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Retired four star general barry mccafferty former member of the noourt council new msnbc military analyst, form u.s. ambassador and president of the chicago consular of global affairs. a privilege to speak to both of you. general mccafferty, i want to start with you and john kirbys comments. weve talked about him on this program before. he doesnt -- he doesnt spin, but he seemed to be carefully -- he seemed to be careful about saying the brutal phase is under way, and the fact that the butcher o...

He was, you know, hero of the russian federation for his work in syria, dropping barrel bombs on defensive civilians and poisoned gas. earlier in his career he did the same thing in chechnya. the guys ruthless. the people that will be most afraid of him are his own generals. weve seen putin as a strategic approach as targeted civilians and their infrastructure with attack from the air and starvation. nothing going to change in that sense. i dont think this general has a joint headquarters. he do...

And procedures. i recently have been on a commit looking at sexual assault in the military, and when general mccafferty mentioned undue command influence, that was charged when president obama said something about we have to take these cases more seriously and the military did. well, why isnt president trump being charged with the same sort of undue command influence for everything he has done in this case and several others? >> general, ill reflect on what jill is saying there and i want to add...

Our armed forces are a disciplined, volunteer force of 2.1 million men and women. and theyre still in combat. so weve got to maintain our standards, and mr. trump has got to stay out of that. >> always great to have both of you. general mccafferty and jill wine-banks on a very important topic on this saturday. go and have a great saturday. thank you so much. still to come, a pillar of american democracy at risk again, a new report detailing the russian threat to your vote. how theyve already h...

That special operations community whose courage and dedication has kept us from having a dozen more 9/11s, theyve been out there in combat for 19 years. its time to recheck their system of discipline. i think theres too much disturbing evidence of malfeasance on the part of the special ops community. >> jill, putting on your prosecutorial hat, your general counsel hat here with this new information thats come out, he has been pardoned, but what might happen with this new information, whether in ...

Separatist movement argued to be aligned with russia. how does this play out, in your view, general mccafferty? >> we already know there was a missile launch and from where it was launched. my guess is, nsa is aggressively monitoring the communications of the separatists and the russian military. so well know the chatter that preceded and followed this apparent shoot-down. and third, i think what we ought to start with, it was an accident. people are now trying to cover up the accident. its in a...

Though, i was pleased to hear the president be very n noncomittal. we need to hold our fire until we know what is involved in this. the u.s. armed forces. i doubt this is going to spread. the russians are undoubtedly fearful intervening in eastern ukraine. but they are pushing sophisticated military equipment across that border and, in this case, ill bet you thats what happened. we had an sa-17 crew not glued in to a larger radar control system that mistakenly shot down a commercial airline. tha...

United states. and general mccafferty is saying that these could have come from russia into rebel-held territory, people that dont know how to use them. talk about how that will affect the united states. >> clearly youre right. we seem to be entering into a second cold war here between the united states and russia. if in fact it is true that the russians have been supplying the separatists in ukraine with these surfaced air missile systems, were not talking about a shoulder-fired rocket. were ta...

They are looking at that all the time. its a national security matter. they are competing in convoluted forces at play here. how does this work? if youre one of the families, you want this investigation done. >> thats right. i think the families will get some answers although this is a critical time for him. i listened to general mccafferty. what they are saying, to take those thoughts as an investigator and as a commander, that would be major league category that you are pursing. who has the ca...

The ukrainian armed forces are about to seize the city. were going to see a significant high-intensity war in eastern ukraine. so the russians are complicit in fueling this, their own people they view in eastern ukraine and theres a giant civil war going on and they are hand-fisted in the way he goes about it. because hes harming himself in the actions that hes taking. >> general mccafferty, thank you for your time and your services. lets bring in hostage investigator jim cavanaugh. great to hav...