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Anderson, what id say, if this is true, it is jaw droppingly illegal, immoral and unethical for any citizen to do this. but for a retired general officer to do this, its even more damaging. primarily because you give me the honary yum of calling me general hurt ling. you know, we keep that as were retired, which means we kind of stay connected to the oath of office and the oath of allegiance to defend the constitution. this is a guy who is alleged to have been doing something against the governm...

Special operator was killed and at the time the president took criticism for using the phrase they lost them him, they meaning the military commanders and not saying i as commander in chief accept ultimate responsibility. here perhaps not quite as much separation. the president is factual when hes saying that he did not approve of this particular raid. and it is true that the president has loosened up the sort of chain of command for some of these raids, allowing the commanders on the ground, wh...

Isis of course also wanting to extend its tentacles especially in this region that does provide quite fertile ground. they do take advantage of vulnerable populations and there are plenty of them in this area. >> you heard president trump talking about whether he authorized the mission. what do you make of this response? is he an solving himself of responsibility for the loss of the four shoulders? >> well, its interesting. you may remember a raid some months ago in yemen where a u.s. special op...

Position where i turned a corner and did what any s.e.a.l., any ranger, any special operator would have done. i saw bin laden. he was a threat, he was not surrendering. i treated him as if he were a suicide bomber which i assume he was and shot him in the face three times. then the team did what we always did, gathered as much intel as we could and left. >> to your point about thinking you wouldnt come home from this mission, you had conversation with your wife and children, your father that you...

Matter. i was able to watch as we went up the stairs. when we got to the top, i was in position where i turned a corner and did what any s.e.a.l., ranger, special operator would have done, i saw bin laden, he was a threat, he was not surrendering. i treated him as if he were a suicide bomber which i assume he was and shot him in the face three times. then the team did what we always did, gathered as much intel as we could and left. >> to the point about thinking you wouldnt come home from this m...

[car engine failing to start] [wind blows] yo- wh- ah- he- [gas pouring] [slurps loudly] [engine starting] [loud slurping continues] >> bill: breaking news. word from overseas. a u.s. special operator has been killed fighting al-shabaab in somalia.

Amazing stuff. we finally went up the stairs. i was behind one of the bravest man i know. we went up the stairs, we were down to two of us. he was the first guy through the curtain. he actually jumped on people he knew were wearing suicide vests. i watched a man jump on a grenade it didnt go osprey deeded it for the guy behind him. he didnt know it was me, it was one of our guys. it was incredible. i turned the corner and i saw usama bin laden, i recognized him as a threat. it was definitely him...

Developing in the world lead tonight, the pentagon is not yet releasing the names of two u.s. service members who were killed in whats become a hot bed zone in afghanistan. a u.s. official telling cnn that the two were special operators. the raid was today in the district of nangarhar area. this district is where the u.s. dropped one of its most powerful bombs two weeks ago this evening. this is also where a different special operator was killed earlier this month. army staff sergeant carr from ...

Them. this was another very, very successful mission. brian: a fox news alert now. you heard about this. three dozen isis militants taken out by a bomb known as the mother of all bombs and president trump calling it a success. so what is the message to the rest of the world? is there one? here to discuss is former army intelligence officer lieutenant colonel tony shaffer outside right. former advisor to the united states and nato commanders in afghanistan, andrew peek is here retired infantryman...

Forward strategy of freedom i believe is what they called it. under president obama, it was fairly or unfairly leading from behind. were going tlly americas rolen the road team because america was maybe the problem in all of this. if we go back to before that, the reality was, the united states would occasionally blow your stuff up. that didnt mean we are going to invade your country or build a new nation or do any of that stuff. just occasionally, if use chemical weapons, we blow you up. if you...