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you can't get much detail out of this. and it was approved by a judge. which does tell us something. although not what is under the redaction. so we have this unprecedented clash over federal powers, over the prerogatives of a former president. the suspicion about criminal evidence. all of this is here in the ballpark. and if you've heard today or tonight, we know everything now and i could tell you, no we don't. we obviously have to be careful about what is redacted. we're learning new things. so i'm going to go through the facts with you right now. the road map here that has been r...

Power. we could if we went to the american people and said here's what we're about to do is take on another iraq operation. >>general barry mccaffrey, thank you for your guidance on this. i want to pick up right where the general left off. joining me now is the executive director of syria deeply. it probably the single best source for information on what has been going on. and it's just perfect how the general led into this, laura. the attacks from last night from the people i've been talking to inside syria, they don't feel that it necessarily helps their cause. they feel that it is the syria...

Stepped back and looked at the administration that made this case that will arm the rebels on the basis that the syrians had crossed the red line and used chemical weapons. the majority of the information and the evidence is coming from the british, the french and the united states. evidence has been collected by the intelligence agencies. it's secret. and we have to take it on faith that it's -- that they are confident they have used chemical weapons. the problem is that we have talked to a number of weapons experts, including a number of them who served in the iraq operation, including the f...

One, we can never get involved in insurgency again. or two, we should be better prepared. we go get involved in these. i think the changing nature of warfare after 9/11, option two is really the only viable option. that means you know, better intelligence. i think, i would add everyone from nancy pelosi to john kerry to bill clinton and denny blair -- tony blair thought saddam hussein was reconstituting the wmd program and used chemical weapons before. there are things we could do better going forward. >> bret: i said operation enduring freedom. that was afghanistan. iraqi freedom, the iraq op...

>> if this was being done, what does it tell you? one assessment which shows how desperate military leaders on the ground there are, to get more help for a war that they think is vast losing the support of the american people. >> well, i believe there was a significant strategic mistake when we took our attention off afghanistan and went to iraq. that's why i posed the iraq operation. one of 22 senators to do that. and i think in the intervening years we've lost a lot of ground. right now we're in a situation of trying to help that country stabilize principally because along the afghani/pakist...