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It was on the website and what has gone zowrong is occupying washingtons attention and special operations command and everyone focused on africa and only focused on this. you had limited resources and escalating threats. >> the concern is there may have been a major blunder with these soldiers that go out there without body armor and armored vehicles and the proper weapons. they are wearing baseball caps and t-shirts. thats a problem. >> the situation is dynamic and kinetic. that means it will m...

Been approved by africom and by the pentagon at all levels. and informed both to the national security council staff and to congress. so theres no secret as to the campaign plan. and this is a department of state led campaign, the military is in support. theres also operational plans that are put in place by the individual components. special operations command africa has an operational plan to support this. niger sits right in the middle of two key operational areas. one, lake chad basin, in wh...

So the political reality is, they know, its whether or not they want to own it and debate it. is that a fair statement? >> thats a fair statement. you know, general wald hahausse gave a very good, excellent detailed rundown on the activities in africa and what his command is doing. and of course, what special operations command africa is doing to support that. i think thats a fair statement. >> the american people have largely bought on to these missions, because theyre called dw advise and assi...

Accountability required. no person is above checks and balances. joining me, joint call from cbc urging general kelly to apologize for blatant lies about congresswoman johnson. first niger. former terror intelligence officer and long-time journalist, author of "fantasyland," relevant to part of this debate. malcolm, what do you make of where this goes now, military trying to do relatively serious but nonpartisan briefings with the undertow of a president who continues to want to submerge everyon...

Anticipated that we would still be in afghanistan 16 years later, that we would be in iraq, that we would be fighting in syria and to some degree in yemen and pakistan and libya. these are all unanticipated. but, you know, a very small number of americans serve in the armed forces an a smaller number serve in the special forces and some of them are deploying, you know, five, seven, ten times. that puts a lot of strain on the force and special operations command to try to make the deployments mor...

>> leland: a fox news alert. this just coming in, an explosion at fort bragg, that is home to the 82nd airborne, the delta force and the green berets. we are told that 15 special operations command soldiers were injured in a blast on the firing range, conceivably, that would be more injuries to soldiers during training operations. this comes one day after 15 marines were injured with an assault vehicle that was caught fire. john mccain at the time the senator tweeting out in the last three years...

Irma damage there. live look on the tarmac there in ft. myers. as president trump prepares to depart. big thanks to you, josh, victoria. joe, always good to have you as well, sir, thanks so much to all of you for coming by. >> we have some breaking news we want to get to out of ft. bragg, north carolina. military officials are telling nbc news that at least eight people have been hurt in an explosion during a training exercise. multiple soldiers hurt. the soldiers, part of the armys special oper...

It is a marine expeditionary unit. it takes time to get them on board. there is a process here. and the navy couldnt get ahead because of the way the system works. they couldnt get ahead of local and civil authorities. they had to be -- this request had to be made by the state of texas and then approved, of course, by the defense department. i think they moved as quickly as they could. it will take some time to get there, five days. but as barbara said, we also have a lot of military assets in t...

And we need to put a hold on that. >> sandra: i want to bring this op-ed written by susan rice saying its not too late on north korea. she says history shows that we can, if we must, tolerate nuclear weapons in north korea, the same way we tolerated the far greater threat of thousands of soviet nuclear weapons during the cold war. we can rely on traditional deterrents by making crystal clear that any use of nuclear weapons against the u.s. or its allies results and annihilation of north korea. t...

The special operations command telling our own catherine herridge last week that the u.s. military was close to tracking down isis leader al baghdadi after a 2015 raid that tons of intel. he ended up getting away. >> there were points in time when we were particularly close to him. unfortunately there were leaks about what we were up to about that time. when we went out after aby saef he didnt live but his wife did and she gave us a treasure trove where she had just been with baghdadi in raqqa w...