special forces. you heard that repeated over and over again today. the main difference of course vice president pence made that clear today in a series of tweets is that our special forces do not specifically target civilians, while as theirs do. that's precisely what they do. that's what makes them terrorists and not special forces guys. >> they're very indiscriminate about who they will kill or injure. clearly they did a lot of that damage in iraq, but they are doing it all over the world and would continue to do so if given the opportunity. you know, soleimani, no one's going to miss him except perhaps the ayatollah khamenei because he was his hitman. that's the sort of thing we were dealing with. david: i wish our media and some democrats were a little more discriminating in terms of making these comparisons with our folks, but apparently there's no lower bar than what they can crawl under. thank you very much, colonel. good to see you. appreciate you being here. meanwhile, democrats on capitol hill, chief among them, house speaker pelosi complai

special forces. you heard that repeated over and over again today. the main difference of course vice president pence made that clear today in a series of tweets is that our special forces do not specifically target civilians, while as theirs do. that's precisely what they do. that's what makes them terrorists and not special forces guys. >> they're very indiscriminate about who they will kill or injure. clearly they did a lot of that damage in iraq, but they are doing it all over the world and would continue to do so if given the opportunity. you know, soleimani, no one's going to miss him except perhaps the ayatollah khamenei because he was his hitman. that's the sort of thing we were dealing with. david: i wish our media and some democrats were a little more discriminating in terms of making these comparisons with our folks, but apparently there's no lower bar than what they can crawl under. thank you very much, colonel. good to see you. appreciate you being here. meanwhile, democrats on capitol hill, chief among them, house speaker pelosi complai

special forces has the same thing. you're assigned, but then when you have been there for a certain amount of time, you come back to a pool. pool that works very closely with the same units. there is a connectivity. so, those are two examples. ually going to be doing a lessons learned report on the best practices for doing that with aid or state or dod. to you -- you don't want send somebody over there for 18 years. my dad was drafted for world war ii. he waas there -- he was there for the life of the war. but that is different. there is a way to do that. you do not lose that conductivity. we do not lose that connection with this afghan unit. and you work together, and that afghan feels closer to you, the american advisor, than he does to the tele-ban. >-- to the taliban. >> i want to pick up on something talked about earlier and that is changes in administration. i'm not asking you to judge the administrations are the policies but we have had three presidents during this time, both parties. to what extent does a chang

the special force quietly operated iranian proxy campaigns made of 20,000 militia fighters across the middle east and some analysts say he was attempting to spread iran's islamic revolution from baghdad to damascus and all the way to beirut where they would be considered a direct threat to israel. qasem soleimani is responsible for killing 600 american troops during the iraq war. to put that into perspective, 17% of all us deaths in iraq from 2003-2011 were orchestrated by this man. >> is responsible for killing many americans. i would say the last two years i was here the majority of our casualties came from the surrogates, not al qaeda. >> reporter: only recently the elusive leader has been seen giving interviews and appearing in photos around the region with the ayatollah, a recent visit to russia to meet vladimir putin and then his presence in baghdad as iraqi officials were forming a government there. if there's any doubt he had a hand in that attack at the us embassy in baghdad, look at this photo. qasem soleimani is our leader, spray-painted in red under a broken window at the

right extremism in the army notably there were 5 times as many incidents involving the german special forces or k s k than compared to the rest of the army. this comes as a beer brand with nancy era german reich symbols has been on sale in a german store police have since launched an investigation the store later stated to discontinue this policy with the brand symbols abound in germany except when used in the context of art research and teaching. law the siskins from the berlin based jewish institute for democracy and against anti-semitism believes the government should use laws to find new naziism in the country the newspapers are only breaking bad thing that they're not being the good thing is we have a good majority is not anti-semitic at all you know but the majority has to get up to stand up to do something to courage then i would feel better because you know these few very few entries in this and his ministry do we have here but they are doing our harm to the country they are doing opted to wish life here and they are really scaring not only jewish people and that's horrifying moment

