issue, political issue and really constitutional here. does the president of the united states have it within his power to basically condition u.s. military aid defense money to protect a country have that country kicking over dirty material on a political opponent of the president? in other words trading political office and power and office really for political gain? chris, we re already seeing the defense starting to play out. and i ve seen this before with corrupt public officials throughout my fbi career. i call it the i did it so what defense. i was the mayor, i was the county commissioner, i was the governor, i am the president and you don t understand my authority and how i uperate, but here s the problem with that. he can release all of the things he wants to release, but the law says the moment you a public official solicit a thing of value for personal benefit ipreturn for an official act like releasing a quarter billion
u.s. history. we are currently still fighting the longest war in world hist y history. look at the overall size of the military. we cut the overall size of the active duty military. army, navy, marine corps, air force, full-time guard and reserve. we kept it basically flat while we fought this giant extended wars. which frankly is the defining nature of the relationship between us civilians and the troops and military families who have suffered through our generation s wars over these past 13 years. for the first time in u.s. history, they ve really fought those wars alone without the rest of the country kicking in. there was no mobilization of the population to sign up and fight those wars the way there was for earlier wars. there was no draft. we kept the military the same size it had been overall, we just expected the people in it to do one, two, four, six, ten tours of duty. and that is not the way we have
in right now, they don t really build up the overall size of the force all that much to fight these big, long new wars. we fought the longest war in u.s. history. we are currently still fighting the longest war in world history. look at the overall size of the military. we cut the overall size of the active duty military. army, navy, marine corps, air force, full-time guard and reserve. we kept it basically flat while we fought this giant extended wars. which frankly is the defining nature of the relationship between us civilians and the troops and military families who have suffered through our generation s wars over these past 13 years. for the first time in u.s. history, they ve really fought those wars alone without the rest of the country kicking in. there was no mobilization of the population to sign up and fight those wars the way there was for earlier wars. there was no draft. we kept the military the same size it had been overall, we just expected the people in it to do one, t
look at the overall size of the military. we cut the overall size of the active duty military. army, navy, marine corps, air force, full-time guard and reserve. we kept it basically flat while we fought this giant extended wars. which frankly is the defining nature of the relationship between us civilians and the troops and military families who have suffered through our generation s wars over these past 13 years. for the first time in u.s. history, they ve really fought those wars alone without the rest of the country kicking in. there was no mobilization of the population to sign up and fight those wars the way there was for earlier wars. there was no draft. we kept the military the same size it had been overall, we just expected the people in it to do one, two, four, six, ten tours of duty. and that is not the way we have done big wars in the past. these long wars in iraq and afghanistan fought by less than 1% of the population, as a