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presidential intervention in war crimes sends a terrible signal to the world and undermines military discipline. it's a matter of really serious concern around the pentagon. poppy. jim. >> we should note in the gallery case, for instance his own fellow sailors testified against until that trial. barbara starr, thanks very much. as we speak david hale, ii, speaking under oath to impeachment inquiry investigators on capitol hill telling them that politics were the reason the department did not publicly back a former u.s. ambassador to ukraine. this, of course, a part of the broader investigation stay with us. grow food. this one grows fuel. ♪ exxonmobil is growing algae for biofuels. that could one day power planes, propel ships, and fuel trucks... and cut their greenhouse gas emissions in half.
something that was done from the outside. that he was doing this himself. the big surprise was that the military reacted the way they did. if you find there's military people suddenly disappearing. >> dana: you will know they are. >> greg: i can't blame them. the military, they want to defend of failing, dying system? i don't know. >> jesse: not the greatest military discipline i've seen on display. not a good look. it's going to embolden the colombians. >> greg: okay, more people, i've read this fact. i hope it's right. more people are fleeing venezuela then syria. >> dana: there is no one left to leave syria, number one. >> jesse: the people coming leg venezuela are not coming to america talking about how great socialism is. this is the scariest monologue. if you have a jihadist in the united states who straps some munition to a jerry-rigged drone
♪ >> robert gould shaw gave his life in defense of not only his country, but he gave his life in defense of a belief that black men also can fight for their country and can also fight for freedom. >> and although the 54th did not win, they turned what happened at battery wagner into a grander metaphor representing the causes that compelled the north to fight t he civil war. >> in the aftermath of the assault, 54 men of the 54th massachusetts lie dead around fort wagner, sacrificing their lives to prove their worth. >> black troops were thought to maybe not be fit for combat. they would not instinctively take to the rigors of military discipline, and yet they did.
♪ >> robert gould shaw gave his life in defense of not only his country, but he gave his life in defense of a belief that black men also can fight for their country and can also fight for freedom. >> and although the 54th did not win, they turned what happened at battery wagner into a grander metaphor representing the causes that compelled the north to fight the civil war. >> in the aftermath of the assault, 54 men of the 54th massachusetts lie dead around fort wagner, sacrificing their lives to prove their worth. >> black troops were thought to maybe not be fit for combat. they would not instinctively take to the rigors of military discipline, and yet they did.
respects general lot and general kelly will make that call i will make that call i will let the general who's right here make that call but jared's doing some very important things for our country. since being hired to bring military discipline to the white house general john kelly has been clamping down on who has access to u.s. secrets jared krishna who's brief includes mexico china and israel insisted his work would continue unaffected by the downgrade whether this is closing for krishna or a mere formality in trump's ongoing family affair the commander in chief wouldn't say . ok let's find out what all's in from washington with our date of your correspondent alexander phenomena i was at what is the security downgrade for kushner tell us about his future role in the white house
was a good thing -- i guess i'm one of those people that thought he would bring some discipline and sort of military discipline to a white house that seemed from the very get-go a little bit out of control, a little bit not knowing where it should go, and i thought he would whip them into shape. to be honest, lawrence, in the intervening year, in the year that has passed things john kelly has done and said has changed my opinion. it began with when he was the head of homeland security. he more or less criminalized noncriminal immigrants. instead of going after criminals with very limited resources in i.c.e., the immigrations customs enforcement agency, they decided to go after people and it seemed cruel and the i.c.e. agency should be locking up real criminals.
and sort of military discipline to a white house that seemed from the very get-go a little bit out of control, a little bit not knowing where it should go, and i thought he would whip them into shape. to be honest, lawrence, in the intervening year, in the year that has passed things john kelly has done and said has changed my opinion. it began with when he was the head of homeland security. he more or less criminalized noncriminal immigrants. instead of going after criminals with very limited resources in i.c.e., the immigrations customs enforceme enforceme enforcement agency, they decided to go after people and it seemed cruel and the i.c.e. agency should be locking up real
up. he called that press conference to announce what was probably the most significant change in american nuclear weapons policy in 20 years. including the potential construction of new nuclear bombs, small nuclear bombs and he was just trying to explain where the country was going in this critical national security area. and trump's comments about the parade took over the press conference. everybody was asking well what about a parade? what about a parade? he was giving the answers that you showed. to me the whole thing is just another trumpian distraction that takes us away from the national security issues, the military issues that really matter. like for example, the 17-year-old war in afghanistan. >> all right. let's move to your reaction to john kelly of course white house chief of staff. a series of recent missteps in that position have had some people calling for him to step down. what is your thinking on a military general in the position of chief of staff? >> well he came into the white house to bring military discipline to a white house that
bannon, scaramucci and priebus and sean spicer's press conferences were bear baiting. the situation couldn't go on and it didn't. in july he appointed john kelly as his chief of staff. he have is an important figure here. we know he brought military discipline to the white house and imposed discipline. that's not just something that is an end unto itself. the point was to produce success. that's what military discipline is about. and i think in the last six months of the trump presidency this year you have seen that success emerge as the distractions have declined and a lot of the best appointees mr. trump made early in his term have gone forward and we've gotten to see scott pruitt and betsy devos and ryan zinke. this is the presidency culminating with the tax bill m december that has come to this
. in the second half of the nineteenth century this new type of child preoccupied philosophers writers and artists across europe it was a little known child which artists now sought to flush out. money explored the subject in detail. he features a child soldier in his eight hundred sixty six work the five play. there's something absent in the child's eyes unsettling to the viewer. it's not the type of gaze we would normally expect from a child. lonely suffocating beneath his uniform and from military discipline he appears robbed of his childhood. when photography emerged in the mid nineteenth century it imitated painting and what painting does best portraying people. even appropriated tried and tested motifs the child.