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Teams. >> barbara, when is the navy going to make a decision? >> well, i have to tell you theres a multi-part effort here. the navy may say lets have women in units, but its going to be largely up to the recommendations of the special operations command led by general joseph otell, the chief of all special operations, and i want to underscore one of the things jonathan is talking about. when you speak to special operations officials, what they will tell you is they are looking at the notion ther...

Fighters and those numbers have not changed the last year. they need to be killed or removed from the battlefield. also we have to recognize as the special operations command has made very clear, that they continue to pull jihadists from across the world. so part of what cruz is saying here is that we have got to shut that off. we have got to keep people from certainly the united states, western europe, elsewhere, from flooding into syria, much less coming back to the homeland and endangering ou...

Have heard from the representative mccall that we should expect to see more attacks like this? >> its hard to know, victor. of course, the internet is all over. everybody is using it. the social media. we know isis is incredibly effective. you know, its interesting, gener the general of the special operations command said about a month ago 90 different nations have sent fighters to iraq and syria. well, if you have that many people physically going there, then you have to, i think, include ratio...

The special operations command. i want to briefly listen in. >> i came here initially to get a briefing on our count terrorism efforts from a military perspective in the war against terror. little did i know on the flight down here that terror would strike america in the heartland. and my heart goes out tow the families of the victims, the four marines and the wounded. and what happened yesterday anywhere in our environment. now see four u.s. what yrs killed at one of our training centers to me ...

Motive with a special focus on material or propaganda reflecting extremist ties. in the last hour the chairman of the house homeland security committee who has been briefed on the case is traveling in florida today for meetings at the special operations command and told reporters about the 24-year-old suspects weapons. >> my understanding was that he was carrying an ak-47 with multiple rounds of ammunition. as we saw in tunisia, an ak-47 can do an extensive amount of damage as it did yesterday. ...

Doing an event, but starting with the wartime commanders the xharder of special operations the commander of centcom, the commander of afri com, talking about the campaign talking about how to win the fight against isis both abroad and here. barbara starr is at the pentagon. what pledge was the president trying to send do you think? >> reporter: i think it was an extremely interesting uptick. those three commanders you just mentioned, they are possibly the three most powerful men, four-star gener...

Intelligence every single day, looking for the indicators to go. and once the giant special operations command feels that the interagency task force with their intelligence feels with actual intelligence they have the charter, especially the high value targets to launch. and the tough thing is we talked about this before the three elements of these types of raids, surprise speed, action. you go on an assault, you lose that surprise of action and it becomes a fist fight as soon as you get on the ...

No bounty for him. what do you make? was it worth sending in delta command dos in a high risk mission like this to fly into syria to go after this guy? >> i can tell you this after having been involved in these kind of operations in the past it was worth it. they wouldnt do it if it wasnt worth it. you have design planning that goes along with any kind of strike by special operations command. so to go to our other question were there more? possibly. dont know. this was one of the targets. theres...

Operation. but those risks are by the command in terms how they allocate fire power and allocate forces to any kind of in addition like this. but, at the same time, where it might be high risk and high mitigated risk, it also is extremely high payoff. now look. victor, when i retired, i lost my security clearance as all generals do, but i will tell you ive seen many of these kinds of targeting packages and what is inside of them. there was likely an extremely long list of why you would get a cas...

>> not only them, in terms of our thinking and our strategy, the fact that we actually did put boots on the ground, thats kind of different from what weve been doing in the past. >> it is. and i must tell you that the special operations command pushed hard for this operation. they knew the sbel was good. these people fly under the radar most of the time. but this is -- this has a human -- i mean, a huge psychological impact on isis who, again, has considered syria was their exclusive domain. and...