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welcome back which i could your risk a hill the authored during wars the world
is a battlefield
white house
quite a piece of work here this is extraordinary you you uh... you you've
mentioned j soccer
we were told about the drink
special operations command as a grudges extension stands for
tell me about that picture president obama sitting there he told the story on
the condo infidelity mia uh... bought for you to show that story with our yes
i'm an average that it's become one of the iconic images of the operation that
killed or some of them live in where you had
uh... secretary of state clinton defense secretary gates uh... they chair of the
joint chiefs admiral mullen vice president biden
and president no bomb a all in this room
and sometimes people say it's the situation room it actually isn't it was
a uh... it was a sort of uggs hillary a smaller auxiliary room off the side of
the situation room in what had happened that day is president obama went and
played golf to try to throw off the press is all things normal he played
nine holes instead of a disease in the day after the correspondence today after
in fact this is a step backwards while you're working out so you know what
happen and i hope we can talk about this in there but what it what happened at
that correspond sitters that george stephanopolous
had uh... had um...
gotten window of uh... of the fact that there was some sort of increased
activity f_b_i_ at the white house in that they were cancelling tours for the
next day
and approached one of obama's
senior advisers are getting a may have been uh... the chief of staff attend
daily
and said what's going on you can in setting up a snows how these things were
considered all the tours have been cancelled and then make
said the daddy made up something about a plumbing issue in the white house or
something so that when i was at the correspondence there's a whole thing was
and they debated whether or not
the president should even go to the core sponsor 'cause originally you the
operation scheduled to take place during the course pilots tenor when because of
weather uh... in pakistan admiral william the grave in who was running the
operation from the ground uh... he called off the operation and so what
happened next say the president goes for golf he comes back in and while the
president had been golfing
mc ravens deputy adjacent this general named brad web had set up their command
post off of the situation room and what what they did the reason they did that
now the situation is a one-day insulate the president if it was a covert
operation if it had gone wrong they wanted to make sure that the president
was an essay familiar with all the details of the jimmy carter rollin
possibly tonight writer so they're all huddled in this room
president obama comes and they were to an almost empty situations as what's
going on like coehlo sir we're gonna have you sitting here because j sucks
going to run this from the other room the presence is not one of the in the
room so he goes then
all the jurors already taken a brew and of course stands up offering the
president's chair so he sits on a folding chair in the background next to
general lab who was the j suck liaison in the room running the operation so
that's why you don't see president obama at the head of the table in this uh...
in in in this room this tiny little clip is it room off the situation because it
was being run by jason cannot actually by president obama he was an observer
like everyone else well and and
when you he's not a military man is now the background they were really a m had
he tried to run it
don't make it clear that the data that is an struggle will what we saw happen
either under the bush into a ministration is that you know
chicken hawk cheney was running all sorts of operations he was plans by
going to the c_i_a_ in telling analysts that they weren't you know they were
producing the right kind of intelligence
ransall had it all whole office set up in the pentagon
the office of special plans
the whole job is to try to discredit the c_i_a_ and you had a into agencies are
war so
uh... it yeah i'm not saying that there's anything at all inherently wrong
with having a military people
directing the operations pitches was to tell a metaphor for for whose in charge
of these operations his it's interesting what lines are being crossed evidence
interesting photo anthony and ironic
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the world is a battlefield
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