country. i will go back to iraq and afghanistan to get an update. the one thing i feel good about is is i did it with a smile on my face, i talked about things that are important to me and somebody better fix one day. >> why are you getting out of the race? >> i have hit a wall here. my campaign has come to a point where i need to think about getting out and helping somebody else. here's what i predict. i think the nominee of our party is going to adopt my plan when it comes time to articulate how to destroy isil. >> can't you do more in pushing that conversation be being in the race than by leaving it? >> to be a viable candidate, you have to have finances and you have to e get on the big stage. my biggest problem is that a lot of people like what u say but not many people hear it. this whole process started in a strange way. you couldn't get on the main stage until you polled at a certain level. if you never run before it's pretty hard. . if you don't come from a political family it's pretty hard hard. a small state, that's pretty hard. if you have a lot of money, you're going to d

troubling development in afghanistan. the resurgence of two terror groups not named u.s.ist. the taliban claiming speedome i responsibility for this car bombing. there's this "new york times" report that al qaeda is now showing a comeback with camps sprouting up in afghanistan. why is this important? there's a quote from the former. deputy director of the cia. quote, i do worry about the rebirth of al qaeda in afghanistan because of what their target list will be -- us. the resurgence buzz just like t- before the taliban will give al qaeda a safe haven. david rode, our cnn global affairs analyst who was held captive for seven months and escaped in 2009. good to see you, sir. when i first read this, i thought, of course, u.s. intel never would keep their eye off al qaeda. but to hear those words, your response to that. >> i'm surprised. this was this huge camp in a very remote part of southern afghanistan. it was 30 miles wide and it was an attack that went on for several days and there were 200 fight. ers killed in. the attacks. so it's surprising to me. it's a real setback and a

, all of them deployed probably multiple times both to afghanistan and iraq so you're really having battle hardened commanders and ncos, so i don't know if i was his defense counsel or versus a a military judge could look at the case a little more dispassionately and lock at the elements and see if they match up. . if i had to make a decision today, i might lean towards military judge. and the colonel who will be his military judge has a good reputation. he's done other high profile cases like the kandahar massacre. so he's well known and a known commodity. he won't let either side get away with anything. so today, i might go judge alone. >> thank you both so much. >>> republican candidate ted cruz is steadily gaining on front runner donald trump. the polling is stark. surging 8 points this month. i want you to look at his rise in september. he was stuck at 7% behind ben carson, jeb bush, and marco rubio. not anymore, though. holding on in his succeed rally of the day in tennessee. that's where our national correspondent is. hello to you at the senator's rally earlier. as you can se

travel to afghanistan, join al qaeda and target military bases there. so tell me, who is this group and how may this husband killer been involved there? >> reporter: well, brooke the name of this croater who was the leader of this group that was arrested back in 2012, his name is concern abir. he served in the u.s. military for a short period and according to the fbi he was this figure that was very influential in recruiting radicalizing this group that was arrested, there were four of them that were arrested, five in all that were being investigated, and now what they have found, what the fbi has found is that there are links between that group and syed rizwan farook, the shooter, one of the shooters in san bernardino. here's the link. they found syed rizwan farook was part of the social circle of kabir who is now sentenced to 25 years in prison, he was sentenced earlier this year. so now the question that the fbi wants to know is who else might be involved. obviously, there's a question of there being a network that perhaps included syed rizwan farook at the time they didn't notice at

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attacks because they still operate in areas between pakistan and afghanistan or more prominently right now in yemen that are hard to reach. our long-term goal has to be able to stabilize these areas so they have no safe haven. in order for us to do that in syria, there has to be an end to the civil war. there has to be a government that has a a police capacity and a structure in these areas currently aren't governed. and it is my firm belief and the belief of the exparts in this administration that so long as assad is there, we cannot achieve that kind of stability inside of syria. and the history over the last several years indicates as much. so that's going to continue to be a top priority for us moving aggressively on the military track and not letting isil take a breath and pounding away at them with our special forces and our airstrikes and training and advising of partners that can go. after them. but we also have to keep very aggressive on this diplomatic track in order for us to bring countries together. criminal justice reform, i answered the question. i'm hopeful. april, what

california, it was a group arrested back in 2012 for trying to travel to afghanistan to join al qaeda. and, now a warning to americans, as the manhunt in geneva, switzerland, intensifies you have six terror suspects linked to the paris attacks who are now missing. which means they're on the run. so how does this tie to a threat here in the united states? i can tell you that a source is telling cnn that intercepted communication was picked up between extremists connected to isis, who were discussing not just possible attacks in geneva, but we're learning they were discussing attacks potentially in chicago, and in toronto. this as the u.s. warns of a new threat posed by fake passports. fake passports. a new intelligence report suggesting that isis actually has a machine capable of making these passports. here is the director of the fbi. >> are you concerned that isis has the ability to create fraudulent passports or other identification documents for its operatives that has a practical -- that is a practical matter it would be almost impossible to detect? >> yes, mr. chairman. the intelligen

