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County. Well await word perhaps later today on that. Thank you, jim, from california. Pete rose dead at the age of 83, wow. Next hour now. Dana dangerous development in the Middle East. The White House is now warning that iran is preparing an imminent ballistic Missile Attack on israel and the u. S. Is warning of severe consequences for tehran. All of this comes as israeli Ground Troops are moving deeper into lebanon conducting localized raids on hezbollah positions. Welcome to a new hour of ame...

Cia agent, put it brilliantly, that this is just classic ops, warfare that the united states is engaging in against vladimir putin and what makes it effective theyre using the truth. talk about how much putin is being lied to and actually the dangers of that and the opportunities in that? >> two sides to. it one is we really have from this crisis from the beginning really used intelligence in a creative, offensive way. not simply to inform ourselves about the other sides intentions but to antici...

Inquiry is what theyre calling it. we do this after action reviews, inquiries after action ear views. what went right, what went wrong, how do we fix it. it is a quick decision loop. because the patrol is going to be back out there. it is not like they are going to stop. we have to continue to engage. if it was important enough for u.s. forces to be there to be trying to win the hearts and minds, to try to bridge that gap there, then it is important enough certainly for us to learn the lessons a...

What is the policy? what are we going to do next? what are the people in the area expecting us to do? because we conducted a strike does not signal any of those things. do i expect more? i dont know. to be honest, i dont know. im not in the decision loop. these something the key civilian authorities have to do and they better be good at it. >> we have to leave it there. up next, we have talked about russia. we talked about assad. next the menace that is isis. michael hade fl jon joins us wi that...

What do you think theyre hoping to find there? >> this is intelligence. everything the joint special operations command does with their tier units when they conduct these operations, apptureapp tureapp -- capturing and killing is what the mission is. capturing is what they want to do first. the kill part is only if the threat comes about. we want the intelligence. we want to take down this network. to defeat a network, it must be done against a network. jsoc has formed a network throughout the y...

Yes. >> richard haass. >> most of the hearing yesterday was not so much about that, it was more about drone strikes. and im curious, the last time i think we were on the show together, you voiced the idea that you thought the white house should be one step back and that the president ought not to be, if you will, in the tactical decision loop on the use of drone strikes. and there have been some 400 of them. is that still your view after yesterdays hearing? >> yes, it is. i would put it just sli...

El sheikh and handed control of egypt to his vice president omar suleiman? >> thats right. i have it from a very authoritative source he is in sharm and not just on his way remain. he stays at a hotel when he is there and he has, in fact, checked into that hotel. what that has done effectively is take him out of the decision loop. remember the visual image yesterday of that senior military council that said it was going to be meeting in permanent session. that is the image that the egyptian army...

So it appears that he got this from a right-wing media story in breitbart and other places that have alleged the existence of a warrant for surveillance on trump tower, but nobody -- no u.s. media has reported that that is the case. and so were just sort of scratching our heads over the idea that he lent the weight of the presidency to this extraordinary allegation. leaving aside that he accused president obama of participating in this when anyone who knows how this stuff works knows that the pr...