i want to take you live the pentagon and nbc's national security producer, courtney hubie. what exactly are you learning about the possibility of u.s. air strike s? for me, it's like philippines? who knew? >> that's right. i think a lot of americans and maybe people around the world would be surprised to hear there is an isis program in the philippines but as you mentioned it's been going on for some sometime and as we saw in pill neely's terrific reporting from the area, it is a serious problem and a serious fight. in the past several weeks u.s. military and defense officials here in the pentagon have been discussing several things to help with the fight there. one of them is to name the operation, to name a u.s. military operation there. what comes with that is some budget implication, more resources, more funding, and then some more authorities. and one of the authorities that they're talking about is what the military calls the right of collective self-defense. now, whenever there's a u.s. military presence anywhere, they have the inherent right of self-defense, but thi