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The operation was under way in its early stages when it was called off, a senior administration official said. planes were in the air and ships were in position but no missiles had been fired when word came to stand down, the official said. what does that tell you, nick? >> you know, i think we really don't know what ended it, and the -- you know, what we do know is that mike pompeo and john bolton were urging this kind of military strike, that there were a lot of reservations in the pentagon about the way this could slip out of control and escalate. and so i would like to think that people in...

Reporting now, there were aircraft in the air. there were support aircraft in the air and strike aircraft in the air. we don't know -- at least what i've read at this point, what the configuration of those forces was. but at some point someone said to the president, this is too much, and he said, hold on, let's pull it back. but, again, i think these are hard things to spin up. it takes a long time to spin up a strike package like this, and it's a very serious question as to what he was going to do with it, and now what the iranians know about it. >> okay. rick, i want you to stand by because ...

To deliver a message to jeff sessions, it was odd. i mean it was odd. >> very odd. in her testimony, hicks said that this comment from the president during the july 2016 -- remember, russia, it was a joke. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. >> the mueller report says, by the way, that within approximately five hours of trump's statement, gru officers targeted clinton's personal office for the first time. did russia take this as a joke? >> well, that's -- i mean a and b. there you have it. in terms of president trump getting up there a...

But they had no real organization, they'd have been better off just telling that flat-out truth. >> i would add to john's good point, part of what's odd, knowing hope hicks and corey lewandowski, having covered them for a couple of years, the idea that president trump was suggesting to corey lewandowski, a former campaign manager that he threw overboard during the campaign, that he would be the one to go to jeff sessions to suggest unrecusing as if this is something that is normally done here. i mean, hope knows cory quite well, and the notion that the president was going to send cory to deliv...

Odd. i think what she was trying to convey is how odd the campaign was, don. i think if they just came forward and testified, they really didn't know what they were doing. it was a branding operation, and they were hopeful of winning, but they had no real organization, they'd have been better off just telling that flat-out truth. >> to john's good point, part of what's odd, knowing hope hicks and corey lewandowski, having covered them for a couple of years, the idea that president trump was suggesting to corey lewandowski, a former campaign manager who he threw overboard during the campaign, t...