gained strength in afghanistan with as many as 3,000 fighters there. and russian president vladimir putin it seems would prefer to work with his enemy's enemy. putin could be working to cut off the pipeline of isis fighters closer to home given to ties with isis and the north surgeoncy. putin's moves are about projecting relevance and strength. a u.s. official in washington told cnn that while they don't believe that possible cooperation between moscow and the taliban would under mine the stability of what they're trying to achieve, they do worry about that kind of joint effort could be potentially destabilizing, allowing the taliban to receive international recognition. kate, back to you. >>> coming up next for us, survives of the deadly storms. they're speaking out after an estimated 14 tornado ripped across the southeast. we're going to hear their stories next. and is the weather going to get worse before it gets better? a report for you on that. >>> a nightmare holiday flight, a five-hour flight turned into a 20-hour ordeal. that's coming up. right now, you're not thinking about

and secretary of defense are doing a taking a play out of the afghanistan playbook where a a few teams of special forces were able to work with air power to get the taliban to flee across the border. it's very much the same type of play. z they have never won any war anywhere. it looks good on tv and all those videos. but this needs to be followed by a step where the president leads nato to get nato to activate article v to get the 28 member nations and the political piece involved here so we can have the support from other nations and then hook in the middle east nations that were outraged at the paris attacks to have a 40-member nation coalition that is trying to crush this enemy that has sanction ware. they have hydroelectric power. they have a couple million daily in oil revenue from the turkish black market. so they are a nation state for all practical purposes. this is a a first step in cutting off and getting after their communications and logistics. >> thank you both so much. >>> want to move along because next a big story here. we're following jury selection underway aga

al qaeda groups in afghanistan. he's one of like 48 or so yem i yemenis who cannot be sent home under current law. so it might be easier said than done for him to go anywhere, even though he might be there under mistaken identity. he's not going home yet anytime soon, brooke. >> evan perez, thank you so much. now we turn to this. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> here we go. again, breaking news in to cnn, reports of an active shooter in san bernardino, california, just about 60 miles west of los angeles. listen, we don't know a lot. here's what we do know. the san bernardino fire department is responding to reports of multiple victims in a shooting incident, multiple victims. you can see we drew the line there from east to west. you can see where san bernardino falls on the map there in california. i have art roderick on the phone with me, former u.s. marshal, cnn law enforcement analyst. art roderick, here we are again. you know, wer just talking about an active shooting situation at a planned parenthood center in colorado springs, colorado, on friday. here we are san ber

$43 million gas station in afghanistan, and it doesn't even sell the right gas. okay? 43 million. do you think you could have built that gas station for slightly less? no. you look at the things, the money we spend. $1 billion to build a hospital. you could build seven hospitals for that. we could take care of our vets with that money. we have such stupid people leading us. i used to say they're incompetent. i didn't want to use the word "stupid." it's too crude and tough. they don't know i went to an ivy league school. i'm really like a smart guy. my uncle was an m.i.t., a professor for years. they didn't believe it. they went and checked. dr. john trump. i actually think he was there for five decades. m.ist t. he was one of the great engineer/scientists. you know, it's like really good stuff. but when they talk about us, they talk about us like, do we know? let me tell you, these are the smartest people. these are the people that made our country great originally. these are the great people. these are the great people. and we're going to take you're country back and turn it around

looked up to her because she had been in afghanistan with bin laden's wives before 9/11. he went all the way to pakistan to join al qaeda just to impress her. so you have seen these lady mcbeth dynamics where they are sort of strengthening the backbone of their husbands. >> shawn, to you. if this was a case of online radicalization, talk to me about the difficulties presented by the fact that as pamela brown reported that their digital footprint was concealed. they smashed hard drives, smashed phones, so now where do the intelligence officials go to get what they need to determine the point of radicalzation? >> there are a number of point here's. first of all, i think those that have been radicalized, those listening to isis and their propaganda, they are familiar with trying to keep their footprint small. they are familiar with law enforcement tactics and capabilities. what the constitution allows and how they are protected ushd the constitution certainly as an american citizen often times by destroying the hard drives they may have destroyed all data but there are some opportunities fo

went and traveled to afghanistan during the soviet jihad. that's why it's important also to point out that people now also are coming back. because the pressure that isis and other groups under in both syria and iraq. we found out between 20 to 30% in western countries foreign fighters are returning. and we need to figure out why they are returning, what did they do when they were in syria and are they trying to carry out another attack. >> they are stunning numbers. a new report out. thank you very much. i appreciate it. >>> next, back to politics. the fall out from donald trump's calls to ban muslims from coming into the united states. i will be joined live by a trump supporter who stands behind her candidate. a conservative who thinks he's bad for the party and an author who says trump is pushing a a dangerous form of islamophobia. stay with me for that debate. the possibility of a flare swas almost always on my mind. thinking about what to avoid, where to go... and how to deal with my uc. to me, that was normal. until i talked to my doctor. she told me that humira helps people lik