious enemies in the world. of

the book talks about things like comparing iraq to afghanistan to libya. i went to afghanistan wanting to believe we could surge there and see a different outcome. what you can accomplish in afghanistan is very different from what you can encompass in iraq. this administration cynically told us this was the good war. they were never invested there, which is a moral send and never sent the amount of troops are commanders wanted and when you give the speech about that war he told the enemy when you are going to leave the minute you did. it would be a joke, but it is not funny. that is the problem. you also have an electorate seduced by the idea that american disengagement is what is necessary. i tried to take on the trends today and explain why , as practitioners of the 911 generation there are differences of opinions across the spectrum. there is a reason to be proud of what is accomplished even if today the outcomes are worse than murky in many places. i used to say, as it pertains to the book and everything else, i thought so that my kids don't have to, p

in this clip, men back from iraq and afghanistan are dealing with the difficulty of adjusting to civilian life, and frequent problems with anger and frustration. >> i'm having trouble waking up like, just completely -- i don't know i don't want to deal with this. stay up for three days and fall asleep on whatever day i drop asleep. >> i find myself thinking things, i say it out loud and everybody looks at me like i'm just like evil and, like, insensitive. it's like, no, i didn't mean it in an insensitive way. sometimes just racking my nine, no, contemplating things, just wondering everything. i really just don't feel like i fit in anywhere. like at all. >> reality is you definitely need to be in therapy because that's where you're going to be able to bounce things off of somebody and you just got to let other people help you to get there. >> thank you, he's here. >> focus here. you have war-zone related issues and hostage to the war zone. this is where you finally stop running away. questions? >>> this is "nightly business report" with tyler mathisen and sue herera. >> good evening, every

the recent wars in iraq and afghanistan have produced, thank god, a casualty rate of about 1/3 of what it was in vietnam, but they've also produced 3 times the disability rates. around 10% of the u.s. military is actively engaged in combat. they're shooting at people, they're killing people, they're getting shot at, they're seeing their friends get killed. it's incredibly traumatic, and it's only about 10% of our military, but about half of our military has filed for some kind of ptsd compensation from the government. so about 40% of veterans really were not traumatized overseas, but have come home to discover that they are dangerously alienated and depressed. what is happening with them? maybe it's this: maybe they had an experience of sort of tribal closeness in their unit when they were overseas. they were eating together, sleeping together, doing tasks and missions together, they were trusting each other with their lives, and then they come home, and they have to give all that up, and they're coming back to a society, a modern society, which is hard on people who weren't even in th

iraq war, afghanistan war. amy: not go to war. brian: what would you do about protecting the american people? amy: i think what was shown at the time, was that saddam hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction. he was not an imminent threat to the united states. and even tony blair, who sided with the u.s., he was interviewed on cnn and asked, what do you say to those who say that this invasion of iraq would ultimately lead to formation of isis? he said, that is partly true. brian: if you go back to the 9/11 situation, you were on the scene down there. was a happenstance that you were that close? amy: we were the closest national broadcast to ground zero. we operated out of a firehouse at the time. september 11, 2001 was election day in new york. it was primary day. we were doing broadcast that day. we were in the garrett. we couldn't see what was happening. we broadcast then at 9:00, now we broadcast live at 8:00 a.m. then at 9:00, at 8:47, first plane hit the first tower of the world trade center, we were just down the str

brian lamb: what's your take on the iraq-afghanistan coverage? morley safer: well, i mean look, i mean the -- there virtually is no coverage, i mean except when something really horrible happens. i mean, to most americans, the -- quite honestly, it's "what war?" most americans are not affected by this. it's the sons and daughters of working class americans pretty much, and people whose families live below the poverty line. brian lamb: why no coverage then? morley safer: why no coverage? brian lamb: yes. morley safer: because sons of daughters of middle class and plus it's a -- also, i mean not that vietnam was an easy war to cover, but compared to -- i mean it was a piece of cake compared to covering the kind of war that's going on in afghanistan and was going on and to some extent still is going on in iraq. i mean we took lots of risks in vietnam, but not like the kind of risks that guys run in afghanistan and iraq, no way. brian lamb: let me ask you about your interviewing style, when you -- morley safer: let me just brian lamb: yes. morley saf

