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And what if you had the moderna or johnson & johnson vaccine? ill ask the doctor. also, the pentagon admitting the deadly zone strike was a, quote, tragic mistake. ten civilians, including seven children were killed in the blast. martha raddatz reporting tonight. also, the chairman of the joint chiefs mark milley and his first public comments about his communications with china in the final days of the trump presidency. what the general said today. tonight in the nations capitol, the fencing...

Marine, expecting a baby in just a few weeks. lance corporal, and corpal lopez from southern california. and a marine from missouri. more than 150 afghans were killed. and kabuls main hospital, a butchers bill was poifted and -- posted outside. >> muhammad said he was playing a game when the bomb knocked him unconscious. >> the pentagon tonight revealed a zone strike has been carried out against the suspected isis planner. following the latest developments, courtney, what do we know about how th...

Tehran-backed shia government. there has to be a political answer for the sunni population as well as a ground force capable of defeating isis. >> thomas anderson, i want to ask you about the drone strike, whether it got jihadi john or not, we know that there was a u.s.-led zone strike. tell us about how much we know about the scale of the use of these drone strikes and their effectiveness given the unrest were dealing with. . >> sure. we have to turn to drones to do a lot of the work but withou...

Every time a zone strike occurs, thats the lagging indicator of a body of intelligence works that went into targeting it. then theres a political argument, which is unique to the obama administration its got to still prosecute or feels the need to still prosecute a global war against al qaeda, but it doesnt want to get bogged down and hung up on giant land invasions. how to still do that, the droneç kind of squares that circle. >> thats an interesting way of putting it. there seems to be three ...

Large groups of people. now its very specifically targeted. every time a zone strike occurs, thats the lagging indicator of a body of intelligence works that went into targeting it. then theres a political argument, which is unique to the obama administration its got to still prosecute or feels the need to still prosecute a global war against al qaeda, but it doesnt want to get bogged down and hung up on jgiant land invasions. how to still do that, the drone kind of squares that circle. >> thats...

Joining us now is spencer ackerman who writes about national security for the excellent danger room blog. thanks for checking in. >> tagks for having me, chris. >> spencer, can you explain why we have seen such escalation in the use of drones in the first three years of the obama administration? what is the rational, the reasoning strateically behind it? >> theres a strategic argument, and then theres a political argument thats a little bit more difficult to make. the strategic argument is that ...