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Exactly what youve done and you get the bonus of the intelligence. and that intelligence bonus should be substantial. >> fascinating. >> if i could make one point on that thats important to understand civilian casualties here. if youre surveilling a target of this priority, youre watching over days, maybe even weeks. you get what we call a pattern of light. when they come, when they go, how many children. i assume there was a lot of surveillance of this building. if you had done a strike from th...

Just like we saw in 1984, black mayors included, signing off on that because, we know with rising unemployment and a pandemic that doesnt seem to end, we do see some spikes and violence whether real or perceived, depending on what neighborhood urine. were in an unique moment in the 21st century where we have black mayors who are trying to have a much more nuanced conversation about the diversity, all different types of diversity, thats in their cities, and the constraints they have within a larg...

Out of the way of what was historically islamic state territory. there are lots of questions about how the us forces would have launched the raid, where they would come from, historically they use basesin from, historically they use bases in iraqi, but this is a long way across country. so they would have been a lot of assets, notjust helicopters, but close air support, drones providing imagery, that would have been used on this raid. how complex would you say it is to execute an operation like ...

Make that decision not based on what the press briefing at the state department and the pentagon does. hes going to make that decision based on his cost-benefit analysis of whether you have something to gain, or whether he has more to lose. that is where the administration has to affect this. >> let me ask you as well about the successful mission to take out the isis leader. and vice president joe biden was opposed to the raid that killed osama bin laden, but he made this call to decide on a spe...

We dont know that. these are details were working the get rye now. we learned another thing similar to the bin laden raid is one of the helicopters, when it set down, there was some sort of maintenance issue, it was deemed unsafe to fly and the u.s. military detonated it on site before taking off. we know they were on site for a couple hours, presumably to do what they call exploit the site, try to find intelligence, anything they can figure out to give them more insight into isis and their oper...

Wales and scotland will increase by £693 in april — it comes as the bank of england has raised interest rates for the second time in three months to try to curb a rapid rise in the cost of living. president biden says the head of islamic state has been targeted during a a raid by us special forces in syria. the bbc understands that northern irelands first minister, paul givan, intends to resign later today as a protest against the existing checks on goods coming from the rest of the uk. the m...

I supported the raid that killed osama bin laden, supported the raid that killed his predecessor, and this raid. if we have a chance to kill terrorist leaders on the battlefield we should take that chance. america is safer when the terrorist master minds are killed or captured. >> john: switch to ukraine if i could, forces are going to poland, and john kirby confirmed "washington post" story that russia may be planning a false flag operation as pretext to invasion. >> we believe russia would pro...

>> erin, we are learning more details but there are still many questions, of course. now, this raid did not go exactly as they had hoped. the hope had been to capture him, that is according to the head of central command, frank mackenzie. as you mentioned, he blew himself up along with his family, his wife, and children. his body was thrown to the ground, and there the special forces troops on the ground did identify him thanks to dna and his fingerprints. now, how did this operation go down? we...

Much safer today but the world is much safer today. >> and a quick follow-up too, chris. that evidence. should we expect u.s. officials to release that in the coming days? >> i believe as more data is collected dod has said that they will release any information that they can around that raid, yes. >> all right. well, we feel like we were just getting started, theres so much to get to. chris meagher, we are out of time. we appreciate you being here today. hope you will come back soon. white hous...

And minimize civilian casualties and at the same time the secretary of defense, christine, saying that given the complexity of this mission, we will take a look at the possibility of our action may have also basically led -- may have possibly led to harm to innocent people. so everyone is going to be waiting to see what the conclusion, what the outcome of this review is going to be. this is coming at a time when the u.s. military is under a lot of scrutiny for civilian casualties in afghanistan ...