let's get to cnn, national security analyst, peter bergen again. hi there peter. so many questions as to what happens next in terms of hezbollah's capabilities. does this paralyze them in any way? we know at least temporarily it seems i certainly very disruptive given the fact that nauta you had the pagers pagers incidents in the walkie-talkies incidents that killed some of the lower level members, but also you've seen other leaders of hezbollah being killed. >> but i would caution there's a long history of thinking that you kill the leader of a terrorist group, insurgent group, and somehow the threat disappears and hezbollah are after all, is an army of tens of thousands of soldiers has been around for more than four decades. they're going to have a leadership succession plan. there are a couple of names out there that been suggested as possible. some of and i don't think this is going to going to have any lasting effect on hezbollah had all based on the record of other peter excuse me. >> sorry, i got to jump in there because you want to get to nic robertson, wh

to seize on the issue ahead of tonight's debate, joining me now cnn national security analyst, peter bergen. peter, we should note the senate majority leader, chuck schumer and house minority leader, hakeem jeffries. they're also going to be there today just your thoughts on what we're seeing unfold today and the fact that republicans, the former president, obviously members of congress up on capitol hill, they are trying to bring this back. obviously, on the as this presidential debate is going to get going tonight it will vice president harris has a, you know, she was either not involved in the decision-making and was sort of a wolf flour or she was involved in the decision-making neither is a great position to be in. i can't imagine it won't come up in the debate. and some short form tonight, it's great that this is a bipartisan you know, kind of award ceremony, not just a republican award ceremony obviously, speaker of the house does control the schedule. i don't think it's a coincidence. it's happening today. that's hard to approve, but we've seen a lot of activity you mentioned the re

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. >> i'll talk more with cnn, national security analyst peter bergen. peter, thanks so much for joining us today. i have a number of things. i'd like to get you, but let's start first with this joint public appearance that comes at a very volatile time in the world. it has been a volatile season what message do you think the intelligence? russians heads were wanting to send by doing this, it is rare. we see them together talking like this publicly yeah, i think it's unprecedented that the head of mi6 from the head of the cia, i do joint public appearance on the record and i thought what bill burns said about the gaza negotiations is quite interesting. >> i mean, he's been intimately involved in all those negotiations clearly, we've heard 100 times or at least dozens of times that a deal is close. he sounded implying that a deal is close, but as you know we've been here before and i don't think anybody is holding their breath, including bill burns but i think also the fact that the ukrainians continue to take losses in eastern ukraine with the russians pu

joining me now is cnn national security analyst peter bergen, also bobby ghosh, a senior editor at bloomberg. good to have you both on it. and peter, i want to begin with you because you wrote a piece about the history of decapitation strikes or assassination strikes, whatever you want to call them of terror leaders. of course, israel has a long history of killing hamas leaders and those leaders are replaced same with the u.s. when, when you think of his experience with isis tell us it does it historically make a difference? and is it a question of who and how powerful the leader is? >> i think short answer is no i don't i don't think it makes a difference in the long term. i mean, particularly when you're looking at an army of 30,000 men, hundred and 50,000 rockets and missiles. they have a succession plan. they've been around for four decades. it's very tempting to think that you get rid of the leader and sudden, suddenly everything changes that obviously a lot of the leaders have been killed by israel and if you take out the middle management as well, that can affect an organization. but