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Religious reasons they dont have to, but then all these service members that lost their job because of it and they dont get their jobs back. how does that make sense and do you forsee that changing, maybe getting -- foresee that changing and maybe getting service members fired to get back into the line of duty? >> all the pentagon needed was civilian leadership all throughout. i mean, if congress was absent at the wheel when these mandates went in, there was -- it was very schizophrenic by the w...

Administrative and separative actions against these soldiers who have had denials of their a religious accommodation request. carrie: we just got this in from the pentagon to fox news, they say the army is aware of this case, meaning bobbys case, and that the president has signed the ndaa and awaits further guidance from the department of defense regarding implementation of these charges. whats your reaction to that? >> well, i think that we would like to see army actually guarantee that they ar...

Rep. Mike Rogers sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday asking for his plan to comply with the repeal of the military vaccine mandate.

But now that they have this agreement expect it to move through the process today and then hon to its house tonight and tomorrow as congress wraps up its session for the year and republicans in the house are prepared to take power next year. jim. >> a lot of pieces in there and the electoral count act significant given the events of january 6, 2021. thank you so much. >> thank you. now back to a story impacting a majority of the country now. dangerous arctic blast. our team is covering severe ...

Which foreign actors like china, saudi arabia, and russia exercise influence over donald trump directly and over policy administration. tax returns have been voluntarily given out by every president since gerald ford, donald trump was a person who chose not to do that. presidents are subject into special matters because they wield immense power. and i think that the larger issue around this is trying to no one who occupies the oval office is financially compromised and having a transparency that...

Slippery slope problem. there are a number of people who said the russian government or russian journalists do x, y or z and the russia government throws russian journalists of balconies. were not doing that here and we werent trying to do that through any d.o.d. operations that are being executed through twitter. but what i took away from this and i did find to be really interesting it was going on so the tweets that lee fang is referring to -- it seemed that jim baker who has become a focal po...

Want them to help. on this point the investigation found essentially no malicious intent on the part of the pentagon. this is from finding 17 today from the investigators. quote, all to evidence identifies a likely miscommunication between members of the civilian leadership of dod impacting the timing of deployment the committee has found no evidence that the defense department intentionally delayed deployment of the national guard. the committee recognizes that some at the defense department ha...

We lost hundreds in d.o.d. the mandate kept people healthy and i support continuation of vaccinating the troops. the commander-in-chief agrees with austin. >> the president still supports the secretary of defenses position that repealing the mandate is not in the best interest of our troops. it is not in the best interest of our military. it is a health and readiness issue as the pentagon has long been saying. >> leaders point to recruitment and retention struggles in the military and calling fo...

Amplify messages about priorities in the middle east. noting the same day centcom sent the letter twitter officials used a tool to grant a special white list tag that essentially provides verification status to the accounts without the blue check, meaning theyre exempt from spam, abuse flags, more visible, likely to trend on #s feng also says some twitter officials felt deceived but added this part saying still many emails from throughout 2020 show that high level twitter executives were well aw...

Sen. Marsha Blackburn said Congress next year will take up the issue of reinstating troops who were discharged over the vaccine mandate.