now. and that is what they have to face. ben, let me ask you, the russians threatened to go after decision-making centers if there were further attacks on russian assets or russian territory. there was this claim of hitting a military facility near kyiv. is there any connection there potentially? reporter: well, that is not really a decision a decision-making thing. it is a military asset that not surprisingly the russians would take out. let s keep in mind of course that it is fairly clear that the russians were trying to assassinate president volodymyr zelenskyy in the opening weeks of this war. so they have no compunction if they feel the need to obliterate whatever it is, whether it is government buildings, leadership facilities, and the worries is
dr. grant with national security and military analyst and also the president of iris independent research. dr. grant, great to have you on. we appreciate you coming. the president wants all troops out, as we said come afghanistan everybody out by august 31st. he wants to go after isis k. can you do both? well, there is no question that central commands already has air strike options that are preraised, and we heard president biden talk about three different categories, leadership facilities, isis assets. yes, our military can do it, but biden is really running out of good, military options. and i would like to see him slow this down a little bit. trace: yeah, you said slow down a little bit. i want to play something the president played today and get your response on the other side, watch. and want the commanders of operations to strike isis k in
their economy they acquired over the last 15 months that we have allowed their oil distribution system to feed them that money? the other one is, you know france, the airliner, what s happening in germany. what s going to happen in the united states. these are all centrally controlled out of the islamic state s leadership facilities in raqqah. how come we haven t hit these. imagine we could have avoided and prevented what happened in france, what happened in the airliner over egypt and what s happenied in the sinjar provinc in iraq. if we have taken down the leadership last year. good point. so concerned about civilian casualties. here s what s happening. if i may, neal. here s what s happening. sure. the enemies of the united states are exploiting our humanity to impose their terror.