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Contacts -- >> paradise. that is how donald trump reacted today to those questions from report owners the controversy feeding a perception of chaos or worse, frankly, in the administration. well show you some other contacts. the head of u.s. special operations command with a serious assessment of the trump administration saying our government continues to be inunbelievable turmoil. i hope they sort it out soon, because we are a nation at war. joining me now is charlie sykes, editor-in-chief and ...

Relations. he called on his opponent to hack between the campaign and the russians. we dont need a smoking gun. we have it. did he shoot the gun? it could have just been put in his hand. >> the world is more nuanced than that. you do not perform effectively on the global scale without making bed fellows that arent pret. thats the reality of life. >> right. before we go, i have to get this in. we will be talking with rick later, but there was a comment that struck me. the head of u.s. special ope...

Visit myrbetriq.com to learn more. >> the troops and our nation has been blessed by god. look no further than the men and women of the united states military. they are the greatest fighters and the greatest force ofat justice. on the face of the earth. and of the world has ever known. the challenges facing our nation, nevertheless, are very large, very, very large. we are up against an enemy that celebrates death and totally worships destruction. youveve seen that. >> sean: very true. that was p...

All right. we see right now president trump deplaning. he landed as macdill air force base in tampa, florida, headed in for a briefing with senior leadership, lunch with service members, and then will be making remarks to the troops. lets get over to jessica schneider, joining us from the headquarters for u.s. central command and special operations command at macdill air force base. jessica, what are we expecting to hear from president trump in his remarks today? >> reporter: kate, the white hou...

Is where hes militarily messaging and book-ending his presidency. right? >> yes. macdill air force base in tampa is the home to both u.s. central command, which runs the wars in the middle east, and u.s. special operations command, that has provided the forces upon whom president obama has relied to lead those wars. >> and theres been a shift under president obama, and weve recently seen reporting on an expansion of special forces in the command over special forces and their engagement in fighti...

Give mission type orders and political objectives to u.s. special operations command, to u.s. air power, to the cia and tell them to use muscular measures that will achieve the result. >> whether you describe that this notion of war in your words and the discussion is off, i want to bring attention to jeb bush. most specifically his statement on "meet the press" this morning saying we should declare war. lets take a listen to that. >> we should declare war and harness all of the power that the u...

>> we knew that he was planning to provide the military assistance that assad was needing because they were nervous about a potential eminent collapse of the regime. >> reporter: rebels may have been getting stronger with the help of anti-tank missiles like these. missiles many reports say were provided through the cia. u.s. airdrops of 50 tons of ammunition, a boost to the pentagons program to arm other anti-isis rebel groups and drones operated by the u.s. special operations command flying ove...

Improving across the board, a u.s. official tells cnn. a combination of more human intelligence on the ground, and surveillance aircraft in the air. the result -- a series of successful strikes again senior isis leadership. hussein, the isis online mastermind killed in raqqa last week, isis second in command killed outside mosul two weeks ago. a late-night raid killing abu sayyaf, and capturing his wife and a treasure trove of information. how is it happening? according to "the washington post,"...

Town under heavy fire. out of concern, we are told over civilian casualties. what we have seen unfold truly is the real face if you will of covert u.s. special operations, commando operations. when they go into these places and stage these operations to go after key terrorism targets. we will find out more im sure in the coming hours and days about how both these operations went down. but i dont think the irony escapes. too many people in the u.s. military while the politicians are engaging in d...

Setting what kind of military assets were available in and around libya last september 11th. buck mckeon provided us with his thoughts going into the hearing. >> there have been things that people said that there were orders to stand down. i want to find out what those orders were. i want to find out what the position, what our posture was, our military posture leading up to the attack, what weve learned from the attack and what our posture is going forward. >> reporter: the benghazi attack whic...