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That these exercises are ongoing all the time. they happen on a smaller unit level. they may take place in related area, sometimes in guam, sometimes in japan, sometimes in south korea. but theres a series of very large exercises like this, very visible to north korea, and those are the ones that theyre putting off. >> barbara starr at the pentagon, thanks for keeping us up to date. the search for answers in the disappearance of jamal khashoggi. the journalist, is highlighting the threat that ...

They said they were delayed because the servicemember had been involved in multiple casualties incident. is that a valid excuse? does that complicate things? >> it makes it a volume issue, perhaps, don, to put is in a very crass way. but i would say, no, you have a situation where you know that something has happened. you should have procedures in place to handle it. the department of defense has procedures. each of the services have procedures to deal with this. even down at the unit level they...

Crattic reasons why some of the letters had not gone out. most of them said they were delayed because the service member had been involved in multiple casualty incident. is that a valid excuse it makes it a volume issue, perhaps, don, to put in a crass way. but i would say, no. you have a situation where you know that something has happened, you should have procedures in place to handle it. the department of defense has procedures. each of services have procedures to deal with this. even down at...

Soldiers today, who is worried, but whose commander pulled together leadership and said, military policy isnt made by tweet. its business as usual. theyve let that transsoldier know she has their support. >> thats happening on the -- >> on the ground. at the unit level. were hearing over and over from the chain of command -- theyre outraged. our folks say, i came in, and theyre like, we have your back. so theres sort of -- i mean, you know, troops are going to be very careful. they work for the ...

One knew this was coming. as near as we can tell, no one in the pentagon didnt know this was coming. certainly our troops didnt know. the question is, what does this mean? i talked to one of our infantry soldiers today, who is worried, but whose commander pulled together leadership and said, military policy isnt made by tweet. its business as usual. theyve let that transsoldier know she has their support. >> thats happening on the -- >> on the ground. at the unit level. were hearing over and ove...

Mike huckabee for one called this unconscionable, so i asked some experts how does it really work, and i was told that americans serving at the unit level always answer up to another american and that the president himself never can give a direct command over american units. allies, im told, can set the operation or direct american units to conduct missions, but they never actually have direct command. i even went to the allied commanders office, the head guy who is running the overall nato miss...