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I want to thank all of you for all the great questions online. lets keep that dialogue going. i want to thank my panel. thank you very much. thank you for the members of the audience. appreciate all the great questions. lets turn it over to anderson cooper right now. his show starts right now. see you tomorrow morning. good evening, everyone. we begin with breaking news. abc news is reporting that president obamas national security team is preparing for a military attack in syria much bigger t...

>> tom, i would expect to see all of these, primarily submarines in eastern mediterranean. they are already located there. but bear in mind, we dont know the plan, but i would expect to see bombers involved. this is a b-52. i would also expect b-2s coming out of whiteman air force base, the stealth bomber, which is in missouri, comes over the atlantic, refuels in the vicinity of italy, and then will launch its munitions at targets in syria without ever having to penetrate the air space. >> this ...

It is friday morning. welcome to "fox & friends first". i am heather nauert. >> i am patti ann browne. -- it is 30 minutes after the hour. a senior defense official telling fox news b-52 bombers could be used in a strike on syria. the plan of action has been revised some 50 times so far. we are talking about the military plan of action. doug luzader is life for us in washington with more this morning. hi there, doug. >> good morning. a lot of thinking and rethinking. the pentagon is considering ...

The team we want to back is under colonel riad. lets talk about an air campaign. fundamentally similar to if we back the right people. if we dont back the right people, dont do it. heres what i would do. lay a host of upward of 200 tom hawks and conventional air launch cruise missiles, one b-52 can carry up to 20. lay them in there, follow up by b-2s that can drop 20 or upwards of 80-some mark 1,000-pound jdam guyed bombs, g.p.s. guided bombs. then have f-22s flying cap. but they have a very for...

To be shipped with their live nuclear war heads, the war head part was supposed to be taken have you the missiles and replaced with dummy weight for balance. but in august, 2007, instead of picking up the missiles with the dummy weights on them, the minot crew did not see what they were supposed to be doing. they didnt follow the procedures they were supposed to be following. and oh, yes, accidentally, without meaning to, without knowing that they had done it, they loaded onto that louisiana-bou...

About the -- you know, beast, it just seemed like a normal flight, that b-52 and the six live missiles sat unguarded on the tarmac for nine hours after the plane landed before the ground crew realized they had accidentally become a nuclear-armed out post without clearance and without anybody following the procedures you need to follow to protect the nuclear weapons. well, in the wake of that incident in 2007, the secretary of the air force and the chief of staff both lost their jobs, as did a nu...

About the -- you know, jeez, it just seemed like a normal flight, that b-52 and the six live missiles sat unguarded on the tarmac for nine hours after the plane landed before the ground crew realized they had accidentally become a nuclear-armed outpost without clearance and without anybody following the procedures you need to follow to protect the nuclear weapons. well, in the wake of that incident in 2007, the secretary of the air force and the chief of staff both lost their jobs, as did a numb...

Nobody wants to be marginal in this business. >> reporter: colonel robert supports the blistering e-mail his deputy delivered which said, were discovering such rot in the crew force. we are, in fact, in a crisis right now. >> any time you have crew members that do not perform to the standard you would expect, then we will take action. >> reporter: the air force updated safety protocols in 2007 after a b-52 flew across the united states carrying six nuclear tip cruise missiles. the pilot had no i...

It is not as bad as it is, but you have the deputy command saying theres a rot and crisis. >> joe is president of plow shares fund, a global securities book, and the author of to the book "bomb scare." and a member of secretary john kerrys advisor board that advises the secretary of state on arms control. joe, this is weird. this is disturbing. >> it is disturbing. it was at this very same air force bak in 2007-2008 they had another security breakdown. six nuclear armed missiles were unknowingly...

I dont know that for a fact, but i assume that they have. but weve also taken some other actions. theres been some airplanes that have flown there, flying over south korea, both b-2s, as well as theres f-22s, as well. there are b-52 -- theres a b-52 flight that has gone there. we have ships which have gone there, additional radars in place. so the united states has responded in kind of a firm way. we havent used a hot rhetoric that the north koreans have. the heated rhetoric, which hopefully is ...