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Exactly seven days after iranian forces attacked that japanese and norwegian oil tanker placing those mines on their hull. on the very same day that iranian forces shut down a high-priced u.s. surveillance drone that the u.s. military says was operating in international airspace. president trump called off at the last minute a retaliatory tomahawk strike in response to the iranian attack and now were learning u.s. cyber command did respond allegedly wiping out a key database used by irans irgc w...

Something in syria? >> thats a real question. i think that theres a high level of concern about that. one school of thought within the white house is that you will see a strike this weekend in part as a way to get comey off of television, knowing what we know about this president, its impossible to say that thats not in the air and one of the options theyre looking at. i dont have any indication clearly that that is where theyre going to go. i do think the president is mindful of the loss of lif...

>> well, im sure the joint chiefs of staff have already prepared those options and have given a different levels of kinetic strikes for the president to use if he so decides to use those. that might be the problem in and of itself, ana, and its what we did last year, a year ago yesterday, when they conducted the 59 tomahawk strike. that is a tactic. it is shooting something and not having a long-term strategy for what you want to accomplish. if its another one of those type of missions where its...

Were not going to hit china, wed probably hit their refinery. they have one refinery for oil so probably a tomahawk strike. clearly when kim jong-un hears that, that puts him in a defensive position. mcmaster talking about war, and lindsey graham in a number of comments this week talking about how, for instance, the united states has a viable military option. and were going to send a strong signal that it does late this week. and so clearly that is something that is driving the north korean regi...

Before. when people think it took it over the edge or caused concern when he said like the world has never seen before and -- thats where im going. has never seen before. he also used it when he was talking about the opioid epidemic, about the southern border. the country has never seen this kind of strength. so he returned to that there line. what do you make of that? >> that its trump hyperbole. but hes throwing it out there in a very serious crisis that we have now. imagine youre in guam or h...

Imagine youre in guam or hawaii, japan, south korea, this is a moment you have to start thinking about civil defense and this is a president that did do a successful tomahawk strike on syrias chemical facility but that may have made him feel like he can do something like that, a strike, thats easy in north korea, and show, you know, a kind of a wag the dog scenario. nobodys talking about the russian probe, were all talking about north korea. to me he came off today unhinged when he needs to be i...

In that area. of course, that the u.s. and the trump administration flatly blamed on the assad regime leading to those tomahawk strikes. now, ambassador to the united states nikki haley went a step further and said there would be grave consequences but also that russia and iran would share the blame as well if, indeed, there was another chemical attack. now, its unclear what exactly the consequences would be, or what exactly the trump administration is saying it will do. however, they are saying...

Potential strike. were talking about the challenges of communication and collaboration on a whole of government approach. >> general, a quick follow-up. say they have an opportunity to see this coming, what are the americans options in terms of what they would do if this line is crossed, and we should remind people of what the effects were of that chemical attack on the citizens there last time. put up the pictures of it. you have to remind the urgency of doing this to your own people. youll see...

Weapons, he and his military will pay a heavy price." why say this now? what is the white house, in your estimation, trying to achieve? >> im not sure, other than a wa warning. it seems to go against what candidates on the campaign trail said warning our enemies. this is different from the last attack in syria. then it was a reaction to a strike. now were talking about the potential for a preemption of a strike based on whatever intelligence, human intelligence on the ground saying this is going...

>> well, i think whats important is that if its true, that syria is really preparing another chemical weapons attack, that means the tomahawk strike that president trump took out a month or so ago did not work in deterring the syrians from doing it again. and, so, i would like to see the intelligence that he has. comments overnight from centcom that they havent seen the same intelligence that the white house is citing. i think we need to understand that these tomahawk strikes dont really change ...