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Of them have not been doing. many of them have not been even close. and they have to do that. central command and sent operations command are at the very center of our fight against radical islamic terrorism. america stands in awe of your courage. those serving at centcom have bravely fought across the theater of war in the middle east and bravely battled a vicious enemy that has no respect for human life. today we express our gratitude to everyone serving overseas, including all of our military...

Congressional leaders. thats the way the process has been working for years. certainly there are as peks of national security that are, i guess you could say, somewhat unreviewable. even though each branch has appropriate tools that as a whole operate as a check on one another. the kortsz acourts are going to sort through this exact authority. step back again for just a second. the point is this could have been handled a lot better, and i hope the administration has learned a lesson from that. >...

Protests continue in romania after an anticorruption law sparked the largest demonstration since communism was declared dead in that country. rome romanias prime minister sg he may fire the head of justice. the countrys constitution court is expected to rule on the proposal sometime this week. back to afghanistan. fighting in that country and the rest of the middle east is at the top of the agenda when the president made the trip to tampa, florida. kevin corke shows us what happened and was said...

Should warn you that some of these images that you will see are disturbing. >> reporter: growing confusion surrounding sundays deadly raid by u.s. special forces in yemen. and just how successful it actually was. central command released this capture video he showing al qaeda training fighters to make explosives. an instructor in a black mask and white lab coat says, quote, we would like as many people to graduate with this knowledge and expertise as possible. the military said it was releasing ...

S.e.a.l. william ryan owens dead along with as many as two dozen civilians including an 8-year-old girl. three service members were also injured and a $70 million osprey aircraft destroyed. >> there is a risk in doing nothing because people can live. there is a risk in doing something because a raid can go wrong. its hard to second guess. >> jim sciutto there. on a related note, president trump will visit u.s. central command in florida on monday. well take a short break. but when we come back...

No laws were broken. the aclu says she should make a public statement to clarify her position. >> shepard: we could learn more about the destruction of videotapes. its my understanding. >> theres two versions of the letter. the democratic senators that want the series of incidents and the destruction of the videotapes declassified for the public. >> this instruction would do well by itself to declassify that letter so we all can have an understanding as to why there are -- these kinds of concern...

Behalf of the american interests? and not just is he patriotic. im sure hes patriotic, but he may have very well instilled in him the idea that whats good for his oil company is good for america. i dont happen to believe thats necessarily the case. so, he may prove to us he can be just as strong in favor of sanctions on russia as we would like. i hope so. i was heart ened by what nikki haley said. i was pessimistic with the sanctions on russia with the new violence in ukraine. rex tillerson is a...

Congressman adam schiff. were following the breaking news, a botched video released by the u.s. military central command. the i havages seized of a raid on al-qaeda over the weekend turned out to be nine years old. our chief national correspondent jim sciutto has more on this development. youre getting some new information, jim. what are you learning? >> wolf, thats right. the startling new intelligence that really was president, today sin come releasing what it said was a new bomb making video ...

One they seem to divert responsibility to the obama administration saying this raid was first approved under obama and picked up in faffect by president trump. they talked about and you heard sean spicer describe it as a successful raid because they gathered so much intelligence, some were bomb-making videos, but a few minutes before i came on the air, brooke, central command said those videos didnt come from that raid, they came from some earlier raid, so confusing response to say the least. >>...

That is inappropriate for the leadership we have in the defense department now and then in those commands. and he has been doing this his entire life. his colleague at central command has been doing this together with tony thomas all of their lives so these are very measured guys that understand all the intricacies of this. strategically what you have is a number of mission sets that are available for execution depending upon conditions and most importantly dependent upon clarity of intelligence...