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along with joe, willie and me, we have pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of "the washington post," eugene robinson. and president emeritus of the council on foreign relations, richard haass, back with us this morning. >> he somehow becomes even more distinguished. >> he does. >> amazing. >> erudite is the word that come comes to mind. >> yes. willie, well get to the whistleblower that comer couldnt find, and then must be humiliated, as they found him in the southern...

2020 director of press communications and the former campaign surrogate president biden. >> sandra: new york republican gubernatorial candidate zelden hitting the trail one day after he was attacked on stage by a man trying to stab him. quite something to see that video. >> john: the video no question is shocking. well get reaction as well. lawmaker talking to reporters last hour about the shocking experience, and the need to reform bail laws. put the suspect back on the streets shortl...

trial in his federal election interference case, and for the very first time revealing a key case against donald trump. for months now, questions house world about how much donald trumps state of mind matters in this case. did he actually believe that the election was stolen from him, and prosecutors need to show that the ex president knew he had lost the election? well washington post is now reporting this. the justice department weighed in on thedete for the first ti saying that what...

risk sweltz the crossing itself. finally that happened and still there was intense diplomacy across the region. president bidens envoy to the middle east, david satterfield was key among the players along with qatar and egypt to try to really get a deal in which all parties involved would be willing to let these civilians go. and so finally after days and days of everyone holding their breath and hoping it would work out, it did work out finally on wednesday. its just a small fract...

Limited assignments, not being able to deploy all of the so-called disciplinary measures up to the individual services and units to administer to their people. you know, the reason it is so important to the military is the public health, the u.s. military lives and works in towns and communities across the country. so public health is job number one here. but for the military, they also want to have as high vaccination rate as possible, they dont want to have it be a readiness problem. they dont...

Stunning. the second thing is you heard before congress, serious readiness problem. what that means is a lack of repair parts for our equipment and borrowing from other vehicles. a lack of training time, ships banging into other ships in preparation for our sailors at the. and we show them the introduction, we capitalize our investment accounts in a significant way to buy more ships, airplanes and helicopters, missiles, etc.. all this has to be done and we are going to give the troops a signific...

The second thing, youve heard commanders go up before the congress had told him the serious readiness problem for our viewers, what that means is that a lack of flying hours, lack repairing hours, we are borrowing equipment. a lack of training time for our troops. we saw ships banging into other ships as a result of lack of training and preparation for our sailors at sea. that will begin to get fixed. as you showed in the introduction, we will capitalize our investment accounts and a significant...

The defense authorization bill bearing john mccains name. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon. tell us about the bill, jennifer. >> shepard, what is interesting, weve had several years of budget cuts, budget caps. this defense bill does more than any other bill to reverse that. the president very proudly stated that he wants more planes, more ships. hes going to reverse the readiness problem that after 17 years of constant war has plagued the military. this is the earliest a president has signed...

>> do you agree with general mcclement masters that north korea is the greatest threat now, national security threat? >> i think because of their provocations and things are doing, the potential for war is as high as it has ever been. if someone made a miss calculation,. >> a lot of talk today about readiness. in the budget control act. the sequestration that congress needs to repeal so the money they are considering for defense increases to increase and rebuild the military, to basically fix th...

He said they did not open the letter. all i said north korea is still a possibility for regional flareup. >> another big thing at the conference, readiness problem. planes that cant fly, budget shortfalls. what did you here today? >> weve reported a lot about how have for the navys fire planes cannot fly. half of the b-1 bombers cant five. i asked the secretary of the air force hell would impact the fight with north korea. she said in no uncertain terms, if we had to fight right now under these ...