as we're getting away from the immediate reaction of this let me bring you in, colonel cedric leighton on this as well, because as we're getting further away from sinwar's death, that seems less likely as of this moment based on what we have heard from hamas and what we have heard from the prime minister's office here in israel. as you're looking at this moment strategically, what do you think it means for where this goes next this is a really great question, kaitlan, because it looks like everybody is entrenched in their positions in spite of sinwar's death, in spite of the death of all the other leaders in hamas and hezbollah, there is this intransigent cell college. >> did that we see not only within the proxies, but also within iran itself usha, i showed the tweet from the supreme leader i earlier and that kind of indicates where things are at at least publicly. now underneath that in the diplomatic phase, there is the possibility that there might be some negotiations that will start, but there's really basically an ice jam that is right now present where negotiations would normall

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we've got colonel cedric leighton, a cnn military analyst as joining us. and first colonel, let me just ask you, as you're looking at these documents and what has been revealed, dealt there, how damaging do you believe this is? whether that's interesting? terms of what it reveals or just for the relationship in and of itself yeah, kaitlan. >> good morning. there are certain factors here in matthew is absolutely right. these are not documents that will reveal everything that the united states knows about what israel is doing. and also by extension, won't reveal everything that is israel actually is do more planning for these attacks on iran, where this attack on iran. but it's still bad news because it shows some degree of vulnerability of the u.s. intelligence system. the two documents in question, one of them is from nga, which is national geospatial intelligence agency. that's the one that does all the imagery, all of a sudden light data. the other one is purportedly from nsa, from the national security agency. and that's the agency that intercepts commu

those attacks on iran overnight, joining me now for a military, look at those attacks colonel cedric leighton cedric, good to have you back as always thanks, jim. >> good to be with you damage assessment from the strikes, so far but from your view, given that iran was able to attack israel, rather was able to attack inside iran more than 100 fighter jets involved in this attack and strike multiple targets. >> what does that tell you? one about israel's capabilities, but, but to about iran's defensive capabilities yeah, there's a great question. >> so on the israeli side of the ledger, a tells me that to the release did offense and chesty job from an air campaign perspective to actually put together a real strong air campaign i it's very complicated to put together a series of movements that involve who honored aircraft those aircraft will need to be refueled. you need to have intelligence assets. you need to get that intelligence to the fighter pilots. you need to get the fighter pilots to coordinate with other members in their, in their formation and you need to make all of that happens kind

i want to go back to cnn military analyst plus to retired colonel cedric leighton. nel leighton, i mean, we were just talking about this with john miller, the ambassador, michael oren, a few moments ago the significance of this, i mean, you really can't, you know, you really can't understate it at this point that this would be a massive massive operation that was successfully concluded if it actually comes to pass it, this is sinwar, but the comparisons to osama bin laden have been raised time and again, what do you think? >> i certainly agree that jim, that those comparisons are validated in a limited sense in that major leader of a major terrorist organization. i and in fact, they were the hundred both yahya sinwar and osama bin laden i had bounties on their heads it's literally and in the case of bin laden, of course, there was a major intelligence efforts in a major operational effort that went after him in the case of yahya sinwar. the same thing. the difference is at least appear to be at the moment that the intelligence piece and to be deliberate planning to g

let's get more perspective now from cedric leighton. he's a cnn military analyst and retired air force colonel cedric. thank you so much for joining me. israel made clear tonight that they were only going after the military targets. we now know from the idf that the targets were primarily ballistic missile facilities, as well as surface to air missile arrays, which i take to mean air defense. so what do you make of the targets that israel is claiming they struck tonight? >> yeah, alex, good absolutely right. the missile arrays that they're talking about, the surface to air missile erase our precisely the air defense systems that iran has deployed. and it'll be interesting to see if among those air defense systems that the israelis targeted was the s 300 system 300 days, a russian main system that it took a long time for the iranians to actually get. they were supposed to get it back as far back as 2006 or 2008 the russians then delayed sending it to them. and then finally in 2010, 2011, the russians decided to give the radians, the s 300

cedric leighton, thanks so much as always you bet jim of course, we'll continue to click. people close, watch on events here in the middle east, in the wake of those israeli strikes. but of course, a lot of political news back in the u.s. as we get to justice 910 days away from the presidential election, please do stay with us. we'll be back right after a short break political analysis questions biden said, the right, stayed awake why did trump pulled out of a 60 minutes? i love pulling out network of i got news for you saturday at nine span. is not just a span its data brokers selling your contact details, browsing history, even social security number but we know it sounds scary. so remove your personal data from data brokers within cagney, get the deal and go in cognitive. now just drop the price of every foot login after thick 99. >> wait, wait six, neither. now customers since october 2021. >> i worked my first cleaning for just $19. they're professional they show up on time, they bring their own supplies to your place, and they take care of everything dishes, the hack

