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Colonel, i want to start with the issue of secretary of defense. donald trump has been saying very nice things about retired marine general james mattis who ran central command. trump called him a generals general. he garners wide respect from within the military, in particular marines who i worked with over the years say james mattis is the real deal. your take? >> well, he is the real deal. hes a marines marine. hes an accomplished combat commander with combat tours as a general officer in bot...

Former head of central command. hell also meet with todd rickets. so a lot of these people just meeting with donald trump to talk about the transition and his eventually presidency come january, but some of these, of course, being essential job interviews. mitt romney potentially being one of those who could join donald trump. a lot to be seen as these two rivals meet face-to-face today. >> cant wait to hear what comes out of these meetings, if anything. thanks very much. now i want to bring i...

Lives. the united states has killed 36 leaders of isis in the mosul area in the last several months. abu baghdadi disappeared. appeared once in an audiotape recently. still believed to be in charge but on the run, and mosul is probably going to fall before the next president takes office. all of this rhetoric about isis is winning, were going to take it to them. we have been taking it to them and central command is impiesed impiesed imposed -- killed 45 isis leaders. doesnt matter whether presid...

Investigation? >> you cant guarantee anything. >> is he under fbi investigation? >> is he under fbi investigation? >> ask his housekeeper to print out national security classified e-mails this woman has no respect for the law. >> i know there are investigations by the new york attorney general into trump university, a court case involving trump university. there are plenty of things that mr. trump has not answered questions on. mr. trump is asking the american people to make him commander in chi...

Involving trump university. there are plenty of things that mr. trump has not answered questions on. mr. trump is asking the american people to make him commander in chief tuesday 48 hours from now i want to show you what he said saturday about u.s. military commanders participating in the iraqi effort to recapture mosul from isis. take a listen. >> whatever happened to the element of surprise? element of surprise? what a group of losers we have. >> how is mr. trump going to be able to work with...

>> maybe. i dont want to put it completely on that. the thing, what you have is a carrier cash group there, the harry truman carrier group, the charles de gaulle, the french carrier there. there are a lot of boats in that water. theyre doing an exercise right now as part of naval command, as part of central command. why they were released quickly? im not sure. i think there is potentially a new age coming about with iran. in the past as you know, the british were held for almost two weeks a few ...

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And to fall in behind them with the objective, then, of them taking raqqah, which would be a very important victory in the heart of isil territory. >> thank you. general, quickly, the command arrangements, general mcfarland is now the joint commander with operational control both in iraq and syria, i understand. are you satisfied, is general dunford satisfied that you have the best framework for command now to integrate all of the d.o.d. elements and ancillary elements you need? >> yes, sir. the...

Objective then of them taking raqqah which would be a very important victory in the heart of isil territory. >> thank you. general, quickly, the command arrangements. general mcfarland is now the joint commander with operational control both in iraq and syria, i understand. are you satisfied and general dunford satisfied that you have the best framework for command now to integrate all of the dod elements and ancillary elements you need? >> yes, sir. the joint task force command structure in bag...

Failure of the expenditure of what was judged then to be $43 million and four or five people were trained. we dont want to approve of something like that again. we want to -- if you want that kind of funding to train and equip, we want to know what the plan is, and we dont want to see a repetition of testimony by the head of central command who said, well, we have four or five less, and weve spent $43 million. we have an obligation to the taxpayers on the nominees. theres four pending before the...