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La david johnson. so right from the beginning no hesitation one of the great memories of all time. >> also made news of the operation itself. this was the president asked specifically who was it who authorized the mission. >> it's a dangerous business. i have to say, it's a dangerous business. so what? no i didn't. not specifically. but i have generals great generals. great fighters, these are warriors. >> [ inaudible question ] >> i gave them authorities to do what's right so we win. that's the authority they have. >> u.s. officials say this team was collecting intelligence on a terror leader...

On capitol hill. let's get to niger and more on our breaking news. this is a major development in this deadly niger attack. two military officials are saying that the army team was in niger specifically collecting intelligence on a terror leader when they were ambushed. so let's go to the pentagon and our reporter there, ryan brown, tell me more about the reasoning and this leader. >> brooke, we're learning a bit about what this team was doing. they are part of an advise and assist commission. they were accompanying about 30 nigerian troops. they were helping advise these troops and one of the...

Fact it was compromised. these interest questions that the investigation is trying to answer, chris. >> we've still got to get some more. by the way, what is hvt? >> high value target. the guys that go after, militants. >> thank you. ken delaney, thanks for that report. a big nbc break tonight. coming up, john mccain's biggest battle. he is under fire from trump outrider steve bannon right now. but mccain remains every inch the maverick, hitting trump for getting out of the draft during vietnam. i thought this was coming. it has come. john mccain has remembered who dodged the draft. plus 1...

There was a lot of criticism that these targets, these people that they were trying to hit were getting bottlenecked in an approval process that went out to the president in some cases, president obama. so the administration will be able to say we're allowing the experts and the operators in the field who are conducting this work on a regular basis to have more autonomy to get the job done rather than being overseen by people in the white house who are perhaps maybe who are sitting on the process too closely. >> in year's past before president obama issued new policy guidance, the cia routinel...

But not have to personally approve each military action. is that a good move? let's discuss with global affairs analyst and senior security correspondent to the daily beast. she broke this story. great to have both of you. how will this work? >> what this means is rewriting part of the obama drone strike and play book. it would push more of the authority down to people in charge of places like yemen or somalia. places without combat operations like iraq or afghanistan and let them decide. if they spot someone on what is called the high value target list someone that the white house has already...