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Eyes and ears and made possible the strong left hook that destroyed the iraqi army and retook kuwait. it was the power built up under ronald reagan with george bush as the vice-president that enabled overwhelming victory in the iraq war. we had 104 operational squadrons and today theres 312 and the world is a much more dangerous place. >> and it was in front of an f-18, a naval jet and he was a naval aviator. how has air was it different when he was shot down over the pacific. >> you think about...

Wouldnt question their work, but i would remind people, 1 million people lived in mosul, thousands of isis fighters. the iraqi army got in there and fought street by street and blew most of the city down and eventually liberated the survivors. >> one of the very important reasons that needs to be recognized when we talk about why so many civilians died in mosul is the denial of an exit corridor for isis fighters. that is where they denied where local troops on the ground didnt. one of the major ...

They were trapped in these areas with fighters. i want to talk about the difference in precision weaponry. precision weaponry is a wonderful, technological advance, but if you have the intelligence wrong, and we found that in the airstrikes that we found, about half of them were the result of poor or outdated intelligence. and when you have poor or outdated intelligence, you can hit the right target that you want to hit and still get it wrong. >> azhmat khan, thank you for being with us. well be...

Intelligence community, my colleague and i in the last 24 hours have heard they think its very significant. there was a shouting match last week between american intelligence and israeli intelligence officials here complaining about this breach. >> so i cant confirm that. i just know that in the world of intelligence, many things happen during the previous administrations. we had no shortage of events that were problematic, you know, there were reports that israel was operating in syria. we neve...

Fighting the syrian government and its president, bashar al assad. so im joined by general, the chief spokesman for the russian defense ministry. hes escorting us to the military base. let me ask you that question. that question about who you are targeting. is it isis or are you supporting assad? >> translator: i can answer the question with our -- every day we show you how were fighting international terrorism, destroying their infrastructure in syria. >> on our tour of the base we were shown h...

>> translator: i can answer the question. every day we show you how russian aviation is fighting international terrorism, destroying the infrastructure in syria. >> on our tour of the base, we were shown how russia carefully arms its bombers with high tech precision weaponry. we also saw unguided or dumb bombs being loaded. human rights groups accuse russia of killing civilians from the air, charges the kremlin strenuously denies. theres another plane coming in now, just touching down. its an ae...

Arms its bombers with high-tech precision weaponry. but we also saw unguided or dumb bombs being loaded. human rights groups accuse russia of killing civilians from the air, a charge the kremlin strenuously denies. >> well, theres another plane coming in now just touching down. its going to be very noisy. its just carried out an air strike somewhere in syria against rebel targets, either isis or some other opposition group. its stopping isis in its tra s tracks, striking their assets and shrinki...

Defense ministry. thank you for the trip. hes escorting here on this trip of the military base. let me ask you this it question. that question atiat question ab targeting. is it isis are you supporting bashar al assad? >> translator: i can answer the question with our actions. every day we show you how russia is fighting terrorism, destroying their infrastructure in syria. >> reporter: on our tour of the base, we were shown how russia carefully arms its bombers with high-tech precision weaponry....

Let me ask you that question, that question about who you are targeting. is it isis or are you supporting assad? >> translator: i can answer the question with our actions. every day we show you how russian aviation is fighting national terrorism, troying their infrastructure in syria. >> reporter: on our tour of the base, we were shown how russia carefully arms its bombers with high-tech precision weaponry. we also saw unguided or dumb bombs being loaded. human rights groups accuse russia of kil...

Spokesman for the russian government. thank you for the trip. . hes escorting us here on this trip. . let me ask you that question about who you are targeting. is it isis or are are you supporting assad? >> translator: i can answer the question with our actions. every day we show you how russian aviation is fighting international terrorism, destroying their infrastructure in syria. >> reporter: on our tour of the base, we were shown how russia carefully arms its bombers with high-tech precision ...