the pentagon papers estimated about an estimated 280,000 vietcong communist fighters. this was up from what their estimates were of about 10000 in 1962, so 10000 to 280,000 in the insurgency was rapidly growing. there was an active uprising in south vietnam which included three months of setting themselves on fire, images which were broadcast into america's living room in the us understood and officials understood american intervention in opposition to it was rising, but they did not understand why there was opposition and why there was opposition into the us backed south vietnamese-- south vietnamese regime, but they thought scientists could up them understand, so slope was one of the people that was sent to vietnam. he was using the warsaw test which was a time to help understand psychotherapist. so far at least in this happy with the vietcong fighter that ink blocks veiled to release any insights into the fighter. he asked the viacom fighter to go through the parts and identify something sexual. nothing. than he has the fighter to find anything that reminded him of

mattis at the pentagon in yemen, iraq, syria, and afghanistan. particularly to set troop levels in afghanistan. are there perils for the military long-term that now seems to be having to own this policy, whatever happens? again, different from mr. obama who, rightly or wrongly, owned the policy? it seems that the pentagon will own it, and i wonder what you think about the perils there. rep. thornberry: if someone is the decision maker, that person will be held accountable with a for the result of his or her decisions, but i have to say, i recently reread general mcmaster's book "dereliction of duty" about what went wrong in vietnam. you had the white house, in that case under lyndon johnson, making the military decisions which were based more on politics than on military strategy and tactics. that was a disaster. i think you have seen shades of that in the obama administration. too many decisions were made in the white house among staffers and so forth. the military ought to be given the goal. the president say, "this is what i want you to do," a

pentagon still looks a bit like swiss cheese, and a lot of holes. i think they are even losing some time on building the 2019 budget. quick question on this year's budget again, which is it was meant to be, you know, a readiness-fixing budget, but i gather that is hard to get the pentagon two-part with some of the data that i think you folks require to make the case for this more money. is that an issue? it is an issue, but i see both sides of it. there are leaders in the pentagon who do not want to publicly talk about what our problems are. their view is that is telling the enemy where we are weak, and i am sympathetic with that. at the same time, unless we can talk about what our problems are, we will not have members of congress who are willing to fix those problems. certainly, the folks who devote most of their time and energy to these issues, like the folks on the armed services committee in both the house and senate, understand how deep the damage is that has been done by that 20% cut i mentioned, and we are just determined to follow through o

philip, why is the pentagon making this morning? >> the pentagon says it has proof. that is something we did not get from the white house. basically threatening to respond militarily to any future chemical attacks by the regime. did that statement by the press secretary there was no proof given the new details of what the syrian military might be up to. the pentagon has filled in the gaps. the pentagon says that is suspicious activity at that same air base from which the planes departed that according to united states and most of the west, that provoked that chemical attack in the first place. there are differing points of view on what exactly happened on the ground. the russians contest the u.s. point of view. that is what the pentagon is saying. suspicious act vividly and preparations for another chemical attack. the response from the united states might be similar to what we saw at the beginning of april. there were no details on that. there were details from the palace where you are from a phone call between the u.s. president. aty seem to have discussed least a

pentagon. the i-team scott mcfarland is getting results and now those firefighters are a step closer to getting a new station. bill toney remembers running for his life inside the pentagon. >> all these images won't ever leave me. >> reporter: and remembers seeing the firefighters running toward the danger. >> it was greatly inspiring to see how and risked their own lives. >> reporter: the terror attack at the pentagon killed 184 people and devastated the nation and destroyed the fire station outside the complex.ç toney was troubled, though, when a news4 i-team investigation revealed in may the plans to rebuild that fire station had quietly stalled. for the past 15 years, firefighters who manned that station have worked out of trailers, which don't meet u.s. army standards. that's according to military records obtained by the i-team and the local firefighters union. >> people are worried about it being broken and how we're going to fix it and make it better. >> reporter: we found the timetabl

house side, in committee, the house armed services committee, a key meeting this week, setting their pentagon policy and spending priorities for 2018. this as president trump is departing from recent presidential practice, delegating the strategic, much of the strategic and tactical decision making to his top generals and to secretary of defense. we wanted to ask about you the president's reliance on his generals and military advisors in this first hour this morning. join the conversations, here's what do you. if you're a republican, the line is 202-748-8001. democrats, 202-748-8000. and for independents and all others, 202-748-8002. and you can join us also, by the way, we set aside a line for those of you who are afghanistan vet vans, 202-748-8003. we welcome your tweets, @cspanwj is how you reach us. also post your comments on our facebook page as well. we will get to your comments momentarily on this sunday morning. looking forward to hearing from you. but for more details on the president's policies, or i should say, his ways of dealing with his military leaders, we're joined by leo shan

