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It was something certainly that could be -- he was also, pretty blunt, telling them to get their personal affairs no order, making these comments about this. weve seen some democrats disagree with this, adam smith, who was on the armed services committee, said not only is war with china not inevitable, he said he doesnt think that its >> well, again, his comments were somewhat bombastic to motivate probably his command. but americas military strategy is centered around the asia pacific region no...

Little bit on that, but hes trying to motivate and preparing his supporting command. again, he is not a combatant commander. what his command does, air mobility command, is fly in troops, equipment, ammunition, and, things like that. hes a supporting commander. >> and so much of that is talking about if taiwan has the defenses that it needs. all of this is a broader conversation thats coming amid russias invasion of ukraine. you saw recently how the united states said they would be sending tanks...

Thank you for being here. thanks for your reporting. kaitlan? a u.s. air force general is predicting that the united states and china will go to war in 2025, just two years from now. "the washington post" reporting that general michael minh hahn sent a memo to troops under his command that said, quote win hope im wrong. my gut tells me we will fight in 2025 and shes reasons are all aligned for 2025. asked about this memo, a pentagon spokesman told cnn that these comments are not representative...

This general laid out goals for preparing, he included building a fortified ready integrated and agile maneuver team inside the first island chain. will congress follow through on the demands you just said? >> first of all the executive branch has to make that decision. they control the department of defense. listen, he has background in the indough pacific region. his current command is that he would support it with airplanes. you take his counsel. he has an understanding of our deficiencies to...

Projecting weakness, as he did with afghanistan that led to putin invading ukraine, that the odds are very high we could see a conflict, with china and taiwan and the endopacific. >> joining us now to talk about this is cnn military analyst and retired u.s. army general, david petard. thank you so much for being here. first of all, the obvious question is, what did you make of that memo when you saw it? >> good morning, kaitlan. what i though of that memo from general mayham and his candor throu...

Person. from my point of view, you have to put forth the training, the policies and hold the officers accountable. a federal lawsuit or a lawsuit thats important where you can then say to the department, youre going to be held accountable if you dont do it, eventually that department has to be left on its own, and then you need someone to monitor that department, a police commissioner of some kind of an independent agency. you have to hold the officers accountable. if you done do it, it doesnt m...

Of the details that they will be confronted with. so when we hear some of the evidence thats been presented and some of the evidence in the prosecutions opening statement like alex murdaugh said he tried to turn the bodies over and check for a pulse whereas his son, sadly, was face down with his hands underneath him and his neck covered in blood, there was absolutely no blood on the hands or on the clothing of the defendant. thats an important piece of circumstantial evidence. there were so many...

Look the at world. if we are to be prepared, better be focused on china. rachel: defense department spokesperson says, dont listen to what he saying. his comments were not representative of the departments view on china. seems to me, i read that i was surprised it was out there. maybe he is speaking out of line. the spokesperson seems to say so, but it seems like he is putting a warning signal out there. will: speaking directly to his command. you know more than the rest of us. he knew that woul...

Freezely. general mike mimahn. that is major air force command. he puta memorandum to his command that was obtained by nbc news. here is portion of what general said. again you dont hear this very often from the pentagon. i hope i am wrong. my gut tells me we will fight in 2025. chinese president xi xinping and set his war council in 2022. taiwans press endings elections are in 2024. will offer xi a reason. united states elections are in, quote was off the prompter a little bit. there will be a ...

Is. i think what is similar is the fact that you saw a mob of extremely angry officers, in the case of tyre they ran to subdue him. and with ronny king -- but what was in common was their anger. the other thing that was dramatically different was the fact that the police chief, who i, command fired the officers immediately and charges after immediately. with rodney king, video cameras were -- the only thing that is different now, versus generations and generations of this type of abuse, is they ...