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Military action. this was two days after the insurrection and milley was concerned, according to costa and woodwards telling, that president trump, the former president, had gone into a serious mental decline and was now all but manic. >> yeah. milley goes into a command post in the pentagon and assembles the top commanders there and goes over with them the procedures for how a nuclear weapon should be launched and the law that lays that out. and he reiterates to them to make sure they know that...

Before world of another blistering bob woodward book that is now raising so much more. welcome. im neil cavuto. this is "your world." we have reached out to all parties to get some response to this woodward book. if we get response from former president trump, well share with you. attish -- at issue, the commander-in-chief might not be up for the job and others around him asserting authority that he could do something desperate. tom dupree, the former assistant attorney general. the allegations ...

That there was no last-minute attack or something awful like that. >> neil: you know, a lot has been raised about when this occurred, the environment in which it concerned, a president that felt that the election didnt make sense, it was rigged. he went on to -- continues to fight to this day over whether it was even legitimate. at the time, if were to take the book at face value, top commanders around him including cia director, fbi directors and others were concerned enough to say we ought to ...

0 for the unity of our country. i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdraw, the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, weve talked about it. i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of ...

0 i wish general austin were here. secretary austin could answer many of the questions that were proposed. but this was not a choice between either a dangerous escalation of the war, which has just been laid out, or a precipitous chaotic withdrawal that embarrassed us around the globe. to say that it was not a sign of weakness the way we left. i mean, i dont know who youre talking to. but if youre talking to our allies in nato, they would say it was a sign of weakness. if youre talking honestly ...

Development has been advanced considerably. afghan forces are better than we thought they were, and theyre better than they thought they were. >> the afghan commanders who make up that corps have never lost a battle against the taliban, and they never will. >> general, there are a there are a lot of americans who look at the collapse of the afghan military and think, did those generals lie to us? >> no, they did not. you dont stand up in front of 40 infantry men as a young 21-year-old lieutenant...

We have to have these discussions. the lives of american soldiers, even if its just a dozen, its not a goddamn rounding error. these are lives. so anyone who truly respects the military should absolutely be calling for a congressional hearing. it means youre absolutely questioning the generals. so that we dont replicate what we did in this war for the next one. >> this is going in the right direction. >> during the final weeks of americas withdrawal, back in washington, i met with almost all of ...

Asylum agreements with other countries near afghanistan to get some of these people out? right now there is no country willing to take afghan refugees not one asylum agreement has been named. and, brian, believe it or not, we are over a month into this crisis what nine month into this administration. there has still been no named counter-terrorism coordinator at the state department brian another big story the "new york times" and "the washington post" go into detail and they went on the ground ...

Families, to the tribal elders of this tribe. and i went down there and spent three or four hours talking, yelling, listening, drinking tea. and at the end of it, i mean we had killed 20 members of this wedding party. at the end of it, one of the elders, who lost four or five family members, shook my hand. i said, you think that would ever happen in the united states of america? i dont think so. >> how did it come to happen that we bombed a wedding party? i mean what happened? >> because we lost...

Number of afghan vets. weve read these questions to all of the commanders. the first one is from jason dempsey, retired army. if you could have done something differently as a commander, what would it be? >> i probably would have been far more fervent in my pleas my first time over there that more had to be done outside of the military. at that time the state department was taking only volunteers to go to afghanistan. they werent directing anybody. i think we had to look at all the dimensions of...