libya, 100 people in northern syria, strikes by drones or b-52s, b-2s. the first questions we ever had here is were there any high value targets, hvts. they don t giveven get to the stage. they have a term form them, they re squirters. they fled and they try to find them afterwards. on the practical level, what trump is saying is really theory and doesn t have much of an effect the way the pentagon or cia under new leadership is going to prosecute these wars and try to keep america safe. hallie? we re joined here on set with corey gardner. i m sorry for the rain here that just started. it s a beautiful city it s
we here at the pentagon have had two, three briefings, talking about different strikes, whether they re up in the air, b 2s being flown all the way from missouri, these are kill operations. these are strikes. they re not bothering to find out whether or not these people have actionable intelligence. they re trying to get them before they flee out of their zones and potentially head to europe to cause damage there. we hear this over and over again. the battle in mosul, there s a couple of roads out of western mosul, they say people are fleeing there. those mean kill strikes. that s not even getting to the interrogation level. hans, thank you very much. coming up, deifying the president, mayors of saint riff cities say they will fight presidentrump s executive order threatening to pull billions of federal dollars. you have to smarten up and you have to toughen up because you can t let that happen. that s a war zone. i want to be clear, we re
about the mission, quote, the rarely used b-2 stealth bomber carried out massive strikes against two isis camps in libya on wednesday in what was almost certainly the last combat mission specifically authorized by president barack obama. this is from military.com. published that on thursday, the last full day of the obama administration. but it turns out that b-2 stealth bomber run around the world and into libya, that might not have been the last combat mission ordered by president obama because those b-2s flew on wednesday. the next day on thursday, u.s. planes were flying a major series of strikes in syria. again, targeting isis. in this case targeting al qaeda. in this case they used a b-52 bomber and drones and the u.s. says it struck a long-standing militant training camp west of aleppo near the turkish border. so right up until the moment he left office on wednesday with those b-2 strikes, on thursday
last full day of the obama administration. but it turns out that b-2 stealth bomber run around the world and into libya, that might not have been the last combat mission ordered by president obama because those b-2s flew on wednesday. the next day on thursday, u.s. planes were flying a major series of strikes in syria. again, targeting isis. in this case targeting al qaeda. in this case they used a b-52 bomber and drones and the u.s. says it struck a long-standing militant training camp west of aleppo near the turkish border. so right up until the moment he left office on wednesday with those b-2 strikes, on thursday in syria with the b-52, president obama up until the moment he left office he was ordering aggressive u.s. military strikes ainst al qaeda and isis targets in countries like libya and syria. and there are american pilots who are carrying out these
coming out of liteman air force base and missouri, filing out across the atlantic, refuelling in the mediterranean and launching into syria without having to penetrate syrian airspace. this is a much more robust attack than what we ve talked about thus far. and the ships themselves would carry hundreds of missiles. why would you want all of this involved? well, tom, it s physics. you can only launch so many cruise missiles at a time. you want to increase the number of platforms as we have described. primarily because you want to have targets hit in quick succession to have continuous pressure on the regime. we don t want assad to have an ability to respond. we want him to keep his head down. we want him confused and we want chaos to rain within this regime. let me play devil s advocate here. in a complicated system like this, there s more that can go wrong. let s say one of these planes develops mechanical problems, strays across the border.