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That trip in the coming days. kri >> jasmine wright traveling with president biden. thank you. joining me is a senior fellow in foreign policy at the brookings industry and a distinguished fellow on the council on foreign relations. gentlemen, thank you so much for getting up early and being with us this sunday morning. >> nice to be with you. >> michael, lets start with you, and this news that russia has confirmed that it used hypersonic missiles against ukraine, the very first known use of s...

Then do it. that is not an end, in and of itself, but could change the dynamics to make the russians and clai and their client, bashar al assad, to arrange for him to leave syria. >> gentlemen, were running out of time. i want to ask you about the big news of this weekend and that, of course, is the tragic eebven of afghanistan where apparently a u.s. air strike in the effort to help the afghans take back the kunduz, it hit a doctors without borders hospital killing at least 19. general keane, h...

Itself but it could change the political dynamics to make the russians, iranians and the client, to realize they have to negotiate a settlement that is going to involve him leaving syria. >> gentleman, i am sorry to interrupt we are running out of time. i want to ask you about the big news which is the tragic event in afghanistan where a united states airstrike and the of the by the united states to help the afghans take back the city of kunduz from the taliban an american airstrike hit a doctor...

Then do it. that is not an end, in and of itself, but could change the dynamics to make the russians and clai and their client, bashar al assad, to arrange for him to leave syria. >> gentlemen, were running out of time. i want to ask you about the big news of this weekend and that, of course, is the tragic eebven of afghanistan where apparently a u.s. air strike in the effort to help the afghans take back the kunduz, it hit a doctors without borders hospital killing at least 19. general keane, h...

Always other options he could decide upon. intelligence sharing morks weapons shipments to iraq. lets say it was air strikes. what were now being told is there are a number of challenges to develop a target set against these fighters, these so-called isis fighters. u.s. officials are telling us it starts with the basic concept that the targeting problem is a lack of intelligence, the lack of credible, specific u.s. intelligence on the ground. who are these people? where are they located? how do ...

All over the countries. and it makes the targeting problem, the technical targeting problem much more difficult. so you cant do it at 24, maybe its now going to take 48. maybe its going to take 72 hours. initially it was going to be a strike and restrike. now maybe its a restrike to the restrike. and then it goes on and on and on, heather. pretty soon, were going to find ourselves either in a campaign that comes up short and subjectives or a campaign thats extended in order to achieve the on the...

Coordinates, gps coordinates, just like in your car. so they have to have a specific spot programmed in. if that artillery piece is moving around, theyre going to have to keep reprogramming the new location, the new location, and keep doing it. now, the military tells us they know very well how to do this. they keep satellites overhead. that is public knowledge. and they keep a very close watch on what the syrian regime is up to. but you know, theyre going to -- i mean, the more the days go on, ...