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You've done the targeting process and the decisionmaking process, and you're going after something and you know the enemy is there and you going to kill them and the risk is small, then you execute that target. if for some reason at the last minute suddenly you see civilians in the area or the enemy ducks into a mosque, church, or hospital, then you will stop the mission or stop from targeting that structure or that particular target. that happens. but it seems to me, i'm a little skeptical based on the president's tweet this morning, that it went down the way it did, because any military deci...

>> after nearly two decades on the run officials say justice has been served and the former skipper of the uss cole described the targeting process. >> we wait for that moment patiently, thoughtfully, deliberately and then when the opportunity presents itself like it evidently did in this case where he was alone outside the capital, we got him with a drone strike. >> he had been on the f.b.i.'s most wanted list. a $5 million bounty on his head. u.s. central command said the drone strike was launched new year's day. the attack on the cole was 2000, less than a year before the 9/11 attacks and s...

With partners, collecting intelligence, calling in air strikes. can you do it from afar? >> not as well as you can do it the way it is now, no. i can't see the military logic there. look, the reason why those troops are in syria in that number and have been so effective is because isis is now a different beast than it was in 2014-2015. there's not as many of them. many of them have gone to ground. they're doing, conducting smaller type operations, and so having eyes on the ground allows you to better target them. this is what we call time-sensitive targeted, dynamic tarkts, small in number. mo...

Saudi arabia. it is a global message and a dangerous message for the interest and security of the united states. it is unconscionable in my mind. >> your fellow democrat, senator jack reed, will support his resolution to end u.s. support, to end it for the saudi coalition in yemen. it could come to a vote in the floor. will you vote in favor of it? >> i didn't support this resolution or a version of this resolution before because i wanted to give the administration the chance to show us that they were actually changing the course of events in yemen. tens of thousands have died. our assistance ...

Even bigger conflict? >> yeah, sure. you can. i suspect and again i don't know that the targeting process has been probably deliberately arranged not to provoke unnecessarily russia or iranian forces and probably focused strictly on syrian targets. now the russians and the iranians can make that harder for us to do by putting some of their forces there. it's really going to depend on how big they want to make this statement and what their going to target. the only -- the big two unknowns we have right now are timing and targets. how many and what are they going to be? i do think that you can d...