gaza without hamas i worked for discussing a ran all right with us now retired lieutenant general mark hertling and cnn national security analyst, peter bergen. i want to look forward on what this might mean, but first general, i do want to ask very quickly how the israel and the idf ended up getting yahya sinwar, what does it tell us about patterns of terrorist activity? >> well, when you have a terrorist leader like yahya sinwar they know where they are under threat continuously. we experienced this in iraq and afghanistan where we had keras leaders who knew they were constantly being watched intelligence was driving their potential location. so you will see them moving quite frequently maybe sleeping at two or three different places throughout a week, or maybe even more. so they are moving and that puts them in a position where they pop up somewhere. and i think in this particular situation, i can see in my mind's, i assume we're probably came out of but tunnel entrance inside this building realized that he and his two compatriots were surrounded and didn't have much of a chance other than t

strike from iran and attack would come. >> we are told at any moment, retired lieutenant general mark hertling is back with me. general hertling, i think it's important to sort of as we're in this sort of suspended animation right now, give our viewers some contexts and reminders that on october 8, the day after the deadly attack by hamas inside israel in the north of israel, hezbollah started to rain down with missiles and other ammunition against israel to the point where there are thousands of people who if israelis who used to live in the north in israel, who had to be displaced and refugees in their own country and that is the backdrop of what we are seeing. and the escalation that we have seen with israel and hezbollah two. and then of course, iran right now yeah, there seems to be a focus of attention on what israel has done in lebanon. >> dana, you're exactly right. but i think it's interesting to remind people that there has been a continuous rain of rockets, missiles, and drones coming out of lebanon since, as you said october the eighth indicators that there wasn't a whole lot of co

about all this joining us now is cnn global affairs analyst, kim dozier and cnn military analyst mark hertling, lieutenant general kim and a lieutenant general mark, both of you welcome. let's start with you, lieutenant general. and the fact that us officials have voiced support said israel has the right to respond to iran. but of course that support is limited with all due respect. does israel care and do you expect israel to potentially target nuclear facilities in iran? >> certainly, i think the military and the political figures are providing input to the targeting package, whatever that might be. but that truly is a decision between the israeli military in their political leaders. >> there are multiple, well, there are multiple targets that they could possibly strike. each one of them with different degrees of complexities. amara, and i'm sure that the israelis are putting that together right now and then get it approved from their politicians. but the fact of the matter is you can't much interfere with those kind of things, general mckenzie, the central command commander, is in the area.

lieutenant general mark hertling. thank you so much. i appreciate your great insight this morning, john. >> all right. new video overnight of 500 how bomb from the war. to very be an airport in japan explodes and led to 23 foot wide crater and forced airlines to cancel more than 80 flights. it is not a clear what caused it to explode and no one was hurt. the airport was built as a japanese training base back in 1943. this morning, a teenage driver is safe after his runaway the vehicle reached speeds of up to 113 miles per hour. sam darnold tried to call 911. we realized his suv was speeding out of control. he said he had no way of stopping bring it or slowing it down. minnesota state troopers, they caught up with them at first, they tried to pop the tyre. is that didn't work. troopers and activated the patrol cars anti collisions sensors sped up and told sam to intentionally crashed into them that works. and

and cnn's oren liebermann, as well as retired lieutenant general mark hertling, who is back with us., as we are waiting and hoping that we get more information. can you just explain the significance? of how what this would mean to israelis, what this would mean in the broader region, particularly as this region is in so much tumult right now yeah i think what it means for israelis and what it means for the region depends in part, when the dust settles and we can see what comes next. >> and i think that's an important point to make. i mean, it is important because sinwar is an has been the face for israelis to think about when they think about who organized the october seventh attacks obviously, there have been a lot of other hamas commanders and leaders taken out specifically, mohammed deif, who was the military commander of hamas, and plotted and planned as well along with sinwar. and he was taken out in an israeli airstrike on the 13 july this year, he was replaced by mohammed sinwar, the brother of yahya sinwar. so i have to ask myself at the moment, is has his brother survived? t

