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Combatant command and that's not -- that shouldn't be minimized. that is a pretty big step. >> are we addressing what's going on in social media? russian bots are still over social media. fake news is being pushed out there. you have them fueling this hash tag #release the memo. they are still trying to sow division. that was a big part of what people are complaining about and worried about. i don't see any change in that for 2018. >> that's a huge struggle about how much the government can curtail on the internet. how much we can step in and say, you know, be the internet police and say you c...

Women that you track this type of missile launches, they could make that judgment. gillian: while we have you, i want to get viewers the benefit of tapping into your expertise, can you tell us a word about pacific commands mission and what they do more broadly? >> the u.s. pacific command is the largest combatant command in the world leading the u.s. military, the pentagon has divided the world into different sections, the pacific, u.s. pacific command based in hawaii in pearl harbor runs all u.s. military operations, army, navy, air force, marines, in the entie pacific region, southern pacifi...

Very differential when the question came up about members of congress that didn't know that members of forces were in niger. i used to work in this area. i can say that every single year each combatant command, we have one of the members from each area to explain that we have forces in africa. we have forces in niger. so you know, i'm a little more skeptical that these senators and congressman that claim they didn't know, shame on them. that information is available. one of the most important things that our congress can pay attention to, the once that fund the missions there and if it's not s...

That he does not believe the president is fit for office. that he cannot be trusted with the national command authority to launch nuclear weapons and we should just remind viewers, nicolle, in our system, only the president of the united states has the authority to launch nuclear weapons. and nobody -- not a single person can countermand that order. if the president gives the order around it can happen very rapidly, the president gives the order not the secretary of defense, not the combatant command of u.s. strategic command, nobody can say no. >> jeremy bash, this is not the first time we ha...

Combatant command, particularly those in hawaii and in korea have been very, very measured. so on the one hand you have rhetoric on both sields at the very top, but at the military level we see so far, at least, nothing but a very calm, measured response to the crisis, chris. >> and again, as you're looking to watch to see where this might be headed, how closely are you watching guam? because a lot of what we've heard, again, a lot of people have not heard about guam for a very long time. they're learning that these are u.s. citizens who live there, learning about the military basis that are t...