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What seems to be a home-grown radicalized individual who probably had no direct contact with the islamic state but the islamic states call to wage your own form of jihad in the west is something he took upon himself. these are the different layers of conflict that isis is constantly engaged in. each one of these target sets really represents the different spheres of isis attack. >> peter, you just wrote this fascinating op-ed on cnn.com about exactly that. you say quote, this underlines the dive...

Lieutenant colonel rick francona. sir, thank you so much. we always enjoy your insight here. many are asking the question, how involved is the united states? >> well, if you look at the air forces that are conducting these bombing raids, theyre good flyers, but they dont have the intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities necessary to develop the target sets that theyre going after. i looked at the targets they struck last night and the targets theyre striking right now. these a...

Effort of what our target sets are or what ship fires what missile is in our national security interest candidly. this is part of the problem. thats a very confusing message. certainly to me he would offer that as someone who bheefs this is in our national security interest. i dont understand what he means by that. if congress gave a huge vote and we said were behind you mr. president you need to take action as you see fit to stop the pro-liliferation of chemica weapons. he should say well get a...

Whats the latest? >> hi. pentagon planners have been asked to revise their strike times more than 50 times were told. to suggest whether decision have been made to use b 50 bombers or b-52 bombers for air strikes is misleading. as one official said our mission has not crept. the president pushed back on these reports as well in terms of mission creep, heres what he sai said. >> one military official told nbc news, characterized it as mission creep. can you respond to that report? >> that report ...

Theres -- were preparing several target sets, the first of which would set the conditions for fall-on assessments and the others would be used if necessary, and we havent gotten to that point yet. what we do know is that we can degrade and disrupt his capabilities and that that should put us in a better position to make the kind of assessment youre talking about. >> let me add to that, if i can, john. senator feinstein brought this up today at the meeting, at the white house. it would be really ...

We have very good capabilities to monitor all of this. you cant see everything all the time. the chance we are going to catch every move of every high value asset is pretty low. that said, with the crews missiles on the ships, they have to go after a specific set of targets because these missiles are not going to be able to hit hardened facilities, hardens bunkers. these are high explosive war heads. theyll do a lot of damage, but theyll use radar sites, air fields, hangars, that sort of thing, ...

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