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>> jay carney there making it very clear that they have no doubt and previewing the intelligence assessment that will be declassified sometimes we believe later this week. jerry lee bash served as chief of staff to former secretary of defense and cia director leon panetta in both posts and joins us now. let's go over what the mission is. take us behind the scenes in the war room, we're at the pentagon now where you served as chief of staff. they are going over the day-to-day intelligence on targets because targeting changes by day to day, they'll go after air fields, they'll go after --not che...

There. and we would not do that under the circumstance. and secondly what is available to us. and more likely is to stand off in the med terrannian and surface ship submarine and used precision guyeded ammunition in syria that will be of value to him. i believe we should use this opportunity not to make a statement attack but eliminate and degrade one of his major capabilities and the first one he values is air power. this is six major air fields and take the infrastructure down and ammunition and airplane them and creator the run away. and we have to destroy the infrastructure and command and...

Has never spoken about syria, it is not surprising everybody is against it. you make a speech, explain it, and do something serious. you bomb the air fields, you don't have to establish -- you don't have to knock out all of the aircraft equipment as we did in libya, but if you prevent the aircraft from getting into the air by bombing the air fields, you have done something serious. you flood them with heavy weapons, not just light weapons, or you do nothing. but this i think is worse than nothing. >> as rogers, chairman rogers mentioned, it is not just republicans, democrats are increasingly s...

Flashback in 1974 now, when cold war tensions ran high between the united states and the soviet union. both countries had so many nuclear arms than an attack on one would only lead to an equally devastating counterattack on the other. with this mutually assured destruction, the united states and soviet union tried to ease tensions through various agreements, beginning a period of detente during the 1970s. one of the more controversial agreements was limiting missile attacks to military around economic targets. here's what nightly news reported about the negotiation on this day in 1974. >> in j...

For a couple of years, i think, where this tension between the u.s. and spak stan against these drone strikes. >> that's right, candy. we've seen good periods, bad periods, and this is definitely one of the higher tension areas right now. it even caused a pakistani official to question whether the u.s. was still even launching drone strikes from one of its air fields in pakistan. a small u.s. air field in southwest pakistan has become the heated center of he said she said. a pakistani intelligence official says that they have launched the base and a u.s. official tells cnn that's news to us an...