so it's not just as as general hertling will be the first to say it's not well, just about having the weapons. it's about having command and control. it's having communications and mission discipline. and right now, none of those things are true of hezbollah. >> but to go great to see you, general hertling as always. thank you very much ahead for us. donald trump's latest crime and justice suggestions, strategy calling for an hour of violence what is he actually getting at here? that's coming up tell you about life insurance through the colonial penn program if your age 50 to 85 and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget remember the three ps what are the three ps the three ps of life insurance on a fixed budget? our price, price and price. a price you can afford a price that can't increase. and a price that fits your budget i'm 54. what's my price? >> you can get coverage for $9.95 a month. >> i'm 65 and take medications. what's my price also? >> 995 a month. >> i just turned 80. what's my price? >> 995 a month for you to if you're as 50 to 85 called now about the number one

i think mark mark hertling got it right. that in fact, there's a lot of churn in his ball and if you look at their response, it's been tension. you see once short range missiles further than any point since october 7, but they avoided and i think we'll continue to avoid major israeli infrastructure and population centers none of the key cities, haifa tech berries, aria, were impacted over the last three or four days. so i think that hassan nasrallah now missing several of his core confidence and commanders is in no way shape, or form prepared to assuming the israelis want this. and that's arguable to play into israel's hands by attacking population centers which is going to result in a massive israeli retaliation. and remember, those high trajectory weapons that they have 150 to 200,000, they're not there to fight palestinians or frankly to fudge israelis and israel. they're there as a hedge, should us or israel at some point strike it arounds conventional or unconventional nuclear facility? please directly in iran. so i sus

, general hertling. thank you so much for being with us obviously, we all want to honor what these families have gone through. what these service members have sacrificed your thoughts yeah. >> jim, i was thinking as i was watching the parents and the loved ones come up, i had a total of 253 men and women make the ultimate sacrifice in combat that we're under my command. i've written letters to their parents and loved ones sometimes received letters back and even on several occasions, met a few of those parents and loved ones and they demand our respect there were over 2,400 service members killed in afghanistan and another 5,000 killed in iraq as part of the global war on terrorists. >> i don't believe any of their loved ones have received that congressional gold medal. >> but perhaps this ceremony is to further commemorate those service members who gave their all as the final casualties and americans longer, longest war. it's good that we honor the sacrifices and in doing so should make every effort not

cooperate with us committee's investigation manu raju, cnn, capitol hill lieutenant general mark hertling is a cnn military analyst and a former commanding general of u.s. army europe and seventh army. he joins us now from florida, lieutenant general, wonderful to see you obviously a lot to unpack. but firstly, what do you make of this highly politicized republican report on the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. and do we learn anything new? >> well, i think you put it right in the right condition on when you said highly politicized, it is a highly politicized report many people knew it was going to come out from primarily those in the republican party, the members of that committee, it's been answered by the democrats and unfortunately because there has been so many other investigations into the actions of both the afghan war, but also the final days of the evacuation operation in the chaos at pursued, that there's not going to be much additive in my view to this. having skim through both the reports, both the republican report and the democrats credit rebuttal to it. i didn't learn anyt

israel over the course of the last week, anderson general hertling in terms of nasrallah as a target, why is he so important the, leader of hezbollah in lebanon of course, if you're seeing pictures of prime minister netanyahu approving a strike. >> what the military would call a time-sensitive targeting. it means that they have very good intelligence on a direct location of where this rally is. over the last week after the beeper walkie-talkie chaos today incurred within hezbollah, i think we've seen a lot of turmoil in that terrorist organization. they've been attempting to find other ways to communicate when they do that, they give up positions of some of their key targets. and what we've seen over the last couple of days is multiple leaders hezbollah organizations from area commanders to missile strike commanders, to rocket commanders, to the chief of hezbollah, becomrg

let's get right to cnn military analyst, retired lieutenant general mark hertling general, great to see you. i can give you a sense of the scope of this air campaign. every die here is somewhere that israel has hit in the last couple of days. it's interesting because this follows the attack on the explosive pagers and walkie-talkies. we're showing you right here how do you think general that this attack has impacted or influenced this air campaign that we're seeing right now good morning, john. >> hey, this is exactly the key point that the attack on the beepers, the walkie walkie-talkies causes communications breakdown within hezbollah. >> once any terrorist group has a communication breakdown, they start scrambling. they try and find new ways to communicate and when they do that, they open them up up, open themselves up for operational security requirements and problems so the chatter that's going on within hezbollah after they've lost some of their main main ways to communicate has caused israel to pick up more intelligence in terms of what they're doing because they become more open

what general hertling ben wedeman, jeremy diamond. thank you. that's it for us. the news continues the source with kaitlan collins starts now the source tonight, vice president harris at the border right now in her first visit as the democratic nominee, trying to cut into donald trump's immigration edge he mocks her for showing up meanwhile, the hospital that was surrounded by hurricane helene's floodwaters that dozens trapped on the roof, including patients we're going to show you that dramatic and dangerous rescue that happened today. >> also, we're tracking new explosions in beirut tonight, as israel israel's targeting the lead hezbollah, launching a strike in the heart of the capital. i'm kaitlan collins, and this is the source ago, vice president kamala harris was just visiting the u.s. southern border for the first time since she became the democratic nominee. really confronting what has been one of her biggest political vulnerabilities. immigration harris is in one of those critical states ahead of this election. that is, of course, arizona and she gave a

and it's important to note this is a bipartisan ceremony but you're absolutely right, general hertling. we honor their son sacrifice. we honor these families. families, and we mourn with them and we thank them for what they do for this country, representing their family members, lieutenant general mark hertling. thanks very much. and thank you for joining me. i'm jim acosta inside politics with dana the bash starts right now today on inside politics, game time, just hours from now, kamala harris and donald trump will face off in a debate that could find the final weeks of this deadlocked presidential race and we have new reporting on both candidates, tactics on this crucial night. >> plus change the way you speak about women. nikki haley is offering some blunt advice for the republican ticket that needs to narrow the gender gap, but will donald trump fallen too familiar habits on that tonight? and the most important audience of all cnn is asking undecided voters in must-win pennsylvania what they want to hear? on the debate stage. one person's tip, tell us what you're going to do, not

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