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Efforts and make sure that our forces are protected and our military. >> well leave it there for now. we appreciate your time today. thank you. >> thank you. joining me now from the pentagon is nbc news correspondent courtney cubie. she was in the briefing room. ill ask you first, what stood out to you in the briefing to day? anything new we should be focusing in on? >> so when we heard from general lions, hes the head of u.s. transportation command, basically, hes the general who is in charge...

Of this very interesting businesses and russia, and our existing client has dropped us because the republican primarys over, trump is emerging as a republican nominee. but now going into the general, you might find this interesting. it would be malpractice in my view for the campaign to not to want turn over every rock and learn everything it could about donald trump. so while i didnt know that that meeting took place at the time, im glad that marco and whoever else was aware of it at the time a...

It needed to use its collective self-defense to protect those syrian forces on the ground. it definitely does not want to get into an kaes lags with the syrian regime. their target is isis. they will protect those syrian democratic forces on the ground. >> thank you so much. i want to bring in our military analyst retired lieutenant colonel rick francona. colonel, its been several years since an american warplane shot down another warplane. we want to have perspective here. coalitns rules of eng...