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Combat commands such a sign up by secretary of chairman, does not confer any command authority on the chairman and does not alter the responsibility of the commanders of the combat commands. he as no role, none. he is a coordinate or, a communicate or. and his people have been spinning, been leaking to their favorite journalists he does this all of the time. he violates federal law and the constitution all of the time? the president of the united states, the buck stops with him. does not stop wi...

This was a scenario where there were direct threats from isis-k against our troops who were on the ground in afghanistan. that was the scenario where the strike was made. it was done in error. obviously there was a horrific tragedy that happened. i wont predict what the impact will be. >> on august 26th in afghanistan. the president said i ordered commanders to develop plans to strike isis-k. we are respond with force in the moment of our choosing. should we still be anticipating there will be a...

Have assign to chairman of joint chiefs of staff responsibility for overseeing activities of combat commands such a sign up by secretary of chairman, does not confer any command authority on the chairman and does not alter the responsibility of the commanders of the combat commands. he as no role, none. he is a coordinate or, a communicate or. and his people have been spinning, been leaking to their favorite journalists he does this all of the time. he violates federal law and the constitution a...

General what is the process for which strikes are approved. >> thank you. >> if you are tracking a target, you very track through communications intelligence, human intelligence or signals, you cast that to commanders on the ground, those guiding the drone going forward. when you look at a drone strike, those drones could read a license plate on a car, that is how good the optics are. my concern that just a couple days av isis-k strike, that killed 13 great americans in wounded over 20, i think ...

Milley twice called chinas top commanders to assure him that the u.s. was not going to attack and reportedly staying in one conversation, if were going to attack, im going to call you ahead of time and it is not going to be a surprise. back with dan, and can and bill. so bill, can we believe what we read about that book. guest: we dont know, i think the answer is no man should ever be hanged from a bob woodward account and we need to know the truth of their tuned narratives out there now, what i...

They had just lost 13 u.s. service members, they believed there was an attack forthcoming, a threat to american forces on the ground, which is something the military takes very seriously. clearly commanders in charge of this strike felt that they couldnt wait, essentially, to take this shot in order to determine, number one, definetively whether or not there were civilians on the ground and number two, even with certainty who the target was, which obviously they turned out to be tragically wrong...

That theres perfect intelligence and -- and unrealistic -- unrealistic expectation of precision-strike weapons but thats just not true. there are problems when strike weapons occur, and there is a myth of perfect intelligence in combat. now, its -- its -- its unreal what we can do with some of our technology. but the films and the belief that this is something like a video game just isnt true. it doesnt happen all the time. it -- it happens rarely. unfortunately, it happened in this case. i had ...

This was after, you know -- this was just two days after the suicide bombing at the kabul airport. they saw a vehicle being loaded with things. seems like it was water bottles, not explosives as they thought. it -- it seems like an initial determination was made, and then a whole bunch of decisions were made based on the initial determination which was faulty that this person was an isis-k terrorist. and then, everything they did that day over the next several hours looks suspicious once that wa...

So did all the commanders. i had routine contact with the senior military and political leaders throughout latin america, promoting human rights, promoting, you know, discipline in the armed forces. so theres two sides to this coin, but look, we were worried, we, the u.s. armed forces, in my view, about trump and his final days. nuclear weapons are just a zero defect program. we werent going to ever let that get close to the line. but at the same time, i think there was a concern it might be use...

Video game just isnt true. it doesnt happen all the time. it happens rarely. unfortunately, it happened in this case. i had an incident,. my worst day ever in combat was a mistake like this where an innocent man was killed because of bad targeting information. yeah, commanders live with this and it does happen because it is combat. >> it seems like when you look at sort of the details of this kind of, you know, one of the people was driving around in multiple spots. this was after -- this was ju...