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Is first informed of casualty estimate that's clos that close strike. >> no, the whole thing here is strange. look the first thing that the military will tell the president is probably a range of options on targets. there is always a battle damage estimate means what we think the casualty toll will be in a strike package. that would have been initially briefed. i can't say when the president was briefed or anything like that. what we know from his own account i think we have to take it at face value, we were ten minutes away, from his tweets, he said, from a series of american air strikes on i...

Government has a relationship with iranians, there are iranian-backed militias that are very powerful in iraq. those u.s. service members are on the front lines as targets, right? in any count of counterattack. >> well, this is why i don't quite understand the hastiness of the time frame. this is deadly serious business. i think if you want to put together a campaign, a strategy here against iran, what is your objective, number one. what are we trying to achieve. then you put together your resources and means of deploying them. it is unclear what we are trying to achieve against the iranians t...

>> not as far as i'm concerned. no preconditions. pete: next guest has written planned president trump regarding a possible strike on iran. joining me now is retired army general anthony tata deputy director of forces in afghanistan and author of the upcoming book "double-cross fire" general, thanks for being here this morning. have you done. this you understand what it takes to put a strike package together like this. did the president make the right call? >> yeah. pete. the president demonstrated incredible for the and putting the brakes on this mission and tactical. you understand and folks...

Tactical matter in terms of how something like this would go, is it plausible that the president is first informed of casualty estimates that close to the actual commission of the strike? >> no. the whole thing here is very strange. i think the first thing the military is going to tell the president is probably a range of options on targets. there's always a battle damage estimate, meaning what we think the casualty toll will be in a strike package. so that would have been initially briefed. what i can't say is when the president was briefed or anything like that. we know, though, from his own...

Room. that being said, you've been in similar situations, you know how it works. >> right. it's up front, mr. president, this is the strike package, this is the cde, it's way up front. the decision is go, and then certainly the commander in chief reserves the right to alter that at any time before a strike. >> go ahead, sam. >> it's also open source information to an extent. we know one thing, we know president trump watches fox knees anews and even fox news has been very clear that iran retains the capability and intent to strike americans. that's been broadcast in the media. just by watching...