killed the special commander of the special ops force. most trusted advisers was hit at baghdad international airport. it was a decisive action. general soleimani was actively developing plans to attack american diplomats and troops in iraq and the region. the state department is urging all u.s. citizens to leave iraq immediately. >> soleimani was supported by proxies across the region and hated by the country's enemies, who saw him as the mastermind of state-sponsored terrorism. his assassination comes days after supporter of a militia stormed the u.s. embassy in baghdad. the deputy head behind the group in those protests was also killed in the strike. they were protesting missile strikes launched by the u.s. for the death of an american contractor, an attack that the pentagon blamed on soleimani's forces. >> tehran calling it dangerous. adding, the u.s. bears responsibility for all consequences of its rogue adventurism. one big question this morning is whether top congressional leaders were notified. cnn's fareed zacaria suspects they w

it seems to me the conclusion that really training their special forces, their afghan national defense and security forces and their air force with the appropriate people may be the best strategy. i know the president hopes he can negotiate with the taliban i'm a bit skeptical, sir, that you can never negotiate with the taliban. i know a complete withdrawal would involve an overrun by the taliban, for sure. it would probably take the country over and then we'd have a real mess. this is very complicated. but it's something that needs to change. status quo is not acceptable here. >> in response to that ranking member, i agree totally. but the important thing is you have to be given the facts. >> yeah. >> to make that decision. and one of the concerns i have raised for almost, again, seven or eight or nine years i've been doing this, i can't remember. they kind of merge after a while, is that a lot of the facts that you need, you are not being given. they are overclassified or not being collected, or they're just ignored. so to this day, you don't have unless you go into the classified br

what i haves her in about called "special forces your corn of don't need a bit followers or friends, just a core group, maybe like a couple, who when you feel like an imposter, they convince you that you're real. and that you may have to fake it until you make it. my mother used to say, you're always smiling, i know you are not that happy. [laughter] but i found at an early age that when you smile at people that still works on tv, by the way. the world is falling apart, but look at these molars. [laughter] i do think it opened a lot of doors that really were nailed shut to me, particularly as a person of color. that ability to wil have opened my eyes smiles really made a difference. i needed people around me who were doing great things in our young lives to believe in me. >> the piece i would add to that is choosing that special forces wisely i think is huge. i think the one piece that i would say, just very tactically, when you are choosing what you have defined as your special forces, it's the people who are going to take risks with you in your career. i fundamental believer that t

sudanese security forces have opened fire in the capital khartoum you know the tree has deployed special forces to contain the violence there from a disbanded unit of the general intelligence services of the group are angry after being told to either retire or join your profits at work forces. 3 european countries say they're launching a dispute mike as i'm under the iranian nuclear deal after refusing to run effort needed violations process could lead to the reintroduction of sanctions under previous u.n. resolutions. russia remains upbeat on efforts to secure a binding truce in libya its defense ministry says worth anything after that has taken time to discuss the terms of a cease fire agreement with its allies and germany has not confirmed an international peace conference will be held in berlin on sunday scientists are urging the total evacuation of nearly a 1000000 people living close to an erupting volcano in the philippines. organic farmers have been felt in nearby areas tens of thousands have already fled their homes since ash and lava started spewing on sunday let's take a closer look

he is the government of the head of cia and special forces. >> reporter: it is only recently the elusive leader has been seen giving interviews and appearing in photos around the region with the ayatollah and joining instagram at one point. the state department, a recent visit to russia meeting vladimir putin, and his most recent presence in baghdad a few weeks ago as iraqi officials were trying to form a government. if there is any doubt he had a hand in that attack at the us embassy in baghdad look at this photo right here and see the words qasem soleimani is our leader spray-painted in red under the broken window at the embassy. iran sees his death as a political assassination and is expected to respond to the death of its most powerful commander. rob: thank you so much. jillian: democrats quick to take aim at the commander-in-chief for keeping congress in the dark. rob: many say the military strike in baghdad could put the us on a path to war. todd pyro has reaction. >> reporter: numerous democrats speaking out against the strike that the purpose of defense described in part as follo

