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The taliban agreeing to it and the taliban agreeing to keep that promise. still very tough going in afghanistan. tough road ahead before he can bring additional troops home. >> admiral kirby, listening to the bigger message. the president is there for the troops. had some turkey. he talked about, you know, also talked about how he, you know, cares so much about the military. talked about the, you know, fancy planes and helicopters that he was helping provide d.o.d. at the same time and boosting ...

It is a key to understanding what matters here. so lets lay it out in a simple timeline, and youll see reality come into focus. the call with the ukrainian president, around 9 in the morning, not so interesting, july 25th. thats when the president specifically asked for a favor of ukraines president. to look into a conspiracy theory, which has been dismissed by that by everybody, to look into ukraines role in any interference in 2016 and the bidens he said bidens, okay? some of you want to imagi...

Bidens. he says "bidens," okay? some of you want to imagine that that didnt happen. look at the transcript. he also tells him, talk to rudy, showing that he knows what rudy is doing. that same day, an official at the budget office, omb, another acronym in the alphabet soup that weve all had to learn about this, signed the first documents officially putting dod, department of defense money for ukraine on hold. that official is named mark sandy, and he spoke with impeachment investigators. why? al...

Make a decision by this. the jury for gallagher was his peers. it wasnt this unbiased thing. now theyre going to move forward. because they dont think they can get an unbiased jury anymore. >> its not clear why they couldnt get one now over the last two days opposed to all of the other things that had happened including the presidents tweet. right? if were talking about the events of the last few days which is how senior d.o.d. officials have put it vaguely without saying what events theyre talk...

The navy s.e.a.l.s and the president intervened again. now the secretary of the navy has been forced out. with me now the former u.s. sec thank you for joining me? >> nice to be with you. hearing for secretary spencers exists. number one comes from the president. had had to do with the cost overruns. the second is from the secretary of defense saying because he sidestepped dod. and the third is from secretary spencer himself saying because he didnt obey the president you know spencer, i understa...

>> thank you so much for your service to this great country, and i got a lot of questions for you. >> lets just begin with the multitude of reasons. were hearing as ryan outlined. it had to do with cost overruns. you have the sec deck saying its because spencer sidestepped dod. and then you have spencer himself saying its because they didnt obey the president. which of these reasons seems most believable? >> what you have here is chaos and confusion. and i dont think we ought to lose sight of th...

Himself, and allow him to retire with his try dent pen which signals his membership in that navy s.e.a.l. community. in case theres any question here, our pentagon correspondent, barbara star, spoke with a senior defense official who confirmed that secretary spencer has indeed been fired. that is what they mean by his resignation, by asking for his resignation. we also have a statement in here from the secretary of defense, mark esper. he writes, i am deeply troubled by this conduct shown by a s...

But he was convicted of posing with the dead body of a captive isis teenager. the president reversed the demotion the same day he pardoned two other armed service members accused of war crimes. there were reports navy secretary richard expense were would resign if the president intervened in the case. but spencer denied those reports yesterday. now we are learning spencers boss showed him the door after learning of that request to the white house. esper said im deeply troubled shown by a former ...

Me make sure i understand you clearly. youre stating your thoughts. we, the navy, and also the military, dod, remember, this is the uniform code of military justice, not simply navy naval justice or army justice. so you reach back out to the executive and you say, look, we have a process. its -- you know, its moving along. everything is legally reviewed at multiple steps. you have stated your opinion. we are maintaining the sanctity of this process to ensure that its done well as much as you can...

>> mr. maloney. >> hello, ms. cooper, secretary hale. thank you for working late on a wednesday. i think the last time we attempted to hear your testimony the republicans were good enough to bring pizza down to the scif. but kidding aside i know we detained you for about five hours that day. so on behalf of the committee thank you for yourfo forebearan. quick question for you and i think just one question for you, secretary hale. ms. cooper, was dod able to put all the security assistance funds ...