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Youve done the targeting process and the decisionmaking process, and youre going after something and you know the enemy is there and you going to kill them and the risk is small, then you execute that target. if for some reason at the last minute suddenly you see civilians in the area or the enemy ducks into a mosque, church, or hospital, then you will stop the mission or stop from targeting that structure or that particular target. that happens. but it seems to me, im a little skeptical based o...

>> after nearly two decades on the run officials say justice has been served and the former skipper of the uss cole described the targeting process. >> we wait for that moment patiently, thoughtfully, deliberately and then when the opportunity presents itself like it evidently did in this case where he was alone outside the capital, we got him with a drone strike. >> he had been on the f.b.i.s most wanted list. a $5 million bounty on his head. u.s. central command said the drone strike was launc...

With partners, collecting intelligence, calling in air strikes. can you do it from afar? >> not as well as you can do it the way it is now, no. i cant see the military logic there. look, the reason why those troops are in syria in that number and have been so effective is because isis is now a different beast than it was in 2014-2015. theres not as many of them. many of them have gone to ground. theyre doing, conducting smaller type operations, and so having eyes on the ground allows you to bett...

Saudi arabia. it is a global message and a dangerous message for the interest and security of the united states. it is unconscionable in my mind. >> your fellow democrat, senator jack reed, will support his resolution to end u.s. support, to end it for the saudi coalition in yemen. it could come to a vote in the floor. will you vote in favor of it? >> i didnt support this resolution or a version of this resolution before because i wanted to give the administration the chance to show us that they...

Even bigger conflict? >> yeah, sure. you can. i suspect and again i dont know that the targeting process has been probably deliberately arranged not to provoke unnecessarily russia or iranian forces and probably focused strictly on syrian targets. now the russians and the iranians can make that harder for us to do by putting some of their forces there. its really going to depend on how big they want to make this statement and what their going to target. the only -- the big two unknowns we have r...

Worked. diplomatic, economic pressure has not worked. the last step is a military approach. a whole lot of steps between now and then but at some point the north koreans have to understand what our position is and i would really like to see the administration come out with a definitive you cannot do this like we did with the iranians years ago and say we will not allow you to have a nuclear device. >> one more question that will made a point of saying this was launched from a home to a nuclear p...

Strategist. good morning to all. i want to start with this investigation at the pentagon into potentially if russia was involved or attempted to cover up this chemical attack. is there any plausible explanation for that russian drone being over the hospital where some of the victims were being treated hours after the chemical attack beyond some involvement or attempt to cover this up with the information that we know that soon after the drone was there, there was a bomb that was dropped onto tha...

Went after targets like nazi germany or imperial japan, we did carpet bombing. we did do those things, or the ekw equivalent of that. what you saw in that particular point in time, because the targeting process was not as precise as it is now, you saw that kind of indiscriminate bombing occurring because that was the only bombing we knew how to do. now, we have precision-guided munitions. we have a precision targeting process. we go after high value targets. what senator cruz is advocating would...

But i think what you have to remember too is the united states and the coalition members around the targeting cell tried to take great care in not hitting these kind of targets. they try and clear the area. they try and be mindful of the potential collateral damage. all of that is a part of the targeting process. sometimes war is not perfect. >> it must be extraordinarily difficult to hit only isis resources and targets when this group is bent on weaving itself into the civilian population as a ...

There. >> reporter: bill something that is extraordinary about the limited information the white house has put out so far is that they give four names, and they say that none of the people were where they thought theyd be. they say, yes, the two american al-qaeda, ahmed farouq and adam gadahn, were killed but they were not specifically targeted and yet two innocent hostages warren weinstein and giovanni lo porto were killed, but the u.s. had no reason to think they were in the region where the d...