but they basically relied on the use of special operations forces, used for special forces, cyber warfareaven't made it major conventional army into iraq. >> josh was the senior director for counterterrorism. joshua was held over by the trump team and this is actually a very honorable part of american national security decision-making which is holding over, particularly when it comes to counterterrorism, mike blogger was held over by obama even though george w. bush appointed him to the national counterterrorism Ãb now the cane institute and work with us closely here. he was held over by the trump team form obama and before that, bush. you see in the counterterrorism sphere there's kind of a lot of, you come out of this tradition. >> true continuity. >> there is a kind of consensus about what we should be doing on counterterrorism. >> except that of course obama was a departure from some of that continuity but you are saying that trump is continuous with that departure. >> i think you are right but i would copycaveat that. >> the prisons were close to 2006 were supreme court rulings allow

nelson a group of somali pirates by french special forces except here is what you don't know. is a french special forces landed there with the italian helicopter refueled by a danish forget over watched by the portuguese air patrol aircraft a bahraini forget nearby under the command of a nato commander american we found this with information from iran. piracy is one thing nations can agree on that they can have strange angles. teams were built better than anybody else that was an attribute of character. here is the last one a beautiful ship very famous to the history for a very tragic reason this beautiful cruiser blew up in havana harbor 1898. when it blew up united states immediately fell in line with reporting that said the ship was blown up by spanish terrace. we use that word. okay. so what happened? the spanish-american war happened. randolph hearst we launched into this war a lot of people died. we acquired colonies it's not a happy chapter all things considered. when we salvaged the ship 50 years later we discovered it had not blown up there was an external mine attach

special forces is training people from ethnic minorities in myanmar i say they're being persecuted by the military the training involves medical and humanitarian assistance or been money has more on this remote hilltop base more than 180 recruits complete basic training with the free burma rangers or f.b.i. . they say there are humanitarian movement working to help free the oppressed in myanmar. gem one is from the northern shan state where he says ethnic groups is suffering at the hands of the country's military. there are many human rights abuses people got raped and tortured it's happening to us and many ethnic groups in myanmar i think men and women take part in fitness drills and training scenarios to deliver aid and treat civilians wounded in areas of conflict these people come from the states of catchin schon and rocky and where there are fragile cease fires and sporadic fighting the f.b.i. is privately funded and was founded 25 years ago by former u.s. special forces member and past david events and he wants me amas government to be held to account shelling a displacing villag

there's a french special forces and they landed there by an italian helicopter. refueled by the danish. overwatch by portuguese patrol aircraft. on the command of an american. here's the punchline. we found this thing from iran. piracy. it's what the nations can agree on. the mic is that you have strange different angles to them. nesson understood that. he broke teams better than anybody else. this attribute of character. i think this the last one. beautiful ship again. this is the uss maine. it is very famous in history. for a very tragic reason. this beautiful cruiser blew up in havana harbor in the 1898. what a blowup, the nation the united states immediately fell in line with recording it said, the ship was burned up by spanish terrorists. we use that word. so what happened. spanish american war happened. yellow journalism. we launched into this work. a lot of people died. we acquired some colonies. it was not a happy chapter. all things considered. would we salvaged this ship 50 years later, we discovered that the main and doubled up because of an external m

special forces train their african partners. so as the day begins now in this east african country we're trying to unpick many more answers. how did the attack happen, how were they able to go to this extent, and how could it be so audacious and brazen? it is the first attack on u.s. troops on kenyan soil. >> and this huge story. growing fires in australia have now burned an area the size of west virginia. cnn live with more on the largest peacetime evacuation effort in australia's history. t actually was. dust mite droppings! eeeeeww! dead skin cells! gross! so now, i grab my swiffer sweeper and heavy-duty dusters. duster extends to three feet to get all that gross stuff gotcha! and for that nasty dust on my floors, my sweeper's on it. the textured cloths grab and hold dirt and hair no matter where dust bunnies hide. no more heebie jeebies. phew. glad i stopped cleaning and started swiffering. of course i'd love to take an informal poll. i used to be a little cranky. dealing with our finances really haunted me. thankfully, i go

correspondent: senegal special forces on patrol on newly purchased boats.is a training exercise, but the threats are real. more hijackings take place in the gulf of guinea than any other place in the world. >> pirates operating here are looking for sailors to kidnap, merchant ships to hijack. the only way to stop this is to probe -- patrol are territories. correspondent: huge reserves of oil and gas were discovered in waters senegal shares with mauritania. a trillion cubic feet of gas. then navy fears once it starts to flow, wealth could come under attack

