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Is first informed of casualty estimate thats clos that close strike. >> no, the whole thing here is strange. look the first thing that the military will tell the president is probably a range of options on targets. there is always a battle damage estimate means what we think the casualty toll will be in a strike package. that would have been initially briefed. i cant say when the president was briefed or anything like that. what we know from his own account i think we have to take it at face val...

Government has a relationship with iranians, there are iranian-backed militias that are very powerful in iraq. those u.s. service members are on the front lines as targets, right? in any count of counterattack. >> well, this is why i dont quite understand the hastiness of the time frame. this is deadly serious business. i think if you want to put together a campaign, a strategy here against iran, what is your objective, number one. what are we trying to achieve. then you put together your resour...

>> not as far as im concerned. no preconditions. pete: next guest has written planned president trump regarding a possible strike on iran. joining me now is retired army general anthony tata deputy director of forces in afghanistan and author of the upcoming book "double-cross fire" general, thanks for being here this morning. have you done. this you understand what it takes to put a strike package together like this. did the president make the right call? >> yeah. pete. the president demonstrat...

Tactical matter in terms of how something like this would go, is it plausible that the president is first informed of casualty estimates that close to the actual commission of the strike? >> no. the whole thing here is very strange. i think the first thing the military is going to tell the president is probably a range of options on targets. theres always a battle damage estimate, meaning what we think the casualty toll will be in a strike package. so that would have been initially briefed. what...

Room. that being said, youve been in similar situations, you know how it works. >> right. its up front, mr. president, this is the strike package, this is the cde, its way up front. the decision is go, and then certainly the commander in chief reserves the right to alter that at any time before a strike. >> go ahead, sam. >> its also open source information to an extent. we know one thing, we know president trump watches fox knees anews and even fox news has been very clear that iran retains the...

Reporting now, there were aircraft in the air. there were support aircraft in the air and strike aircraft in the air. we dont know -- at least what ive read at this point, what the configuration of those forces was. but at some point someone said to the president, this is too much, and he said, hold on, lets pull it back. but, again, i think these are hard things to spin up. it takes a long time to spin up a strike package like this, and its a very serious question as to what he was going to do ...

Comes to iran. hes done things at the behest of the israeli leader. we know israel has equities in iran. im not sure that we have a steady hand receiving information making these decisions, do you? >> or truthful hand. im not sure donald trump is telling the truth about what actually happened. >> correct. >> as a tv and mass media guy, donald trump is trying to frame this as one of the defining leadership moments of his presidency when in reality, the presidents projection of incompetence and in...

If its striking a building next to a hospital where there is a lot of civilians around you look at the proportionality. all of those things are part of an on russ process that every occurs every time you a launch a strike package. for the president to say he wasnt briefed on that goes beyond the pale in terms how ive seen it done before, how i experience in terms of this kind of package and doesnt make sense to me. >> colonel leyton. >> i agree with general hertling, you lock at the processes us...

There were support aircraft in the air and strike aircraft in the air. we dont know -- at least what ive read at this point, what the configuration of those forces was. but at some point someone said to the president, this is too much, and he said, hold on, lets pull it back. but, again, i think these are hard things to spin up. it takes a long time to spin up a strike package like this, and its a very serious question as to what he was going to do with it, and now what the iranians know about i...

Disparagingly of his own military advisers in that moment, he does a disservice to the men and women of this country who are in public service and in military service. it should really raise questions in the minds of voters and trump supporters about who this man is. the last thing too is just the language, custom loaded. what is he talking about? >> because this is a tv show to him. >> i missed that one. what is it? >> somebody said its the secret service code names for eric and don jr. but loo...