knew what was the strategy, what was the commitment going in. in that regard the president made a decision, as he said, he wants to be the one to announce it to the american people so i ll stand silent until then. until that point. let s bring in cnn intelligence and security analyst bob bare. it is good to have you with us this hour. this is a decision that was several months in the making since he took office. what do you expect to hear from president trump whaen do you believe is needed there? well i believe he will boost the troop level. there is no indication we will pull off of afghanistan at all, at this point. i just don t think this president is willing to say, i can t win the war, so let s pull out and frankly, you know, what he is up against is this is an
makes the situation so tense and dangerous. we ve seen over the last couple of decades when north korea has agreed to give it up, they really haven t done anything. right. le. they ve gotten some kind of benefit for an agreement that they ve never kept. i want to ask you, bob bear, about the timing of this latest missile test. apparently, didn t happen on the day of the sun, as it is now the next day in north korea. but it does come as the vice president of the u.s. is in route to south korea, expected to land in the next five or six hours. what do you make of that? first of all, i agree they look at the world as ksh it s a question of survival for them. they can t give up their nuclear weapons. they look at saddam hussein who didn t have them.
only one. i don t think they are likely to be proven correct. mr. priest, we ve had bob bare, and phil mudd, nobody has heard that it could be anybody other than russia. the question of motive gets very muddy very quickly. i m not going there. i m just talking about these digital fingerprints and the ownership of russia as a motivator of these hacks. what is your understanding? this is the kind of thing that would appear full-out assessment in something like the president s daily brief and you wouldn t just have the tweet or the headline of russia responsibility. what a full piece of analysis does is it gives the bottom line judgment and it gives the reasons for that judgment. the evidence from all sources of intelligence, top secret, to give the reared a sense of why the intelligence community believes what it believes and in that piece there may be nuance, there may be alternative explanations. the bottom line judgment has been put out there publicly.
i just don t see the value in having trump be the second guy to be using this stick in public. you know, i say let s find a way to get the russians to behave in the way we want to, and i think that allows putin to save a little bit of face going forward, and i wouldn t disagree with the importance of us knowing within government who is responsible for these things and letting them know by various means we have at our ability that we have tremendous capability in this realm. i wouldn t disagree with that at all. we don t want to see this continue in the future. there might be just a way to be more effective in making that outcome a reality. all right. jeff beatty, juliet, bob bare,
but, unfortunately, their training has not enabled them to read people s minds, so if you have an individual who becomes radicalized somehow, becomes sympathetic to the cause of isis or any other terror group and they don t tell anybody else, they don t share it, they don t ask for help, you know, they just get the weapon and go to work and start shooting people, there s not much law enforcement can do if someone doesn t get into one of the social media systems, tell friends or neighbors, issue some kind of a warning. there has to be something that comes into public information and then that gets relayed to law enforcement and if we don t have that, you know, in the orlando shooting, there s a question of whether the wife knew he was going to go to the club and shoot people in the club, but nobody else really knows. that s the problem. they cannot read people s minds, and you don t want a law enforcement system where they could. tom fuentez, bob bare, thank you. ewe welcome. up