according to a statement released by the pentagon the syrian fighter jet that strayed into a so-called de confliction washington says the syrian military forbidding from entering that area where the u.s. backed s.t.'s for the syrian democratic forces a base however russia's foreign minister earlier rejected the use of the de confliction zone so good lavrov says the u.s. has drawn up its oban trees here without consulting with the syrian government. i'm not aware of that the conflict zones the pentagon is referring to maybe there is own that have been established unilaterally where the coalition thinks that he will do whatever it wants we don't recognize such loans. as you know there are already discoloration zones that have been agreed on and established by syria iran turkey and russia any steps by the coalition which don't receive consent from damascus are not legitimate the downing of the syrian jets the latest in a series of u.s. strikes against forces fighting for the assad government the us led coalition recently conducted several bombing raids against pro-government fighters in s

ok well let's set cross live now to former pentagon official michael maloof to get his take on this michael good to have you back on the program and just reading into the reports here no confirmation that this was deliberate it needs to be stressed but earlier i did speak to the chairman of the mosque and we also heard from the muslim council of britain they have called it an intentional attack on muslims tensions are running high in the u.k. after what we've seen over the last few months is there a fear that conclusions are being jumped to here do you think well not necessarily everything is a problem in the area with respect to this particular episode i've heard one report that the driver actually sped up before he plowed into the crowd of people that to me indicates deliberateness and and. it's a little strange that again we don't have any information on the perpetrator or perpetrators and consequently given that this is in a predominately muslim area outside of a mosque. again you cannot rule out certain possibilities so again i don't have the facts yet the police have not said so but.

former pentagon official spoke to you this his thoughts about the early on he says the attack follows a similar pattern but a different target in europe. given the fact that this was a vehicle using the cheap means in fact it's the identical method that isis called upon. terrorists in place to to use because it's cheap it doesn't you have no intelligence on any of this and this has been this is been the history of what we've been seeing recently particularly during ramadan the fact that this happened during ramadan is also curious. but isis did call for greater. attacks but again you're fact going to happen in a muslim predominantly muslim area throws a little curveball here and that's that's a little strange unless it was more radicalized individuals trying to go after more moderate. muslims. what line is this monday morning a syrian military jets been shot down by an american war play near the embattled syrian city of raka damascus says the pilot was carrying out a bombing run against islamic state but the pentagon claims it down the plane for bombing u.s. backed forces to mask a sp

eighteen shot down the su twenty two the pentagon says quote in accordance with the rules of engagement but areas of syria west of the euphrates river were under the control of isis prior to syrian government forces pushing into the region the last several months assad's government along with the cooperation of russian forces have been successful with killing many isis terrorists in that region and pushing them out of key cities so now moscow is calling on the pentagon to provide a full accounting of why it decided to take down the syrian su twenty two jet and told the u.s. that russian forces will track coalition jets should they enter this regional airspace again despite american mainstream media reporting or insinuating that moscow might shoot down u.s. aircraft immediately that simply not true ed. all right thanks miguel in response to the downing of the syrian jet russia's defense ministry says it has halted cooperation with the united states military in syria or to use emily su has the details right now one thing is when diplomats engage in a war of words but today's development s

david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >>> meanwhile, u.s. backed forces in syria are fighting their way into the self proclaimed capital of the islamic state raqqa. holly williams caught up with u.s. troops outside the city. >> reporter: american marines are replacing a shattered bridge. they spent three days in the desert coaxing the steel into place. captain bobby murray based at camp lejune, north carolina told us the war against isis here in syria has left behind a deadly path of destruction. used to be a lot of mines from isis. and we engineers and technicians swept out the field. made schuss it was safe. made sure it was safe. minutes later a truck hit a mine less than a mile away. marines raced off to investigate. the driver miraculously was alive. the medic treated him for lacerations and concussion. a fighter with america's syrian allies. and said he was heading to the front line when he hit the mine. the marines found more mines and definited them. in the nearby village. they're grateful for american help. but there is very little

the pentagon deployed two launchers in april. on a trip last week, officials traveling with traveling with defense secretary jim mattis seemed to indicate the deal was complete. >> we've been consulting with the government throughout the process. to get the entire battery to the korean peninsula which includes six launchers. >> pentagon taking a wait and see attitude but some see it as a challenge for president trump's north korea policy at a time of uncertainty on the korean peninsula when they would prefer to present a united front. >> bret: news about the pentagon's ability to defend the homeland against an incoming missile. >> pentagon officials say this is the equivalent of getting upgraded to a triple a+ rating and comes in the wake of the successful missile defense test at the air force base in california. fox news has obtained a memo sent june six to the defense secretary which says that the u.s. missile defense agency is now for the first time capable of defending theo's homeland. the memo was written by the independent

