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And at parties, i was suddenly bursting into tears. has he been drinking too much would be a general jeje conject. they didnt know what it was like to go through knot hole. >> paul has written about what it was like. a college english professor most recently at the university of pennsylvania, he wrote memorable books about both world wars. then finally he was able to talk about his own combat experience as an infantry lieutenant. >> tell me about march 15, 1935. >> i knew we were infamous when t...

In any way. >> he has written about what it was like. a college professor at the university of pennsylvania and wrote books about both world wars and he was able to talk about his own combat experience as an infantry lieutenant in europe. >> tell me about march 15th, 1945. >> were got up very early and i knew we were in for it when the tooks appeared. the company tooks had been 100 miles back for a long time. on this occasion they had brought up their stoves on the dark and cooked a hot breakfas...

It could be hard to recruit. it lets everybody knows to include our adversaries the quick reactions of those in the field is picked up considerably because you dont have to run things by the white house before you decide what youll have for lunch. >> shannon: i know personally some really good folks who left the military over the last couple of years because they felt like it was a morale issue that they were being micromanaged. any decision or choice they tried to make was triple second guessed...

Marines and thats number one. >> bill: first is the damage you believe the force has experienced. weve been at war for 16 years. what do you mean by damaging experience? if nothing weve got more of that then. >> unfortunately if you look at the personnel cuts just the recent personnel cuts half of those individuals had two or more deployments. as you said weve been at war for 17 years. people that have come in a lot of those are already retired. when the cuts keep moving back and back and back f...

Strong. they are important messages to present to the president. >> jenna: we sort of glossed over the combat award. silver star because of combat in the first gulf war. he was part of one of the biggest tank battles. i wonder what russia thinks of that and we are talking about the movement of tanks and what they are doing in ukraine. what is russia reading in the appointment. >> if i was a strategist in the kremlin, i would be cautious. he spends a lot of time trying to think how the american a...

Z >> the president and his new national security adviser, u.s. ar army lieutenant general h.r. mcmaster. with us, retired four-star army general barry mccaffrey, west point class of 64, combat led to two purple heart, two silver stars and notably two distinguished service crosses. your combat experience is jermaine here. both of you generals are combat and command veterans of the gulf war one. i have a dual question to start you off. number one, can an active duty three star turn down the comman...

So i just wanted to announce, weve been working all weekend very diligently, very hard, that general h.r. mcmaster will become the national security adviser. hes a man of tremendous talent and tremendous experience. >> id just like to say what a privilege it is to be able to continue to serve our nation and ill do everything i can to advance and protect the interests of the american people. >> the president and his new national security adviser, u.s. army lieutenant general h.r. mcmaster. with u...

One of the best selections that could have been made given the circumstances for the national security adviser. he has combat experience, hes got staff experience, and he has really the kind of think tank experience. a lot of that to the table and thats why im very confidence that this is a very good pick for a position that is probably next to the white house chief of staff, one of the most powerful positions in the white house. >> lets pull back one of the labels for a second. hes identified a...

Him. >> so as we know, he wasnt the presidents first choice, how did the president decide on mcmaster. >> they knew they had to work quickly to fill this position when michael flynn held this role, this is someone the president turned to for guidance. he spent the weekend pouring over these potential picks and decided on lieutenant general mcmaster and a senior administration official told me it was a combination of mcmasters combat experience as well as his intellectual drive that really sold t...

Anybody when he believes he is write. >> we seem to have a lot of generals in the hierarchy of the white house. you can tell us why we should feel comfortable having the general ands not civilian influence? >> let me say this, its not about the rank. its not about the uniform. its about the man. its about the person. you have to strip away the uniform and look at who they are. these are men who have enormous courage willing to speak truth to power and are combat experience in iraq, afghanistan a...