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i want to bring in retired lieutenant lieutenant general mark hertling, who's also with it's us now, general. thank you. >> there's a war between israel and hamas still raging in gaza. >> what do you think this would do to that war if this were to be true that the leader of hamas were to be dead yeah. commentary, john, that's that's a perfect question to ask because there's already a lot of heavy breathing about the potential for this bringing the war to an end, the united states saying that potential for israel to doing certain things because of the killing the potential killing of son sidebar. but here's what i would suggest it's great if the leader of an organization is killed, it's great when the command and control structure is dismantled, but that doesn't mean the end of the terrorist organization. if i can say, if anyone has learned that the united states has the whack-a-mole of getting terrorist out of the network is important because it disrupts the organization and causes dysfunction which this may will. but i can't tell you the number of times john, how many times when i w

gaza without hamas i worked for discussing a ran all right with us now retired lieutenant general mark hertling and cnn national security analyst, peter bergen. i want to look forward on what this might mean, but first general, i do want to ask very quickly how the israel and the idf ended up getting yahya sinwar, what does it tell us about patterns of terrorist activity? >> well, when you have a terrorist leader like yahya sinwar they know wherey

. >> and out front now, lieutenant general mark hertling, the former army commanding general for europe. and general, i appreciate your time. you heard colonel lerner there, and it's obviously here and now, the early hours of october 8th saying the idf is ready whenever they get the order to strike. what do you expect israel will do? general. >> outlining what their requirements are. aaron. they're facing a three front war. we've talked about this multiple times. they will continue their offensive into lebanon because they have to they keep being continue to continue to be attacked by hezbollah. out of that country. they will continue their strikes in gaza because they haven't completed that action yet. their deterrence. i mean, i heard i heard the word deterrence used a little while ago. i would say that israel is more interested in escalation. escalation, dominance. can they strike inside of iran and not have this thing escalate to the point where it will be harmful to israel? so they are going to continue to attack in the north and in gaza. they are going to attack and establish retr

jim sciutto is with me here in tel aviv, obviously, south of beirut, general mark hertling also joins us jim, let me just start with you. when we talk about this imminent strike that. israel is determining its targets and keeping very close to the vest even from its closest ally. there are a lot of strikes. possible strikes that israel could hit inside iran, nuclear stray, nuclear locations, oil installations, the actual regime itself, which a lot of people in this country have been pounding the table saying, this is our moment to dip ahead. the monster as they see it. can you walk us through what these targets? it's could be, perhaps a combination of some of these targets. >> let's begin with nuclear and there are multiple nuclear sites around their, around iran. and by the way, that's deliberate because they don't want them all in one place because they don't want it easy to be taken out, their facilities to be taken out in one blow. let's zero in on one of them in particular, is for khan this is a nuclear research facility production facility is for isfahan in the central part of i

thank you both i want to get a little bit more analysis on this from bring in lieutenant general mark hertlinga cnn military analyst and former commanding general, us army europe. now, general, look, this attack on central israel today. i mean, is this hezbollah showing that it still has attack capability? far beyond the front lines. i mean, i wonder how you assess what we're seeing here yeah. i've been watching the last couple of days getting sit-reps situation reports from the israeli defense forces, omar, what we're seeing is a massive increase in the number of missiles and drones that hezbollah is firing into israel the first ten months of this war, they were firing anywhere from 30 to 50 per day over the last three days, they fired somewhere around 300 per day and it just shows the capability of hezbollah to launch missiles so what you're seeing is the leadership will certain the killing of hezbollah leadership will certainly have an effect. but there are still the trigger pullers. they can still launch missiles and rockets into israel, and they seem to be very good at launching some of t

