odd. i think what she was trying to convey is how odd the campaign was, don. i think if they just came forward and testified, they really didn t know what they were doing. it was a branding operation, and they were hopeful of winning, but they had no real organization, they d have been better off just telling that flat-out truth. to john s good point, part of what s odd, knowing hope hicks and corey lewandowski, having covered them for a couple of years, the idea that president trump was suggesting to corey lewandowski, a former campaign manager who he threw overboard during the campaign, that he would be the one to go to jeff sessions, you know, the attorney general, to suggest un-recusing as if that s something that s sort of normally done here, i mean hope knows cory quite well, and the notion that theme president was going to send cory
going after it kind of proportionally going after the types of things that we would be interested in eliminating, things that caused the damage to the drone, that shot it down. that was the first thing that you do. other elements they could have gone after would have been command and control modes, but that would be a much higher level of escalation. thank you very much, colonel cedric leighton. we appreciate that. nicholas, i ve been talking about your piece. again, the piece is titled trump and iran may be on a collision course, and it could get scarier, and you write, both say they don t want a war, but each feeds off the other, and both have behaved reckless in ways that increase the conflict. how did the shooting down of this drone escalate to the situation that we have right now with iran? well, i mean a great deal depends on where the drone was. iran insists that the drone was over iranian airspace, that they collected pieces of it in iranian waters. if that is true, the
region. there was a push-pull feel in the white house or in the administration whether they should do it tonight. it seems that cooler heads prevailed, at least if you re looking at the initial reports tonight. we don t know exactly what s behind it. but, again, there was lots of consternation in the administration, and now they seem to have erred, at least now from this reporting, on the side of caution? yeah, and truthfully, don, that s something that occurs any strategic decision level of when you re mitigating risk, where you re attempting to understand what the risks might be based on the processes of war gaming and determining what your objectives are. you know, the story of the two different sides advising president obama during the raid on osama bin laden is fascinating. it seemed like they had the same kind of back-and-forth with two
and in doing so, i came across the police several police officers public facebook profiles, profiles that were available to anyone, and i looked through those profiles and found several troubling memes and posts, and the one that really gripped me was a picture of a police dog bearing its teeth, raring to go after something. it was being restrained by an officer. and over that picture was a caption that said, i hope you run. he likes fast food. oh, my gosh. so you launched this and started this nationwide? so that meme, i think especially because it was a meme, it didn t appear to be something the officer made himself. right. made me ask how much more of this is there out there? is there a conversation going on on facebook between officers where this type of stuff is being shared? yeah. listen, it is fascinating to watch this and unbelievable to see it, and i commend you for your work and i thank you.
that there was cloud cover, that the logistics weren t right, that they miss the their night won t to hit it s now morning in iran, so maybe they missed their window. this may still be happening. so, you know, we don t know that he has changed his mind, and the real risk is here of enormous escalation that just keeps on going. this is a quote. officials said that the president had initially approved attacks on a handful of iranian targets like radar and missile batteries. the operation was under way in its early stages when it was called off, a senior administration official said. planes were in the air and ships were in position but no missiles had been fired when word came to stand down, the official said. what does that tell you, nick? you know, i think we really don t know what ended it, and the you know, what we do know