CNN CNN Newsroom With Carol Costello May 7, 2015 13:26:00
To do that? >> we have a two-star general on the ground in iraq for example, and a lot of people know who was -- the military general in charge of the surge in iraq and everybody knows it was general david petraeus, and he was given the flexibility and resources that he needed to accomplish his mission, and we have a two-star general on the ground right now who -- when i asked at a foreign affairs committee recently whether or not that general has the authority on his own to be able to authorize using a navy s.e.a.l. team or army rangers or green berets and what was answered back is the two-st...