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As bad as this thing operation, this non-combatant evacuation mission looks, there are some success stories and there will be more. i think that was his intent. but it did certainly surprise me he mentioned it during the conference. >> the person that said he's seen no indications that americans are having trouble getting to the airport, obviously journalists, pentagon are saying something different. now the white house is trying to walk back his comments. can you just talk about how -- what is the military facing here in an operation like this? i mean, they have to secure the -- their part of...

Things might happen. i wasn't -- i was surprised to hear the president acknowledge it publicly. >> yeah, i was too, anderson. that's not something in my view he should have addressed at the podium. but i think it probably was just meant to say, hey, we're doing more things than a lot of people think we're doing. as bad as this thing operation, this non-combatant evacuation mission looks, there are some success stories and there will be more. i think that was his intent. but it did certainly surprise me he mentioned it during the conference. >> the person that said he's seen no indications that...

If "the washington post" story is true, the idea this is the saudi prince personally order thing operation. this is a guy is -- you can see him pictures with richard branson and sitting down, he and jared kushner are buddies. it really makes you wonder what did the u.s. government know about this ahead of time? >> right. that's still unclear. we see senators talking about that in intelligence briefings. we see this report from shane harris at "the washington post." but what the story doesn't say is he ordered the specific operation in turkey. it says they wanted to lure him from his home in vi...