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Different. >> and just today, an outraged speaker of the house john boehner slamming president obamas handling of the immigration crisis. >> this is a problem of the presidents own making. he has been president for five and a half years. when is he going to take responsibility for something? >> and karl rove joins us. nice to see you, karl. >> great to see you, greta. >> karl, i suppose you some have said border crisis is president obamas katrina moment. do you agree with that as a significant m...

Forfeited. it reminds me a little bit of the bp spill but worse. like there is an opportunity here to set up a command center or do something optically to shame those who have not risen to the occasion, to shame those who dont seem to care about the children, to shame those who wont look at this issue until it totally boils over and becomes a crisis. if the president has a good position on this, why not go for the optics? >> youre exactly right. there are great parallels to the bp spill where th...

Performing duties theyre not trained to perform. for example, i mentioned about this so-called command center at the hec. part of the process as i understand from talking to my colleagues is to make people who perform mail room functions start processing applications for enrollment. >> weird. now what im going to ask you, this fellow coming in ostensibly to bang heads at the v.a., he will not the have that power right away. assuming hes confirmed, hell have to wait for the kind of authority that...

The room talking and a sergeant was in there and heard the problem and said, i got just the spot for you. went out and looked at it. it was perfect. >> the factory or command center that we used was an old model paint factory. from the third or fourth floor, wherever we were, we had a birds-eye view of the house looking north, and the command center was set up so that there was a monitoring room, where you would have three agents at three separate monitoring stations and a supervisor in the room...

Advisers -- by the way, there have always been some here but its not the same country when u.s. troops left two and a half years ago. when they left here they were running the show with the iraqis. they controlled the air space. the u.s. troops could move wherever they wanted to and, in many cases, the u.s. said, jump and the iraqis said how high. things have changed dramatically here. the iranians deeply entrenched then are even more entrenched now. if the americans come back and into the joint...

That are on the ground. i mean, the 300 some odd forces that were put on the ground a couple days ago, really have a couple missions, one of them is the non-combatant evacuation possibility and also, the advisory role, which has everything to do with targeting. so the united states in concert with the iraqis in the sanction wary of either the iraqi joint chief staff command center or embassy where we have a large down linked capability where the intelligence capabilities can come into an intelli...

A couple of missions. one of them is the noncombatant evacuation possibility, and also the advisory role, which has everything to do with targeting. and so the united states in concert with the iraqis in the sanctuary of either the iraqi joint chiefs staff command center or there in the embassy where we have a very large down link capability, where all the intelligence capabilities can come into an intelligence center, where all of that can be fused so that we can hand off targeting data to the ...

Leadership as well as regional commands. look. these groups are a bit secretive about how theyre structured but youve had members who talked to the media and from that, we can glean a bit about the command structure but one of the ways you can tell its secretive is theres a debate even among experts as to whether it should be considered a single group or whether it should be considered two groups with headquarters in benghazi and durna. that shows you the command center is a little opaque but it...

Please. bring me home. >> reporter: behind the scenes a secret choreography had quickly been worked out in the last several days. a u.s. command center was set up at an undisclosed location. u.s. commandos secretly flew to a point near the border where the taliban said they would be waiting to turn bergdahl over. back at guantanamo bay, officials from qatar were on standby, waiting to take custody of the five taliban detainees the u.s. was releasing in return for bergdahl. that was the guarantee...

[ speaking in foreign language ] im your father, bowe. >> i want to say thank you to everyone who has supported bowe. >> after nearly five years in captivity, their son bowe is coming home. >> release me, please. im begging you. bring me home, please. bring me home. >> behind the scenes a secret choreography had quickly been worked out in just the last several days. u.s. command center was set up at an undisclosed location. u.s. command doughs secretly flew to a point near the border where the t...