and women in both iraq and afghanistan. more war dead in iraq than under george w. bush under president obama. and it's dismissive, it is tone deaf but pure politics. with our military, and everything they've done in very difficult circumstances, spinning this as a political success story at a time like this, where everything is collapsing, really, in every country, is just -- it does take your breath away, although it shouldn't at this point. >> he sent more troops in to iraq, obviously he had the big surge in afghanistan. 75% of the u.s. military deaths in afghanistan under president obama. in afghanistan. julie. but, you know, you talk to the families, those people on the front lines are in combat. >> absolutely. and, yes, the u.s. footprint in afghanistan and in iraq looks different than when the president inherited it. that is undisputable. but, the idea that you don't have americans engaged in combat, engaged in what a lot of us, frankly would say is war is just simply not true. the administration knows. this i mean,

iraq war, afghanistan war. amy: not go to war. brian: what would you go about protecting the american people? amy: i think what was shown at the time, with hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction. an imminent threat to the united states. and even tony blair, who sided with the u.s., he was interviewed on cnn and asked, what do you say to those who say that this invasion of iraq would ultimately lead to formation of isis? he said, that is true. brian: if you go back to the 9/11 situation, you were on the scene down there. was a happenstance that you were that close? amy: we were the closest national broadcast to ground zero. we operated out of a firehouse at the time. september 11, 2001 was election day in new york. it was primary day. we were doing broadcast that day. we couldn't see what was happening. we broadcast then at 9:00, now we broadcast live at 8:00 a.m. then at 9:00, at 8:47, first plane hit the first tower of the world trade center, we were just down the street. we were within the evacuation. 9:03 the second p

migrants mostly from syria, iraq, and afghanistan stranded in northern greece in squalid conditions. they'duthorities said be moved to new camps. the operations is expected to take 10 days. laura: turkey's new prime minister unveiled his new government. he replaced davutoglu, who stepped down last week. reporter: annoucnign his new cabinet, there was no doubt of his friendship with president erdogan. the government is entirely of supporters. chaning the constiution to give the president more power. duty weost important have is to change the constiution to reflect the relationsihp between the president and people. reporter: not everyone is happy. leader fears it could give erdogan authoritarian powers. >> all these powers will be controlled by one man. inevitable to wind up with despotism. reporter: eu officials also have concerns. laura: to talk more about turkey, i have a specialist in strasbourg. we had turkey's new p.m. not wasting any time, saying he plans.eporter erdogan's should turks be worried? fore has been nominated that. there is a de facto regime and goingfessed that what

iraq, afghanistan and even the crusades were mentioned hundreds of times. but guantanamo bay is not the reason that they attacked america. we wrote a letter, the director of national intelligence, he too confirmed that this is not a motivation for the attacks. we should remember that these attacks began well before the existence of guantanamo bay. the fact that guantanamo bay acts as an agent to promote terrorism is false and must be rejected as much as this amendment and i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. thornberry: i'm pleased to yield one minute to the distinguished gentleman who is a member of the house armed services committee, the gentleman from colorado, mr. coffman. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. coffman: mr. chairman, i rise today in strong opposition to this amendment, the obama administration's efforts to close the prison at guantanamo bay are both irresponsible and dangerous, and a report from january of this year by the office of the director of national intelligence indicates that the number of g

in this clip, men back from iraq and afghanistan are dealing with the difficulty of adjusting to civilian life, and frequent problems with anger and frustration. >> i'm having trouble waking up like, just completely -- i don't know i don't want to deal with this. stay up for three days and fall asleep on whatever day i drop asleep. >> i find myself thinking things, i say it out loud and everybody looks at me like i'm just like evil and, like, insensitive. it's like, no, i didn't mean it in an insensitive way. sometimes just racking my nine, no, contemplating things, just wondering everything. i really just don't feel like i fit in anywhere. like at all. >> reality is you definitely need to be in therapy because that's where you're going to be able to bounce things off of somebody and you just got to let other people help you to get there. >> thank you, he's here. >> focus here. you have war-zone related issues and hostage to the war zone. this is where you finally stop running away. questions? thoughts? >> i'm concerned someone is going to have their opinion or give me some kind of [bleep

