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That theyre defended. And that, again, this cant be allowed to continue. With regard to the second point, yes, this is something that were very focused on. We want to make sure that no other country or entity tries to take advantage of the situation. The president s been very, very clear about that. He said very starkly that any state or nonstate actor considering that, dont do it. Hes backed that up in a number of ways, including, as i mentioned the other day, deploying our largest Aircraft Car...

That information that you get at the site can be very important. what hard drives did you pull out? we learned a lot about al qaeda and its operations from getting into bin ladens compound and taking out computers, taking out information. thats another reason why, in addition to the civilian casualty case, that you do sometimes special forces raids around really, really important terrorist leaders, because you dont just take them out. you get to learn a lot about what the current state of isis i...

Theres a lot of similarities here. helicopters moving in, and set down several kilometers away from this building and they moved forward on foot, and they got here and pulled out some bull horns and tried to convince the people inside to come out. several civilians did, but before the u.s. military could even get inside the building, there was a massive explosion on the third floor. we now know that that was a detonation by the isis leader abu al qurayshi. he was killed along with his wife and t...

But before the u.s. military even set foot inside the building, there was a large explosion up on the third floor. we now know that that was the isis leader, abu qurayshi, blowing himself up. he also killed his wife and two kids. after that, one of his deputies, who was on the second floor, started firing on u.s. troops. he was killed along with one of his children and then as his wife, who was also there present on the second floor, she started firing on u.s. troops. she was killed as well. so,...

That were sending troops to in on the to reassure them because of their concerns about russia aggression. so the bottom line, if what putin wanted was to get the united states out of europe and get nato to basically start falling apart, it has done the opposite, it has begun pulling nato together. there are differences among the ale allies. but this is what nato was built for and in some ways putin is giving this a new mission. >> and also i want to ask about syria, the operation that took out t...

Military would call site exploitation, what hans referenced earlier. that means they go through, they try to gather up any kind of possible intelligence, whether its files, computers, anything they might be able to take back and assess whether theres any kind of actionable intelligence that the u.s. can then act very quickly on to try to continue to go after the isis network in syria, in iraq and around the world. if this was a location where abu bakr al baghdadi was bedding down, its possible t...

Deconfliction line, which is just to make sure you stay out of peoples air space. whether or not theres going to be further calls from congress on the authorities the president used, i think, is something we should look at here. crucially, what sort of intelligence did they gather there, what sort of site exploitation? the president indicated al baghdadi died and tragically three children died, they left -- u.s. forces left with some detainees and they could be high value and they could help the...

Owens. lets go to our political correspondent ryan brown. what happened? >> well, brooke, this was part of an operation what the military likes to call site exploitation, a raid designed to gather intelligence. unlike a traditional drone strike trying to take out a specific leader, this is trying to get intelligence from the terror group so you can conduct future strikes down the road. that requires boots on the ground. as they were moving in, a big fire fight gun battle broke out. in the course...

Would have? >> well you have to look at this very similar to the way you would look at a law enforcement agency when they go in and do a big arrest. you know youre going to have way before as the general was saying way before this goes down these mission plans are thought out and everybody knows their role because they help to plan that part of the mission. so you know youll have whether it be law enforcement or over in this part of the world when theyre doing a takedown like this you will have ...

Bookmaking material, wires, remote control devices and then weapons which are used to shoot down u.s. helicopters. the two incidences of the larges numbers of deaths in afghanistan is when u.s. fors were shot down by a rocket-propelled grenade. so theres a lot of evidence provided. >> youre a veteran of the longest war we have ever had. what does it feel like to hear theyre letting prisonersers who killed americans out of jail. our partners. >> i have to say that personally it feels like a slap ...