needling, while they might exist, i haven t heard after o war liz cheney didn t want us to get involved in. cheney never backed down tweeting late thursday, take a breath, rand paul. i vote with real donald trump 97% of the time. you have a d. maybe sit this one out and spend some time thinking about all your anti-trump votes. through is all, the president stayed silent on twitter. not offering a single tweet in response to the fighting within his own party. randi kaye, cnn, new york. we ll see if the president weighs in on who s his favorite. be sure to join me right around 10:15 tonight for our analysis of the democratic debate. the news continues now when i hand it over to chris cuomo for primetime. thank you very much. i am chris cuomo. welcome to primetime. the debate rages on about who wants on lead on the democratic side, tonight i want to show you what s not getting the attention it should.
how they can maneuver around this. i think the most dangerous thing that could happen round would be for president trump to now continue to escalate in response to the downing of a drone and seek to target something more directly in iran. that would be seen as the next level, more provocation and would be off to the races at this point. it s key to recognize that it s a drone, not a manned aircraft which in and of itself would create deeper consequences. so, general, can i ask you just for people trying to understand the significance here. obviously you are talking about a huge country with a huge military one of the largest in the world. what would a cold war o war with iran look like when the president saps are you going to war and he says we ll see what would a war look like with iran. i would start off by saying it could escalate even a small action could escalate very quickly. and i m not using hyperbolle. nef a huge military, a relatively unified population and a strong centr
shut his pie hole. he s engaging with this sort of fellow travelers in terms of his ideological peer but was sticking to his guns on make there s a combative issue. they knew that was good politics, marshall strength, particularly aggression, could be used in a political way, a way he never gave up on. it s key to understanding why we saw such a huge military buildup under reagan, why he was so eager to accept sort of estimates of soviet military strength that turned out to be completely off, we found out later, but we paid for at the time as a country. the other thing reagan did, taken the remarkable posture public debate on issues of war and peace was detrimental to our national security. you know we talk about the lack of american discourse, debate and lie dye lialogue we should o war, left is tarred you re not
not an ongoing threat but that is not the case today. there is an ongoing public threat, he is considered armed and dangerous. jillian: he had been on the for 13 years, he leaves behind a son. he was an outstanding employee, one of the finest deputies you would want to meet. reporter: the attack coming after two officers were shot in a dallas home depot. one of them killed. officer tanner died from his injuries after police they are manned o war as shot him in the back of the head while making an arrest. he is what the citizens expect as a dallas officer. his family raised him right. jillian: the other officer surprising doctors after being shot in the face, she still