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Perspective, what can you add by tracking this weapon? if in fact, the ukrainian military put this video of the weapon being brought back to russia, if the weapon itself crosses over into russia and disappears, is that kind of game over in terms of determining the trajectory of this, more about it? >> it's not even close to game over. first there is the preattack stuff, prestrike stuff you'll look at. intelligence from satellite saying did we see something in the weeks beforehand that shows missile systems like this moving around from russia to ukraine or within ukraine? then there is a lot of...

About this mission? >> well, brooke, what we're looking at primarily on this initial statement is that 80 folks in chad are there primarily to conduct isr technicians. i would assume those are primarily drones, unmanned aerial vehicles. there might, in fact, even be some manned aircraft which has some very significant capabilities to do not only imagery intelligence, but also what i would call imagery as well as signals intelligence which would more precisely define areas that they're looking for and then the condition of the hostages, these young girls, and then their relationship, ie, are th...

Era already of pre-crime where you have president obama in office, his advisers know if there's another major attack on the u.s. homeland that he's political toast. what they've sort of done is go way overboard in trying to preempt any potential attack against the united states. what they've done is instead of sending actual u.s. operatives on the ground which would constitute human intelligence, they're relying 90% or more on what's called sigmant or imant. signal intelligence or imagery intelligence. what we strikes, we believe, this phone or sim card is associated to someone who's up to no ...

>> yes, absolutely. let me say the answer in two pieces. first, what they're saying that were disrupted, they talked about today and yesterday, 20 incidents or 12 incidents, those are all related to other things, imagery intelligence, human intelligence tipped them off, thereby compiling how we figured out the picture. one is never successful by itself. very rarely it is ever is. we need to say, look, we have a cohesive approach to doing it and stalk about it in enough detail people understand that this is a capability that's necessary. bright brake at the same time you have to disclose the fa...

Can assure you it was signals intelligence, imagery intelligence and human intelligence that allowed us to build this. fareed, this wasn't done one brick at a time. this was actually done one pebble at a time. >> former cia director michael hayden also talking about his thoughts about the decision to attack bin laden's compound with a commando raid instead of a missile strike. we'll have that comments later on this hour. and then this. a remarkable rescue in nevada. this canadian couple disappeared seven weeks ago while traveling in a van on a remote road in northern nevada. they were last s...