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Arredondo team over everyone else. but logistic at all these different uniforms. this is not one cohesive unit. you guys, you look at this as law enforcement in particular. is it odd that they would all be deferring to somebody at the level of arredondo? where is there own individual agency leadership here? >> well, under incident command, which is the way they should be organized at this point in time. then these other agencies would actually be under the command of the person in charge in ics. that's why tabletop exercises is so important. when you bring people together and you work through ...

Exercises for just that event -- >> why was early summer such a mess? >> we prepositioned forces from elsewhere in the middle east closer to afghanistan to get them there in a reasonable way, and look, we have all talked about very honestly and openly about the challenges over those 17 days, and the things we could have done better, we all recognize that, especially the first 48 hours. nobody wants to see those scenes again, nobody wants to lose troops again, certainly we regret the mistake that caused an errant strike that killed ten innocent civilians. but john, we got 124,000 people out of ...

Dan lemoth. >> thanks for your time. hoping maybe we can draw you out and flesh out some details on these tabletop exercises. sounds like they went back as far as at least september in involving senior commanders s a hat type of thing. how far back it goes, who it involved, that type of thing? >> yeah, darn, i'm not going to be able to go into more detail than i have. this was several months in the planning. it included actual physical rehearsals, as i said, dozens by the special operations forces as well as you can imagine some tabletop planning as well. but i don't have a tick tock of exactl...

Is recognize the independence of these currently rebel-controlled regions of ukraine. >> which we should say ukraine is not recognize them independently. matthew chance, thanks so much. so as you hear there, so often with the story, bianna, you have what is said and you have what is done. and the question is which of those is true, i know from the u.s. perspective the ukrainian perspective they're waiting to see what is actually done. >> right. and from the ukrainian perspective this has been going on for eight years now, ever since russia annexed crimea illegally in 2014. let's get the u.s. s...

Military and intelligence officials say vladimir putin could launch an invasion of ukraine at any time. the white house national security council could be faced with life-or-death decisions, and it's organized what it calls tiger teams conducting tabletop exercises to try to avoid mistakes frankly that the u.s. made when russia took crimea from ukraine in 2014. this includes laying out possible putin moves and u.s. responses to figure out all of the best options and how to respond to unintended consequences. to get a look at how this might work with invasion or diplomatic talks being stretched...