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Potentially replicated by people who are actually responsible for warning of incoming missile launches including at northern command. before anybody says oh, that would never happen all you have to do is think about the cascade of human and technical bliglitc for systems to fail and for there to be mistakes so i don't think that our systems are immune from mistakes and human error. i mean our actual missile warning systems. second, i worry that the north koreans could misinterpret something that we do and they could have a human error on their side and they could actually engage in a militaril...

A full report. heather: they had done this 29 times without any contact over the last six months so it came as a surprise. i want to ask about the tie in to benghazi. they are saying this is donald trump's benghazi. do you agree? >> absolutely no comparison. this was a very experienced force, green berets with french and nigerian, they were conducting the operation. no one expected it to turn into troops incontext situation but those forces have been in contact before so this is a military force conducting a military operation as part of a larger strategy we have been carrying out for several ...

Said. jeremy, let me ask you to lay out for us the entire context and degree of alarm about the president and, one, the nuclear arsenal that nbc is reporting about, and two, i think something that under girds all of these stories that he displays instability. >> it's also called national command authority, and that means the president and only the president can order a nuclear strike. so not withstanding whether someone was in the room with him and could quote, unquote tackle him, he could order that strike on the phone with his military commanders and no one could attack him. there's nowhere ...

Great questions there. we were talking to the lieutenant general in charge ever all of the wake of hurricane katrina, he was on live with me and tom bossert actually name checked him because he is highly critical of the response. and here is the general's response now. >> brooke, look, that was a good commentary about tom bossert. i got full confidence in that man as well as mr. brock at fema. but they have to give general buchanan full command authority. there is a couple things that mr. bossert said that if they wanted to do air drops, he could make it as a recommendation. they have to have ...

Of ground force command once we realized the problem of logistics distribution outstripped capacity of the effective municipal governments but that three star general was there extension of northern command. made a number of improvements to that distribution process and marshalling of military resources since, for instance, general honore experienced what he did in katrina. matured a bit from that day. what he lacked back then has been put in place and in place for this response out of san antonio and augmented by a northern command structure that's been pretty robust and forward leaning here....