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Inspired by the actions of republican senator tommy tuberville. since february, tommy tuberville has been using a hold to block the promotion of generals and admirals, over his opposition to the defense department policy of paying for service memberstravel costs for abortions. he promises to keep the hold going until the pentagon reverses its policy. and while a hold can prevent the senate from confirming

Country is fine, i suspect, on both sides. they jam everything. gps is jammed and also communications is jammed so normal drones dont work. so the ukrainians have taken cheap drones and add additional antennas. one of the things that i learned was something called a kamikaze drone which is a $400 chinese drone that carries a small payload that moves so fast you cant shoot it down. i had thought that this was the innovation of the war. two generals yesterday told me that im wrong and that what th...

Them to have that. its interesting, the previous president used to talk frequently about how his generals told him that they were running out of bullets. when we came into office, nothing was underway to solve that problem. we are serving that problem. we have been working on that, going back to the beginning of this war when we discovered. the problem. it could take some time. >> a big issue, an area of concern for the biden administration has to do with the national security threat from china....

Cheap droughns and added additional antennas. one of the things i learned, something calls a kamikaze drone which is a $400 chinese drone that carries a small payload that moves so fast you cant shoot it down. i had thought that was the innovation of the war, two generals told me that is wrong. you need one that carries more payloads. i dont think the ukrainian drone strategy is completely formed. but theyre building a completely new theory of war. >> and this is where we get to the solution. fo...

Between today and the day when we have hit the mark that we need some months from now where providing cluster munitions fills a gap for ukraine and it was determined not to leave it defenseless and to have that. the previous president used to talk frequently about how his generals told him they were running out of bullets. when we came into office, nothing was under way to solve that problem. we are solving that problem. we have been working on that going back to the beginning of this war when w...

Family go through this process, i know that its quite meaningful in the military when you cannot get these promotions through. thats the chain of command. talk to us about how it actually impacts the military. >> in the marine corps, we dont have a comment -- for the first time in over 160 years. the comment dot sets the policy for the marine corps. one of the first things in your common dot does it send out his leadership guides to the entire fleet. we dont have a common dot, so that cant happe...

When we send officials, military officials to meet with our foreign counterparts, you have one star general is taking the place of three star generals. that is embarrassing to us. many of these won stars are just not prepared to take on the roles. alex, remember in the early days of the ukraine war? one of the reasons the ukrainians were so successful is that we helped them take out some top russian commanders. we enable the ukrainians to target these top russian generals so they had to be repla...

About the balancing of what generals had to deal with and the idea that they will stay here if it is not me who comes behind me. you sell that with general mattis and several others, gary coons, and others, at what point though do you say i am out? and i think other people would ask, wasnt 2020 a little late to see the light? >> elections are about choices, weve had this conversation a number of times before, i done won hillary clinton to be president and i didnt want joe biden to be president. ...

Training. >> yeah, im having a hard time wrapping my head around that, too. what were talking about, what weve been talking about for 18 months is the total dysfunction in leadership of both the russian government and the russian military. not only do you have these comments coming up about the wagner group, it has been a good fighting organization on the front lines, although theyve been beaten back. youre seeing additional russian generals killed on the battlefield. a couple russian general wh...

Vilnius, lithuania, where hes been covering this weeks all important nato summit. he also had an exclusive one-on-one interview with secretary austin. wolf, im so glad to see you, and this interview that you had with the secretary was so impactful in illuminating what else secretary austin said, say, about senator tuberville. >> hes very unhappy with what senator tuberville is trying to do, blocking these promotions of generals, to star generals becoming three star or four star generals, admiral...