. >> welcome to the pentagon, mister president, you and your delegation. i would just tell you this is a privilege or us to host you and your folks, we are keenly aware of what your nation has been going through. our two nations as we both know share interests. we also share more importantly a commitment and that commitment is to the principles that are underlying the international order. words like sovereignty, territorial integrity and freedom from coercion come to mind. we do not take such freedom for granted and we recognize this 2014 was a watershed year for security in europe. we also recognize the severe these that your people suffer. and even in the face of dangers aggression, cyber attacks or a neighbor shredding, your country his stroke shown a strong commitment to defend itself and frankly against all on. the united states stands with you, we support you in the face of threats to sovereignty area the two international law or the international order. general essay, our senior defense advisor will continue to be a resource for you and for me, i mi

pentagon pages six million dollars to mail a tire you can go because the a bomb in color now the pentagon doesn't even know where the ghosts are that might have been eat. any justification for twenty million dollars in afghan firewood when my auditor's asked for documentation of we're basically told quote unquote we don't have the records we just spend the money. the cia has fired some of its work is off today hijacks a vending machine with the last story and this break. the recent spat between the gulf states has highlighted yet another middle eastern conflict while turkey is siding with qatar on iran again saudi arabia the long running tensions between the sunni's into the open wanted and cry jump into the fray instead of trying to pull the strings from a distance. combat now your love of junk food could cost you your job well at least if you push it to fall that's the lesson to be learned from a recent scandal that's rocked the cia officer my girlfriend says santiago explains . big new cia contractors gooden still snacks without getting caught the contractors were working for the cia d

cnn has more from the pentagon. >> reporter: u.s. military officials had been watching this air base in syria for some days. it was the same air base that the syrians used to launch their last chemical attack back in april. but over the last couple of days, there grew concern about what they were seeing there. they saw a syrian aircraft move into a shelter with chemical abilities nearby. that is what led to the white house warning that caught a lot of people by surprise. not top cabinet officials but within the pentagon, a lot of people didn't know that warning from the white house was coming. the real goal is to avoid officials tell us, avoid any additional u.s. air strikes. what they are hoping is that the russians will work to influence assad and get him to back off and not launch another air strike. but if he doesn't back off, if he were to proceed, u.s. military officials are letting it be known they have everything in place to strike again. >> thank you. >>> the white house says its warning to the assad regime was the equivalen

so the pentagon has confirmed that a u.s. fighter jet has shot down an iranian made pro syrian regime drone in southern syria at approximately twelve thirty am local time now i'll tell you is a town on the syrian border where u.s. troops are in fact training syrian rebels the statement claims the drone displayed hostile intent and advanced on coalition forces this is in fact the third procedure in an aircraft they've shot down just this month a second drone was downed on june the eighth in the same area and on sunday the u.s. led coalition shot down a syrian government plane in the country's north that many felt that move was a step too far even prompting a reaction from the u.n. it does bring up the broadly or deep concern of the risk of possible miscalculation and escalation in the conflict in syria overall there have been five attacks by the us government forces in recent months and all cases they've claimed actions were taken in self-defense and that the coalition does not seek confrontation with the syrian government but

forces leaving in the short term they have been deploying more pentagon troops in syria president. ordered hundreds more over the last several months he did indicate that he wanted to lessen tensions with the russian federation that he wanted to focus our u.s. military policy towards the elimination of the islamic state. what we've seen however over the last five months since he was inaugurated is just the opposite so it seems in this effort to defeat the u.s. could in fact be fanning new hotbed of tension if you like washington has a case of tunnel vision trying to solve only one problem without seeing the bigger picture sound familiar and should iraq anyone but history teaches us nothing clearly not even past tweets such as this one from donald trump to then president obama in two thousand and thirteen he warned that nothing good would come to the us from attacking syria apparently hindsight isn't twenty twenty one to get to the white house. r.t. washington d.c. we heard from several experts and got their take on the latest developments. the united states and the coalition are th

