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Threatened nato allies. intervened in syria leaving a trail of death and destruction and broken promises in his wake. russias military has targeted syrian hospitals and first responders with precision weapons. russia supplied the weapons that shot down a commercial aircraft over ukraine. russias war on ukraine has killed thousands of ukrainian soldiers and civilians and the most flagrant -- russia deliberately interfered in our recent election with cyberattacks and disinformation campaign design...

Contra contra contractual environment. thats important. this person managed to build trust and actually get things done in a difficult environment. >> and you mentioned russia. several high profile republicans expre expressed concerns about his relationships with people in russia. >> anybody who is a friend of vladimir putin must disregard the fact that vladimir putin is a murder, a thug, a kgb agent whose airplanes as we speak have been targeting with precision weapons, hospitals in aleppo, who...

Republican senator john mccain outline his concerns about tillerson. listen to this. >> anybody who is a friend of vladimir putin must disregard the fact that vladimir putin is a murderer, a thug, and kgb agent, whose airlines, as we speak, have been targeting, with precision weapons, hospitals in aleppo, who have committed atrocities throughout the region, and has destabilized ukraine. has invaded ukraine, destabilizing, trying to destabilize baltic countries. the list goes on and on. >> tiller...

Whose airplanes, as we speak, have been targeting, with precision weapons, hospitals in aleppo. >> now, on the floor, tillerson cannot lose more than three republican votes. if the democrats stay united in opposition. already four republicans have expressed some level of concern about the selection. that has led the outgoing senate democratic leader harry reid to say he doesnt think tillerson will get approval from the chamber. >> well, i dont know if he can get 50 votes or not. i think it might...

Weapons in the last couple of months, and we have dropped about 390 weapons in the last week alone. this is everything from taking the enemy fighters off of the battlefield to can destroying the precision weapons of the enemy. and it has opened up travel lane lanes, and that is is the kinetic piece. and the other pat of it is training and assisting. the training takes place close the baghdad, at several sites, and we have trained about 5,000 sunni tribal fighters who are participate ing particip...

But i think what you have to remember too is the united states and the coalition members around the targeting cell tried to take great care in not hitting these kind of targets. they try and clear the area. they try and be mindful of the potential collateral damage. all of that is a part of the targeting process. sometimes war is not perfect. >> it must be extraordinarily difficult to hit only isis resources and targets when this group is bent on weaving itself into the civilian population as a ...

Missiles landed, its what they were shootingality, what their targets were. that is still where the big difference lies between russia and the united states. >> yes. thats exactly right. youre seeing specific areas which theyre firing upon. it is noy near where places that isis resides. they are going after the free syrian army, the rebels that are trying to depose mr. assad and doing it quite effectively, not only with their so-called precision weapons. you can see that in the film that the kre...

Drone strike are actually quite unusual. you dont see often that level of collateral damage. why? because these are precision weapons. theyre supported by very specific intelligence. and so, this -- its tragic. you have one civilian casualty, its tragic. but theyve really refined the process to reduce those civilian karn casualties. because when we had those, theres a real strain in relations and it puts pressure on that. >> typically when we see drone strikes its a one-up. you hear about it lat...

Diplomatically. >> reporter: what the u.s. has provided so far are predator drones and agreed to giving them hellfire missiles. these are precision weapons. what they dont want to do at this point is give them weapons that could be used in a broader sense against, against, you know, the prime ministers opponents. bill: one quick thing. bob gates is out there on a book tour, former defense secretary. he has a lot to say. does he say how the u.s. should now handle the rise of al qaeda in iraq in t...

Something within the next few days. >> well, time is important, but doing it right is more important. and without this political cohesion, we wont be able not only to assemble the appropriate forces, but also over the long term to anticipate what the reaction might be from the syrians and others. we dont want to assume this one action will solve this dilemma. we have to take action to follow through, and that requires a cohesive political grouping, not just military action. >> so what kind of mi...