charter the former director of britain's special forces questions british government and the media narratives used to justify 2800 british bombing of syria after revelations from wiki leaks and a top o.p.c. w inspector giving evidence to the un and is the u.s.s.r. as role in the defeat of the nazis being whitewashed from nato nation culture we investigate the re framing of history with columbia university's professor joseph wilson told the similar coming up in today's going on the ground 1st to a country that major nation media appears to have lost interest in since britain in the usa failed to overthrow its government syria just as we approach the 2 year anniversary of a british warplane attack reported here by the state mandated b.b.c. with afterburners glowing and loaded with storm shadow cruise missiles for tornadoes take to the skies as britain's contribution to raids launched overnight in response to syria's alleged use of chemical weapons the word alleged there taking a lot of the weight in b.b.c. reporters breathless coverage because this week the un security council again focuses on

a group founded by a former member of the special forces is training people from ethnic minorities in the end more they say they're being persecuted by the country's army the training involves medical and humanitarian assistance but man morris military argues they're actually ethnic arms groups or a burden mentally has more on this remote hilltop base more than 180 recruits complete basic training with the free burma rangers or f.b.i. . they say there are humanitarian movement working to help free the oppressed in myanmar. jam one is from the northern shan state where he says ethnic groups are suffering at the hands of the country's military. there are many human rights abuses people got raped and tortured it's happening to us and many ethnic groups and. i think men and women take part in fitness drills and training scenarios to deliver aid and treat civilians wounded in areas of conflict these people come from the states of catchin shan qur'an and rock and where there are fragile cease fire and sporadic fighting the f.b.i. is privately funded and was founded 25 years ago by former u.

senegal special forces on patrol on newly purchased boats it's a training exercise but the threats are real more hijacking attacks take place in the gulf of guinea than in any other waters in the world. the brits operating here are looking for sailors to kidnap or merchant ships to hijack the only way to stop this is to patrol our territorial waters to secure our borders and 2014 huge reserves of oil and gas were discovered in waters senegal shares with mauritania a potential of billions of barrels of oil in a trillion cubic feet of gas the navy fears that once it starts to flow this new found wealth could come under attack from piracy gangs as it happens regularly in the niger delta and so it's been a buying spree for dozens of new high speed boats. it's posts like this that are used by the canyon in the gulf of aden to try to fend off pirates also by the colombian police trying to stop narco traffickers and while this is it and the tools to stop piracy that alone will not stop armed robberies here in the gulf of guinea. the heads of the various west african navies are meeting indycar

todd: former army special forces jim hansen. what do you like about this plan?> i like the fact that it is evenhanded. it is a giveaway to the israelis but there's a lot in there for the palestinians. they are not going to get a better deal. and they should look around the region, and united arab emirates, both put out resolution supporting this plan yesterday. >> the palestinian president does not like it. he released a statement saying after the nonsense we heard today we sat thousand nos to the deal of the century, we will not surrender, you're right that there's a lot in this for palestine but there are other things they don't like, hamas would have to lay down their arms, demilitarized and there is the issue of israel and the west bank. if they don't take this deal what happens? >> one of the most interesting pieces of this is either of the palestinians sign on to this process which includes israel freezing settlements for two years, a lot of them to like but if they don't become part of this process, israel and the united states and others will move on wit

is this special forces? was supposed to be protecting us from this?prepared right now giving these attacks? >> the preparation is a solid point. we have to be better prepared and look at all of our different endpoints. mobile phones are a good entry. on the other hand, the loosening of the rules of engagement with cyber command, we started this about a year ago. i think we still have a lot of work to do on the fence but the offense of peace is something, if there's something that happens, we will hear what they do and it will be at the direction of president trump. >> my question has to do with the charity, technology, a spoken apple, it's really ramped up all of their security measures but it seems to not be enough. government regulation is the answer, what more can i possibly do? >> government regulation i don't think is never the best answer. sometimes it's the only answer. being able to intercept these messages, when you do planning based on an app and we have no way of intercepting that, people want to hold somebody responsible when the wolf knoc