. >> joining us now is cnn military analyst retired lieutenant general mark hertling. he's a former us army commanding general for europe. and the seventh army general hertling, always good to talk to you we don't typically talk about a campaign politics, but how remarkable is the statement from general kelly retired four-star general secretary of homeland security, white house, chief of staff. how much stock do you put in his warning about donald trump? >> first off, jim, i'll say yeah, we don't talk about politics much. i don't like to talk about politics because i'm the military analyst, but i do know john kelly and i noticed him to be a man of integrity and honor. we served together in combat in iraq in 2007 and eight he was in the west an area of iraq. i was in the northern area of iraq and we conducted some operations together. >> so the announcements yesterday and his audio recording for the new york times were somewhat striking it is interesting that he would wait until now to say these kinds of things. >> there had been indications that these kind of things we

now cnn military analyst, retired lieutenant general mark hertling. we're talking about the fad anti-missile defense system. i've got some pictures of it up here, general, how does that alter the equation? and along with the presence of 100 us troops, there it certainly adds additional defensive capability, john, there's the u.s. is sending a battery that means about 100 soldiers six launchers each can fire eight missiles at a time, a radar and a couple of command and control headquarters because that's what a battery is. it's a really it's the smallest command element within the military. but the, that is different because it's the most effective air defense systems in the world. what we talk about is ensuring the defense of israel they have, we've all talked multiple times about the iron dome that's for low all out but you'd rockets. they have the david's sling, which is for medium altitude. they have the arrow which is high altitude. rock incoming rockets. they've also, in the past incorporated patriot pac three, which is one of our systems. it's n

bring in two of our middle east experts, cnn, military analyst, and retired lieutenant general mark hertlingoining us cnn analyst barak ravid, who is a political and foreign policy reporter at axios general hertling. let me start with you. so many, if not most of these missiles from iran were intercepted but how so unprecedented and dangerous is a barrage of ballistic missiles such as this. it at least theoretically well, if you can take 180 plus 180 plus missiles, shoot them into an area and have most of them shot down. >> jake. it is tribute to the israeli defense forces, but it's also an indicator of how important iran sees this attack to be when you're talking about only ballistic missiles, they are much more difficult to be intercepted than some of the cruise missiles and the drones that they sent during the april, attack on israel. so israel has probably used the david's sling and the arrow missile system to shoot them down. this capability of an iron dome. those are usually used for rockets and artillery shells. so israel has spent a lot of money tonight in shooting down those hundred

. >> also, cnn political analyst and retired army lieutenant general mark hertling secretary cohen. first of all, what is your reaction to this new reporting in the atlantic and also the times interview? >> well, you have to put it in the context of what the former presence was saying publicly he has indicated he'd like to be a dictator, a dictator on day one. he's indicated publicly in the past he would like to have my generals. he's indicated throughout the his administration he puts a premium on loyalty, not to the constitution, but to him. he believes not in the rule of law, but in the rule of order. order without accountability, without the rule of law so i think you put it in that context. this is not a new revelation, but it is continuation of who he is in character terms of his professed beliefs. and so i think we have to take mr. goldberg from the atlantic as i certainly support general on this in terms of what his comments are directly general kelly so what to wait for others to comment differently, but that's my impression. >> yeah, the ten general hertling i mean, in the

he's a former israeli national security advisor, retired us army lieutenant general mark hertling is with us. seth jones, national security expert and senior vice president over the center that are for strategic and international studies and ai. let me start with you, israel now saying there will be a quote, significant response to what iran has done after it fired about 200 ballistic missiles at israel. what do you think that response potentially could look like? >> what will if this is second time that iran has fired such a massive attack on israel. i happen to be on your show after the april 13 attack as well, which was unprecedented. this is the second time they do this. israel has responded very minorly. i would say symbolically after the attack of april 13, this was a part of the consultation he shouldn't between the u.s. and israel to do something that was meaningful that would prove to iran that we can penetrate their defense systems, but would not drag the region into a full escalation of war you run just did this. and i might, i think important to have it won't understand u