he wanted to leak information gathered by the fbi and justice department from its the pentagon of papers, and that is a crime because that prejudices a jury that would eventually have to leake whether any of the activities where it illegal. so when nixon learned that these two men, g gordon liddy and e howard hunt were involved in watergate, he realized that in order to protect himself he had to engage in a cover-up. so behind the scenes, he starts thatmmit very illegal acts two-and-a-half years down the line will cost him the presidency. host: initially there was a reticence among national media to even touch the story, right? guest: they did not want to make too much of it. it seemed to be a caper that had gone wrong and the watergate break-in was a pretty silly thing. it was under motivated and over bungled, as a journalist named gary wells put it. there was not much defined in the democratic national committee. it seemed like this was, started out more as a farce than a tragedy. the washington post smelled a rat and bradley and katharine , the publisher and managing editor decided to

pentagon pages six million dollars to mail a tire you can go because the a bomb in color now the pentagon doesn't even know where they go all that money beneath. any justification for twenty million dollars of afghan firewood when my auditor's asked for documentation of we're basically told quote unquote we don't have the records we just spend the money. so planes more nice a con we'll be back after this short break stay with us. in case you're new to the game this is how it works not the economy is built around corporations corporations run washington washington media the media the voters elect the businessman to run this country business because. you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before . what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to be rich. but you're going to be this is what. three of the people. interested always in the why. question. hello welcome back now your love of junk food could call serial job at least if you push it too far that's

it's one thing about leaking data about war and i agree, the pentagon papers were a good thing and by the way they deflated the democrats and republicans. these people are leaking that make it seems like they're deflating something important and in fact, there deflating the most common -- nothing happened. neil: the bottom line is were getting from these leaks is information about the process of government. i think comey is a grandstanding, comes across -- here's the thing, i thought it was fascinated this is how the president describes the president of the united states ask and when it comes to his investigation. that is information which may not be illegal, i agree with you, but it's information i like to know and most americans. >> why did james comey feel it was up to him? that he had the moral response ability to start the avalanche that is special counsel. why did he feel that was his j job? i agree with adam shift at this point. he was the fbi director who was fired? same reason he used on july -- >> what you agree with the ranking member -- >> there were avenues for him if he

we got some breaking news to bring you in our see the pentagon says that a u.s. fighter jet has downed an armed drone belonging to pro syrian government forces in the south west of syria the u.s. says it was shot down near one of its so-called confliction zones after they assessed it to be a threat it allegedly displayed quote hostile intent this is the second such drone to be shot down by u.s. led forces this month alone but of course the third aircraft because of that war plane that was shot down in the north of the country all of this has been happening in the same area in terms of the drones being taken out of action no doubt will be ramifications to that will be across it for you in our next bulletin in just over half an hour. next the one r.t. international it's watching the whole. it's. the same wrong. well just don't call. me. to say power these days. and in. the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. readings and sell you say she says it's time for assault watchers to admit the uncomfortable truth that most

senators have now joined those critical of the pentagon's policy in syria this is illegal war at this point then there's a practical question the practical question is doing anything you want killing every perceived enemy in every perceived leader of chieftain of five people and so misbegotten village is it helping are we going to defeat an ideology by killing people united states and the coalition are there without any permission without any i mean or for the president and so when we when we not only do we enter here. and there are sovereign errors. but now we have shot down. syrian jets we have been carrying out bombing attacks. is an act of war of aggression. under international law. and jacqueline viggo looks at how trams promises to stop such interventions are now being broken as the syrian conflict escalates trump made it clear that defeating terrorism and putting an end to the trend of u.s. interventions in the middle east were top priorities so he opted for granting more power to the military what i do is i authorized by military we have the greatest military in the world ok b

he is there at the pentagon. shannon. >> shannon: senate leaders are working hard to try to pull together the 50 votes they have to have to pass the republican healthcare plan. bringing vice president mike pence to the hill to get everyone on board during an important lunch today, florida governor rick scott will meet with him as well. he joins us next to react to the assessment and take a look at what the senate plan means for you when you head to your doctor's office. >> shannon: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell trying to keep the healthcare alive working on votes. six senators publicly saying they can't support the bill as it is currently written. mike emanuel chasing them all over capitol hill. it appears at this stage the senate republican leadership has a numbers problem. >> absolutely right. a number of senate republicans were struck by the congressional budget office for the uninsured would grow. the other numbers problem is gop senators who don't want to debate it or discuss it. susan collins, rand

