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The Marine Corps has until 2025 to integrate women fully into its training of new recruits on Parris Island, a century-old bootcamp on South Carolina’s coast. That deadline was set by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump.  Female Marines have trained for decades at the camp – but not at platoon level. In the past, women have been deployed in support roles while combat units remained all-male. That is changing across the U.S. military as more women go to war. But change h...

vice president dick cheney and his lawyer, liz cheney, chair of a national security advocacy group, keep america safe. together they wrote "in my time, a personal and political maam war." thank you both for joining us. i want to start with the drone strike that took out the top prop gan diss, at least for al qaeda in the iranian peninsula, perhaps took out the bombmaker for the same group and also took out samir khan. whats your reaction to that? >> well, i think it was a very good str...

Command went down there to take a look. this is the first time actually the lebanese army have fired back at the israeli army. its a very big deal, jon. nome its hezbollah doing the fighting. so its very interesting and it goes to show you how tens the israel-lebanon border is right now. anything could set something off. both sides have been warning the other of a possible war this summer and really, jon, the one party that has something to gain in all of this is iran, and thats what both sides ...

That theyre a little confused. dont think thats wishful thinking, because of how everybody knows i feel about this policy, it just seems its unsustainable for me now of opponents of this policy to say theyre on the military side when theyre siding against general mullen and general powell. do you have a sense of what youre up against on the other side of this strategy now? >> theyre going to throw everything at us. and bobby kennedy once said change has enemies and change is hard. so im not taki...

Co-sponsors. i have about two dozen more folks in the congress that said theyre going to vote for it if it comes up for a vote, and were working every day to get even more. and we will have the votes when it comes up for a vote this year. >> it feels to me right now, as opposed to 1993, that the opposition on this is a little incoherent. that theyre a little confused. and i dont think thats wishful thinking, because of how everybody knows i feel about this policy, it just seems its unsustainable...

Governor perry, by the way, and met with general petraeus, he thought it would take about two years from last summer to have an orderly and successful wind down of our mission in afghanistan, president obama has accelerated that faster than either general mullen or general petraeus recommended. >> what he means there is admiral mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs, admiral mullen is a navy admiral, not an army general. next up, michele bachmann, minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann accused t...

Im sorry, rick santorum, it is false. here it is in context. >> iran is a country that has been at war with us since 1979. iran is a country that has killed more american men and women in uniform in iraq and afghanistan than the iraqis and the afghanistanees has. first says than afghanistans has, then corrects himself. afghanistanees, not a word. being outgunned by iran in their own country is also frankly dubious, but well have more on rick santorum in just a moment. first, though, true or fals...