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There are benefits from having the high ground there so they can have surveillance of the area that they maybe are about to strike or to pick up intelligence and so it really shouldn't surprise us. this is a very capable force and they are going to use ammet trick capabilities that they can on the cheap in order situational awareness. >> they are far more technologically savvy than they have been in the past. use twitter to gal von nice people. say using drones. my first question when i heard this was okay, they are watching us. are we watching them? >> we are we do bring asymmetrical capabili...

Nuclear defense and strategy. he under leon panetta and chuck hagel was given a lot of credit for getting that building under control, understanding things like the sequester on the systems. he's a systems guy. i've been in meetings with him. he's tough on iran. he's no apologist for iran, so he's going to be tough on that front. but he's a strategic thinker but he's also given a lot of credit for being -- for understanding how large systems operate. so it's not exactly the kind of war-fighting defense secretary people thought, but definitely someone who knows the building well. >> panetta des...

Outpace that aspiration. you have these forces and as nic was describing with their sights set on baghdad about that so what can do you in the meantime. and that's the decision the obama administration is faced with thousand. we've talked about air strikes, intelligence sharing. recognizan recognizance, possibility of a u.s. advisory role. with y but each option has its own limitations and dangers. they didn't like air strikes because this doesn't change the dynamic on the ground. good for going after individuals, drone strikes in pakistan, but not in terms of changing the ultimate calculus wa...

We're looking for. that team has been mostly pulled from libya but the u.s. equipment provided to the libyans to train them, for them to use with the americans has almost all been stolen. we originally were told dozens of weapons. now we're being told it is much more, including 23, gmvs. these are up-armored humvee vehicles used in a variety of ways of course, especially for war fighting. they have a 200-mile range or so. highly sensitive equipment. most people are not going to have these type of things unless you're a major military like the u.s. military. along with these vehicles that are g...

Him, and we usually agree, but boy, i think you're wrong on this one, charlie. this is about much more than assad and syria. this is about the kind of world we leave to our children and grandchildren. can we really allow the use of chemical weapons to be the new norm of war fighting? it's not just the president that laid down the red line. the congress passed the syria accountability act half a dozen years ago and specifically cited the use of chemical weapons and told assad not to use them. we are the only country that can stop this. and if we have the ability, we also have the responsibility...