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La david johnson. so right from the beginning no hesitation one of the great memories of all time. >> also made news of the operation itself. this was the president asked specifically who was it who authorized the mission. >> its a dangerous business. i have to say, its a dangerous business. so what? no i didnt. not specifically. but i have generals great generals. great fighters, these are warriors. >> [ inaudible question ] >> i gave them authorities to do whats right so we win. thats the auth...

On capitol hill. lets get to niger and more on our breaking news. this is a major development in this deadly niger attack. two military officials are saying that the army team was in niger specifically collecting intelligence on a terror leader when they were ambushed. so lets go to the pentagon and our reporter there, ryan brown, tell me more about the reasoning and this leader. >> brooke, were learning a bit about what this team was doing. they are part of an advise and assist commission. they...

Fact it was compromised. these interest questions that the investigation is trying to answer, chris. >> weve still got to get some more. by the way, what is hvt? >> high value target. the guys that go after, militants. >> thank you. ken delaney, thanks for that report. a big nbc break tonight. coming up, john mccains biggest battle. he is under fire from trump outrider steve bannon right now. but mccain remains every inch the maverick, hitting trump for getting out of the draft during vietnam....

There was a lot of criticism that these targets, these people that they were trying to hit were getting bottlenecked in an approval process that went out to the president in some cases, president obama. so the administration will be able to say were allowing the experts and the operators in the field who are conducting this work on a regular basis to have more autonomy to get the job done rather than being overseen by people in the white house who are perhaps maybe who are sitting on the process...

But not have to personally approve each military action. is that a good move? lets discuss with global affairs analyst and senior security correspondent to the daily beast. she broke this story. great to have both of you. how will this work? >> what this means is rewriting part of the obama drone strike and play book. it would push more of the authority down to people in charge of places like yemen or somalia. places without combat operations like iraq or afghanistan and let them decide. if they...

What makes it threatening if isis has this, they want to kill or they want to kidnap american servicemen. they want to kill agents of the u.s. government because to them these guys are fair game. recall when they beheaded james foley. the brother of a u.s. air force pilot who is dropping bombs on muslims and islamic lands. this would be the ultimate high value target for them to blow up marine recruitment centers and something like this. a lot of these guys are savvy when it comes to cyber warfa...

Sharpmansship. >> reporter: if he was a top commander in tajikistans counters terrorism forces theres another worry. >> the real problem is he knows how to plan counterterrorism operations so he knows how the people who protect a high value target would be thinking. or protecting an embassy would be thinking. that puts him in the red team on how to think on how to protect those plans. >> reporter: another ominous signal, his threat against what he called american pigs. >> translator: god willing...

U.s. between 2003 and last year. we spoke with former army sniper paul shari about what he might have learned. what skills he would have learned do you think might hurt allied forces on the battlefield? the types of training hes likely to have received would have been basic tactics and maneuvers, ability to say, move through a building move through urban area in a tactical way, basic marksmanship. >> reporter: u.s. contractors would have trained him to be a killing machine like rambo but if he w...

Important one to have. its one, frankly, that we have continually continually, as you know and as youve been describing. different kinds of counterterrorism operations. some where you know the identity of the target. a high-value target and others where you know there are members of al qaeda and important members but you dont know who the identity of those members are and the latter is, obviously, been a subject of far more scrutiny and concern over the years. >> and that is the case in this. we...

Introduced, which did not produce results as zubaydah shut down and stopped talking, correct? >> correct, sir. >> since then, fbi agent soufan has been able to become more public. he has written a terrific book about his experiences and about al qaeda and he has been a guest on this show. he can now tell his story. or at least the parts of it that are not classified about how his nontorture interrogation works. and it worked. until the cia stepped in with torture, then progress stopped. but ther...