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U.s. military contingent that came here to help with the rescue operations. we havent been able to talk to many of you guys about what was going on up in the mountain, up in the cave. can you tell me about how the u.s. was contributing to this phenomenal effort? >> absolutely. so you know, the royal thai government put a request in for our support. we came here about two weeks ago, a team of like pararescue, survival specialists, as well as support package, so medical, communications and logisti...

>> yesterday. >> yesterday. after you said that. >> yes. >> and then second, you talked about targeting the chemical weapons infrastructure of al assad, if there were actually any chemical weapons or agents in those facilities that you targeted, i assume they would create health hazard in the region or no? >> we dont believe -- we did very close analysis as the chairman pointed out, we did everything we could in our intelligence assessment and our planning to minimize to the maximum degree possi...

Administration needs to be talking to congress for any further authorization. chuck schumer is praising limited action to punish and deter him from doing this again. but he says hes cautioning the administration into getting us further into syria. and we know that the president has said thats something he doesnt want. >> theres some conflict in some of the message. i can almost look at these as two separate events, our involvement in syria thats been ongoing with isis, and then a limited strike ...

About targeting the chemical weapons infrastructure of al al-assad if there were any chemical weapons in those facilities you targeted, i would assume they would create a health hazard in the region? >> we did very close analysis, as the chairman pointed out, we did everything we could in our intelligence assessment and our planning to minimize to the maximum degree possibly any chance of civilian casualties, we are very much aware this is difficult to do in a situation like this. especially whe...

Are not u.s. military, because they would not be flying near u.s. military aircraft as they so often have. and it seems like we would know if foreign countries have this knowledge. ive no idea what it is. the bottom line is, this is a potential threat, a grave one to our country.d what is dod doing about it? >> i cannot speak on the half of the dod right now, but i can speak to what they were doing about it and what they were not doing about it when i was part c of the program. i think dod is a ...

>> tucker: we know that they are not u.s. military, because they would not be flying near u.s. military aircraft as they so often have. and it seems like we would know if foreign countries have this knowledge. ive no idea what it is paid to the bottom line is that this is a potential threat, a great one to our country. what is the dod doing about it? >> i cannot speak on the half of the dod right now, but i can speak to what they were doing about it and what they were not doing about it when i w...

They knew and what the president knew and when he knew it. >> yeah, and when you have a team of folks who fundamentally lack the integrity as weve been discussing, you know, theyre not going to be straight when theyre interviewed, when they give testimony, and thats goin give testimony and thats going to expose them to more legal jeopardy. its going to give bob mueller more tools and it will ensnare more people in this legal problem set. >> thars a story in politico magazine which im not pluggin...

But we are running out of time. were running out of time. this is a problem set that we have to take on with a great sense of urgency. the president has been extremely clear on his perspective on north korea. he is not going to accept this regime threatening the united states with a nuclear weapon. he wont accept it. so, there are those who have said, well, you know, what about accept and deter? accept and deter is unacceptable. so this puts us in the situation where we are in a race to resolve ...

Even though those have been devastating conflicts and have taken up resources, this is a major theater war and it would take a lot of equipment thats currently not on the peninsula and nowhere in the area. we have equipment there, we can fight there, we would prepare to fight there but we need reinforcement. the thing id say, erin, i spent a lot of time in the military, ive learned lessons, the who most important ones ive learned is number one, these are universal truthings, when soldiers go som...

Discipline in this white house. the criticism of reince priebus is that he didnt have access to the calendar. he couldnt actually marshall anything because he was given such a tight berth to move around in. you know from having meetings at the white house that sometimes you show up at the white house. there was nobody on the calendar. our own chris stirewalt had this to say about that whole mess. listen. >> you cant possibly be a successful chief of staff if you are not the chief of the staff. y...