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Was set up to combine our various departments and operations in charge of keeping us safe and coordinate it all, but the stuff that comes across, the homeland securitys desk and sometimes can be pretty scary, and doesnt jay johnson know that. kind enough to join us today. secretary, thank you for joining us today. >> thank you, neil. neil: and every time we talk, could something like this happen again? could something like this happen again? >> neil, i believe through our efforts over the last 2...

Move the trial to a civilian court. and then they re-worked the military commissions process. if they had not done that if obama and biden had not tried to shut down guantanamo bay and moved the trial to civilian court, ksm would be dead by now. >> bret: this is a big story because its 20 years and gitmo does not look like its going anywhere after four administrations saying it was. i want to turn to the next topic when thats the vaccine push back. take a listen. >> >> how could we get to a poin...

U.s. ambassador to afghanistan and multiple administrations. you and i had some conversations about the overall strategy of afghanistan. but lets start with 9/11 and this sort of larger question. the one thing 9/11 did for me is pierce this idea that we werent vulnerable. were still vulnerable. are we both more vulnerable than we were at 9/11 and better prepared to figure out who is going to come at us? how would you assess our safety 20 years later? >> on the defensive side, theres no question ...

Administration, they are cooperating with the u.s. so far. so much so the biden national security labeled the taliban quote business like and professional. meantime it has been two decades without a conviction for the accused architect of the attacks. he and four others are involved in pre-trial hearings this week at guantanamo bay, cuba military prison known as gitmo. a prison that now four administrations have said they would eventually close. it has not closed and gitmo is where pentagon repo...

90%. to get there, we cant deal with this. we have to talk about these fixes. i realize it will be controversial. i will take that controversy. >> yeah, as you said clearly we are moving the sticks. eleanor, you cover a lot of different battles across different administrations. this is a turning point tonight. the president spoke about running out of patience with people who are delaying or refusing to get vaccinated given what we learned and what we know. . this is a big speech. take a listen. ...

Wokeness. after 20 years of fighting in afghanistan, here we are and it was a foregone conclusion when mike pompeo signed a deal with the taliban in february 2020 saying we are going to be the government in charge of afghanistan. >> shannon: like you said, i think multiple different administrations bear responsibility for where we ended up. this pullout is where the american people seem to have a real problem. i hate to use the word executed. thats actually type in the some people its whats bear...

Didnt president trump politicize the military? >> i think theres a long history of many presidents politicizing the military. and honestly what i really want to speak about, though, is this administrations decision to do so versus decisions made by previous administrations because its important in this moment now to accept whats happening because this has not been happened before. this is an unprecedented move by a president to dissolve all boards, all appointees and label them all as being unqu...

Afghanistan. as an adviser to the trump campaign, did you advise them or the president on the moral injury of basically scrapping the siv program that contributed to the difficulties that weve seen in evacuating afghan allies? >> so that wasnt something that i worked on. it would be very hard for me to speak on. something im often an advocate for is mental health for all of our veterans across administrations and something i think is remarkably again bipartisan and nonpartisan ensuring the healt...

From the supreme court was about this agency that said that it was unconstitutional, a rule was unconstitutional, because it didnt allow the president to fire the director. and made it so then he could fire the director and put in his own preference. the white house feels bolstered by that. >> power of politics, petty? >> who knows if voters are going to pay attention to this. for the administration, i remember during the transition, i was doing a story about cabinet agencies. i asked a transiti...

An individual basis. i absolutely think the president obviously has that ability and that purview to do so. i think wholesale scrapping every appointee and throwing kind of the baby out with the bath water sets a very dangerous precedent because this sets a precedent for future administrations to do the exact same thing. and it prevents the ability of what i spoke about previously the ability for people with different perspectives that are rooted in very good intention and beliefs around the bes...