laura coates is back. author and analyst retired colonel ralph peters is with us as well. colonel peters, are you surprised at the recommendation of no jail time? no, i m not. because i think mueller is playing chess. trump is sending the signal, hey, shut up and i ll pardon you. mueller s sending the signal that you cooperate and you might get to go home. and you know, general clapper and i were talking about this earlier. i really have mixed feelings about this because as a former officer i d send him to jail for life. he betrayed his company. but as someone who has known mike since 1985, he has served his country well. he was a superb officer. in the field in afghanistan. yeah. he was not a good strategist. he s not a strategic-level officer. but in afghanistan, iraq, just terrific work. so you wind up being torn about it. on a personal level his life is already ruined. he s broke. a proud man has been humbled to
and colonel peters, that s something you said earlier that he should be held to a higher standard given his background. i mean, i m sure books will be written about this. but i m sort of fascinated with the idea of what happened to michael flynn. sort of what did, from going from somebody who was universally described as a operational, tactical i don t know if genius is the right word just about a genius. just about a genius in the field to then, you know, running the d.i.a. and being said to be not very much of a strategic thinker or a manager. and then leading chants of lock her up which for a former high ranking military officer, many were stunned he was going that far to campaign for trump. indeed. but i will tell you with mike we were captains we were in the captains training course together in 1985.
brand called paylessy. it s a fake pop up and they opened up a store that, forgive me, i think this is in l.a. somewhere and they invited all these rich people. there it is. they they bring all these rich fat cats to come and buy their shoes that were $20 bucks for hundreds if not thousands of dollars. i say to these people with a little too much money in their hand and not enough important this i think so to do. fall back. fall back. and the name band culture stuff and overprice luxury. i love it. i love this panel. it s crying out to be rebranded by trump. well, maybe he ll get busy with that at some point. bore risks colonel peters, eleanor, my thanks, to each of you. you have always been to our house of cards on netflix. we ll be right back.
and i have no idea you re doing this. and i m joined again by retired army lieutenant colonel ralph peters. he s published 30 books, but also in the 1960s he was a punk rock guitarests and he had a photo with the leather witch, and eleanor cliff, who s only written six books. you know colonel peters. but also i d like to mention famous and cameoed as herself in the movie independence day as well as murphy brown. there s the peters shot. that s you. give you a juvenile delinkquent, and tell me that guy didn t who needs to fall back? i think the critics of
the 369th infantry. the harlem hell fighters. all black. we sent them to shore up a french division. they were in the trenches longer than any. on this veterans day, on this armistice day, the 100th anniversary, i would like americans to honor all of our veterans but make a special place in your hearts for the harlem hellfighters who did their part for a country that failed to honor them. can you imagine coming back to this country at that time, having, you know, lost so many and sacrificed so much only to be treated as a, you know, a third-class citizen? colonel peters, i appreciate you being with us on this day. thank you so much. thank you, anderson. i want to check in with chris cuo cuomo, see what he s working on