when i was in afghanistan currently of some of the current crisis in iraq and afghanistan are still the same issues. until we can defeat the enemies of the way we need to go back to talking about clinton and trump. the most recent data that we have is favoring trump because they know they want something different. >> do you favor trump than her? >> i do. >> i don't think i can tell him what he can do. >> you both were in the front line. you are free to engaged the enemy than dan is, no questions about it. do you feel your hands were tied behind your back? >> i didn't do what he did. definitely, it is our military right now and things need to change. >> let's talk about the ve veterans. you ran the organization and given how veteran haves been treated booty veterans administration, warriors are under a mess of eight millions of something they use for conferences, why is your program better? >> it is being built by great americans and the local level. we stayed local and massachusetts and we follow success with the different programs. we are honoring not only the fallen but the veterans t

ambassador to afghanistan, iraq, and the united nations discusses his memoir, the envoy, from kabul to the white house. my journey through a turbulent world. >> we saw the extremists exploited, ooltd we have corrected it towards the end of the period that i was there by the surge, by reaching out to the sunnis, by building up iraqi forces, by establishing a unity government, killing zarqawi at the end, to bring about security. violence was way down. but unfortunately, when we left, and the vacuum was filled by rival regional powers pulling iraq apart, violence escalated and we have isis now. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on "q&a." >>> starting live here shortly on c-span3 joining the center for strategic and international studies, for a conversation with a woman who heads the pipeline and hazardous materials administration. she'll be talking about the challenges of transporting hazardous materials around the united states. >>> okay, good afternoon. hi, my name is sarah. i direct the energy and national security program here at csis, and we're pleased to have all of you here today for

additionally, to take it out of just iraq and afghanistan, if you look at the data on excessive use of sexual violence and elizabeth would put together a phenomenal data set that goes back to pre-world war ii, whether it was built by soldiers, and again, they are documentation issues, data reliability because i'm sure there's much more than is reported. whether was soldiers using rape as a weapon during interrogation, during, you know, just when you cover villages and then on the flipside, being used against captured soldiers, you see the presence of women in units, whether they were in peacekeeping units, women and rebel groups that the use of sexual violence as a tool diminishes quite a bit. and you know the use of sexual violence during war is outside the scope of the panel, but very briefly, it creates a lot of cultural barriers to reintegration and post- conflict settling. so i'm happy to discuss more of that in the q&a if you want, but the bottom line comes down to the fact that women serve as a mitigating factor which creates one less stumbling block to reintegration, post, sett

look at afghanistan, iraq, libya. every single one, the easy thing is removing the regime. that's not difficult wife our -- with our military, but what do you do then? in each one we haven't had a plan what to do afterwards, so, just to go back to your question, it is really complicated and it's so complicated we're on the same side as some countries in one place and on different sides to them in other places. the reason i keep doing this is that where you find hope is in the people. i'm endlessly amazed how people in the midst of all these difficult situations still keep really focused on, in particular, trying to educate their children, and i was lucky enough to work with malala on her book, and she is so inspiring. she risked her life to be able to go to school, and for the sake of other children to go to school. when you meet people like that, and you can tell their story, it makes its all worth it. >> last word, kim. >> i don't think i could do this job if i didn't feel hope. even for afghanistan. and i'll give an entire hour speech about how things are going horribly

iraq, afghanistan. people are buried here from all of these conflicts. >> and park rangers say recent conflicts have made people look at both memorial day and the -- a little differently. >> especially since the days of 9/11 and the new engagement over seas in the middle east and other areas like that. that's become more timely than to people in the bay area and across the country that memorial day is across the country a. new significance and maybe sometimes the question about whether the engagement of the united states in wars overseas and people are honoring people who step forward and do sacrifice and lose their lives for their country. and every year there seems to be a larger turnout here at memorial day. >> do you think it's understand sng do you think it's respect? when brings them here? >> it's probably a combination of all of those things. remembrance, respect. when you remember someone who's lost you bring them back into life. you bring them back to your living existence and therefore they do

when you look back at what has happened in afghanistan and iraq over the past 5, 10, 15 years, what are your thoughts about the potential long-term impact for those people, for those societies? to what extent did those thoughts influence your views concerned with diplomacy and the choices you are making everyday in the middle east, which seems still the center of all of our concern? secretary kerry: it affects it profoundly. it is a big deal in those countries. i will come back to that in a minute because i just thought of something that i wanted to share with people because it is important to take away from here. you mentioned a moment ago that you thought we had learned a lesson and i said, for the most part. i want to share with people why i said for the most part. we do look at people at home and we do say thank you. we have lots of wage -- ways in which we have built into our daily lives recognition for service. hire veteran programs, outreach programs, service people can get a first-class seat on the plane if it is open. different things, we say thank you. that is super and wonder