i want to go to the pentagon. barbara starr is joining us. were you in a briefing getting more information. what are you hearing? >> reporter: poppy, we do now have a very significant update from the pentagon. the pentagon spokesman captain jeff davis concluding an off-camera briefing a short time ago. he's told reporters here this morning, they've been looking at intelligence over the last few days at this air base that they had struck back in april, that they believe that chemical attack was organized and perpetrated from and began to see some activity there regarding the chemical weapons stored at that air base, but in the last 24 hours, that intelligence, that information became more compelling, and became suggestive, according to the pentagon, that the syrians were planning an attack. the intelligence is focusing on one particular aircraft shelter at that base, an aircraft that is there and chemical weapons substances that are there. now, he wouldn't go so far as to say whether the chemical weapons have been or were being loaded on to th

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pentagon said dropped bombs on u.s.-backed anti-regime forces. russia issuing this threat of sorts to the u.s. stay out of our way. any aircraft caught west of the euphrates river will be tweeted as, quote, air targets. how seriously is the pentagon taking this threat from the kremlin? >> well, jake, to be clear, the pentagon not looking for a dogfight with the russians but taking it strongly enough to respond to it, jake. u.s. pilots flying over syria now on the lookout for russian airplanes or missile threats following the weekend shootdown by a u.s. navy fna superhornet of a syrian war plane. this because the kremlin threatened any u.s. war plane operating in certain areas of syria would be considered a threat. when the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff was asked if he was confident that russia would not shoot down a u.s. warplane, the answer was carefully worded. >> i'm confident that we are still communicating between our operations center and the russian federation operations center, and i'm also confident that our forces have the capab

early on to from the former pentagon official michael maloof about this he was looking on he says the suspected attack follows a familiar pattern but a different target now in europe. given the fact that this was a vehicle using the cheap means in fact it's the identical method that isis called upon. terrorists in place to to use because it's cheap it doesn't you have no intelligence on any of this and this has been this is been the history of what we've been seeing recently particularly during ramadan the fact that this happened during ramadan is also curious. but isis did call for greater. attacks but again your fact that it happen in a muslim predominantly muslim area throws a little curveball here and that that's a little strange unless it was more radicalized individuals trying to go after more moderate. muslims so waking up again to see another tragic night for london it wasn't so long ago that this particular mosque was making plenty of headlines in the u.k. it's minus is about that the finsbury park mosque opened back in the late one nine hundred eighty s. as the muslim popula

frankly, i've had some debates with the leadership in the pentagon about this. because they are concerned about telling our adversaries too much about what our problems are. my focus being more political admittedly than theirs is to get the political support we need to have the sort of rebuilding like they did in the 80s, we're going to have to be more explicit about that. now, i will say when you have things like happened last month, you had a fair number of pilots go on strike because they believe the aircraft they were being asked to fly were not safe. it helps wake people up a little bit. i think -- but we've had a number of classified briefings with my committee and i think the more people know about the facts, the more urgent fixing this problem becomes. >> let me bore onin on one other thing, army bringing aid teams. for the last couple of budgets, the army hack saying it wanted to send a third a year to do the full unit three week long exercises and training that are sort of the culmination. one would think that if we've tried to fund that twor two or th

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hans nichols is live at the pentagon. i'd imagine this has filtered up for people at the pentagon to examine what's going on in paris. >> it is on every screen i've walked through here at the pentagon the last 20 minutes. everyone is watching events unfold on television. you get two views at the pentagon of the ability of isis to conduct external operations. the one view is you're going to see more of them. as isis loses physical territory inside their caliphate, you'll see more high profile or attempt at high profile terrorist attacks. the other view is that their territory shrinks, they're playing defense on so many levels. their communications is restricted and getting hit by so many bombs. in raqqah, there are 24 strikes last night by coalition air forces. they're getting hit so often, they actually don't have the time to plan and conduct external operations. so two views you get here. now, just to recap what happened overnight. you did have the final assault on raqqah. the difference with the assault on raqqah and th

