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haley and desantis did go after each other with haley presenting herself as the candidate of the future. >> we need a leader that is not looking at four years and eight years. we need a president that is looking at 20 and 30 years. >> good news, the frontrunner is looking at 30 years. 20 with good behavior. [ applause ] >> ah-ha. ♪♪ >> good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is friday, january 12th. willie, so much to talk about today. let's see, front page of the papers, "daily news," "we will not be speaking." not sure where "morning joe" paper of record is today. i guess...

In the backdrop of what was happening with lloyd austin. gone for three days, unexplained absence, in the hospital, clearly sidelined. did that affect the timing of this? there has been a lot of criticism from some factions. some of the factions say they shouldn't have done it without the authorization of congress. some say, you waited too long. deterrence wasn't working, and we should have acted quicker. was the austin factor a reason why this took so long? >> i don't think so, sam. i think the austin situation is its own thing. it's not a capital problem, but it was clearly a mistake. discus...

Right now with the russians, the u.s. coalition and israelis have occasionally acknowledged they have taken out targets inside syria, for instance, weapons convoys going to hezbollah which has been fighting on the ground protecting bashar al assad. whether that goes into coordination where they're helping pick targets, that's another story, but have you so many planesed in air right now, carol, there's real concern someone gets involved with someone else. that could end very badly. that's a real danger. >> let's focus on russia and donald trump, who seems to be walking back comments to msnbc a...

Skies over baghdad every day now. it is a political decision that would immediate to be taken. the it is not simply a switch that you can turn on and launch a counter terrorism offensive. you need to gather intelligence, pick targets, recultivate relationships. when the united states was here in force for years it was watching every town, every city here. it knew all of the players. but for the last several years, american troops haven't been here in large numbers. there hasn't been a focus on iraq. it would take a little bit of time to rebuild that intelligence portfolio. some of the tools ar...

You need to gather intelligence, pick targets, recultivate relationships. when the united states was here in force for years it was watching every town, every city here. it knew all of the players. but for the last several years, american troops haven't been here in large numbers. there hasn't been a focus on iraq. it would take a little bit of time to rebuild that intelligence portfolio. some of the tools are already here. it would just take a decision to start using them. some officials i have spoken to think that's coming. that eventually after the military advisers who are here on the grou...