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Were hear to enforce the date and peace accords, nothing more and so these persons who were indicted for war crimes were betting that the international community would never have the skill to capture them and for the first year and a half, they were lulled into that because in fact, the international community didnt have the skill. but when prime minister tony blair was elected, he went to president clinton and said i dont think we can live with this peace agreement without justice. >> at that p...

Arthel: perhaps that power struggle could prevent iran from going to the diplomatic table. >> thats another factor, although i think thats often exacerbated. the president himself implied, well, maybe this wasnt done because its such a stupid act to attack a u.s. military aircraft, maybe it wasnt done with the full authority of their command authority. flipping that around, i dont think that someone in the iranian military or the irgc would have attacked without a clear authority going to the ve...

From the jets that jennifer mentioned were in the air. we got reported back to the national command authority and the president made a decision not to go forward. i think -- you know the president is not an interventionist. he doesnt want to get in a war in iran but he does want to protect u.s. vital interest that we have in the persian gulf. you can list them. the free flow of oil. the free flow of commerce. u.s. troops and property in the area. relationships with our allies. its a key part of ...

Exercise a disciplined process to make sound, reasonable judgments to introduce armed forces? or does he do it willy-nilly like he demonstrated last night? again, glad that they didnt strike and glad we didnt take out 150 iranians, civilian or military, that gives one a little bit of comfort. the larger picture is that the larger command authority, the decision making process is broken. >> congressman anthony brown, appreciate your time, thank you. >> thank you. stay with us. much more to come...

>> look, at the end i think he did make the right decision. what this demonstrates is dysfunction in the national command authority, that ten minutes before a potential strike against iran, and we dont know where that strike would have been and what the target would have been, we now believe that it could have included 150 casualties. but that decision being made ten minutes before the strike, that demonstrates a broken system, a lack of understanding and knowledge by our commander in chief, the...

Continued constraint on their economy which is pummelling them to a degree which i think few people realize. it is imposing significant pain. >> dana: the president said that he thinks it was possibly unintentional, or it was a mistake made by somebody who was well below in the chain of command. but then who does the president negotiate with at the time? its not really comparable in terms of our system. how would we possibly get that done? >> i think the president is wrong about the command auth...

Expertise. help us understand this report, how its being received, and if its likely to get approved. >> its immediately controversial, and maybe a little history with how military justice works and pardons. you know, in the military justice system, its different than the civilian world. commanders matter and theres something called command authority. where a senior commander on a ship, on a base can change the judgment and the sentencing of pretty much any case. its what separates the military ...

A little light instead of heat on the situation because theres a lot of heat going on. the biggest thing for me to focus on is the forces we are sending are being sent because the commanding general, general mckenzie of central command looked at the threat in the region and went to the national command authority and said id need additional resources to counter this threat from iran and irans proxies. he has asked for these forces. this isnt something the administration pushed the forces and said...

Iraq and afghanistan. when a president, who is, of course, the commander in chief, makes derogatory comments like this, about people who have earn ed that clearly, does it matter in your view? >> in the big picture it doesnt matter. thats why i choose to use the word disappointment. there are people in the military and veterans who would be disappointed with the presidents comment bus in the end it doesnt matter. as long as the president, again, if his actions are lawful, then the command author...

In real time. if they feel they have to move to that drastic measure, they go to national command authority, secretary of defense and president if necessary to make that call. that said, authority to do a shoot down is delegated to the norad commander, who if he felt it was necessary could have done it. i want to pick up that this is an important mission. operation noble eagle, doing it since 9/11. in 17 years we have been doing this, there are more than 1800 intercepts of nonmilitary aircraft. ...