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Nato as if the russians aside to hit a target across the border in poland for example. that is a much different situation than an active combat environment the way ukraine is right now. >> if we are sending in the kits as you say and stingers and so what in the russians do decide with their assets are sent units are down to attack them, you are saying basically we have to live with that and let them trust the ukrainians to try to deter that and we should not have any role in the response? some k...

Dont come here if you dont understand the brutality of this combat environment. many of these guys anything when they cross the ukrainian border they will be handed a javelin missile and and bought of champagne which the ukrainians. necessity barely have fluff weapons for their own people. the ones coming here are becoming a liability. there were 10 of those guys standing there with know combat gear and the local military could only offer them two rifles and 30 rounds of ammunition. weapons from...

Dont come here if you dont understand the brutality of this combat environment. many of these guys anything when they cross the ukrainian border they will be handed a javelin missile and and bought of champagne which the ukrainians. necessity barely have fluff weapons for their own people. the ones coming here are becoming a liability. there were 10 of those guys standing there with know combat gear and the local military could only offer them two rifles and 30 rounds of ammunition. weapons from...

Dont come here if you dont understand the brutality of this combat environment. many of these guys anything when they cross the ukrainian border they will be handed a javelin missile and and bought of champagne which the ukrainians. necessity barely have fluff weapons for their own people. the ones coming here are becoming a liability. there were 10 of those guys standing there with know combat gear and the local military could only offer them two rifles and 30 rounds of ammunition. weapons from...

Whether its a combat environment on noncombat, they need to be healthy, physically healthy. and they have made secretary austin has made the determination that that includes being vaccinated, getting your covid vaccine. so the services have set several different deadlines. each service set the own deadline for when the members had sob vaccinated. the army is today. the most recent numbers we have officially from the army are about a week old. and they said that about 95% were fully vaccinated. 9...

To get out of there. i want to make another point. john kirby was repeatedly asked if this is now a combat mission, because u.s. troops have not been technically in combat in afghanistan for some years now. he did not say it was a combat mission, but lets be clear. u u.s. troops are in a combat environment, they are going to be heavily armed, they will have the right of self-defense. they are concerned about a taliban challenge and they will respond with force under the rules if they are challen...

Back in combat. he sidestepped the question. but listen to what he had to say. >> this is a temporary mission with a narrow focus. as with all deployments of our troops into harms way, our commanders have the right of self-defense and any attack on them can and will be met with a forceful and an appropriate response. >> so they may not want to call it combat, but they are in a combat environment as are the u.s. pilots flying missions overhead even right now. why all this concern? there were meet...

No reason to delay or give if. jedediah: problem is that becomes a week later and month later. pete: it cant. it really cant. jedediah: makes me nervous. pete: im with you 100 percent. jedediah: how is the time. pete: now is the time to get it or shut down. admitted to killing taliban bombmaker. he made that admission at the cia and also admitted that happened in talking to our own bret baier in 2016. ed: matthew goldstein. pete: served as green beret in afghanistan. he will talked to bret baier...

Regions where the u.s. was actively engaged in military operations, some of the most dangerous places in the world. do you think mccains passion and dedication was unique in that way? >> he was. i told the story on twitter today about how he visited us in moz mosul. we had pretty active operations going on. i asked my bosses dont send us congressional delegations, try to keep them in the other parts of iraq because we have a lot of things going on and i didnt want to deal with them and have the ...

Meanwhile, our potential adversaries, russia and maybe china, have invested heavily in new technology. president putin has been bragging about it. we are on the catch-up mode of this and we have got to get our forces refocused on what would be a much different, much more challenging combat environment than what we have had in the middle east over the last decade and a half. so i look at it as a diversion of resources thats unnecessary militarily, might be necessary for president trump politicall...