Along the dmz. this is arguably the most dangerous spot on earth right now. so clearly what the u.s. was doing in sending this b-52 bomber was trying to send a message to pyongyang, right? no question. and keep in mind this, that even without its nuclear capability, north korea has tremendous ability to cause casualties in seoul, the south korean capital very close to the north korean border where as you mention there are tens of thousands of u.s. troops based. short of that they have a lot of missiles, rockets, chemical weapons you name it pointed there by all accounts either side would pay a heavy cost for war. yeah. millions of people in seoul, only about 30 miles south of the dmz with a lot of artillery just north of the dmz that could hit seoul. this is a very volatile area, jim sciutto, thank you very much. joining us now is a key member of the house homeland security committee, republican congressman will hurd of texas. he s a former clandestine cia officer, spent nine years in the cia. let s talk about this american citizen now arrested in prison
Chairs in iowa. we i think it s a rotten thing to do to designate which candidate haves a chance and don t. so we will not participate in anything that s not first tier. they have officially told you now you re not going to be on the main stage and you have told them in response you re not going to go to the earlier debate. we told them they made a mistake and really looking at the recent polls they made a mistake. we ve been rising in the polls. we ve been fifth or sixth in the polls for the last couple weeks and really a mistake because the thing is is that the republican party needs a voice like mine. i m the one anti war voice on the stage. i m the one voice that says we shouldn t be collecting the phone records. i m the one voice advocating for criminal justice reform. it s a mistake to say okay, we re going to predecide and exclude certain people from the stage. i object and will protest and spend the next couple days protesting and letting people know that we do have a voice that does need to be heard.
Having damage. if you take out all the cash, that will save hundreds or thousands of lives. you have to balance. certainly in world war ii many civilians killed and that was a just war. nobody wants to kill civilians but the fact is our main job is to protect americans and the world from isis and i think it s about time that the administration does ease the restrictions they put on a pilot when they try to carry out these missions. as you know, jordan s king is here in washington now arrived over the weekend and here today, tomorrow and wednesday. but even though he s meeting with the vice president, the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, he won t be meeting with the president, the white house, senior administration official telling us that due to scheduling conflicts including the president s state of the union address, he s not going to be able to meet with his majesty on this visit.
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Families. and that this may signal a change in how what the u.s. military is targeting them. so this is a good thing for the war. even if there are innocent civilians, collateral damage as it s called that are killed in the process, are you okay with that? look, this is one of the difficulties of being at war. and this is one of the issues that it s isis putting these individuals in harm s way. it s because of their activity that these innocent folks could possibly be injured. and these are the risks that our military planners have to weigh. it s a difficult risk, but in this case it seems it paid off. king abdullah of jordan, one of america s best friends in the middle east, jordan has been a source of great support for the united states taking in recently maybe a million syrian refugees. king abdullah is here in washington this week. he s meeting with the secretary of state, the defense secretary, the vice president. but the president of the united states is not meeting with him this week. the white house is saying due to scheduling conflicts because of the president s state of the union address he s not going to have time to meet with the king of jordan.
Bomb maker in the world extremely lethal and even though we re focused on isis, the intelligence community is constantly monitoring what he might be doing and finding ways to counter any type of device he may come up with. congressman, let s talk about what is being called an c extremely unusual u.s. air strike. what bombs destroyed a building and contained cash isis is using to pay troops and willing to consider up to 50 civilian casualties to the air strike due to the importance of the target destroying this cash that isis uses. does this signal an increased willingness by the u.s. to potentially kill innocent civilians if necessary to fight isis in this war? well, wolf, obviously, i can t comment on the details other than to say i have advocated for a long time that the united states cannot have this strict policy against
I m quoting, we will not leave you alone as long as we have a pulsing vein in us. we re back with peter king of new york, a home of the homeland security and intelligence committees. congressman, you heard jim sciutto report aqap s chief bomb maker is out with this new threat against the united states. you have previously said that isis is now more powerful than al qaeda was on 9/11, but does aqap still pose a major direct threat to the united states? aqap s main threat is not so much carrying out war on the middle east, they want to launch an attack on the united states, more than any al qaeda affiliates, aqap is the one who wanted to attack the united states. you mentioned the underwear bombing in 2009. they also had the cartridge bomb they put on the flights coming to the united states in 2010. fortunately, that was stopped, but it s the master terrorist