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Data held by the government even though theres a lot of protections and standards and few people have access to it it makes me nervous that the government has a big trove of data. so i always thought it should be left with an independent third party or left with phone companies. the problem with the bill the house passed is theres no limit hon the data retention by the phone companies so they could say were only going to keep it two weeks, a month or six weeks and then it is of no intelligence v...

There have been a lot of gains and some reversals. well talk about you this and with me is michael weis the co-author of "isis inside the army of terror" and with us live in orlando retired general mark hertling who commanded 28,000 troops as part of the u.s. task force in iraq from 2007 to 2009. so general, let me just start with the win and loss and if you have to put the metric to it, what is happening in this battle against isis? because it doesnt sound like theres a lot of whof winning g on...

They are looking at how much of a role he had in isis. the big question is what is his real name. some lawmakers are urging caution especially when it comes to balancing a risk of a mission like this against the reward. >> this was an extraordinary risk. if one of our people was captured or we lost a special force. tough questions to answer. i think notwithstanding the success of the operation, we have to ask those questions. was the intelligence value that we hope to gain worth this kind of ris...

The risk to reward. >> if we lost some of our special forces there would be tough questions to answer if it was worth it. i think notwithstanding the success of the operation, we still will have to ask those questions. was the intelligence value we hoped to gain and are gaining worth this kind of risk. >> reporter: other lawmakers are praising the initiative from the administration. here is what the chairman of the house intelligence committee had to say. >> we have wanted this tactic because th...

Still are going to have to ask those questions. was the intelligence value that we hoped to gain and the fact that we are gaining worth this kind of risk? >> and as those questions continue to swirl, fred the white house will be briefing members of congress this week. fred? >> so still question marks about what kind of intelligence was recovered, but we know from officials that they did grab all of the communication stuff. so lawmakers, are they expressing doubt that there is really value in any...

Are going to gain is sufficient to merit that kind of risk. obviously we had very good intel intelligence intelligence and nonetheless, this was an extraordinary risk if one of our people were captured or if we lost some of our special forces there would be tough questions to answer about whether it was worth it and not withstanding the success of the operation, we will still have to ask the questions, was the intelligence value that we hoped to gain and we are gaining worth this kind of risk? i...

Wherever they exist. the documents and records will help us to do that. >> reporter: despite that assessment the raid is criticized adds some as too risky. >> intelligence was good. but nonetheless, this was an extraordinary risk if one of our people was captured loths some of the special forces and tough questions to answer whether it was worth it and i think notwithstanding the success of the operation we have to ask the questions. was the intelligence value that we hope to gain and the fact t...

Paper documents. the raids success is met with mixed reaction from capitol hill. intelligence was good but nonetheless, this was an extraordinary risk if one of our people were captured if we lost some of our special forces it would be tough questions to answer about whether it was worth it and i think notwithstanding the success of this operation, we still are going to have to ask those questions, was the intelligence value that we hoped to gain and the fact that we are gaining worth this kind ...

Premises looks like and nufr toenough to know you have a backup plan if things go wrong. sought intelligence was good. nonetheless, this was an extraordinary risk, if one of our people were captured or if we lost some of our special forces, there would be tough questions to answer about whether it was worth it, and i think notwithstanding the success of the operation, we still are going to have to ask those questions. was the intelligence value that we hoped to gain and the fact we are gaining w...

Committee, and congressman ryan sean key, also a former commander of navy s.e.a.l. team 6. you heard nicks reporting there, and so many experts on isis are not even particularly -- they dont know sighoff right now. you were briefed, i believe, before this happened before this operation happened. what were you told about the objective and was this the guy they were trying to get? >> well this is the guy we were trying to get, but nonetheless, i think these are very important questions, and that i...