served in the army special forces. national security foreign policy think tank. the iranian confrontation. >> i think president trump showed why wing is a hashtag he uses a lot. we took a bad situation where the iranians were acting malign across the region, attacking u.s. iraqi bases, killing an american contractor. attacking the u.s. embassy and he turned it into a situation now where iran is backed into a corner. their network of terror operations across the region are in chaos because their kingpin is dead. and they purposely missed our facilities in iraq. lou: he forced the iranians to back down. and he delivered a clear message first and foremost, there will be no nuclear weapon, and he drew a red line, there will be no more aggression toward american interests or attacks on americans. i thought it was a brilliant stroke and at the same time giving them an offramp from confrontation. all they have to do is become a lawful member of the community of nations. >> let's be honest, he did push them in the correct direction. they had been getting their way for so

special forces is training me and ethnic minorities ready to defend her title but will naomi osaka be flying high at the australian open paul has the details of that life. so more on that story on taiwan now with a military chief and 7 other people have been killed in a helicopter crash air force general and other officials were going to visit troops in the northeast and it all happened just days before presidential elections foreign slowly as a report. a tangled mess of metal and troops this is where the blackhawk helicopter came down in a mountainous area near taipei it was flying from the capital to the northeastern city of iran but it lost contact shortly after takeoff. as soon as the helicopter disappeared from writer to blackhawk helicopters took off from song sang airport to the saw it soldiers from the lang young military command were also dispatched to search and rescue. the defense ministry says it set up a task force to investigate the calls that were 13 people on board among the dead as taiwan's military chief force general shen. he was responsible for overseeing the islan

the government of italy uses its special forces to protect them.e brings us this story. >> reporter: in the skies over sicily, italy's paramilitary police force, the carbonieri are on patrol, protecting a product worth tens of millions of dollars. >> we do this kind of patrol. both in copters or ground patrol to prevent the pistachios thief. >> reporter: to prevent pistachio theft? >> yes. >> reporter: yep. captain nicolo ra i on pistachio patrol. after all, this is bronte, a place famed for this flavorful nut cultivated in the shadow of mount aetna. his family has been in the biz for a good 200 years, with a harvest once every other year, two years of work come down to about 20 days. have you had problems with thieves? >> sometimes in the past, yes. >> reporter: what's happened? >> one, two times some bad people comes with a gun or something like this. >> reporter: they'll come armed for pistachios? >> of course. >> reporter: at the paparro farm, the labor intensive picking, shucking, and drying only add to the price. in just this little storeroom

special forces says there's no indication it was down by enemy fire. a soldier has been killed in a general room did as a mexican military patrol try to intercept a cartel drug plane that had landed on a roadway traffickers were unloading as much as a 1000 kilograms of cocaine from the aircraft into a van in the southern states and soldiers tracked the plane by radar when the military intervened they say the traffickers opened fire 2 suspects were detained. the 29000 mining dam collapse and denio brazil claimed the lives of 270 people it sent a wall of toxic mud and debris into the surrounding lands as well and now one year after the accidents and our mental activists say the effects of the contamination are far from over people are getting sick when you are up on the reports. it's the rainy season in boomer the new brazil. says she's worried the river will soon flood. last year a dam operated by the brazilian mining company valley collapsed contaminating the pave a river with high concentrations of iron ore waste such as aluminum and mercury. living d

special forces says there's no indication it was downed by enemy fire. syria's government and its allies could be on the verge of a significant step towards their aim of winning back the last chunk of rebel held territory the bombardment of in the provinces intensifying it's triggering another exodus of civilians however towards the north nicola gage reports. families pack everything they are in and head for safety forced from their homes unsure where they're going for a fellow ever return many have already fled other parts of the country during syria's 9 years civil war. do you know my daughter is about to give birth and i don't know what is going to happen to her i don't know where we are going to live where you are going to go. this is what they're running from syria and russia are attacking rebel held from the air on the ground fighting has intensified with reports of heavy battles between rebels and government forces. or a new drive by president bashar al assad to recapture the country's last opposition enclave in the northwest has sparked a new exo

special forces says there's no indication it was downed by enemy fire the u.k. government will decide in the coming hours whether to allow the chinese tech giants weiwei to be a part of its 5 g. mobile network members of the country's national security council arrived in downing street earlier where they'll help the prime minister reach a verdict or is johnson is under pressure from washington to ban the company from. the u.s. other countries see it says a threat to national security those are the headlines on al-jazeera inside story is coming up next thanks for watching by. tribute for a legend on the north of boston. branch took his sport to new heights and became a global superstar how will his death be remembered and what legacy does he leave behind this is inside story. and welcome to the program i'm nick clegg the world is mourning the death of one of basketball's biggest evista kobe bryant was killed in a helicopter crash near los angeles along with his daughter and 7 other people the 41 year old's appeal went beyond the.

