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We have luster munson here and former green beret, ben collins. lester, to you first. the administration promises that it will decide on what to do by the end of the day. the president will be meeting with military advisers. what are his options right now? >> hes most likely looking at something similar to what he did a year ago, a missile strike on syrian military assets. theres probably some other things that he will be looking at. we should all reflect before this decision is made, particular...

Political support here in the united states for air strikes, and we cut a deal with russia and syria to pull out chemical weapons that held for a significant amount of time. clearly assad has cheated, and that has been a failure we have to look at the causes of. that includes russias involvement and intervention. to say that, wow, if just one initiative had taken place, everything else would have been fine, is just really nonsense. >> this z allegalleged attack w chemical weapons, does it increa...

Power called a matter of routine, so we have to walk a delicate line that exists. theres much we get from our relationship with pakistan thats in our national interests, and its about the u.s. national interests. we have to start the conversation always with whats in our best interest, and if we can define that then we can move forward. and we end up navigating, and we kind of make it up as we go. that happens as a matter of routine. thats okay. we have to have a well-defined end state, and that...

Bat. new york city is prepared to handled the overfaaftermath of attacks and we have to go on. this incident is over for the most part -- now, i know there were halloween parades planned for tonight. new york citys forces are going to be out on the streets in force and they really need to take stock in that. >> this is being investigated as an act of terror. in the last two weeks, we have made millitarily significant progress against isis in both iraq and syria. do you think this is connected in...

Clear. the administration has set this end state out right from the beginning, and they havent moved from it, and that is to denuclearize north korea. its not stuff to stop miniaturizing -- sufficient to stop miniaturizing nuclear weapons to put on icbms, you must get red of all nuclear weapons. this takes us back pre-2005 as an end state. their strategy is to isolate north korea and apply maximum pressure, and they began that strategy, brian, the first week of the administration when secretary ...

Certainly. clearly what the president is doing right now is creating panic on capitol hill and i think this whole corker/president trump episode demonstrates a real fear were provoking through his words north korea. and military -- >> deliberately. >> dlibltly. >> that doesnt end well. military action is not going to somehow stop a north korea nuclear program. these taunts, in fact, have the opposite effect where theyre encouraging north korea to accelerate the development of their program and p...

Really has -- somebody called it feckle feckless. what was feckless was obama doing nothing, and completely uninterested. at least now what we have is a position of strength where we are standing up to north korea and saying were not going to put up this with anymore. and we need an international coalition, we need the rules-based international law that our national security strategy is founded on. i think when you have mattis and kelly and mcmaster surrounding the president, i think that they h...

Weve concerned ourselves with, what is it that kim jong-un has as a capability, number one. were beginning to see that. but also more importantly, what is his intent? we sort of know what hes trying to do. hes trying to sustain his regi regime. im not sure weve war gamed enough with this administration what that means to counter his actions and what were trying to do in terms of a strategic end state. >> admiral kirby, what happens now that north korea has threatened a u.s. territory? does that ...

>> well, just as you said, chris, exactly those things. and i want to go back to korea as the first one on that agenda. you know, what i would suggest as your military analyst as a war on the peninsula in the 21st century would be like -- unlike anything weve ever seen before, in terms of the massive artillery strikes that may occur. and the massive humanitarian disaster. there are over 30,000 u.s. forces on the ground in north korea, most of them near -- im sorry, in south korea, near the borde...

In the fact that an action -- it does not mean a strategy. a strategy means you have an end state in mind. if that end state is to get rid of chemical weapons, we already have that. we have to get the authority to go after that with military force. the other thing id point out, too, in your film on mr. assad climbing into that jet, right next to him was a guy by the name of jared gary seem move, a soviet general who pushed the efforts of asymmetrical warfare in places like ukraine, georgia and m...