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About. theres only three ethnicities in our navy, officer, enlisted, and chief. thats what its doing to our society. this is infiltrating the armed forces. marines had to kick out a neo-nazi. we need to be speaking like a nation. -- said if youre racist, out of my military. same thing with our country. but now we have -- its coming from the national command authority. commander in chief himself. i would hope that all of the -- everyone who works below him would at least come out and give the zer...

To stop threats to the united states. but the president himself as the national command authority has to take responsibility. if something happens in the future, whether our cyber systems are completely knocked down because the russians right now know they can get away with anything. then its on donald j. trump. >> michael isikoff, you and david corn have written a remarkable book. its really the comprehensive history of what has gone on and ive spoken to one of you every day now. the bottom lin...

The mediterranean for almost 15 hours. and then when the penetrations and jamming started you pick up the phone and call them and tell them what youre about to see is what its going to be. it doesnt have to escalate further. if the russians wanted to escalate further, they would have. but its a one and done strike. >> i have to take you into the realm of politics, its necessary because we have a president who after campaigning on returning the element of surprise, criticizing the previous admini...

Operations command and certain the national command authority within the jcs and dod, theyve said, president trump, lets not be too hasty. weve been down this road before and have seen the consequences. >> its very cos confusing on a policy matter when a president says we do everything we can to fight radical islam, everybody should use that term, well fight isis to the death and never stop. yet he becomes this isolationist, we have to retreat from the world. isnt it fair to say we cannot allow ...

Time, does remoteness matter before we had smart phones? >> well, david, you are making, again, an excellent point, which is that civil defense has changed in the era of everyone having a mobile device. and these push alerts which are governed by the civil authorities and the communication authorities in a particular area really have changed the way people get instant information. and i think what has really set people on edge here is that when this alert went out, and it was noticed on not just...

Potentially replicated by people who are actually responsible for warning of incoming missile launches including at northern command. before anybody says oh, that would never happen all you have to do is think about the cascade of human and technical bliglitc for systems to fail and for there to be mistakes so i dont think that our systems are immune from mistakes and human error. i mean our actual missile warning systems. second, i worry that the north koreans could misinterpret something that ...

A full report. heather: they had done this 29 times without any contact over the last six months so it came as a surprise. i want to ask about the tie in to benghazi. they are saying this is donald trumps benghazi. do you agree? >> absolutely no comparison. this was a very experienced force, green berets with french and nigerian, they were conducting the operation. no one expected it to turn into troops incontext situation but those forces have been in contact before so this is a military force ...

Said. jeremy, let me ask you to lay out for us the entire context and degree of alarm about the president and, one, the nuclear arsenal that nbc is reporting about, and two, i think something that under girds all of these stories that he displays instability. >> its also called national command authority, and that means the president and only the president can order a nuclear strike. so not withstanding whether someone was in the room with him and could quote, unquote tackle him, he could order ...

Great questions there. we were talking to the lieutenant general in charge ever all of the wake of hurricane katrina, he was on live with me and tom bossert actually name checked him because he is highly critical of the response. and here is the generals response now. >> brooke, look, that was a good commentary about tom bossert. i got full confidence in that man as well as mr. brock at fema. but they have to give general buchanan full command authority. there is a couple things that mr. bossert...

Of ground force command once we realized the problem of logistics distribution outstripped capacity of the effective municipal governments but that three star general was there extension of northern command. made a number of improvements to that distribution process and marshalling of military resources since, for instance, general honore experienced what he did in katrina. matured a bit from that day. what he lacked back then has been put in place and in place for this response out of san anton...