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The operation was under way in its early stages when it was called off, a senior administration official said. planes were in the air and ships were in position but no missiles had been fired when word came to stand down, the official said. what does that tell you, nick? >> you know, i think we really dont know what ended it, and the -- you know, what we do know is that mike pompeo and john bolton were urging this kind of military strike, that there were a lot of reservations in the pentagon abo...

Reporting now, there were aircraft in the air. there were support aircraft in the air and strike aircraft in the air. we dont know -- at least what ive read at this point, what the configuration of those forces was. but at some point someone said to the president, this is too much, and he said, hold on, lets pull it back. but, again, i think these are hard things to spin up. it takes a long time to spin up a strike package like this, and its a very serious question as to what he was going to do ...

To deliver a message to jeff sessions, it was odd. i mean it was odd. >> very odd. in her testimony, hicks said that this comment from the president during the july 2016 -- remember, russia, it was a joke. >> russia, if youre listening, i hope youre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. >> the mueller report says, by the way, that within approximately five hours of trumps statement, gru officers targeted clintons personal office for the first time. did russia take this as a joke? >> w...

But they had no real organization, theyd have been better off just telling that flat-out truth. >> i would add to johns good point, part of whats odd, knowing hope hicks and corey lewandowski, having covered them for a couple of years, the idea that president trump was suggesting to corey lewandowski, a former campaign manager that he threw overboard during the campaign, that he would be the one to go to jeff sessions to suggest unrecusing as if this is something that is normally done here. i me...

Odd. i think what she was trying to convey is how odd the campaign was, don. i think if they just came forward and testified, they really didnt know what they were doing. it was a branding operation, and they were hopeful of winning, but they had no real organization, theyd have been better off just telling that flat-out truth. >> to johns good point, part of whats odd, knowing hope hicks and corey lewandowski, having covered them for a couple of years, the idea that president trump was suggesti...

Going after it -- kind of proportionally going after the types of things that we would be interested in eliminating, things that caused the damage to the drone, that shot it down. that was the first thing that you do. other elements they could have gone after would have been command and control modes, but that would be a much higher level of escalation. >> thank you very much, colonel cedric leighton. we appreciate that. nicholas, ive been talking about your piece. again, the piece is titled "tr...

Region. there was a push-pull feel in the white house -- or in the administration whether they should do it tonight. it seems that cooler heads prevailed, at least if youre looking at the initial reports tonight. we dont know exactly whats behind it. but, again, there was lots of consternation in the administration, and now they seem to have erred, at least now from this reporting, on the side of caution? >> yeah, and truthfully, don, thats something that occurs any strategic decision level of w...

And in doing so, i came across the police -- several police officers public facebook profiles, profiles that were available to anyone, and i looked through those profiles and found several troubling memes and posts, and the one that really gripped me was a picture of a police dog bearing its teeth, raring to go after something. it was being restrained by an officer. and over that picture was a caption that said, "i hope you run. he likes fast food." >> oh, my gosh. so you launched this and start...

That there was cloud cover, that the logistics werent right, that they miss the their night wont to hit -- its now morning in iran, so maybe they missed their window. this may still be happening. so, you know, we dont know that he has changed his mind, and the real risk is here of enormous escalation that just keeps on going. >> this is a quote. officials said that the president had initially approved attacks on a handful of iranian targets like radar and missile batteries. the operation was und...

Payments, don. >> interesting. john, hicks was asked about trump ordering the former campaign manager, corey lewandowski, to urge jeff sessions to un-recuse himself from the russia investigation. the transcript says, quote, chairman nadler, sitting here today, do you find it concerning that the president today -- that the president asked mr. lewandowsky to deliver a message to the attorney general? ms. hicks: concerning would not be the word i would use to describe how i view that. chairman nadl...