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Troops in combat will demand more resources. the distance is a real thing. africa is a huge continent. how we can have air coverage in africa is difficult to imagine. there arent enough assets to go around. riding around in armored vehicles would raise the profile of the team and make everyone aware that the americans are in town and driving heavy armored vehicles through sandy desert is extremely difficult. i dont think that was really something that could have been done at that environment. >>...

>> well, i dont believe that we should take from this one incident we need to change the strategy in africa. u. ee seen raaqa fall, mosul fall, isis controls only about 3% of iraq. theyre going to ungorned spaces. why the u.s. military is going to be lying in wait when they move south into those areas. >> all right, so we have a situation here where senator mccain is saying the administration is not being forth coming with information. hes head of the armed services, very powerful man. hes compl...

Proposes on reducing illegal immigration tonight? one of the things in the health care battle is that the president could not provide any air coverage to republicans in congress. it had 26% support by the time it came to the senate floor. they are a reason to worry whether he will be an asset in moving their agenda forward and looks like he is more of a head wind and i think it also reinforced their conclusion which is spreading in the republican caucus that he will try triangulate and turn on t...

And president trump said, yes, i need you to do that. trump wants that civil war within the -- >> he wants the air coverage. thats right. >> let me go back to the presidents stability and competence for the job. if youre green lighting someone who was so crummy at internal warfare that he got caught doing it. lets not sugarcoat anything. there are people in politics who haver that knives out to get -- who have their knives out to get it. i witnessed it in other campaigns in which i worked but th...

They are now within five miles. they liberated several villages from isis control with u.s. coalition planes providing air coverage. isis militants have executed civilians who have celebrated freedom too early. a highway in north dakota shutdown by demonstrators trying to block the pipeline this weekend. it is back open this weekend. the sheriffs office arrested 127 people for trying to cement their hands to police cars. officers had to shoot down a drone which posed a threat. lets get an ea...

When you look at the money being raised who do you think is on the edge of staying in the race? >> never in history, jenna, has a military won a ground war without troops. and for campaigns, that is the small dollar donors. so the smart campaigns are investing in the small donor do is building the ground came because iowa, new hampshire, south carolina and nevada are ground wars. if you look at what dr. ben carson is doing it is impres impressive, governor bush and rubio are bringing in small do...

No cows here. just a fighter jet providing air coverage during a military drill. this was the last day of the training exercise. clearly they have milked and eaten all of the four-legers. philippines and u.s. officials hold the drill every year. were told more than 600 ma finals the united states and philippines took part and an equal number of cows. 15% chance -- oh -- of rain this weekend. might sound okay, 14% chance of your team win thing super bowl sounds great. so how would you feel bat ...

That hersh makes, again, based in large part on this one unnamed source is that when the united states figured it out, he is saying through the walk-in asset which nbc news is also saying the pakistanis then cooperated. this is according to hersh, and that they basically allowed the united states to kill osama bin laden. let me play for you again how hersh makes that argument. >> 24 25 guys go in to the middle of pakistan take out a guy with no air coverage, no protection no security, no trouble...

While the white house describes a risky call for the attack by the president and even riskier mission by the s.e.a.l.s when no one knew bin laden was there. >> carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. >> reporter: hersh says pakistani airspace and guards around the prisoner were cleared ahead of the advancing american team. after all, he says -- >> 24 25 guys go into the middle of pakistan take out a guy with no air coverage, no protection no security no trouble. are ...

Being aware and not -- the threat that we faced and how this could unfold as quickly as it has. this has been planned for quite some time. my first thing that i would recommend to the president is get your intelligence group back on track. >> and manchin says theres little appetite on capitol hill right now for putting u.s. troops back on the ground in iraq. arthel? >> all right, steve. so, what should the u.s. do, if anything, about the situation thats so very dangerous there in iraq? >> well, ...