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Al qureshi. the u.s. identified his location in early december and after weeks of practicing president biden gave the military the green light on tuesday. u.s. special operators arrived near the compound via helicopters moving to the building where al qurayshi was believed to be living. they used bull horns urging everyone to leave. before they could set foot inside, a massive explosion on the third floor, detonating a bomb killing himself, his wife and two children. meanwhile, one of his deputies fired on u.s. troops and was killed along with his wife and child. officials say no u.s. troops w...

Wants to start a nuclear meltdown. but as i said earlier, nuclear plants are not designed to be in war zones. and inadvertently or accidentally attacks against adjacent facilities, against a nation's power grid can deprive a nuclear powerplant of the electricity supplies and the other supplies it needs to function safely. it could interfere with workers coming into and out of plants. we have had occasions where u.s. special operators, for example, in syria in 2017 called in an airstrike on a dam on a no-strike list. the dam almost failed, drowning tens of thousands of people. would could imagi...

You launch a weapon at them. the swiss blade drone is very different. it's called a switchblade because it comes from something like a mortar tube and the wings blow up and the operator flies it to the target and instead of shooting the missile from the drone and having the drone return to a base, it literally dives in because it has the warhead in the drone itself and hits the target. the operator can watch it go all the way to the target and in fact, if something happens where they see a child nearby or something, a few seconds before it hits the target, they can actually stop the drone from...

Republicans and democrats are calling for more weapons. how about the migs. republicans are particularly pushing that angle. do you think it's rather easy for members of congress to push this when any spark of wider war would be blamed on the biden administration? >> yeah, i mean, look, i think alex to answer the second half of the question first the administration has been clear in using the word world war iii as a communication message to signal to the american people what would be at stake if we indeed were to have military troops on the ground in ukraine or if we were to somehow put a no f...

This was something given the russian military buildup that senior u.s. military personnel thought would have the potential to be really helpful to ukrainian fighters. but -- and this gets to just the unenviable position the biden administration was in late last year. the biden team at the same time was trying to talk russia off the ledge. u.s. diplomats were trying to persuade their russian counterparts not to move forward with this invasion, not to start this war. and the white house had serious concerns that an influx of hundreds of u.s. special operators, some of the united states' most eli...