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Away, the report said. which, of course, undermines every headline that youve seen here. it also, of course, this is the bigger story that donald trump did go across with, you know, at first, the chairman of the joint chiefs, the sec def. there were obviously many things that made june the 1st deeply disturbing far beyond scaffolding plans earlier in the day. but again, you talk about a lack of perspective in the panting and the overreporting here from trump apologists. its laughable on its face...

Army awards Microsoft $22 billion contract for futuristic goggles Posted on The Army has awarded Microsoft a contract that could be worth almost $22 billion for its futuristic goggles that give soldiers a new way to see the battlefield. Known as IVAS, the acronym for the Integrated Visual Augmentation System, the goggles project 3D terrain maps over what soldiers see directly in front of them and allows troops to see in the dark, through smoke and even around corners. On Wednesday, the Army ...

Lloyd Austin Exemplifies the Biden Corruption Problem Let’s pretend Amerika is still a Constitutional Republic. In so doing, we should note the following with a certain condign dismay, rather than with a cynical shrug of resignation. Raytheon has chosen Lloyd Austin as Amerika’s next Sec Def. Kudos, btw, to normally-sycophantic Liberal Congresswoman Barbara Lee for rising in abject disgust to the following. Austin, Biden’s choice to lead the Defense Department, has served on the b...

What did you make of that decision then, and what do you make of it now, spider, in terms of what may have motivated, why it was right or wrong? >> well, were talking about this now, chris, and weve taken our eye off the other 8,000-plus soldier, sailors, airmen that continue to deploy in afghanistan. were talking about this, and i must say frankly the president got involved way too soon. he could have waited for this thing to entirely wrap itself up, tied with ribbon, gone through the entire pr...

The president says no. what did you make of that decision then and what do you make of it now, spider, in terms of what may have motivated, why it was right or wrong? >> were talking about this now, chris, and weve taken our eye off the other 8,000 plus soldier airmen that are in afghanistan. the president got involved way too soon. he could have waited for this thing to entirely wrap itself up, tied with ribbon, gone legally through the entire ucmj process and the administrator process, could h...

The bombardment went on for 10 to 15 minutes and only stopped when u.s. air assets lazed the turkish battery. what that means, joy, is that the turks would have kept the artillery barrage if not for u.s. air power letting them know, if they didnt stop, they were going to get a bomb on their forehead. the second thing that we can report, in conversations ive had with a senior turkish intelligence official is that the kurds did not know about donald trumps decision to allow the turks to move forwa...

Have changes at the top of the defense department? >> well, don, i think the combatant commanders and the theater commanders here are all very, very competent people and theyre able to execute on these things. but there has been a sense of instability at the defense department since general mattis departed as secdef. we had patrick shanahan as the acting. weve had the chaos of shanahans departure this week. there have been a lot of other questions about whether or not the appointee structure at ...

Unsafe. >> are we less safe because of whats unfolding to our south in venezuela? >> no, i think venezuela is a nightmare. clearly has nothing to do with u.s. military intervague. it would be an utter disaster. were not going to do that. im confident. we see resignation of the acting sec-def and others and the congress would turn on trump if he does that. what do we do? 3 million refugees, starvation, murder of the people. i actually applaud secretary pompeo, whoever came up with this clever ide...

Taken by democrats last week to try to stop a treasury department move to ease sanctions on three russian companies tied to that russian oligarch deriposkov. and congress just started so theres a lot more. >> the oversight starting to ramp up even as the government is shut down. or partially shut down. eliana? >> im looking at the administrations search for a new secretary of defense to replace jim mattis who left in late december. and its not getting a whole lot of tracks. it will be interestin...

To align closely with some of trumps current positions, including being against the iraq war, being against the iran nuclear deal, and wanting to aggressively confront china. the white house has declined to comment on the report. joining us now former nato supreme allied commander, retired four star navy admiral, james, stavridis. >> so what is your opinion on the former secretary of the navy becoming the president cease sec def. >> what we need, joe, and you know this, is somebody who will stan...