special forces are reported to have considered and rejected clear opportunities to target him. again even at the height of the u.s. war in iraq. with tens of thousands of american forces in theater in the middle of the hot war. with americans targeted and killed every day but the force bombs and proxies in iraq. u.s. special operators decided not to go after him then. because of bha it might lead to. even at the height of the war. with all the u.s. forces there. in part because he was seen as so important to iran and important to iran's projection of terrorist force around the region no one could game out what an attack on him what a strike on on him would invite from iran in return. that was then. the "new york times" reports tonight it was a u.s. drone that targeted two cars in which he was traveling today as they drove away from the baghdad airport. defense is calling it a defensive strikes. because of planned attack by the iranian government. but bottom line is nobody knows what happens next. joining us now. chief and correspondent. helps us understand the story. thanks for

soldiers headed that way as of last night the pentagon saying that this special operations force special operating force from the 82nd airborne just to clarify they're not like seals but they are soldiers that are specially trained to be able to react quickly to situations so about $3500.00 additional troops going in we believe to kuwait possibly to iraq and they're there really just in case no one knows how iran is going to respond so this is a force that specially trained were of let's say an embassy anywhere in the middle in the middle east was under attack they would have the skills the training and the equipment to be able to go in and try and reinforce the security of that american facility and meanwhile lots of questions where you are about whether the trumpet ministration had the legal authority to carry out the strike lots of questions around the intelligence that they say. that there was going to be an eminent strike on u.s. interests. exactly under international law self-defense is. something you can use and perhaps that's why we're seeing secretary of state mike pompei is say

i will not get into whether he is part of the special forces. there are things as special forces.ave had 20 years of death and destruction in that country. they are pleading with their government, america, iran, please, no more war. when you look at what has happened toa when you look at what has happened to a rock, the people's whose lives have been destroyed, i think it is about people, and most of the people there do not want another war, another escalation. we have to understand that and try to stop that. staying in this area, will talk about other areas, in 2016 as shadow defence secretary you said, i'm sceptical about trident renewal. trident is our nuclear defence system, would you renew it?“ trident is our nuclear defence system, would you renew it? it has already been renewed. do you agree with that? i have felt for a long time that nuclear capability is something which, when you think about it, the ability to destroy the world many times over, isn't something that i want to see happen. are you backing the money, the billions that is being spent on renewing it, which will

for you asked to restore its relationship with its allies and that important at least to have special forces based in the middle east for it or in afghanistan a good brief alexander this was the last t.v. debate before the start of the primary season how significant are these iowa caucuses and who's looking good among those candidates in the polls well it is crucial crucial moments because primary voting begins in iowa and it is a very tight race and winning in iowa can give you compare a push as it did to barack obama's campaign in 2008 it is a very crucial moments for all candidates were on the stage tonight ok i'm xander of one nominee in washington thank you. the european union has announced plans to dedicate a quarter of its budget to tackling climate change the europe investment plan will channel a trillion euros over the next decade into climate protection the aim is to reach carbon neutrality within the next 30 years. this is what the united states moon landing looked like when it comes to climate protection the european commission is not shying away from drawing comparisons to that

and when they do the math and have the iraq 2001 - - with that situation but basically the special operations forces , they haven't made a major unforced air one - - erro error. and the senior director for counterterrorism and was held over and this is very honorable for our national security decision-making and with the counterterrorism to be held over by obama and those that are at the mccain institute and those by the trump team by obama so to see that terrorism sphere. >> so there is a consensus of the terrorism. >> and that he is with that departure. >> but the second bush term is different like the secret prisons closed 2006 with the supreme court ruling. >> that second inaugural addres address. >> yes. by the end of the second bush term so the trump team has dialed back very low compared to what obama had. >> that's one thing i wanted to mention to you. that you are a journalist and it shows you are a reporter. but you are also a researcher so also the fact that you can do research on domestic terrorism so that does affect a little bit where you take issue for what is said and done in this ad