well, joining me now from washington is retired us air force colonel and cnn military analyst cedric leighton. thank you, sir, for being with us you bet rosemary, good to be with you so what exactly is a limited ground operation and what can is israeli ground forces achieve that airstrikes can't yeah, so limited ground operation really depends on the israeli definition of what that term actually means. >> so what we think it means is that they're going to go in too specific areas. >> they see, they're going after specific villages and specific targets, and that they will in essence make it was useless for as valine. so that hezbollah cannot use launch sites that they cannot use staging areas for attacks on northern israel. the whole out via is to secure have been northern part of israel. so that those 60,000 or so israelis that have been forced to move from that area can go back to their homes and as far as what that would look like on a permanent basis, i it really depends on how successful this operation as targeted operation is. if they find that they cannot mop up hezbollah positions, get

joining me now is cnn military analyst and retired air force colonel cedric leighton.onel leighton do you think from what? we have seen thus far, given how limited and targeted this strike was compared to what others had been advocating and some in some areas even concerned about going after nuclear and oil facilities. do you think this strike sent a message of deterrence, once again, being re-established for the israelis yeah, good i think you did at least for the moment, is the reason i say that is looking at the way they designed the target sets the israelis went after certain installations in the tehran vicinity. so there are some military installations not too far from the center of tehran then they also targeted the two provinces in the extreme southwest and west of iran. one of them, elon province is not really very populated, but it is the light of missile launch facilities. and the same with quizzes done province, which down in the southwest part of the country, again, a missile launch area. and right at the top of the persian gulf these areas were designed to

hat on for at least another year or so well, we understand to see so many implications, colonel cedric leighton, as always. thank you so much you bet jessica, we'll be right back at 11 eastern on cnn it's got let's just perfect for fall, right? yet now to strengthen routes all winter repair alone next spring they know all this says it right there on the back? >> yes, it that load that my lawn app today for one care tips and customize plans, feed the law. >> pleaded here's why you should switch from google to duckduckgo on all your devices. duckduckgo comes with a built-in search engine like google, but it's private and doesn't spy on your searches and duckduckgo lets you browse like chrome, but it blocks cookies and creepy ads that follow you around from google and other companies. and there's no catch. it's free. we made 20 from ads, but they don't follow you around, joined the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today with gloomy whole body deodorant, you can dare to do the things v0 never let you, like going in for a hug after a post hot

also joining us cnn military analyst, colonel cedric leighton, great to see both of you colonel leighton, let's start first with you as nic was just reporting the idf now investigating how this drone entered israel without triggering an alert, how might that have happened and how significant is that? >> yeah jessica, it's extremely significant in one of the things that could have happened and there's indication that this might be the case the drone in question may have flown along the surface of the earth is very hard for radar to pick up things that are really low flying. i not impossible, but very difficult. and did do what we call a nap of the earth. and navigation that would then make it very difficult for any defensive system to pick the drone up and actually eliminated, shoot it down. that so that's what i think may have happened in this particular case. and it's certainly something where it's clear that hezbollah is refining it's tactics and israel is, of course consequences that and david, while this is happening, we're also getting this new information today that the u.s us. >>

and of course, for the future of this war i want to now bring in cedric leighton. >> thank you so much, jeremy, stick with us. obviously, there's so much more to discuss here. he is with us, i think on the phone. is that correct, cedric? i know, but there you are. i see alive cedric. >> i want to ask you about something that we are we are hearing how will the idf go about trying to determine whether or not this is yahya sinwar. >> we know that he was in in israeli prison for 22 years. they do have his dna. is that what they're going to be using going forward to try to figure out if this is him. there are of course, pictures and videos that are surfacing as well. >> yes, absolutely. sara. so what the israelis are going to do is they're going to do a forensic examination. is it's kind of like what a coroner would be doing in a murder case and they will take a look the ampa dna, like you mentioned from his prison time in israel, they will also have some other patterns of life, proof-of-life type things and if there's proof of life is lacking, in other words, there's no movement, no notifi

when you see what is happening in the region, kimberly dozier and colonel cedric leighton. thank you both so much. appreciate your time this morning. who book a new

