from islamic state. we are assessing and we are investigating. look, make no mistake. _ investigating. look, make no mistake, no military on the face of the earth _ mistake, no military on the face of the earth were started to avoid civilian — the earth were started to avoid civilian casualties the united stetes— civilian casualties the united states military. and nobody wants to see innocent life taken. we take it very. _ see innocent life taken. we take it very. very— see innocent life taken. we take it very, very seriously. and when we know _ very, very seriously. and when we know that — very, very seriously. and when we know that we have caused innocent life to _ know that we have caused innocent life to be _ know that we have caused innocent life to be lost in the conduct of our operations, we are transparent about it. — our operations, we are transparent about it. we — our operations, we are transparent about it. we are investigating this, not about it. we are investigating this, hot to— about it. we are investigating this, hot to get— about it. we are investigating this, not to get ahead of it. but if we have verifiable information that we did in _ have verifiable information that we did in fact — have verifiable information that we did in fact take innocent life here then— did in fact take innocent life here then we — did in fact take innocent life here then we will be transparent about that too — then we will be transparent about that too. nobody wants to see that happeh _ that too. nobody wants to see that happen. but you know what else we didh't_ happen. but you know what else we didn't want— happen. but you know what else we didn't want to see happen? we didn't want to— didn't want to see happen? we didn't want to see _ didn't want to see happen? we didn't want to see happen what we believed to be a _ want to see happen what we believed to be a very— want to see happen what we believed to be a very real, a very specific and a _ to be a very real, a very specific and a very— to be a very real, a very specific and a very eminent threat to the