which is the foreign arm of the revolutionary guard corps and it's roughly equivalent to america special forces the group has trained pro aronian malicious across the middle east and next we give youu a clososer look at the secretive and powerful organization. established in the wake of the nineteen seventy nine islamic revolution revolutionary actually we're going to cut in there because we're going to take you to mar a lago that is donald trump's florida resort where he's speaking for the first time since the strike. direction the united states military successfully. executed a flawlesess precisioion strike thatat killed the number one. terrorist anywhere in the world. kassem saleh many. solamente was plotting. a minute and sinister attacks on american diplomats and military personnel but we caught him. in the act. and terminated him. under my leadership america's policy is unambiguous to terrorists who harm or intend to harm any american. we will find you we will eliminate you we will always protect our diplomats service members all americans and our allies. for years the islamic revolutiona

>> he was in special forces. there must have been something at work. >> that's what police thought too. until they learned about the secret life of this husband and wife. >> they would meet couples on the internet. >> was there a forbidden affair? >> they were probably meeting for sex about four times a week. >> and did it lead to murder? >> she is absolutely cold-blooded. >> soon, there would be questions for a mother and daughter. >> it was another shock. >>> welcome to "dateline." when a respected military officer was attacked in the middle of the night, police launched an investigation that would reveal eyebrow raising secrets that might hold a key to murder. here is keith morrison. >> the wind in the northern prairie sweeps across a vast flatland. grave markers around a military ceremony. the final resting spot for a few dozen veterans, many of whom died in combat. this is where he is resting now. major david shannon, who lost his life in 2002. his mother shirley comes here to visit and remember. his sister

army special forces, president jim hanson. jim, it's good to see you.democrats are supporting a regime that wrote kill and harm and starve its people. >> there is a really simple test you can give yourself if you are thinking about this topic. if you find yourself on the same side as quassem soleimani and the terrorists in iran you are on the wrong side. you might be barack obama and john kerry and his team who backed them as well. but the rest of us figured out that these are the terrorists. it's not the official of a state we are talking about. we are talk about a designated terrorist, quassem soleimani that ran the quds force of iran. he's a killer and we should all be glad he's dead. trish: you talk about black and white, good and bad. he killed 600 americans, killed hundreds and thousands throughout the world. i think about the amia bombing in argentina in the 90s, and the jewish center. that was all tied back to hezbollah and soleimani. that's just one incident. he was surrounding our embassy in iraq. there were threats he might be planning other

special forces. there were french also, french and americans.or me to see that. >> bret: bernard, thank you very much for your time. house democrats limit president trump warmaking authority as they say iranians shot down a ukrainian passenger jet by mistake. we will get more reaction from the panel after this. make my own insulin. and trulicity activates my body to release it like it's supposed to. trulicity is for people with type 2 diabetes. it's not insulin. i take it once a week. it starts acting in my body from the first dose. trulicity isn't for people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. don't take trulicity if you're allergic to it, you or your family have medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2. stop trulicity and call your doctor right away if you have an allergic reaction, a lump or swelling in your neck, or severe stomach pain. serious side effects may include pancreatitis. taking trulicity with a sulfonylurea or insulin increases low blood sugar risk. side effects include nausea, dia

even so, the prospect of killing soleimani was seen as such an act of proveication wocation th special forces are reported to have considered and rejected clear opportunities to target him. again, even at the height of the u.s. war in iraq with tens of thousands of u.s. forces in theater in the middle of that hot war with americans being targeted and killed every day by quds force bombs and their proxies in iraq, u.s. special operators decided not to go after soleimani then because of what it might lead to even at the height of that war, even with all of those u.s. forces there. in part because he was seen as so important to iran and so important to iran's projection of military and terroristic force around the world and the region that no one could game out what an attack on him, what a strike on him would invite from iran and its proxies in return. that was then. "the new york times" reports tonight that it was a u.s. drone that targeted two cars in which soleimani and others were traveling today as they drove away from baghdad's airport. the defense department is describing it as a defensi