irma was so close to delivering up with of those tough blows that a small wobble in the storp s path could have made things much worse. ginning me, jason salmonel. i now count on you for weather outside of our region now. count me a super fan. thank you so much. let me start with what we got right, what we got wrong in forecasting this hurricane. give me the good, the bad, and the ugly here. sure. so at long lead teams, i mean more than a week away we saw this as a threat. we had been tracking this what sools like forever. again, five, seven days out we thought it would be a land fall threat for somewhere along the wooekts. for three to five days we knew it was a real and present danger to florida. as we got closer in is question was is it going to be the west coast, the east coast, or is it going to come up the spine? that was the question we couldn t answer until about a
point. nbc news chuck todd. chuck, thank you very much for filling us in on the latest details. reporter: you got it, buddy. ginning me joining me now, nbc correspondent, michael. good to be with you, lawrence. michael, what is the pakistan dimension of this? there must be so much in the white house about this right now. there s the question object who in pack stab knew what. did pakistan want to know if the united states was going to do something like this? right. the pakistani dimension to this is huge. i thought one of the most notable moments today came when john brennan, the white house counterterrorism advisor was briefing at the white house and the question of whether pakistani officials were could possibly have not known about bin laden s presence in this large million dollar
it s, centered in the white house. as mr. cheney said there, you can rely on that assessment because it is based on his experience. that experience of course led hem to say this to bob schaeffer? do you think it will be a long war or short war? based on my time as secretary of defense, i m confident that the troops will be successful and it will go relatively quickly. there is possibility of complications you can t anticipate. ginning me, chris hayes and alex wagner. good evening to you both. chris, i want to start here and try to take this seriously at first. whatever credibility problems dick cheney has. this was the debate for years. barack obama came into office, one controversial thing he did was add troops to afghanistan did a surge now doing a drawdown. it says something to me really
with folks back to desert storm. they re absolutely convinced the american capacity to lead and influence events in that part of the world has been dramatically reduced by this president. we have got a problem of weakness. it s, centerered in the white house. as mr. cheney said there, you can rely on that assessment because it is based on his experience. that experience of course led hem to say this to bob sha sk t schaeffer? do you think it will be a long war or short war? based on my time as secretary of defense, i m confident that the troops will be successful and it will go relatively quickly. there is possibility of complications you can t anticipate. ginning me, chris hayes and alex wagner. good evening to you both. chris, i want to start here and try to take this seriously at first. whatever krefdability credibili