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Six hundred interviews that were never intended to be made public. they begin in the early stages of the war "we didnt have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking." like his predecessors, the secretary of defense cites continuing progress. >> the security forces have stepped up. weve seen an improvement in their performance when it comes to actions against them. to speak of the war has cost enormous sums, under a trillion dollars. he reports as it was with the headquarters in afghanista...

Reasons and sometimes no reason at all. ambassador volker said the 55-day pause did not strike him as uncommon and that the pause was not significant. dr. hill and katherine croft both testified that aid had been paused during the past. the secretary of state for critical affairs testified that the national security council launch aed a review of foreign assistance to make sure that taxpayer dollars were spent in the national interest and advance the principle of burden sharing by our allies. dr...

Remains at war in afghanistan. now a three year "washington post" investigation based on documents obtained through freedom of information requests finds "the american people have constantly been lied to." that from john, head of the office of special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction, who conducted most of the 600 interviews that were never intended to be made public. the distortions began in the early stages of the war, "we didnt have the foggiest notion of what we were undertak...

Ambassador volker testified the 55 day pause on security assistance did not strike him as uncommon and at the pause was not significant. dr. hill and state department official catherine croft both testified that security assistance to ukraine specifically had been temporarily paused in the past. in fact, ambassador david hale, the under secretary of state for affairs, the third most senior person at the senior department testified that national security council had released a review across the w...

As a result. another importante data point president trumps willingnesstao take a stronger stance in supporting ukraine against russian aggression compared to the previous administration. severalev witnesses testified tt president trumps willingness to provide ukraine with lethal defensive assistance was a substantial improvement, a stronger policy and a significant decision. whena we discussed democrat allegations that president trump withheld vital security assistanceec dollars from ukrai, we ...

A sudden became, well, lets not support black women. why should we do that? and thats the key to this. the reason that were supporting black women or the reason these accounts are pretending to be black women is because we already know the data point says that over 90% of black women will vote for democrats. and so now we have to focus on getting black people to do only one thing. not vote for the democrats. >> can you name one of those five campaigns? >> we put up from the report that theres a ...

Testimony, who said that two omb officials resigned at least in part because that aid was being held up, because they didnt see that as a normal policy that an administration should be taking, and an approach that an administration should be taking to ukraine which desperately needs that aid. so that yet another data point that democrats are going to pounce on, andrea, another data point that the administration wants to sweep under the rug. >> and ben rhodes, lets talk about the whole question o...

In in 2016. there is a lot of scrutiny on this because the president has been essentially waiting for this report, saying its going to show that he was illegally spied upon. >> its certainly a good data point for him, and greg and melanie are back with us now. you are former congressional deputy of affairs for the fbi. what do you think of this, that there is this allegedly doctored document as part of this fisa application? >> its hard to square with the fbi and i think someone else at the fbi ...

In fact, there is not a data point that supports him being an improvement for the republican party. whether its the off-year elections, the mid-term elections. >> and democrats stay on a louisiana estate that went for trump. he is poison to suburban white voters across the country, and his numbers there seem to be heading south. and that means the party is going to head south. look what happened in 2018, what happened in all the sort of off, off-year specials and elections. its bad for republica...

Atmosphere of intimidation and political harassment going on in the state department. one data point. second data point, read the resignation letter of secretary of state pompeos right-hand american in which he says, we have no support for the people i work with from the top down. and secondly, politics has crept into this organization. and the third data point, the number of people taking a foreign service exam is down by one-third over the last few years. people are running away from public se...