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Counterinsurgency, and the hybrid types of war where the states may support this guerrilla activity. so overall, he is doing the right thing, and those defense contractors will adjust to it. they will start to fund whatever the defense department requires. >> you know, there are always disputes about where that money should be spent. you were a republican defense secretary and in a democratic administration like we have now, and it almost seems that the dispute between the democrats and the repu...

Revved up for the race, not only is it fun, not only is it really an experience of seeing great sportsmanship amongst the teams and the drivers, butt its serious business with the 75 million fans. you know, the auto industry obviously hurting and all the advertising, thats a reale iin nascar is coming back from the recession, they tell me. >> one that people can rally around and get proud of. it was a great time. great to see you out there, barbara, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> bac...

Sound familiar? we have a republican who is a defense secretary for a democratic president right now. william cohen served president clinton and on issues that play in 2010 were high on his radar, and he joins me now from washington. secretary cohen, thank you for being with us. it is good to talk to you, again. >> thank you, ali. >> this war in afghanistan has taken many forms, and back in your day, we were still less conventional and sort of missiles from afar sort of war and now it is a mix o...

They eat about once a day, if they are are lucky. but the thing is that the afghans will fight, ali, and the afghans, they have shown us that twice that they have fought to the death against the russians and against, and then again after 9/11 we asked them to fight the taliban, and they fought again. >> yes. >> but we walk out. you cannot do that to leave a country been at war for 30 years, and people starving to death. then they dont like you anymore. >> joanne what a pleasure to talk to you. t...

Then the second ranking executive branch going and delivering a tough but diplomatic statements on another continent? im just curious why you think that. >> i want to get something kennedy said quickly. when it comes to this policy, this is not a new trump administration endeavor -- endeavor, the obama administration began this campaign to help weaken north koreas missile capabilities in 2014. there has been the covert war, a cyber war building up over the last three years, we reach this rhetori...

Reluctance of washington to question president obamas covert war. >> im joined by a person who was in the room when the president made key decisions about the drone war in the early part of his president. these two strikes killed two hostages that the cia was unaware of and two al qaeda operatives that the cia was unaware of. how does that happen. >> the two operations that you talked about, in the first case there was a determination made these were military facilities against which action shou...

Reluctance of washington to question president obamas covert war. >> im joined by a person who was in the room when the president made key decisions about the drone war in the early part of his president. these two strikes killed two hostages that the cia was unaware of and two al qaeda operatives that the cia was unaware of. how does that happen. >> the two operations that you talked about, in the first case there was a determination made these were military facilities against which action shou...

Their families. a reminder of the collective reluctance of washington to question president obamas covert war. >> im joined by tom, who was in the room when the president made key decisions about the drone war in the early part of his presidency. these two strikes killed two hostages that the cia was unaware of and two al qaeda operatives that the cia was unaware of. how does that happen. >> with respect to the operations, that the president declassified on thursday the two operations you talked...

Something he did not. is this something object observe is this what you have of all the other positively tickets? this is something he believes in. joe biden as president saying, lets just stay together. now he says, we have to sesh in this. >> right. there was a surgeon in afghanistan tus iing. he would engage both pakistan and eye don stan and win the war where it started in the first place. >> thbin laden was criticized i 2007.

Shes praising that that some will criticize and say, why use this during the obama anniversary? he will shoot back and say, hey, you say im not making a out filed. >> let me ask you about this question of the good war and the bad war. i want to go back to obamas record here. all during the 2008 campaign when he was he -- is this a continuation of worthy cause to be fought for in afghanistan, che check. was it negotiated, a residual force with afghanistan is an agreement for an agreement to