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Strikes. also, i think their teeth were on edge. we just had a couple hundred afghans and military personnel killed a few days earlier by a sole suicide bomber. so these drone strikes actual, as a general statement, are one heck of a lot safer to manage, to be sure of your target, than are f-16s or 155 artillery. they followed this vehicle for eight hours. but i think they had target fixation, they didnt have cross-reference intelligence. they made a mistake and they killed ten innocent civilian...

Barry mccaffrey tweeted today about his guess as to where this hubris from flynn came from. there it is. "he totally went off the rails. his fury at being fired by the obama team, target fixation," only a military guy can come up with that, "target fixation on terror threat, too much time in the dark world. a superb combat intel officer." greg, is that about as good an explanation for the period of hubris that you uncovered? >> its true. it is. its a perfect summation. and i think its why -- i l...

I want to show what you general barry mccaffrey tweeted today about his guess as to where this hubris from flynn came from. there it is. "he totally went off the rails. his fury at being fired by the obama team, target fixation," only a military guy can come up with that, "target fixation on terror threat, too much time in the dark world. a superb combat intel officer." greg, is that about as good an explanation for the period of hubris that you uncovered? >> its true. it is. its a perfect summa...

There it is. "he totally went off the rails. his fury at being fired by the obama team, target fixation," only a military guy can come up with that, "target fixation on terror threat, too much time in the dark world. a superb combat intel officer." greg, is that about as good an explanation for the period of hubris that you uncovered? >> its true. it is. its a perfect summation. and i think its why -- i look at flynn as one of the few figures in this sordid russian drama who you can sort of see ...

To if we set aside that time. you later, however, turned on him when his public uttering started to change and you said you feared he was demented. retired general mark hurtling who was i believe in the service said on television tonight, something is genuinely wrong with general flynn and demons got ahold of him. gentlemen, what do you think went wrong with general flynn? >> hard to say. first of all he clearly was one incredibly courageous effective intelligence officer. we oh a lot to him and...

Intelligence agency and started to get target fixation chasing the white whale. he started to selectively select information. they thought he was a little off his game. when he was fired he went into a dark zone. his behavior retweeting pizza gate with pedophile rings and basements and hillary clinton chanting at the rnc this was pretty nutty stuff. i think its a sad day for mike flynn and then, of course, the subsequent behavior in the white house where it looks as if he was working on private ...

When you were said on television tonight something is genuinely wrong with general flynn. and demons got ahold of him. general, what do you think went wrong with general flynn? >> well, its hard to say. first of all, he clearly was one incredibly courageous effective intelligence officer. we owe a lot to him and general stand mccrystal. my guess is we would have had a dozen 9/11s, the jsoc group he was a part of then he got into the defense intelligence agency and he started to get target fixati...

He and general mcchrystal are the reason we havent suffered a disaster of attacks. so i think he started off the rails as a director of defense intelligence agency. he had target fixation. what happened was any enemy of al qaeda and isis is a friend of mine. therefore his relations with the turks and the russians, that sort of thing. when the obama team fired him, by the way, for basically stepping on their narrative that we have won the war on terror, i think he went into a dark place. he just ...