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Strikes. also, i think their teeth were on edge. we just had a couple hundred afghans and military personnel killed a few days earlier by a sole suicide bomber. so these drone strikes actual, as a general statement, are one heck of a lot safer to manage, to be sure of your target, than are f-16s or 155 artillery. they followed this vehicle for eight hours. but i think they had target fixation, they didn't have cross-reference intelligence. they made a mistake and they killed ten innocent civilians. so it's a tragedy as we pull out of afghanistan when we continue to strike isis and al qaeda and...

Barry mccaffrey tweeted today about his guess as to where this hubris from flynn came from. there it is. "he totally went off the rails. his fury at being fired by the obama team, target fixation," only a military guy can come up with that, "target fixation on terror threat, too much time in the dark world. a superb combat intel officer." greg, is that about as good an explanation for the period of hubris that you uncovered? >> it's true. it is. it's a perfect summation. and i think it's why -- i look at flynn as one of the few figures in this sordid russian drama who you can sort of see as ha...

I want to show what you general barry mccaffrey tweeted today about his guess as to where this hubris from flynn came from. there it is. "he totally went off the rails. his fury at being fired by the obama team, target fixation," only a military guy can come up with that, "target fixation on terror threat, too much time in the dark world. a superb combat intel officer." greg, is that about as good an explanation for the period of hubris that you uncovered? >> it's true. it is. it's a perfect summation. and i think it's why -- i look at flynn as one of the few figures in this sordid russian dra...

There it is. "he totally went off the rails. his fury at being fired by the obama team, target fixation," only a military guy can come up with that, "target fixation on terror threat, too much time in the dark world. a superb combat intel officer." greg, is that about as good an explanation for the period of hubris that you uncovered? >> it's true. it is. it's a perfect summation. and i think it's why -- i look at flynn as one of the few figures in this sordid russian drama who you can sort of see as having fallen from some grace. i mean, this is not a story in which we have a lot of key playe...

To if we set aside that time. you later, however, turned on him when his public uttering started to change and you said you feared he was demented. retired general mark hurtling who was i believe in the service said on television tonight, something is genuinely wrong with general flynn and demons got ahold of him. gentlemen, what do you think went wrong with general flynn? >> hard to say. first of all he clearly was one incredibly courageous effective intelligence officer. we oh a lot to him and general stan mccrystal. my guess is we would have had a dozen 9/11s if it wasn't for the special op...