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When you know your enemy is not making homogeneous decisions and executing them to achieve some specific purpose. so there is some indication looking at it from this distance that its entirely possible that it was an independent decision on the part of the revolutionary guard because that sort of stuff has been done before by them. i think our administration is going to give them an opportunity to explain themselves. and one other thing. we have lots of ways to retaliate and they do not include ...

Drone, making the case that it was over international waters and saying that he doesnt believe this was intentional. still, andrea, clearly the u.s. sees this as a provocation and a sign of the fact that tensions are mounting between these two countries. what are they going to do about it? as colonel jack has said, they do have a range of different ways to respond in their back pocket. that undoubtedly is what was discussed by the national security team when they met earlier today. what have the...

It may very well be that the revolutionary guards themselves would prefer to launch the missile. its hard to say where, at what level of the chain of command that was made. i think the president probably has a great deal of information that he passed on in making that comment, that the decision to launch the missile probably was made at a level below that of the national command authority. that will be sorted out very, very soon. >> colonel jack, i was just going to say we have eyes and ears the...

We dont teach it any more. education is the only way that you can reach into the future. and to the extent that we dont teach about this, all of this -- and maybe even their sacrifice will all be lost in the future. >> colonel jack, i just want to mention were seeing the presidents sons there, eric trump, don trump jr., steve mnuchkin, mick mulvaney as well. its quite a day and quite a celebration that they will be attending over the next hour or so. that will begin at the top of the hour. colon...

We decided we would have nothing but unconditional surrender from the axis, it was then that we threw all of our might behind the effort to go into europe and take it all back from the axis. >> colonel jack, we see president trump and first lady melania trump disembarking marine one from cheers from people in the crowd as they make their way over to the events stage. as you talk about these veterans what should to be done more to get current and future generations to be their sacrifice? >> well,...

Joining me now is retired u.s. army colonel jack jacobs, a medal of honor recipient. colonel, lets start with something you know with the. thats the issue of isis and terrorism. brett mcgurk. how unique was he in his role? and will this be able to be supplanted? is there somebody that will fill this role well? >> well, he wasnt unique in his experience but he was very, very good at what he did. and the real question is not whether or not you can get somebody in there who is like mcgurk or who ha...

Quite a few more resignations near the top of the food chain in the defense department, richard. >> as we look at the balance of military leadership, international affairs, international security, national security here, colonel jack, who is the proverbial adult in the room that youre now looking to? general mattis was one of those certainly. >> well, he was. people are now looking to pompeo, whos the secretary of state. but hes not jim mattis. and though he has military experience, he doesnt ha...

There arent any wheels. i think were in very, very dangerous train now. there is no leadership. theres no leadership in the congress. and theres no leadership among the cabinet in the white house. and were at a time when we have a wide variety of threats. you know, its kind of interesting. if vladimir putin says youre doing the right thing, then youre most decidedly not doing the right thing. i think were in that mode right now. these are dangerous times that require much more leadership than wh...

Nation without us having to pay every dollar. theres a little anecdote. donald trump talked to the prime minister of sweden a year or so ago and he didnt seem to understand that sweden was not in nato and the prime minister of sweden said, were not in nato but participate with it. trump said, thats what id like the united states to do. he will destroy the national defense of the united states if hes allowed to continue this way. >> very quickly, colonel jack and come back to jennifer. theres als...

I dont think youre going to find somebody to do it today. either for mattiss job or mcgurks. >> general mattis -- and i was watching your coverage all throughout the development here, colonel jack. and you were very clear in your knowledge of the way he thinks and why he did what he did. how many more resignations might we see? what have you heard? >> well, youre liable to see some more. the problem is that mattis was something of the finger in the dy dike. there are a lot of people who are qual...