i mean, i led a police training team in iraq. my job was to plan the missions, dodge ieds, trying to bring home everyone safe. i thought i brought everybody home safe, no matter what i did there was nothing i could do about this huge plume of smoke that just bathed us in toxins the entire time we were there. and it just kills me that these guys, you know, who always found money, $6.4 trillion to hook up their defense contractor buddies and send us over there, when it was time to take care of the people they sent to fight their wars they held us hostage for political purposes. it s disgusting. when i wrote about this, when i advocated about this, i did it on fox. right? i put an op-ed in fox news because these people, they need to be called out in their spaces so that we can get the care we deserve and people can realize that there are a bunch of charlton country club republicans don t care about your troops or everyday americans. you say the republicans
wars that i ve participated in in iraq and afghanistan, costing 6.4 trillion dollars. so what i would like to see is enough people like mitt romney and others coming together to actually take the steps to overcome vladimir putin and move beyond the minority that believes in that sort of rhetoric. sadly, unity has become such a dirty word in washington dc among both parties these days, that it is hard to imagine that they can agree on anything going forward. lucas coons, thank you so much for joining us, greatly appreciate it, thank you for your time. coming up, vladimir putin is now a pariah. russian oligarchy sanctions rockets on russian banks, russia working from the world cup and other events. putin being investigated for war crimes, all that has happened, and yet russia is still advancing on to kyiv. so what is left for the west to convince putin to stand down? that does not include surrendering. how are generally and david faris joins me next. s joins me next.
about zeroed worldwide. we need to do a lot of the stuff that we can do, and then again, we need to prevent him from ever doing it again. we have a way to do that. we are an innovative people, we know how to build things, we know how to create, we just need to invest in it. investing in that is much cheaper than another war. i watched spend 6.4 trillion dollars in iraq, and afghanistan. for less than that, we can have something right here, right now. we just need to choose to make that investment. we will keep our eye on it, and see what unfolds. thank you so much. four of you were, is up next, how relief workers are trying to bring a little sunshine into the lives of the smallest victims of this war. we often use a little hope right now so, you don t want to miss this. stick around. stick around
he s a democratic candidate running for the senate seat that will be vacated by retiring senator roy blunt. thanks for joining us tonight. it s great to be back. i really enjoy it. one thing you and senator blunt agree on is the need for the infrastructure law that joe biden was explaining to your state today. yeah, we absolutely need to invest here in america, and you know it s been it s one of the themes of my campaign. we have talked about it before, but, you know, i have been overseas, i have been in iraq and afghanistan. i watched us spend $6.4 trillion over there for basically nothing. and then to see everyone just squabble over every single nickel that we re talking about spending here was pretty painful for me. you know, most of us joined the service to serve the communities we grew up in and for many of us, we went overseas, watched us spend all of this money over there, and when we came home,
iraq and afghanistan. i watch to spend 6.4 trillion dollars there was everyone squabble over every single nickel that we are talking about spending here it was pretty painful for me. most of us joined the service to serve the we grew up in and we went overseas watch to spend all this money over there and when we came home, those communities we signed up to serve or worse off. so i m grateful that we are finally investing here in our own country. let s listen to more of what president biden said today about what s in the infrastructure bill. parts of the most significant investment in roads and bridges in america in 70 years. fixing many of those 3500 bridges, nearly 10,000 miles of kansas and missouri and pork induction. the roads cost missouri and kansas drivers more than $500