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Question whatsoever. now, the executive privilege is slightly different, which is on a question by question basis you can invoke that privilege to say, i'll answer most of your questions, but when it gets into these candid deliberations between the president and the aide, we want to make sure that we include -- incentivize people to be candid in their conversations by not forcing you to close those in the future. so there is room. it is a legitimate thing to protect executive privilege. >> because there might be national security issues and things that are not suitable for the public domain? >...

Sir, approximately 150. and i thought about it for a second. i said, you know what, they shot down an unmanned drone, plane, whatever you want to call it, and here we are sitting with 150 dead people that would have taken place probably within a half an hour after i said go ahead and i didn't like it. i didn't think it was -- i didn't think it was proportionate. >> okay. obviously we don't know what happened last night in the white house when a missile strike on iran was ostensibly ordered and canceled. we weren't in the room, but it is nearly impossible to believe that it went down as the pre...

That it went down as the president described it to chuck todd today. the president is saying that half an hour before the planes were to take off to launch a carefully planned missile strike he asked his generals how many casualties there would be, and the generals who had planned this operation and presented it to the president and prepped it to go and were ready to launch, you know what, that's a good question. we hadn't thought about that. we're not sure. let us get back to you. if that is what happened, that level of carelessness and slap dash planning would be a scandal unto itself. ryan ...

Be part of the original military planning is pretty difficult to understand, ali. >> and following on that, is it possible that the president would only have learned that approximately 150 people would die with minutes to spare? i would imagine when there's a submission of that sort of proposal general barry mccaffrey told me last night they have proposals for any contingency, about places you don't think we have aggressive relationships with. but the idea of what we call collateral damage, the death of people, that would have to be very high up in that report. >> it would be but, again, what ...

>> it would be but, again, what we don't know is exactly what happened when they presented that to him. if that's something he didn't ask the question or if for some reason they didn't present it. as part of basic and very standard military planning for an operation like this, especially something so high profile, i find it impossible to believe that that wasn't part of the original planning but, again, we just don't know how the conversation was. when you look at the basic idea here, i was also struck when the president said that 150 people, whether that is civilians or iranian military, woul...