Fight terrorism, but how . We sat down with mr. Trumps secretary of Defense James Mattis in his first formal interview since taking the job. We are going to move in an accelerated and reinforced manner, throw them on their back foot. Dickerson and the secretary thoughts about the threats from north korea. It would be a catastrophic war if this turns into combat. Dickerson we will have a report from iraq and we will look at another war with filmmaker ken burns who will preview his upcoming project the war in vietnam. Plus the president returns to new questions about soninlaw Jared Kushners contacts with the russians. And his own effort to influence the investigation. We will have plenty of analysis on all of the news coming up on face the nation. Good morning and welcome to face the nation t i am john dickerson. We begin with an update on the war in terror as iraqi force ms. Continue their final push to get isis out of mosul, our Charlie Dagata is on the front lines and filed this repor
Fight terrorism, but how . We sat down with mr. Trumps secretary of Defense James Mattis in his first formal interview since taking the job. We are going to move in an accelerated and reinforced manner, throw them on their back foot. Dickerson and the secretary thoughts about the threats from north korea. It would be a catastrophic war if this turns into combat. Dickerson we will have a report from iraq and we will look at another war with filmmaker ken burns who will preview his upcoming project the war in vietnam. Plus the president returns to new questions about soninlaw Jared Kushners contacts with the russians. And his own effort to influence the investigation. We will have plenty of analysis on all of the news coming up on face the nation. Good morning and welcome to face the nation t i am john dickerson. We begin with an update on the war in terror as iraqi force ms. Continue their final push to get isis out of mosul, our Charlie Dagata is on the front lines and filed this repor
Development worker warren weinstein, who was kidnapped by al qaeda in 2011. And 39yearold Italian Development worker giovanni lo porto, who was kidnapped al qaeda in 2012. This week we learned that both men were accidentally killed in a c. I. A. Dren strike in january. Heres how it happened. The c. I. A. Spotted an al qaeda safe house in pakistan and closely monitored it. Judging senior Al Qaeda Leaders to be present, the c. I. A. Attacked. And while the drone killed a number of al qaeda terrorists, including an al qaeda leader and an american fighter for the group, mr. Weinstein and mr. Lo porto were later found to have been hidden in the building. Al qaeda had made sure the hostages couldnt be seen by u. S. Surveillance efforts. President obama apologized for the loss of life. President obama as president and as commanderinchief, i take full responsibility for all our counterterrorism operations, including the one that inadvertently took the lives of warren and giovanni. I profoundly
Negotiations, the law of Armed Conflict and counterterrorism. Shes also the codirector of the hls brookings project on law and security and a member of the program on negotiations executive board. Benjamin wittes is a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institute and the editorinchief of law fair. And joining our that ares we have the jack n. And lillian r. Berkman professor of entrepreneurial legal studies and director of the Berkman Center for internet and society, and also professor jook Goldsmith Jack goldsmith, professor of law. I will hand it over to benjamin. Thanks so much. Thanks for having me, and thank you all for turning out. This is quite overwhelming. I want to gabby and i started out thinking we were writing a book about the governance of catastrophic risk, and rather to my surprise anyway though im not certain to gabbys we ended up writing a book that was as much a book of political theory as anything else which is odd for me because i actually had neve
Talking earlier today, and you brought up troy aikman. And i didnt think about this until that moment. In 1988 oregon state played against ucla in the rose bowl. And, you know, we were down, and, you know, oregon state didnt win a lot of games in the 80s, believe me. I was there. [laughter] and to play at the rose bowl against someone like troy aikman and eric ball was on defense i mean eric ball was a running back. There was a roster of future you know nfl football players. And so we got wired to play this game. Every play was important. And i beat the offensive tackle bad, and i got past him and i ran right through troy aikman. I ran through him the way youre supposed to. [laughter] the way that were taught, the way that were tate to play the game taught the play the game. You make the play, you know . You dont run up and hand touch a guy and say youre it. [laughter] you make the play the ball was town. But troy was out. And i didnt think a about that until now because we have a high