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That the american people care about, biden would have to pursue policies like opening up energy exploration and domestic production. thats something his base wont allow him to pursue so he is stuck. he tried to blame this on putin. they didnt work. denied that inflation existed. that hasnt worked. said its transitory. that didnt work. thats the only strategy they have. they wont change policy. >> laura: mark, i want something else that leon penetta said more on point than the irish comment. >> f...

Almost 50 years. has the word disciplined ever know used to describe him? >> well, no. he got into a lot of trouble with speeches and issues around that over the history. i worked with leon penetta. president clinton was disciplined when it came to the words of foreign policy. he knew every single one has meaning that reverberates around the world. >> laura: thank you. if bidens team cared about stopping autocrats they would reach out to americans who voted to trump and standing up for china. in...

Think is unrealistic. >> bret: the former secretary of defense leon penetta you heard him say at some point the war may be over and we may be out of afghanistan, but the war against the terrorists threat wont be over and we will likely have to play whack a mole with different element of radical islam. one big thing is the talk about the bagram air base and the decision to shut it down, whether it was the military advisors who told the president and he agreed with them. this is general milley and...

President, and said that i just been informed that a large airliner had gone down off of long island, and was not sure what was the cause of it, but did say that there had been an explosion, and, you know, when the plane went down. so, you know, there was obviously, some suspicion that igt mi it might be a terrorist act. there was a pause. you can tell he was shocked by the news because he knew that an awful lot of lives had been lost. >> chief of staff leon penetta briefed us. >> there were som...

Wouldnt release them. >> you said they are ageing old guys. >> they are now. even leon penetta, now he says listen what weve done, especially dealing with another government -- >> for a year? >> they are not holding them for a year. >> they are free to travel and free to go to afghanistan in a year. well have 10,000 troops in afghanistan. >> the united states government is not doing any tracking -- >> let me ask you an important question. if these five guys go back into the field of battle and k...

Wouldnt release them. >> you said they are ageing old guys. >> they are now. even leon penetta, now he says listen what weve done, especially dealing with another government -- >> for a year? >> they are not holding them for a year. >> they are free to travel and free to go to afghanistan in a year. well have 10,000 troops in afghanistan. >> the united states government is not doing any tracking -- >> let me ask you an important question. if these five guys go back into the field of battle and k...

For it. his case was undermined a bit today but not a republican but leon who gave a speech a couple days ago saying when he negotiated earlier stages of the potential swap, he was opposed because he simply did not know whether or not these taliban commanders would go back out into the battle field and so when the president today suggesting that this was one of those phony scandals, republican john soon called him out and said congress should have been in the loop. listen. >> im never surprised ...

Country down and fueling divisiveness in the country, continues lies to the american people and the types of things hes doing, i think, i i need to speak out and so ive been speaking out rather forcefully. >> also said hes considering taking legal action to possibly seek injunction but national security add vier john bolton brennan may have misused classified information. >> a number of people have commented that he couldnt be in the position hes in of criticizing president trump and his so-call...