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To talk to you about some of what the new aid includes, right, that these, there are phoenix ghost drone systems that were made by the air force specifically for ukraine. the pentagon spokesperson john kirby says they are similar to switchblade drones but wouldnt elaborate on the differences. how could they use tools like this and do you know the difference? differences? >> well the most important thing you can do with these is either take out the artillery or more importantly the command post t...

Went with it because he felt the chances were fairly good that they could get bin laden. the same type of calculus goes into the planning for any of these what we call high value targets, and that planning is incredibly detailed because you want to, as barbara mentioned, minimize those kinds of civilian casualties. that is the worst thing that can happen is to have civilian casualties, but when theyre going to do the assessment of this, theyre going to see whether or not those civilian casual ti...

MANILA - As more candidates filed their certificates of candidacy (COCs) for 2022 polls, Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar warned that he will expose politicians colluding with illegal drugs syndicates to boost their winnability. "Binabalaan ko ang mga kandidato na huwag mamuhunan sa mga illegal na droga sa kanilang kandidatura dahil kami mismo ang mag-i-expose sa inyo at magsasampa ng disqualification case at kaukulan kaso kapag nakakalap kami ng sapat na ebiden...

Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), warned candidates against colluding with illegal drugs syndicates to ensure their victory in the next year's elections, saying they have already stepped up the monitoring and intelligence-gathering against them. Eleazar

Americans also being in safe houses that are scared that they might be made an example of. very dangerous for everybody there. we do not have a lot of time. >> trace: who are the super high value targets. americans or afghan allies. who are you the most concerned about right now? >> well, people that worked for us for 20 years. there are announcements all the time from the taliban coming in through on the ground reports of people being told that if they worked with the americans, if they have an...

Come after you and find you. justice will be served. then we will use what is left behind to continue to fight and take down your friends. i love that as soon as baghdadi was announced dead, isis announced his successor and we took him out, too. that should be the message. the united states should be proud of the military. we showed more of this type of video taking out the high value targets. i appreciated the president there today also giving acknowledge meant to the afghanistan translators. t...

Ready to go to the president and get his approval because the forces that went in are some of the most elite special operations forces the country has. these are the most highly trained. they do these most dangerous counter terrorism missions going after the high value targets, so to speak. baghdadi was the highest they wanted to get, really the number one wanted man by u.s. military forces. all accounts are that eight helicopters landed with up to 100 troops on board. president trump talked a l...

Today hes aware that others may come forward to take baghdadis place. to that he sate, quote, we have them in our sights. to the pentagon now, what more has emerged about how this military raid unfolded? >> well, by all accounts, it appears that in the last couple of weeks the intelligence came together enough that by the end of last week they were able to go to the president and say we want to do this, we think we can do this and he approved it and that was the very key step to lead to the very...

Ops, snatching someone and leaving. there was an intensive military operation, at least focused on one part of this border village leaving a compound, farm compound, farmhouse completely destroyed. >> richard now tell us about the lead-up and how this may have happened because, as youve been reporting and glad to have you there in northern syria, but we understand the dangers there. what was the lead-up to this? >> the lead-up to this, it was very simple. it has become very complicated. the reas...

One former house intelligence committee staffer, our guest last night, mieke eoyang, who once indeed staffed such a secure room, gave a master class on twitter today about the dangers of their actions. she writes in part, "foreign adversaries are constantly trying to figure out what goes on inside those rooms to figure out what the u.s. knows about them, to out u.s. high-level sources in their governments, to know what the u.s. government knows and use it against us. bringing electronic devices ...