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Equivalent of the hand grenade, they will dive into the target at primarily at night, and so it is a strong signal, and this is one that will get their attention. the new hardliner president in iran, and what is the game going on here? what is he trying to nudge us back into talks? this is an unlikely way to go about making that diplomatic target trying to kill u.s. forces, so the president did the right thing, and we will have to see how it plays out. >> and a final question here about the big ...

Command or a good friend of the chain of command. and so many of these cases end up not being prosecuted. in fact very few get prosecuted. and very few of the victims come forward because they fear retaliation and they believe the system is rigged. >> senator, i feel like weve been talking about this for years now. the prevalence -- i know you have, the prevalence of sexual assault in the military. has anything changed? is it getting better? is it still just as prevalent? >> its just as prevalen...

Taking care of this fast enough to your liking? >> well, it is certainly encouraging to hear that from jake sullivan. i know jake sullivan. hes rar man of character and integrity. he takes is seriously, as to other members of the national security council and the dod, and were working with them to expedite the program, but i think some of the divergence in opinion right now is that this withdrawal thats going very fast, were about half complete at this point. i think well be substantially done b...

Obamas former defense secretary says all these concerns you are raising is just kind of kooky. >> they have fallen prey to the crazies who are out there spreading lies about our government, about our country. donald trumps will four years in office was about that. lloyd austen has an issue with the dod as he is dealing with this issue, extremism. every institution in our country is dealing with this issue. laura: your response? >> the entire military and something they call the stands down where...

>> laura: all of the concerns that youre raising are kind of kooky. >> theyve fallen prey to the crazies who are out there spreading lies about our government, about our country, president trumps whole four years in office -- they got an issue with dod as hes dealing with this issue, extremism. >> laura: congressman, your response? >> they just had something called a stand-down, they stop doing everything else they were doing, important things like serving and defending our country, and focused ...

Spreading lies about our government, about our country, about our leaders. i mean, president trumps whole four years in office was about that, was about misdirection. im going to drain the swamp, im going to tear down the place, everybody is a liar. the news media is the enemy of the people, the news media. i suspect that they have fallen victim to believing that kind of thing, and they think that this is the way to change it, to resurrect whatever they believed. im sorry about that. the whole c...

Earth is much different than ours and we need to keep that in mind. >> with that in mind, we also had a successful rocket launch from america today. it was a commercial launch but i understand it was a defense package. nasa, what is the role now as we have more private contractors going on and we are so focused on the commercialization of it, are we afraid were going to lose sight of the defense aspect of this? >> nasa is definitely our civilian space agency. i was a nasa astronaut on the space ...

Cronies to fill a trumpism void. if we dont get better they will get better. >> lets talk about this. representative, ill bounce back to you. i make the argument i think even from the biden perspective, trump and the rearview mirror is better. every time you bring him under scrutiny and a new opportunity to play the victim. even if you believe there tr avenues to accountability. what do they look like? >> holding president trump accountable for his actions? >> can you? >> i think that we are jus...

No one knows who was in charge. there was no planning. no coordination. it was a failure in so many ways. we need to correct this. strengthen the democracy. >> quick follow. what do you want that you asked for in terps of documents that believe are more important than what you have? >> stay tuned. >> good tease. let me ask a different question. >> look at dod. they were just even more shocking than the fbi. in the testimony today. this is the united states military. they didnt protect the capito...

Under president obama. jeremy bash served under president obama at the dod. andrea set the scene. the wild scenario that we saw as it related to the way the summit started to the room. tell us if youre hearing anything from white house officials and sources. i know theres been some clarification about a question that president biden was asked by a member of the u.s. press and the white house seeming to try to want to put some clarity around that. >> indeed, hallie. these kinds of diplomatic danc...