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That these exercises are ongoing all the time. they happen on a smaller unit level. they may take place in related area, sometimes in guam, sometimes in japan, sometimes in south korea. but there's a series of very large exercises like this, very visible to north korea, and those are the ones that they're putting off. >> barbara starr at the pentagon, thanks for keeping us up to date. the search for answers in the disappearance of jamal khashoggi. the journalist, is highlighting the threat that journalists around the world face every day for doing their job. coming up, we'll bring you the co...

They said they were delayed because the servicemember had been involved in multiple casualties incident. is that a valid excuse? does that complicate things? >> it makes it a volume issue, perhaps, don, to put is in a very crass way. but i would say, no, you have a situation where you know that something has happened. you should have procedures in place to handle it. the department of defense has procedures. each of the services have procedures to deal with this. even down at the unit level they have procedures. so everything should really be running like a smoothly oiled machine at this point...

Crattic reasons why some of the letters had not gone out. most of them said they were delayed because the service member had been involved in multiple casualty incident. is that a valid excuse it makes it a volume issue, perhaps, don, to put in a crass way. but i would say, no. you have a situation where you know that something has happened, you should have procedures in place to handle it. the department of defense has procedures. each of services have procedures to deal with this. even down at the unit level they have procedures. so everything should really be running like a smoothly oiled m...

Soldiers today, who is worried, but whose commander pulled together leadership and said, military policy isn't made by tweet. it's business as usual. they've let that transsoldier know she has their support. >> that's happening on the -- >> on the ground. at the unit level. we're hearing over and over from the chain of command -- they're outraged. our folks say, i came in, and they're like, we have your back. so there's sort of -- i mean, you know, troops are going to be very careful. they work for the commander in chief. but there is a sense that, wait, we've now been serving for a year. we'v...

One knew this was coming. as near as we can tell, no one in the pentagon didn't know this was coming. certainly our troops didn't know. the question is, what does this mean? i talked to one of our infantry soldiers today, who is worried, but whose commander pulled together leadership and said, military policy isn't made by tweet. it's business as usual. they've let that transsoldier know she has their support. >> that's happening on the -- >> on the ground. at the unit level. we're hearing over and over from the chain of command -- they're outraged. our folks say, i came in, and they're like, ...