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tel aviv, barak ravid, a cnn political and global affairs analyst and retired air force colonel cedric leighton. jim, this is a rapidly developing story. what is israel saying? and we're response to this public warning from the u.s so this warning emanated as you say, from the u.s just in the last hour or so, although well, we believe it was communicated to the israelis prior to that, we've learned sense that the u.s. >> believes that this attack will be on the scale of what we saw in april. that's significant because that was a significant take an attack dozens of missiles and drones launched from iran towards israel, though the vast majority of them were intercepted not just by israeli air defenses, but also us assets in the region and other allies in the region, including jordan, you have a, we should be aware you have a network of air defenses that comprise not only fixed positions on the ground, but aircraft in the sky, ships in the mediterranean, the red sea, and positions inside jordan and elsewhere in the region so far, israeli officials are saying they have not detected that threat in

. >> joining us now to discuss is cnn military analyst, colonel cedric leighton, colonel. good morning. wonderful to have you let's i want to talk about this operation to start before we dig into kind of what is next in the context of this war, because it's the details are rather stunning, right? this is this is someone that they have been searching for, for years. there were questions about whether or not he was alive or dead. there was thinking he was hiding in these tunnels. they had found his dna nearby where those hostages were executed a little while ago. >> and instead he is found by a routine patrol out in the open air there's drone footage of him. he starts at one point throwing objects at the drone how do you think that this happened at what stood out to you in this and the fact that he did this in response to the drone, can you help us understand kind of his behavior in this moment? >> yeah, this is really interesting case, even good morning. this is one of those moments where coincidences play a large role. so one of the things that did happen was that the isra

cnn, military analyst cedric leighton explains why this could be a risky move for the united states whatdoes it signify? a presence in the middle east and certainly in efforts to protect israel, it is a defensive efforts on the part of the united states however, if those troops are harmed in any way, that could then result in the u.s. being dragged into the war britain that could of course have significant consequences beyond what we would like to imagine at this point and israeli airstrike on a hospital in central gaza killed four people and wounded dozens of others early monday. >> this was the scene inside the al-aqsa hospital courtyard. several tents were inflamed james with people trying unsuccessfully to put out the fires. the israeli military says it conducted a precise strike on a hamas command center inside the compound, and a warning. what follows is disturbing video of the aftermath of another strike on sunday, more than 40 people, at least 13 of them children, were killed in israeli strikes in gaza, according to hospital officials, at least 22 of the dead were killed when the

and cnn military analyst colonel cedric leighton and cnn global affairs analyst kimberly dozier. hello to both of you. let's start there. i thought it was really noteworthy that president biden just flatly close the door on that. so the question is there a lot of questions there? first of all, the decision to do that and then what if israel does it anyway? >> yeah, dana, i really think the key thing here is that president biden is trying to preempt a nuclear attack. in other words, that attack on iran's nuclear, on a nuclear attack, the exact irans nuclear facilities and the reason for that is multifaceted, but basically that would be such an escalation of not only the conflict in the middle east, but it would have global implications. and president biden, along with the g7 nations, are the are clearly looking at trying to minimize the fallout from what has happened over the last few days. and keeping it from spreading throughout the country. >> and it was not worthy yet that the president had said that the g7 and had a conversation and there will be putting out a joint statement

former trump campaign adviser, david urban and cnn military analyst and retired air force colonel cedric leighton. david a new york times headline today points out just how significant this is, noting that a presidential nominee has never threatened to turn the military against americans who don't support him people are voting right now. and i'm just wondering, david, are you comfortable with this kind of rhetoric coming from the republican nominee yes so jim let's let's go a little context here. >> i think that that quote is if we ran the whole clip, maria bartiromo was asking him about unrest post-election day. she said, what if there's unrest in the streets? what if there's violence in the streets? and would donald trump said, is we have a military, the national guard is set to take care of that and if need be, we've got to regular military to take care of that, which is primarily a national guards job, is to kind of police in times of civil unrest. so i think that quotes, i think it's kind of taken out of context. i do think that he did say he said, unfortunate things about adam schiff. i don

when you see what is happening in the region, kimberly dozier and colonel cedric leighton. thank you both so much. appreciate your time this morning. who book a new hour of cnn, new central starts right now campaign trail, his big plans for a 27 day blitz for kamala harris from texas to maine, tens of thousands of port workers are back on the job this morning. >> and i didn't deal. that seems to have averted a massive mess for the u.s. economy at a father going above and beyond his 12 hour trip? but it should have taken only two hours through hurricane helene's aftermath to make sure he was there to walk his daughter down the aisle. what he went through to get there. that's super dad is our guest he baldwin with sara sidner and john berman. this is cnn new central milestone we're exactly one month and one day until the election. it is crucial moment to assess what is happening and what the status of the race is exactly one month and one day away. the harris campaign is marking the one month and one day mark with an announcement, former president barack obama hitting the cam

