has happened. courtney, do we have any idea about civilians who could have been in that area at that time? we don t know yet. the u.s. military doesn t have their battle damage assessment, so we don t even know how many isis fighters maify have been killed in this strike. they did say it was a rather remote area. it was not surrounded by a village or any kind of civilian area. so they re hopeful they always take as many measures as possible to try to minimize any civilian impact, casualties or damage. they re hoping in this case there were not any, but we don t know for sure yet. courtney, the pentagon, the d.o.d. is being questioned at least a little bit by folks who say civilian casualties are up in the recent months, that some sort of policy seems to have changed. can you flush that out a little bit for us? that s been highlighted recently last month. on may 17 a large strike in mosul.
the president is briefed, that means the u.s. military is in fact ready to go awaiting his orders. the u.s. military doesn t do these things from a cold start. they will be ready to go but they are waiting to see the decision that mr. trump wants to make. anderson. barbara, in terms of options, there s a potential missile strike and using aircraft, you risk pilots, that s the advantage i assume of something like tomahawk missiles. that s right. let s take a quick look at the map. exactly right. in the mediterranean there are two u.s. navy warships atop the cruise missile unmanned. they fly low and fairly fast. they can invade syrian air defen defenses. that might be one of the key weapons that would be used, these tomahawk cruise missiles. the other might be the b2
nonmilitary, nonthreatening and maybe able to work with local governments, local people for the very ultimate goal of conflict prevention so the u.s. military doesn t have to go there. barbara starr at the pentagon and arwa damon, thank you both very much. still to come for us, an unbelievably troubling story. a group of african-american children terrorized at a birthday party. now the couple responsible found guilty learns their fate. that s next. what are you doing? getting your quarter back. fountains don t earn interest, david. you know i work at ally. i was being romantic. you know what i find romantic? a robust annual percentage yield that s what i find romantic. this is literally throwing your money away. i think it s over there. that way? yeah, a little further up. what year was that quarter? what year is that one? 98 that s the one. you got it! nothing stops us from doing right by our customers. ally. do it right. let s get out of that water. of bad breath germs% ally. do
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worst polling outfit in all of the 2012 campaign. so you talk about a sample that s not and we re not carrying chris christie s water. none other than nate silver, my close and personal friend nate silver who i ve been in fights with forever, nate was a guy that scored them the absolute worst and every professional polling outfit agrees and yet this is keeping the guy with the hottest hand out of the debate. i think there s going to be questions about why they chose that poll. lindsey graham is on any stage. the only candidate that sfrd in the u.s. military doesn t get a chance to debate. i think that s a p.r. miss for the republican party and for fox