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Which is to hug the population in the east and then defy the rebels to come up with a plan with our air power that doesnt produce civilian casualties to look like were in fact producing an humanitarian crisis with air power as opposed to solving it. >> the word is the pentagon hates this mission. theyre limited. hands are tied. not sure why theyre there. theyre doing a great job executing the plan. talk about, if you would, why the president would bring up that hes better than bill clinton. bill...

Sanctuaries. so this is the only game in town. so these strikes are going to continue. but its very careful that theyre done with the best intelligence we can get. limiting civilian casualties and theres a slippery slope. i mean if we broaden the target set, then you increase the risk of civilian casualties and start to lose the population. the one thing we dont want to do. >> faisal shahzad said that he tried to plant the bomb in times square or planted the bomb and tried to explode the bomb in...

Not go about the same strategy with iran. >> israelis not only did it to iraq by syria a few years ago. both were easy targets, close to israel, basically just one target to go after. iran is a much more complicated target set. there are multiple targets to go after. theres a very good chance the iranian nuclear facilities, which we dont know about, which could pop up after an operation and be even more dangerous than the ones we know about today. >> bruce, weve got to cut it off there. apprecia...

Department is permitting families of those working at the consulate to leave, you know, ordinarily, in a terrorism situation, like when we had an explosion in saudi arabia, what we did was, we demanded that the families leave. the -- those became unaccompanied posts for a period of time until the security situation got better. ill tell you, that seems to me where this is going. you cant have consulate officers and their families and their employees be the targets. and so youre going to have to r...

Trump allies they must increase the amount of gdp towards defense to 4%, which trump also tweeted this morning. that would double the 2% target set for 2024 and not 2025 as the president tweeted. the president is now demanding that allies meet the 2% goal, quote, immediately. but the u.s. does not even meet trumps 4% figure. currently the u.s. contributes 3.3% of its gdp toward defense per the pentagon, not the 4% figure trump inaccurately stated during his breakfast with nato secretary general....

Trump did hit back saying many countries unnato which were expected defend are not only below their current commitment of 2%, is low -- and shortly after the european union makes it it it impossible for our farmers and workers and companies to do business in europe. and then they want us to happily defend them through nato and nicely pay for it it just doesnt work. while only five of 29 nato nations have met their spending commitments set for 2024. a target set after the invasion of crimea, the ...

And if you do a psych profile a lot of members of the islamic state it takes a particular kind of person to engage in beheadings on videos of these are not things we think of as being separate. that said, with toronto we simply dont have much more in the way of data to suggest we are at a motive. it looks isis inspired based on markers for this kind of attack based on what we look for in terms of target set here, random and as many casualties as possible using the fan. if you look at this waffle...

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Political analyst. good to have you here. >> good to be here. >> if im in the west wing, i feel good about the last three days. the elections break their way tuesday. you rip up the iran deal which plays to the base of the trump supporters and then you have this 3:00 a.m. return for these three americans out of north korea. its a pretty good 48 hours to brag about tonight, mark. >> its a very good 48 hours for him to brag about. hes coming to indiana with the tail winds behind him and a lot of s...

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