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His telling, thats precisely what they were worried about. >> right, you have matthew saying thats a lie. and using to your point, unusually strong language to go after these two generals. an important piece of context for all of this is that everything about the way the pentagon and the d. c. national guard prepared for january 6th, was totally in reaction to the summer of 2020. when the u.s. military responded in a way that was deeply disturbing to protests in washington d. c.. so what everyon...

For all of this is that everything about the way the pentagon and the d.c. national guard prepared for january 6 was totally in reaction to the summer of 2020 when the u.s. military responded in a way that was deeply disturbing to protests in washington, d.c. so what everyone at the pentagon was thinking how do we make heuer the national guard doesnt go too far? how do we make sure the pentagon doesnt overreach? how do we make sure we dont overreact? that was the number one concern. and well, co...

Thats not happening on the basis of anything that transpired today or will likely transpire tomorrow. what we do see that i think you and i will disagree on is in the testimony from dan coats and mike rogers, the national security council guy -- they refuse to answer questions. the democrats -- ive also say marco rubio and the independent angus king of maine, he became infuriated with them. the white house hasnt invoked any executive privilege. why are you able to come before our committee and s...

Transpired today or will likely transpired tomorrow. what we do see that i think you and i will disagree on is in the testimony from dan coats and mike rogers, the national security council guy -- they refuse to answer questions. the democrats -- ive also say marco rubio and the independent of maine, he became infuriated with them. why are you unable to come before our committee as we are trying to review the facts and then say oh, we cant talk about this. we will tell you privately. of course t...

>> well, i think if the discussions occurred around ensuring there was no overreaction by the russian government so that the new administration could do like all the previous administrations who think they could work with putin, which all three have been wrong, they cannot work with putin, if that was -- if that was what general flynn did, which is to try to keep the lines of communications open and to see -- make sure the russians didnt overreact and maybe have some reciprocal attacks on our di...

Going to react, and hes going to react strongly. the fact is, on a day-to-day basis, speaking from our perspective, he has a very effective working relationship with general mcchrystal. he has cooperated with general mcchrystal in going down to kandahar to begin to set the stage as the kandahar campaign gets under way and talking to the local tribal leaders and so on. i think we have to understand the pressures hes under, but at the same time understand their sensitivity -- this is a country tha...

>> i certainly didnt overreact. i think, david, some of what is said is not true. and a lot of others who make claims are short on evidence and very long on rhetoric. this is a very difficult situation, and we are working very closely with not only the president, but theres a whole government that is there. we work well with a lot of the ministers who are dealing on a day-to-day basis with our civilian and military leadership. we have an international presence that each of our allies are working...

The pressures hes under, but at the same time understand their sensitivity -- this is a country that has been at war for almost two generations. they have had armies come in and leave and who paid no attention to afghan sovereignty. we are working very hard at that. we have to work as hard in our rhetoric as we are in our actions. >> is the message here, dont overreact to some of this? >> absolutely. >> did you not overreact when you spoke to him on the phone? >> i certainly didnt overreact. i t...