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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170823:19:44:00

so has the pentagon had anything to say about these reports? no, they haven t really weighed in on it. secretary mattis is traveling overseas. you know, in some ways they ve always ak nomd, though, that the number that we ve been using in this case for afghanistan 8,400 isn t entirely accurate. they just won t give us the total number of any given moment of how many troops are inside the country because sometimes they say they frankly don t know. now we have a number. we know roughly where it is. it may go above 12,000, slightly below 12,000. but it gives you an indication of just how complicated some of these accounting rules are and how fluid some of these battle spaces are. this has been going on since the obama administration. some would argue as a result of the hard troop caps the obama administration put on the pentagon because they wanted to avoid mission creep. so you remember with president obama he wanted to drawdown troops down to zero by the end of his term. he ended up c

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170605:10:19:00

under lock and key. what s the balance there? what are the new strategies moving forward that you re hearing about? what i m hearing is a desire to be more aggressive, to go after these networks coming out of raqqa, mosul, other places where isis has been active. there is a phrase that s used among counter-terrorism professionals, left of boom. in other words, moving before the bomb goes off, before the devastating attack takes place in manchester or london. you move left of it. you intervene earlier. you know more about the people. i think it s one reason we re going to see the attempt to take isis out of raqqa and syria and fn issue the battle ansell rate. people want to take those sanctuaries, planning areas out and then do after the people who squirt out try to make their way back to europe. you re seeing the french already go into some of these battle

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150930:11:05:00

u.s. and russia to work together because they share this idea that for the immediate future you need to stability that the regime provides even if they re a figure of the u.s. regards of great distaste. can i just ask you a bottom line question. how big of a national security threat to the united states is is isis? i think it is, a lot of people think it is. what do you think? i think it s more of a threat to our european allies to friends in the middle east than friends in the united states. it s a long way away. there have been relatively few americans who have been moving to join the fight in syria and north africa. that s not true for european countries vpt they ve had hundreds and thousands of people who are in these battle spaces who are coming back to britain, to france, to belgium.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100207:19:02:00

are eyeing strategically. since both of our militaries are going to be using those global commons, strategic theorists start talking about how those global commons become potentially new battle spaces. reporter: actually, china analyst david finkelstein says washington, beijing have less to fear from each other. there s a low-tech example of the global commons being threatened not by a nation stage, but by non-state actives. which is why failed states have to be watched. reporter: for years, the u.s. and other nations have kept outer space off-limits. space shouldn t be weaponized and space shouldn t be an area for combat and the fact of the matter is, it s a vulnerability. reporter: no one is predicting the kind of conflict scene in the film avatar, but defense analyst marion leid

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100207:22:02:00

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100207:22:02:00
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