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What we were taught growing up that the vietnam war was a nightmare because you had the lyndon johnson at night looking for targets to bomb. whats the pentagons attitude towards the presidents hands-on approach of operations? >> i like it. ive heard 50 times complaints about the degree to which decisions were subject to 11th hour review in the situation room, interagency discussions. command authority really has been pushed down in this fight since trump took office. its allowed more flexibility...

Problem that some of us had been ignored for too long, and were starting a campaign that was very effective, james mattis came in and they continued on that success. tell us where we are now in our fight against isis and parse donald trumps words for us if you will and tell us whats right and whats not right. >> president trump is basically right in saying that the campaign against isis has been accelerated. the pace of operations under obama was increasing but hes really delegated command autho...

As we speak, thousands and thousands of u.s. service members stretch out across texas and louisiana back out again this morning conducting air rescue, searching homes, door to door in these neighbors still swamped. a staggering number of homes underwater, a week after the hurricane first hit. joining me now brig deer general patrick hamilton, the status commender of hurricane harvey mail tear -- i thats a relatively new title. >> thats correct, john. that came out of actually hurricane katrina. ...

That he does not believe the president is fit for office. that he cannot be trusted with the national command authority to launch nuclear weapons and we should just remind viewers, nicolle, in our system, only the president of the united states has the authority to launch nuclear weapons. and nobody -- not a single person can countermand that order. if the president gives the order around it can happen very rapidly, the president gives the order not the secretary of defense, not the combatant co...

Place, and we have somebody with no moral rectitude as commander in chief in the west wing of the white house. but when it comes to people outside the national command authority, outside the decision-making process and the deployment of american troops, this is rather easy. and by the way, to the argument that things could be so much worse, we saw the president of the united states yesterday talked about the good people at a torch-lit nazi parade who were simply there expressing their first amen...

Imminence of an attack by north korea that much higher, because it now has a capability. not just an intention to use something that might be in development, but we have to assume that its accurate. that the report is accurate. that they have a capability and that now the united states has a full array of options it has to be able to use, and it raises the spectrum of a potential conflict. everybody on the peninsula has been preparing for this kind of engagement for quite some time and so there ...

Korea and president xi and vladimir putin and finally the united states with mr. trump as well as secretary of state tillerson. i think a long-term goal of peace and stability that could be including district takes with north korea is something that could be within reach. i do think though theres a brand-new context. you look at the diplomatic, political as well as economic elements of power that have been demonstrated in response to the dpr case missile testing as well as the military national ...

National command authority in washington, d.c. and there would have to be specific rules of engagements in order to have any type of engagement with the iranian navy. its happened before in the past during certain operations, i think thats fresh in the history of the iranian regime the irgc has been there since the creation of revolutionary iran. theyre in command of their defense establishment inside iran so they understand the history and the legacy of the united states navy and the iranian na...

Because everyone wants to make sure our u.s. members remain safe because there are people working on the ground currently representing our country and we dont have boots on the ground there. so major general williams, i want to ask you this question. what would be the challenges for u.s. security personnel who may be heading into baghdad to help protect this embassy? what would they be facing possibly? >> first of all, any of the navy or marine expedition forces in the area are trained for this....

Intelligence business, every source that we have of intelligence, we try to confirm that with other sources. i believe some of that has been confirmed and we dont know what that is, and because that is obviously classified. and the fact of the matter is, but even this information, as antiinflammatory and explosive as it is, would have been shared with the entire national command authority and senior leaders of our government. its indisputable that it would not be done. sergeant bergdahl was a ve...