it sounds scary. laura logan joins us withhe mor. the administration is lying because they are letting these illegal immigrants transporting them across the country while they tell us otherwise. iane don t like being lied to.t let s go into what the intel people you are talking to. your sources are telling you about a possible attack and people infiltrating the migrants community. they call it a virus bomb. you know you have mass numbers of people who are carrying this virus. now you are distributing them across the country. there are a number of lawhe enforcement and intelligence and special operations officials who are matching out the spikes in covid across the country andke
the broader implications here. cnn global affairs analyst kimberly dozier is with me from washington. it s interesting, you know that we learned a lot more this week about what u.s. troops in iraq are authorized to do, frankly, without direct approval from the president. what do you mean? well, we thought that you could only do a manned raid like this with elite u.s. special operations forces going against an isis target if the president signed off on it. now it turns out maybe that still applies inside syria, but inside iraq, they really have taken the gloves off the advise and assist mission, so the u.s. forces who go along with some of these local forces like they do in afghanistan can also engage in the fighting if it s necessary. that s a pattern that i ve heard a lot of complaints from u.s. special operations officials that they hadn t been able to follow before, so i think this does represent a change by the white house even though they are trying to say it s the same old
teams. barbara, when is the navy going to make a decision? well, i have to tell you there s a multi-part effort here. the navy may say let s have women in units, but it s going to be largely up to the recommendations of the special operations command led by general joseph otell, the chief of all special operations, and i want to underscore one of the things jonathan is talking about. when you speak to special operations officials, what they will tell you is they are looking at the notion there must be a uniform standard, that if you re going to put women into these units you cannot have lesser standards for women to join the units, lesser physical training standards, lesser performance standards in the field under fire. you know, everybody s got to basically pull their own weight and carry their own rucksack so there s a lot to look at here. right now we don t see a final decision until the end of the career. we ll stay on top of this story, important story for our
these taliban members who were releaseded? are they considered high risk still? is there legitimate fear they could return to their positions in the battlefield? we have to keep in mind, they ve been behind bars for 12 years. is there any evidence indock ringation at all? the officials i ve spoken to, current and former, say they don t think they ll be so valuable in terms of their role on the battlefield. they ve been out of the action since 2002. but it s the pretege value some of the detractors of this deal are complaining about. the propaganda reward the taliban got just by getting five of their senior people released. will they return to the fight? possibly. some special operations officials and intelligence officials i ve spoken to said fine, let them return to the field of battle and commit acts of violence, then we ll help our