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What we were taught growing up that the vietnam war was a nightmare because you had the lyndon johnson at night looking for targets to bomb. what's the pentagon's attitude towards the president's hands-on approach of operations? >> i like it. i've heard 50 times complaints about the degree to which decisions were subject to 11th hour review in the situation room, interagency discussions. command authority really has been pushed down in this fight since trump took office. it's allowed more flexibility in operations and more rapid movement in syria. you have to remember eight months ago when pre...

Problem that some of us had been ignored for too long, and were starting a campaign that was very effective, james mattis came in and they continued on that success. tell us where we are now in our fight against isis and parse donald trump's words for us if you will and tell us what's right and what's not right. >> president trump is basically right in saying that the campaign against isis has been accelerated. the pace of operations under obama was increasing but he's really delegated command authority down the commanders in a way that's had a lot of impact. the administration just this week ...

As we speak, thousands and thousands of u.s. service members stretch out across texas and louisiana back out again this morning conducting air rescue, searching homes, door to door in these neighbors still swamped. a staggering number of homes underwater, a week after the hurricane first hit. joining me now brig deer general patrick hamilton, the status commender of hurricane harvey mail tear -- i that's a relatively new title. >> that's correct, john. that came out of actually hurricane katrina. to make sure that all of the dod capability reserve national guard, active duty could be coordinat...

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...

Place, and we have somebody with no moral rectitude as commander in chief in the west wing of the white house. but when it comes to people outside the national command authority, outside the decision-making process and the deployment of american troops, this is rather easy. and by the way, to the argument that things could be so much worse, we saw the president of the united states yesterday talked about the good people at a torch-lit nazi parade who were simply there expressing their first amendment rights. how much worse can it get? how much lower can we go? it was a disgusting, shameful, di...