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To run day to day ops. but beyond that, its also not clear what kind of role he had. so were still trying to gather a lot of information here, find out exactly what happened, whether the u.s. is confident that, in fact, he was killed and any more details about exactly how that happened. this was a special operations raid, we know that. what we dont know exactly kind of the flavor of the spec ops who were involved here. there is a task force presence, so its possible that these are the most elite...

That what covert operations might they have against this regime. >> right. obviously this is a sensitive topic. what can you say is that we have been gaming this out for years, right? and by doing that you are looking at all your options, cyber interference and cyber attacks to spec ops, covert operations: its a limited table of options in a sense because of the unknowns. what happens when you spin this up and what happens then in terms of the escalation. you work through all the various scenari...

Of last weeks yemen raid was one of the most dangerous terrorists in the world. a top al qaeda leader who survived and is now taunting president trump in an audio recording. in it, al rimi says, quote, the fool of the white house got slapped at the beginning of the road in your lands. thats aggressive. joining me now is juan, the former deputy director and msnbc senior national security analyst. juan, the white house press secretary said the raid was a success. from what you have learned, would ...

Operating out of helmand province since 2001 but also kind of working out what the political, economic and security lines of development were across helmand province. one of the key things that came out of those discussions and that strategic thinking was the significance of the opium trade. but what i think we did looking back at it now, this was in 2004. but looking back at it now over ten years later we are seeing a resurgent taliban across the north in kunduz, in kandahar. a couple of weeks ...

Get the message out that we cant take you all? >> certainly the numbers havent stopped. may of this year and june, we almost had the same amount of people just on the texas border. 48,000 individuals in each of the months. 9,700 of them are young kids with no parents. and keep in mind that when i talked to some of those young folks, weve been told that about one-third of those young girls, innocent girls, have been abused, raped on the way up here. so the drug organizations, the smuggling organi...

Are doing now. gash dash what we are -- what we are doing now. >> you knew before the bombing started we had people on the ground whether it was cia or spec ops, somebody is guiding bombs. >> and they say the bad weather had a lot to do with qaddafis early gains. >> i just checked my blackberry and you know what is trending on netflix? >> i have no idea. >> the german film terd sandwich. >> i didnt know netflix has those movies. i need to change my prescription plan. i need the unlimited package...

We are doing now. >> you knew before the bombing started we had people on the ground whether it was cia or spec ops, somebody is guiding bombs. >> and they say the bad weather had a lot to do with qaddafis early gains. >> i just checked my blackberry and you know what is trending on netflix? >> i have no idea. >> the german film terd sandwich. >> i didnt know netflix has those movies. i need to change my prescription plan. i need the unlimited package. can we stop bringing up the fact that obama...

Field to market is long and complex. it requires farmers, processing labs and shipping stations. the dea and their afghan counterparts collect intelligence and interdict the flow of drugs. this is how nearly all of these missions begin. the middle of the night. helicopter crews out preparing the aircraft. the rest of the troops are in the hangar. just before dawn, will mount up, get aboard the birds and fly off to the objective. afghanistan is some of the most inhospitable terrain known to man. ...