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Point. this was a classic routine summer training for these seniors to train them to become the officers that theyre going to be. specifically in various types of combat operations and what we understand from general -- from the general there is that this was a rollover accident. that there were around 20 cadets in this truck which they call a light-medium tactical vehicle and driven by a soldier, an active-duty soldier when it rolled over. the general there confirming that one of the cadets was...

Day to you, and to all of us who are forever indebted to your service, and for someone who you served with who is buried at arlington. >> thats right, today im thinking about lieutenant william donnelly. he and i deployed to afghanistan together, he was my plane commander. i outranked him, but being plane commander is not a fun job so we gave it to the lieutenant. he did it with great humor and spirit. it takes a couple of days to deploy to afghanistan. we had 275 marines on this plane with him ...

Great powers cant threaten or bluff. hes doing worse. hes using twitter to amp up the rhetoric and doing a 180. amping it up in syria. amping it up in iran. amping it up with russia. he goes back and forth. as the world has seen all it takes is some flattering comments and he reverses himself again. ill remind you, the most respected national security leader in the last decade probably, the secretary of defense jim mattis, resigned over the way in which president trump abruptly decided to pull u...

Yesterday. i would point you to the admiral. he is a center/left guy. but hes very aware what iran is doing is trying to provoke us into a miscalculation. i dont think were going to do that. but if they miscalculate and they hit an american navy ship, we will repeat what happened in 1988 in "operation praying mantis" where ronald reagan sank half of the navy in two days. >> i hope it doesnt come to that. hugh, thanks for joining us, we appreciate it. now, we got to change topics. its time for ...

Democratic senator bob kerrey, a senate colleague of john mccain and he, like senator mccain, served incredibly honorably in vietnam. senator kerrey, thanks for being with us. >> youre welcome. >> when you hear president talking about, not that he cares about being thanked but he wasnt thanked for the funeral of john mccain. >> he said hes not his kind of guy. his kind of guy is the guy that showed up and said, i dont want to go to vietnam, like he did. he said, i wasnt eligible to go to vietnam...

Of john mccain. >> he said hes not his kind of guy. his kind of guy is the guy that showed up and said, i dont want to go to vietnam, like he did. he said, i wasnt eligible to go to vietnam because i had bone spurs. you dont grow out of bone spurs. i call on the president, get your feet x-rayed. lets see those x-rays. i want to see. while john mccain was flying combat operations in vietnam, you were, i think, falsifying that you had bone spurs in order not to go to vietnam. now, i know lots of p...

Combat operations in iraq have ended. in the battle of iraq, the united states and our allies have prevailed. [ cheers and applause ] >> today theres a total of 147,000 american troops throughout iraq. 42,000 in baghdad alone. thats 50% more than the entire u.s. force it took to fight and win the war. but critics claim its still not enough troops to win the peace. >> while the administration had thought about getting rid of saddam, there had been very little thinking about what to do after he wa...

The most incredible history. they have all grown up in combat operations. >> this is the level where all of these combat doctrines, how you will fight a future war, would have been developed. early 1990s is a very significant point. >> combat is changing. the cold war is over. and a new stateless enemy is emerging. prior to flynns arrival at fort polk, a little-known terrorist group called al qaeda sets off a truck bomb in the underground garage of the world trade center. flynn, mcchrystal and p...

Enough to even pass this one measure, to hold russia accountable when president trump wants to unwind sanctions that are absolutely necessary, ive not seen their strength and courage to stand up to the president when it matters and when it counts. and i was exceedingly disappointed that there werent enough republicans to actually pass this very simple measure. >> when you ran in your upstate new york district in 2006, you ran as an opponent of the iraq war. >> yeah. >> in a fairly conservative d...

>> when you ran in your upstate new york district in 2006, you ran as an opponent of the iraq war. >> yeah. >> in a fairly conservative district. today we saw four americans killed in syria. i know that you have criticized this administration for acting in syria without congressional authorization. i wonder if either todays bombing or the situation in syria more broadly has affected your overall view about whether or not we should have troops there at all. >> well, i dont believe the president h...