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Mean, in the military, military members get vaccines given to them. why -- why isnt this mandatory, among the military? is it a question of waiting till the fda, actually, has approval as opposed to -- to emergency-use authorization? >> well, this is actually a question the department of defense is, actively, considering. and -- and its important, because youre absolutely right. the military does require, you know, active-duty officers to get vaccinated in -- in many other cases. and i believe i...

Of fort benning reported from his official twitter account that he was seeing a surge in icu visits among young soldiers due to covid and that he would mandate the vaccine if he had the power to do so. desire applied pointing out the dod had lost total of 262 million personal to the virus. in the fourth 1:45,021, 26 additional servicemembers took their lives compared to the prior year. general domino virtues desire of engaging in false equivalency and downplaying the vaccine. he also tweeted at ...

Managing the labs safety protocols until they were abruptly kicked out of the lab by the chinese government in 2017 shortly after it was inaugurated. two years earlier, french intelligence washed the u.s. government that it had concerns about chinese behavior of the lab. >> get out of the lab that. >> according to david asher the state departments lead investor into the covid origin. frances cia were pretty public in sounding their alarm bells, not typical. i cant understand how nih, dod and aid...

Ousted in round three. she lit the olympic called ron and was widely expect dod win gold on the court. stephanie gosk is in tokyo with more. stephanie? >> so you know simone biles began this competition. she actually did one of her vaults and it is something shes done many times, before a very difficult one. a 2 1/2 twisting somersault. she lands it tonight. tonight she pulled out after a twist and a half and landed awkwardly. people watching it cringed. her position was filled by jordan chiles....

Supremacist group to weaponize anti-blm sentiment. so since when did doing research on a controversial organization make you a racist? former air force commander michael lohmeier lost his post after questioning the rise of diversity issues in the military and joins us now. does this surprise you that this is now fact within the military. >> brian, thanks for having me. first off, i would say these are my own views and not those of the dod. you know, very little surprises me anymore as i continue...

This was a discussion in the upper echelons of government, who might have come of it? >> it is very surprising. you would think if there were these concerns about a potential coup or unrest or the like in the lead up to the inauguration, the aftermath of the election, you would expect there would be security around all events and with the votes being counted there at the electoral votes being counted at the capitol, youd expect that, dod, the national guard would be coordinating more closely and...

Columbia university, years if combat, a very talented, dedicated officer was in the position he was to try to hedge in and protect the country. >> then, can you just almost restate that for us, because i think you just gave us a fact check. you know, conservative media, tucker carlson, so out there saying, well, milley is in charge of the military. if something was so bad, why didnt he do it? youre saying he wasnt in charge? >> by law, the jcs have to have a written letter to transmit authority ...

It is difficult to remain apolitical in an environment that is becoming hyperpoliticized. people of principle join our armed forces, they care about this country and when their principles are under attack they want to speak up, and you are labeled politically partisan for, you face a terrible dilemma that shouldnt exist in the armed forces. >> your demanding answers from the pentagon, as troubling as we laid out in the angle a. is dod officials playing footsie with big tech giants, mainly amazon...

The -- in the military and dod. i certainly had confidence in jim mattis. and i -- i worried about it because the former president would say, wait till i get in and ill get my generals. ill get my justice department. ill get my judges. and so, everything was possessive. my, my, my. and i worried, at that time, that he would try and put in place people who would just say yes to him. he could do that in terms of appointing cabinet positions. i didnt feel very confident hed be able to override the ...

This siv program out of the country if thats what you want to do. you heard the president talk yesterday of the couple thousand or so who reached that level where we can start to process them for -- to get out of the country, less than half of them have shown a willingness to do that. >> why is that, sir? why is it that less than half? i know in some cases you have interpreters and other afghans who helped the u.s., they want to leave with their families. right? because they leave, their family ...