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Thats been internalized at the white house. the third and perhaps most trick qua for the president is an articulation of american values. this will include potentially some talk on torture, the restrictions against waterboarding. that, kate, is really the challenge for the president here today because hes going to try to channel and convince donald trump to follow some of his practices while also making it clear there are clear breaks in policy. its going to be a delicate task. well see whether ...

Story that the country would be riveted by right now is the historic decision made by the pentagon, the decision that all combat jobs in the united states military will now be open to women. the armed forces have been studying that prospect for three years now. it became a very high-profile prospect when women graduated from army ranger school for the first time in history earlier this year. a lot of people said that could physically never happen. it happened. but even with that, nobody had been...

Were true, the ore major news story that the country would be riveted by right now is the historic decision made by the pentagon, the decision that all combat jobs in the united states military will now be open to women. the armed forces have been studying that prospect for three years now. it became a very high-profile prospect when women graduated from army ranger school for the first time in history earlier this year. a lot of people said that could physically never happen. it happened. but e...

Last to truly be effective? >> well, look, air power, where isis has ensconced their key assets in civilian population, very difficult to employ. youve got to have people on the ground. so, you know, i thought it was complete nonsense, having the white house political spokesman talk about, well, were only going to have 50 special ops people and no more in syria. we need to have a mission-type order, the special operations command take legal action against these people in both syria, iraq, and le...

Out of the white house press spokesman was remarkable. a lot of our air power. u.s. air force and naval air power right now is so constrained by micromanagement and rules of engagement that it is ineffective. so i think you have to at some point say do we want to go after these people with muscle, special operations command, u.s. air and naval power, cia direct action, or not? if you do, the white house ought to stay out of it and just announce political objectives that they want to achieve. i t...

Haystacks. to say that were going to deny any refugee relief because we might find one or two or ten inside there? i think weve got to have much better border controls. we need greter intelligence on whos coming from where and why are they coming from there? we also have to take here -- we talked about having more ground troops. i was very involved in the creation of the special operations command so im very sympathetic to having much more participation by special forces but we also have to make...

Fire was there on the ground, and there was then the decision to enter the compound and the firefight, and insooe of that compound that master sergeant wheeler was shot first and died later while being transported for medical care. >> i read the release of the special operations command in which they said that sergeant wheeler died from enemy gun fire while in combat near huisa, iraq. and so that combat mission is over, but this is listed combat. is there a discrepancy here? >> no, this is nothi...

Nobody may know more than general joe votel about what it takes to face down the terrorists. >> we recognize that the american people expect us to be able to do these types of mission. >> one, two, three. >> votel, head of u.s. special operations command previously led a secretive organization. army delta force, s.e.a.l. team six, and other covert military teams that secretly gather intelligence for raids is and hostage rescues. >> we want to take those great people that we have and we want to g...

Will be focused on the quality of information and the analysis behind the recommendations. i want to hear from everyone, but im less interested in who said what but why they are saying it. and to be clear, i will carefully review the analysis from all four services and special operations command to make my final determination. as secretary of defense, im committed to seeing this through because attracting the best and staying the best means that wherever possible we must open ourselves to the ta...

To women. when i, myself, review these reports overcoming month, i will be focused on the quality of information and the analysis behind the recommendations. i want to hear from everyone. but im less interested in who said what, but why they are saying it. and to be clear, i will carefully review the information and analysis from special operations command to make my final determination. as secretary of defense, i am committed to seeing this through because attracting the best and staying the be...