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No agonized presidential handwringing over moral dilemmas of a fallen world. it took obama ten months to decide what to do in afghanistan, it took trump 63 hours to make assad pay. america demonstrated capacity for swift, decisive action. from the sounds of things, this president isn't second-guessing his battlefield commanders. apparently that's been 27 strike -- >> we saw that clip just a minute ago. he's authorizing his military to do what they think is best. certainly within parameters, but you are seeing a much more aggressive stance and it certainly is -- even though we don't know exactl...

Il-sung's birthday. i couldn't have come at a better time. but militarily it was a good weapon to use. >> it is interesting, we know about north korea in the owed tradition of the soviet union, they love to use these anniversaries to puff out their chest a little bit, try to do a test. was this the americans' way of saying, you want to show off? let us show you what we're capable of. remember what our arsenal looks like. >> well. i would say yes if it was president trump who made the decision. but he delegated the authority to make decisions like that to battlefield commanders. there's a four ...

Trump, campaigned on this all the time that he was going to be a nonconventionalist. is this a shift that we're seeing where donald trump is becoming more of a traditional republican hawk? >> reporter: yeah, i think based on our reporting, the president campaigned on his america first foreign policy. that said, i think those outside the administration might want to see more points of evidence before connecting those dots. in this particular situation, as you heard courtney talk about, this is something that apparently, at least according to reporting as it stands now, was a decision that could...

Service. they are taking the privatized is in mosul. they across the tigris river, moving up on the west side from the south side. these guys are really the heroes of the country. a great battlefield commanders. every single day they and their units are engaged in combat against isis. >> heather: people may forget that we have 6000 u.s. troops in iraq, 450 american advisors. what role will all of that play in the latest push? >> let me tell you that there are no american standing shoulder to shoulder pulling triggers with the iraqi forces like we were during the surge of '07-'08. all of the co...

Mcmaster will be his national security adviser. you heard him give some brief remarks. also the acting national security adviser, keith kellogg. donald trump says he'll be going back to washington, back to the white house. to talk more about mcmaster, i have glenn thrush from "the new york times," the white house correspondent. glenn, tell me a little about this choice. >> well, it is -- it very much fits into president trump's preference for generals and fighting generals. two things about general mcmaster that are interesting in addition to his later career working as an administrator. he pl...