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Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer-20150813-21:12:00

taliban. as the taliban has become more promine prominently, political. he saw this as an opportunity to cement that alliance. >> and zawahiri, as we know, phil, he played a key role, was engaged in day-to-day operations in the planning of 9/11. why haven't u.s. officials been able to get him? >> to paraphrase a friend of mine, because he's hiding. the first is the u.s. doesn't have the presence. second, the pakistanis themselves don't have a significant presence there. so they can't hunt him down. third is he doesn't have a digital trail. he's not up on e-mail. he's not up on phone. he's not up on 21st century communications that help you target. fourth, you can presume he's using human couriers. that is expendable people from the local community who might do a run or two to them and then are out of the game. there are a lot of reasons he

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Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer-20150813-21:54:00

near an airport, hundreds and hundreds of drone operators have gone rogue. >> tower, we almost got hit by a drone, just to let you know up here. >> reporter: wednesday a medical helicopter flying a patient to a hospital in fresno, california, was forced to take evasive action after nearly crashing into a drone. firefighters battling wildfires last month in california were forced to ground operations because of unauthorized drones. in recent weeks, drones spotted flying dangerously close to multiple jet liners flying through some of the busiest air space over new york and new jersey. >> the faa needs to step it up from the standpoint of certainly let's public la size to the folks that are buying this kind of equipment, this drone equipment, that there are penalties, there are fines, there's possible jail terms. >> part of the problem is anyone can buy one of these drones, online or at the mall, for a couple hundred dollars. and they don't need any training

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Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer-20150812-21:50:00

locked in battle with russian backed fighters in eastern ukraine. six months into the second attempted cease-fire there, the fighting still raging. it is operations like this one has the outgoing commander the most dangerous threat to the united states today. more than isis, more than china. >> i'm concerned. they have shown some significant capability in ukraine to do operations that are fairly sophisticated. and so for me i think we should pay a lot of attention. >> reporter: nato tripling the size of rapid reaction force to 40,000 troops. and undergoing a series of training exercises in eastern europe. the general warns that only a third of u.s. brigades are scapable of winning the so-called hybrid warfare russia is undertaking. with undercover russian troops backing local fighters. >> do you have any evidence that the strategy that the administration policy in terms

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At This Hour With Berman and Bolduan-20150812-15:25:00

the head of dictators and terrorists than i do inside the heads of american politicians. >> quite a statement, sir, that's for sure. some of what jeb bush has suggested in this big foreign policy speech is he suggested a no-fly zone along the syrian border and embedding u.s. troops inside iraq. but by and large, bush's approach as outlined -- there could still be more details he could lay out -- so far, it doesn't seem much different from current operations, does it? >> well, i think they could do a lot more from the air in terms of no-fly zones and in terms of strikes. on a typical day there for a long time and maybe still, they were caught saying that they were using airpower but they were flying three, four, five, six sorties a day. and back in the clinton

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150812:20:50:00

at all about his health at the time that you were with him? >> not at all. it was before -- this was about a month ago. so it was after that that he had the -- they discovered the tumor. and i and they got that out okay. but i don't know anything more about the cancer except what i heard on -- i saw on television just a few minutes ago. on msnbc. >> the former president has been celebrated and widely praised as one of the most active former presidents that this country has ever known. his work around the world is constantly applauded. how important is he personally to the activities of the carter center? he's still very much involved in the carter center day-to-day operations and what would a setback like this mean for all of his work around the world? >> i think that he -- i don't think there would be too many setbacks.

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Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer-20150812-21:51:00

of deterring russia is working? >> we have a long way to go. i think we have to continue to increase our ability to move quickly there. because a true deterrent, one where people are worried if they conduct operations there will be some level of response. we have to improve what that level of response may look like. so we can deter. >> reporter: with russia undeterred in ukraine, u.s. and nato leaders are concerned moscow may attempt to destabilize nato allies neighboring russia. lithuania, latvia, and estonia. >> how concerned are you that russia will try the same strategy in nato allies bordering russia? >> russia is assessing the reaction of nato to any of their actions. what i were radioaboorry about and violate article 5 of the nato agreement. i asked the general if they have the deterrent capability to deter russia. he said in his word, it has some, not a ringing endorsement

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New Day-20150812-10:55:00

troops on the ground have more leew leeway. is that a good idea? >> they are suggesting we do tit for tat with the iraqi government. they are more able to go after the enmy. we will, in fact, consider putting more troops on the ground and putting terminal air controllers forward to control the operations. that's not something you want to do unless you are sure the iraqi army is going to fight for themselves. that's something of consideration as a course of action in the future. >> iraqis have to get responsible about it first. >> exactly. >> listen to trump. he has a simple strategy. >> take the oil away, take the money away. >> how do you take the oil. >> make sure iran, which gives plenty of money to isis, believe it or not, iran is funneling money into isis, too.

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The Lead With Jake Tapper-20150812-20:43:00

debate, there's an actual war going on that our political leaders seem to be ignoring, and it's heating up right now. ukraine is accusing russia-backed separatists and russian forces, launching dozens of attacks? direct violation of the february cease-fire, the escalating violence sparking fears of a full-scale confrontation between kiev and moscow. let's go to jim scuitto. jim, the chief of staff of the army, general ray odierno today talking about this at length. what did he have to say. >> this is a guy who served the last ten years in iraq, commands dealing with afghanistan, certainly the isis threat. when we asked him what he thinking the number threat is, he's not talking about trimpl or iran, he's talking about moscow. >> i believe russia is the most dangerous. they have shown some significant capability in ukraine to do operations that are fairly

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150811:20:54:00

dangerous. are you ever concerned about how air traffic controllers and what is going on in those towers? >> it is a very highly professional group. and like i said now, there are back ups. but the critical point is the takeoff and landing at low altitude where there are simultaneous operations being conducted on runways and things like that where it becomes a problem. >> thank you for your insight. when we come back we're live in bertrand michigan where donald trump will hold a campaign event tonight. but you get there and find out it's far from amazing. it's almost like it was too good to be true. that's like when you switch wireless carriers, and find yourself stranded with a frustrating, less reliable connection. if your network isn't working for you... come home to verizon and get 10 gigs for $80 a month plus $15 per line. come home to a better network.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20150811:06:30:00

very anti-american group. in fact, this group released a statement today saying it will not cease operations until all u.s. bases in turkey are shut down. this is also a group, greta, that believed america is the archnemesis of all people in the middle east. in fact, all people all around the world. greta, over the past few weeks on this show we talked about how turkey is starting to allow the u.s. to use its bases. air force bases to attack isis targets in syria. the timing of this attack today is very interesting because just 24 hours before this assault on the u.s. consulate. we heard from washington that six american f-16 fighter aircraft removed from itsly to southeastern turkey at this point we don't know in this extremist group greta that is the

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