Phil Stewart

And that includes reporters who are going to the aftermath of these strikes.

interviewing survivors, going to hospitals, speaking to soldiers who survived, who are wounded.

And so there is very vibrant reporting, but not as you might see in neighboring countries like Colombia.

You know, that is a great question.

I'm glad you asked that.

We are trying to understand the risk appetite of this administration because you've seen now since the summer, you know, two major operations that are hard to, you know, imagine have happened, you know, really when you sit back.

One is the bombing of Iran's nuclear program.

People have talked about that for years and years and years.

And the risks...

of carrying out that operation and the blowback afterwards were, you know, enough to make a lot of people quite nervous.

And then an operation like this, as we've discussed, you know, there are enormous risks.

I mean, let's say hypothetically only like, you know, one of the helicopters had gone down.

One of the helicopters was shot, was shot at and took fire.

And people aboard were injured, at least one person.

And, you know, had there been casualties, you know, would the media have seen it as a debacle with the United States or hostages?

Right.

Have you had a Black Hawk down, you know, moment kind of like, you know, the U.S.

saw in Somalia?

What would that have been like?

And so I think we're trying to understand the risk appetite, what it was that got the president to decide that this was an operation worth pursuing.