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walk a fine line. gaza is a crowded, urban area. i hold hamas just as responsible, if not more than the idf for civilian casualties in gaza because hamas puts their command and control centers underneath refugee camps, underneath hospitals. hamas told palestinian civilians to disobey the order to evacuate that territory. so its a difficult road to walk, but israel must destroy and degrade hamas. thats their mission. im sure they are determined to go about the mission, put they do walk ...

Leave. >> hours after i filmed that interview with that man, dmytro, his wife got a phone call from her mother. its very hard to get a call in and out of mariupol right now because most of the cell phone networks have been turned down. and the mother was weeping and saying good-bye because she did not think she would survive the nights artillery bombardment. don? >> ivan watson, thank you very much. ana? >> don, well check back with you all in a moment. lets talk about the military strategy here...

Speculating negative things about scotland yard and here is how mcmaster responded. >> i think what the president was communicate iing is that is that obviously, all of our law enforcement efforts are focused on this threat from you know, for years. scottland yard has been a leader as our mpi has been a leader, so, i think the if there was a terrorist attack here, god forbid, we would say there were in sight of the fbi. i dont think he meant anything beyond that. i think he means this kind of ac...

Ckworth who is a veteran of iraq and an injured one at that. >> it seems like the president, the command er in chief, is shifting the i think he needs to feel his job as commander in chief. >> that is a key thing her, he is delegating more authority to the commanders on the groung. >> we have seen that in somali and yemen. the best example we saw was the decision to drop the mother of all bombs, that was not walked up the pent gone or tagon or thy or white house. some has to do with troop levels...

Command er commander, where is the pentagon? why dont we have communication among the four groups? why is the state department handling what is essentially a military operation at that point and the cia who has all of their people there. >> you hit on something extremely important. because at the end of the day, one of the primary reasons for being in eastern libya has to do with the state department. the operation is one of the largest of the operations in africa and also the middle east. direc...

Command er commander, where is the pentagon? why dont we have communication among the four groups? why is the state department handling what is essentially a military operation at that point and the cia who has all of their people there. >> you hit on something extremely important. because at the end of the day, one of the primary reasons for being in eastern libya has to do with the state department. the operation is one of the largest of the operations in africa and also the middle east. direc...

Ever realistically an option? >> i dont think so. i wouldnt expect any command er in chief to even consider this proposition of leaving somebody behind on the battlefield. there are suggestions because of his political views, religion, you dont leave people behind. i was talking with someone earlier. my parents freaked out when i went to afghanistan both times. if i had been captured. do i want to say this nice jewish kid, not sure if were going to go get him. >> we owe it to our men and women i...

Clear. he definitely made clear battle lines between them saying im realistic basically and they are being pie in the sky. >> panel, thank you. we have this stereo speech going on in ohio with vice president joe biden taking the obama reelection message on the road. now the first major stop moments ago in ohio. what may be the most pivotal swing state. the command er in chief had had their back. >> im back. youre back. the industry is back. mitt romney, rick santorum and newt gingrich, these guy...

shot rick santorum leap frogs into fourth. his support has tripled since the beginning of the month and closing in on mitt romney and ron paul who are locked in the statistical ties within the margin of error. joe johns is in des moines to break it down. of course, the question is, did the gingrich camp see this coming? >> yeah, i think to some degree they saw this coming. hammering ron paul, for example. also, mitt romney. its pretty clear that gingrich saw he had some problems becaus...

>> gates was? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> but he says he couldnt get anything done. and i think, you know, as you read through his complaints, what you see is really just a lack of leadership on the part of the command er in chief. >> he supported the troops, but he didnt support his own strategy. not the surge in 2009 but against the advice of robert gates and david petraeus, the military commander at the time, he put a deadline on all withdrawal. meaning he undermined his own war effort and undermine...