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You know, i can take they say that their job is law enforcement. but there are policymakers, kevin mcallenen at the top. i know they didnt tell the white house because they wanted to avoid leaks. for someone in the white house not to have said this is back timing -- in fact the president was asked about this by kristen welker on friday. he said that they were happy about the deterrent value. >> correct. thats something thats significant. quite a while now this has been seen by many as a deterren...

This mass influx of people coming across our border. it is overwhelming our system. >> but how about how we are treating these children? >> look, as i said to you, i was at the detention center in nogales a few months ago. it is a heart breaking scene. these are people who are being exploited by human traffickers. who charge them $5,000 a person to entice them to take their vulnerable children -- >> but now these kids are in our custody. >> but so congress has to act. >> the question is, can the...

Defensive counter air that are -- that could be used to counter any kind of potential attack at sea. >> and there are several other ships part of the carrier group with the lincoln. do you get a sense, i know we spoke last weekend about the u.s. military getting prepared for possibly war. do you get a sense that things have ramped up in the last week? >> reporter: to be honest, kendis, ive seen the tensions have gone up and down since weve been in the region for the past couple of weeks. at time...

Dont want to be a moralist by any means, theres other people who can judge you, but part of a factor in sentencing someone is not only punishment but its deterrents. you have to send a message that certain conduct is not appropriate, it will not be tolerable, it is just unacceptable. >> were going to stop contributions to sailing programs at other schools? most of them dont even have any boats, joey. >> its not about the sailing program, its about the administrator who exercises authority over a...

Whats he giving out tours of the san francisco bay or something? >> before i state my points of disagreement. >> be a hard ass. go ahead. >> to my esteemed counsel let me say a couple things. look, this is a teachable moment for a number of reasons. number one, we know that judges are king in their courtroom. the prosecutor recommended 13 months, what did the judge say, no thank you. even stanford itself provided a victim impact statement where they said youve cost us dearly, youve cost us reput...

Assets, general mckenzie believes some of that had a deterrent value, but theres still a very real threat that exists in iraq. and that is specifically from these shia militia groups that have been in the country for some time. but it seems as if theyve gotten some kind of a notice back in iran, activating them to attack americans. general mckenzie made it very clear he does not see that threat having diminished t all. >> so we heard what the general said. he said the threat from iran and its pr...

Escalated up. like i said, i cant underscore. sending a carrier into the region, you know, we, the united states, had a carrier presence in the persian gulf and often what they called a 2.0 presence. two carrier strike groups in the gulf and into the gulf of omen for years and that was a deterrent to iran at times when tensions were high. 2009, 2012. other times when there were the concerns about some potential miscalculation. the carrier, they sent it in as a deterrent value. the sense that im ...

Covering the military for nearly 15 years. and in that time i have heard over and over from the u.s. military about how critical these are to readiness and to what they call inter operability. the u.s. and the south korean and other allied nations being able to work together, you know, know how their equipment works together and to be able to train and whatnot all at once. but these clearly also were and have been a show to north korea and in some ways to china, they act as a deterrent value. in...

Long lasting remains to be seen. russian tactics are evolving and some analysts are skeptical of the deterrent value of the russian troll factory or on putin. me your thoughts on that. >> theyre right to a certain extent. by shutting down the access just on election day, they have sort of monitored or missed the ball because where the ira has really proven effective has been in influenced warfare operations where they have been tearing out and launching millions of bots and going after particula...

Were not there yet. hes presumed innocent. the fact is theres a long way to go. but you have to remember the deterrent value of this. this is something that is going to be taken seriously by prosecutors, by the judge. this got into our national discourse. we are in a time where, you know, theres assailing immigrants coming out of washington, d.c. there are people wearing blackface in virginia. theres so much in our dialogue nationally, this is not something we needed. you dont want to set a prec...