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I alone can fix it. >> donald trump may think that, but this is what republican senator john mccain said today about trump. >> i think there is significant dysfunction in the national security apparatus of the trump administration. when you see that you dont know whos in charge, this flynn situation, the whole environment is one of dysfunction in the trump administration. >> general tony thomas, meanwhile, head of the military special operation command echoed that sentiment today saying this. "o...

Skeptics out there. so youre in a dangerous situation. youre an elite ranger, right, and you have a woman beside you. are you overly concerned about that woman? do you care that shes a woman? do you feel that she would be at your side just as much as any man? >> so as a former army ranger who served in the 75th ranger regiment and in special operation command, we were never worried about whether the young man or the person to my left or my right was tactically or technically proficient because i...

The officers who led that attack on ramadi a lot of them are former iraqi officers. those are the kinds of people you want but theyre out of range. and you sort of take what you can get at the beginning of a war. >> colonel reece for the president of the united states to authorize an operation like this and youre a former delta force commander, its a high risk operation you. dont want these delta force commandos, their helicopters, the ospreys to be blown up if you will. you got to think there i...

Inthats inthats not the way they function michael. you have to go after networks. interesting to spider and i when we hear somebody say nobody knew who this guy was. special operation command or in a computer in a fusion cell somewhere not only abu sayyaf who is relatively popular among special operators, this is a good hit and a lot of people knew who he was who are wearing the uniform, but multiple other ones just like him. a target package being basically built on this guy, probably for month...

Who says you need a hostage czar in effect someone some charge who can deal on a day-to-day basis with the families not all these various representatives from different branches different parts of the u.s. government colonel reese, first, to you, do you agree? >> i dont, wolf. i think thats the last thing we need is another level of bureaucracy on top of it. youve got several intelligence agencies that know all about these hostages. both the cia, the defense intelligence agency and the fbi. they...

Jennifer, you know, is there worry inside the pentagon that -- just a -- well, of, i dont know, being sued? are they worried about the aclu, are they worried about challenges like that, and is that in some way something that now they have to worry about so much that maybe its affecting their strategy? >> well, they certainly have a lot of legal minds looking at these issues as they do at the justice department. the pentagon will say this was not our operation, this was cia-led and done in conjun...

Community right now. i dont think al qaeda had a contingency plan for a series of attacks in the event bin laden was killed. i think there are two real possibilitys. the first is individuals who had no direct affiliation took matters into their hands and launch an attack. middle east and southeast asia. pakistan and yemen in particular. what director panetta was guesting at al qaedas central organization to the extent they have an operational capability will try to put together a plot that will ...

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