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The microphones well get to you. Please identify yourselves. All right. Thank you. Thank you what was the luck excuse me, the rule of law in regards to this. Well, its very hard to win with this type of strategy. They still didnt manage to pacify afghanistan in the 1980s, even though they were wanting to kill a million people. Because the nazis and the soviets offered nothing positive. They offered no reason why the people of yugoslavia or afghanistan would support them. They offered nothing but...

In japanese. Amy what a gangster was. He believed that to die on behalf of the emperor was glorious, and the crew of the sub knew he would not hesitate to sacrifice them on half of the cost. So surrender was not in arhzumis vocabulary. In other words, this guy was the boss from hell. Now, this is the Lieutenant Commander. He was captain of arhzumis flagship. So in other words, is in the reporting relationship to arhzumi who was Squadron Commander was also aboard the flagship. He was different fr...

Booktv is going to be live for the next three hours. We are going to begin our conversation, of course, inviting you to join us a little but later with the author of the new book, black hawk down. His name is mark bowden. This is the book. We were looking at it, a New York Times bestseller list that comes out tomorrow. And i know youre not surprised because you ought probably know already, but you are number eight. That still great to hear. What is that like . It is thrilling. I have been writin...

Armys 38th chief of staff, general ray odierno who joins us from the association of the annual conference and trade show. Sir, welcome back. Thank you. I wanted to start off. Sequestration is the top issue in washington. You have frequently said that sequestration is the one thing that keeps you awake at night. Why . What about it keeps you awake . I remind everyone weve already taken approximately a 10 budget cut already. We have 487 billion over the next 10 years which we have already put into...

Ice sis the Islamic State in syria have taken control of mosul, the second biggest city. Only moments ago we heard this from president obama. What weve seen over the last couple of days indicates theres a degree to which iraqs going to need more help, is going to need more help from us and going to need more help from the international community. So my team is working around the clock to identify how we can provide the most effective assistance to them. I dont rule out anything because we do hav...

Exactly whats going on. We begin this our in the middle east. People that live in Southern Gaza say shelling from israel and explosions today are constant, they are nonstop. At least 50 palestinians are reported killed today across gaza. One day since a ceasefire fell apart really before it could even take effect. The Israeli Military says their targets are tunnels, weapon storage sites, and hamas command centers. Southern gaza is where a missing israeli soldier is believed to be captured by ham...

Egypt . We will go live to egypt to get that update. Jake tapper, well see you momentarily. Meantime, let me take it from here. Well get you first to what is happening in iraq. Where today, american war planes are back in the skies. The u. S. Launching air strikes on an islamist militant target in iraq, president barack obama authorized this, and not even 12 hours later, two fa18 jet fighters dropped 500pound bombs on isis artillery outside less than three years after American Forces pulled out....

Democrats, not unique but there are democrats stepping forward to say they do not want to see another commitment of the u. S. Military in a way that might not have the kind of control that one would hope. Thats one of the problems. The iraq war went in directions people didnt anticipate. Theres a great skepticism and even fear about what would happen if the u. S. Has to escalate in a war against isis or isil, as the president refers to it. So, what do we have . We have nancy pelosi, a progressiv...

Include u. S. Troops fight on the ground, which if you were with us yesterday and watching testimony yesterday from capitol hill, that contradicts what the president s own military adviser told a Congressional Committee tuesday. I want to be clear, the American Forces that have been deployed to iraq do not and will not have a combat mission. They will support iraqi forces on the ground as they fight for their own country against these terrorists. As your commander in chief, i will not commit you...

Actually in new york today and joining me right here in studio. Catherine, what were the headlines coming out of the hearing today . Well, thank you, gretchen. One of the main headlines is that homegrown terrorism or selfradicalization is happening right here in the United States and that the facilitator is social media. Weve heard today from the fbi director james comey and the director of Homeland Security, jay johnson, and the head of the National Counterterrorism center, matt olson, that the...