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Heels, shaking alliances and raising questions about them, saying negative things about nato, then saying great things about nato that what has happened in alliances is he's injected doubt in our most critical alliances around the world. if you are a war planner or thinking about scenarios or simulations of your dark days and whether the united states is with you or not, those countries need to begin to think, what if the united states is not there in donald trump has done devastating damage to american alliances around the world and there's big doubt. it doesn't mean we can't recover to a cer...

After. >> you think about back to -- was can colin powell you break it you buy it. replacing bashar assad what comes in his wake and given the fractures in the country it is a complex chess board. >> we have not said anything i don't think and it shouldn't be part of the planning. it might be. i don't know. that we're talking about a regime -- a head of the regime strike. i would doubt that would be part of the target list to go after assad in his palace, but here's the thing. i was as a brand new general i was in the pentagon on 9/11 and soon after we went into crisis action planning and i wa...

Liberated village of hud. she's happy, said a man pushing his 80-year-old grandmother. she's happy to see the soldiers. then why were these people carrying white flags and leaving their village? because iraqi troops in their rush to get to mosul have moved on, even though villagers say there are still isis fighters here. and what we saw next was a war planner's worst nightmare. entering this sunni village were shiite militias. in a country that's seen civil war between these two sects of islam, it's a dangerous mix. but what happens here could have international consequences, as well. general ...

Yemen or even libya, but then moving forward, how are voters to digest this information? what's the information theyed need to hear from candidates? >> yeah. this is a very important issue. and first of all, i want to say that i don't agree completely with tony that secretary clinton can be blamed for the removal of cagadhafi in libya. i think there were many, many factors that contributed to that. what i'd like to say is early on in the iraq war, yes, the military was given a mission, and truthfully, fred rhee kashgs i was part of that as war planner on the joint staff in the j-7, to rid iraq...

>> daunting statement. let's talk more about it. joining me now from orlando, cnn military analyst, retired lieutenant general mark hertling. we saw after the provocative event in texas, home-grown terror is real. how do you fight it without stepping on basic freedoms? >> that's the toughest question we are going to face and i think mr. ridge's statement is absolutely correct. but i would like to just comment on that because remember on 9/11 i was a war planner in the pentagon on 9/11 and very few americans had ever heard of al qaeda. we adjusted to them very quickly over a period of ten years...