My experience has been whenever captured soldiers are released, it at least creates a window for dialogue.

These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, ... They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.

[But training isn't a one-way experience.] The Afghan soldiers are able to teach us how the enemy fights, ... The Afghan troops are also very physically fit -- and they will work the daylights out of us.

It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers.

If the trip was sanctioned by the president, it would be defeated before we leave.

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.