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Oh, wow. Oh, what, what . What . I love. Tonight, events in The Middle East spiraling out midd. Trol i an airstrike at a hospital in gaza has left hundreds dead. But its not what it seems. Hamas claims israel struck the hospital. Israel denies struc it. Fault they say a Faulty Hamaset Rocket fired from gaza hit their own hospital. Number one, israe numl does r target places like hospitals. Theyre not a target for us. S ouldnt and we wouldnt have deliberately hit a hospital. Number two, we know t...

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Telling him, that there was great risk here based on this decision. paul: and the risk extends the, as the generals made clear, to counterterror operations now going forward. i was surprised that they were as forth right as they were in suggests with having as much skepticism as they did about the ability of u.s. to control terror bases or new terror groups in afghanistan. did that surprise you? >> yeah. well, it did in terms of, yeah, youre right, the directness of it all. and i think theres be...

US is reportedly in talks with countries bordering Afghanistan about housing "over the horizon" counterterrorism operations that would allow the US military to more easily surveil and strike targets in the Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. 

Healed, do you think? i mean, theres still the scars here, but has the city... the city has done remarkably well. even better than i thought it would. i asked the people of this city the night of september 11th to be stronger as a result of this, and theyve more than exceeded my expectations. i think that, however you judge a city, this city is a stronger and better city now. more people come here, more tourists come here, more people live here. the economy of the city is doing better than the e...

I asked the people of this city the night of september 11th to be stronger as a result of this, and theyve more than exceeded my expectations. i think that, however you judge a city, this city is a stronger and better city now. more people come here, more tourists come here, more people live here. the economy of the city is doing better than the economy of the country, which is pretty unusual for a major city in any country, so i think this city has healed to the extent that it can. but is it a ...

Counterterror operations, keep on eye on iran and pakistan, that was the military argument for leaving a small residual force behind. and i think that then you had the president say, no, when donald trump said were getting out completely, that means that once we leave anybody there, they become targets, and i also think he saw the possibility and the opportunity to do what no other president had been able to do before and end it. that was more important to him than any of the arguments about why...

This administration with the policies crafted for counterterror operations are working. we are seeing less territory held by isis, they are down to a tiny little slice of land, who knows how long they will have it before they are eradicated out of that space and disappear back into the crowd which is what terrorists do and we have to keep squeezing the last pieces of the bumble. it is a significant to almost 0 reduction of isis which is a extremely positive step operation. heather: down to a lit...

Tweeting and talking about this administration, you all have made it about politics, not the president. >> lets take a beat here for a second. and phil, i appreciate your patience because i know its getting personal here. paris, a point of fact here, and phil makes a point which is a point of fact. when a phil mudd who serves an advisory board for counterterror threats and goes and participates in conversations with the agency about those threats, he is not getting paid for that. >> thats not wh...

Rampage and what needs to be done to crush radical ideology, to discuss former member of the israeli special counteroperations terrorism unit erin cohen. good to see you here, im going to start out what americans are worried about, what should our officials here in the u.s. be doing so that terror does not strike between now and christmas? >> well, theres no way to stop terrorism, we havent been able to stop but can slow it down, slow it down by cranking up intel gathering, intelligence is the m...