russian soldiers already know it, and they haven't even gotten into battle yet together colonel cedric leighton. >> thank you very much. >> you bet alex. >> we have breaking news into cnn, chinese government-linked hackers have targeted the phone communications of former president donald trump and his vice presidential nominee senator jd vance. this is according to two sources, are sean lyngaas is joining us now is shawn, what do we know about how successful? these hackers actually weren't getting inside alex. >> that's a tough question to answer because we have limited visibility into this right now. but what we do know is that this is a very sophisticated chinese government linked hacking group. they've been going after us telecommunication companies, big companies we previously reported that they targeted at&t and verizon. and so once they have access to that backbone of telecommunications data, they can look for specific targets. and in this case, they're going to the highest us officials in the land, both in the biden administration, we know that they're targeting senior here. by the biden

us, our global affairs analyst, along with cnn military analyst, retired us air force colonel cedric leightonl. first of all, what's your reaction to these strikes? heard the defense department spokesman, general patrick ryder say that to us guided-missile destroyers, the uss cole and the uss bulkeley were involved in sending up interceptors to try to knock down those ballistic missiles coming towards tel aviv and elsewhere in israel if the he, israeli air defense missile system, the iron dome for example, the uss guided-missile destroyer interceptors had not worked. what kind of damage with those iranian ballistic missiles done? have done in a heavily populated city like tel aviv oh will the damage would have been considerable especially if they'd been even somewhat on target. these types of missiles that the iranians sent toward israel are designed to have maximum explosive effect. and if they had hit a target to one of the intended targets, like let's say, the headquarters of the israelis kelly intelligence service, the mossad, the damage would have been probably quite severe but as we kno

quote, a significant escalation joining us now cnn military analyst, retired air force colonel cedric leighton, and cnn chief international anchor christiane amanpour. thank you both very much for being here christiane how much does israel's recent successes in killing the leadership of iran's proxy group, hezbollah play into their decision to launch this attack today well, according to the iranians exclusively, they issued a statement, as in fact, the missiles were still flying, saying that they had taken this action in retaliation for the attack that killed hassan nasrallah, the head of hezbollah, their proxies in lebanon but also by the way, it delayed you know, retaliation for the killing, the assassination on iranian territory in the summer of ismail haniyeh, who is the political leader of hamas. >> and along with those attacks and assassinations came the deaths of iranian revolutionary guard members as well. so they say that they're taking revenge for their own people as well. but interestingly, just before the attacks last week in new york, i spoke to the iranian vice president who said

washington post columnist and also with us, we have cnn military analyst, retired air force colonel cedric leighton first, let's talk about some of you heard some of our interview with the idf, but let's talk about some of the specifics kernel of this it's operation because i think there is a lot of curiosity around it. this was a routine military operation, but the idf is also stressing that they had a lot of intel about hamas leaders sort of in the area, so that they were on a little bit of an alert, but they had no idea this was sinwar until they were able to do a little bit of surveillance and see what did you think about well, you've learned so far. >> yes, this is very interesting, brianna, because there were initial reporting was that they just happened upon these three terrorists and they shot them and it was all happenstance, coincidence. but i was suspicious of that because, you can't do those kinds of operations with at least some knowledge of what you're going to be encountering wondering so the israeli spokesman, the idf spokesman, when he talked about this, he laid out the fact that t

might use the military or the national guard against quote, enemies from within i asked colonel cedric leighton about this last week if you are a general, you're over at the pentagon or you're a governor in charge of a national guard, a commandant charge of the national guard, and you get an order from a president trump telling you to send soldiers out to round up americans to go after democrats up on the hill. what do you do well, legally, for the national guard, the president has to either a mobilize them officially and put them under federal law at that point, he can ask a governor to deploy their own national guard or suggest that the governor does it, but truthfully, the national guard, if it's not under federal command, still relies on the governor's order. >> the governor is the commander in chief of the guard the thing that was a little bit more problematic was when mr. trump talked about mobilizing, the active, even the active, duty military, i think he's going a statement that's a little woke contentious because active duty military are under the rule of posse comitatus. unless the in

and let's talk about this more with cnn military analysts some retired us air force colonel cedric leighton colonel, what does this tell you about russia's current status in its war on ukraine? >> so brianna, if we think that the north koreans are actually going to serve on the front lines against ukraine. then it most clearly means that there are some very significant personnel shortages in on the russian side. it also means that perhaps the north koreans are getting some combat training potentially from the operations against ukraine. and they could then potentially use that in a possible we'll future conflict with south korea. so the south koreans are right to be concerned. the north koreans are definitely getting into a place where they can possibly help the russians, not just logistically, but possibly also in combat operations. >> i think we're looking for more information here in the coming days to tell us a little bit about what what exactly is going on, right. but we're talking here about thousands of troops being sent to russia. that's according to a senior administration official