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the pentagon spokesman would not make a direct link. the french interior minister said the notre dame attacker shouted "this is for syria" before striking. in the meantime, u.s. officials fear as the isis capitol falls, there will be more terror attacks in europe and elsewhere as isis tries to divert attention from their inevitable military defeat. she fence secretary mattis had this to say in australia yesterday. >> we're going to have to take that down or the attacks that you've seen going on around the world will continue. the enemy has to be taken out by military means where they are powerful enough to cause these attacks on others. we can't sit idly by and let them hold it. >> hundreds of u.s. special operations, troops are participating on the ground in the raqqa operation. u.s. marine artillery, apache gun shots, rocket-assisted artillery are known as part of the operation. while the u.s. military are advising, they're firing artillery and providing air cover. >> shepard: jennifer, thank you. could the syria operation be a trigge

did this come from the pentagon, from what we understand at this point? >> reporter: from what we know at the moment, this was a statement from the white house. it hasn't been backed up by any evidence so far. but in a situation like this, one would be surprised if the white house or the pentagon were to be -- would want to publish photographs or evidence that they may have that they believe assad is preparing a chemical weapons strike. they would lose in part the element of surprise. perhaps surprising in part because president trump has said in the past that he would not -- he would not give warnings, he would just act. that's been the narrative until now. so far, nothing from the pentagon. obviously waiting to hear what they have to say. nikki haley, ambassador of the united states nations, being clear that it would be assad responsible, but not just him, as well his backers, russia and iran, as well. to that point, secretary of state rex tillerson talking yesterday by phone with his opposite number in moscow, sergei lavrov. >> reporter: clear if the i

it also seemed for an hour or two to be putting the pentagon on notice. there are numerous reports saying the pentagon was catching up on this when the white house but this statement out up white house but this statement out up to the white house very quickly but after other statement saying that all of those anonymous sources saying they hadn't conferred with the relevant agencies were not true. the white house expected the state department, the pentagon, the cia and the office of the director of international intelligence, all of the relevant organisations knew what the relevant organisations knew what the white house was up to. nevertheless, it is still a remarkable statement being made so publicly, as it was by the white house. a follow—up statement from the pentagon and also from the us ambassador to the un, nikki haley, who also made her own remarks. nikki haley is the us ambassador to the un. here she is on twitter saying... the russians, for their part, say they consider such threats from the americans to the legitimate leadership of the syrian

i want to go straight to the pentagon and nbc's hans nicholls. what exactly can you tell us about this? we get this extraordinary warning about syria, yet when i look at the president's twitter handle this morning, he's all about tweeting fake news, promoting books of tv anchors. i'm so confused because a warning about syria is massively disturbing. >> it's an ominous warning, you're correct on that. just in the last few minutes, we have some details from the pentagon that can flush that warning out that was delivered by sean spicer, the white house press secretary. what pentagon officials are telling us is in the last 24 hours the evidence they saw, the intel that they saw was more compelling, a quote from captain jeff davis on the record, saying that they saw strongly suggestive evidence that syria, the assad regime, was potentially on a hedge preparing for another chemical weapons attack. this was at the same airfield that the u.s. struck with those 59 tomahawk missiles on april the 7th. and the activity they saw, which inlulded aircraft, they

that is the term used by the pentagon. hence why it was shot down by a 15 fighter jet. no munitions were dropped by this armed drone, but there had been some dropped just a week earlier by another drawn that was moving toward coalition forces as well. those did not explode once they hit the ground, but that's the exact same scenario, according to the pentagon, that happened during the night yesterday. >> the u.s. and russia are obviously on opposite sides of , that theict conviction channel still not back up and running as i understand it. we're just going to see more incidents, aren't we? that line is still close, that's something that has actually worked well the russians and the americans since its conception. this is essentially a phone line , and their more people than just one on each side working on it. the russian side is based in syria and the u.s. side is based in qatar at that air base the u.s. uses for a lot of its airstrikes on syria. that is communication that is crucial. it's essentially where russians and americans tell each other what they are up to and

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the pentagon would like to have six missiles as part of that thad battery. they only made two of them operational. they were hoping to get the other four in place in order to have a solid system to defend seoul as well as the u.s. troops there. we had just heard in the last week from the assistant secretary of defense for asian affairs, david helsey, he was on the trip with defense secretary

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the pentagon would like to have six missiles as part of that thad battery. they only made two of them operational. they were hoping to get the other four in place in order to have a solid system to defend seoul as well as the u.s. troops there. we had just heard in the last week from the assistant secretary of defense for asian affairs, david helsey, he was on the trip with defense secretary mattis, and he told reporters on the plane that in fact they were in negotiations with the government of korea to position all six of those missiles. now it seems based on the reports out of tokyo, based on the comments of south korean officials, that we have not been able to confirm but "the new york times" is reporting, based on those statements, it looks as though the south korean government is reneging on that agreement or perhaps this is a negotiating strategy and they're trying to negotiate through the press with the pentagon. so we only have the statement that you read from the pentagon which says we refer you to the south korean government, the rok government. th