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President there were no consequences for hesterible judgment. now as the president you see the awful consequences playing out in afghanistan. adversaries like china are already using it against us. >> bill: did the afghan army know we were leaving? i ask that because we -- the giant base bagram north of kabul operating for 20 years and a couple of weeks ago it seemed we gave them 20 minutes notice to leave. if that was the policy you can understand why people would say you dont have our backs an...

Top of her high school class and joined the army out of college. cruz, lets remember, has never served in the military. the backlash was swift. >> myself and a lot of veterans are very upset by this. it is not the right thing to disparage our military. >> reporter: senator tammy duckworth, the helicopter pilot and iraq war veteran who lost parts of both legs when her chopper was hit by an rpg tweeted this -- holy crap, perhaps a u.s. senator shouldnt suggest that the russian military is better t...

"tough love my story of the things worth fighting for." pleasure to to have you on. >> great to be with you, fareed. >> i want to ask you about the moment you write in your book when president obama calls you and asks you to be his ambassador to the united nations. a storied position. a cabinet position. and you respond by saying, well, thanks very much but i was hoping you would ask me to be national security adviser. i think that the technical term is -- why did you do that and what was his re...

Writings on broadway and things like that. he knew history, he knew history very much. i think that his source for that was probably his family, which goes back generations. a lot of people didnt realize the generational length of his family. >> and i know that you would perform around christmas, a christmas carol. he played scrooge? >> there was a great amount of humerus profanity. >> swore like a sailor? >> he cob a warrior in his beat. >> i want to get to you commander alvarez, because we hav...

>> can i say this? >> oh, no. >> this squawkbox debate will continue on our channel. david, whether were talking about north korea, whether were talking about meetings with vladimir putin or trade disputes with china that have gone on a quarter of a century, would you agree that most of our trading partners are concerned how donald trump has just -- has just stumbled into the trade war with china? >> i think theres a lot of anxiety in the world about all the elements of donald trumps policy at h...

Voice. >> put those weapons down. >> unarmed, wheeler and a group has been stopped by the military. >> were like, were the victims. what are you pulling guns on us for? >> then she saw the three star commander who ordered to guns lowered. general russell honore who led the response after katrina and rita is also the man she credits with saving their lives. >> come on, come on. >> its a moment cnn captured as it happened, the general personally coming to wheelers aid. >> what do you think would h...

Me lifting my leg up. >> reporter: by the time wheeler made it to the convention center, she and her boys were starving, dehydrated and exhausted. thats when she first heard his voice. unarmed, wheeler and a group had been stop bped by the military. >> were like, were the victims. what are you pulling guns on us for? >> reporter: then she saw the three star commander who ordered the guns lowered. general russell honore, the man who led the military response after hurricanes katrina and rita is a...

Precised high target hit. and much like what we saw in yemen very specifically. we have a very high interest. we want to know whats going on because those actions will ultimately effect actions elsewhere. so what we want to be able to do is push that authority down so that the president is certainly going to be involved in the information certainly will be notified. will be informed but what you dont have is this very difficult process while you might be visiting some international body. he may ...

Talk so those wearing the uniform would prefer to have their leaders use a little bit more precise language and make sure you know what youre doing before you get into it, so tough talk is important, but these kind of epithets and provocative things going around, i have to ask does the commander know, know that mike flynn was about to send this message, or was he sort of like some of the thing we have seen in the last few days under cut and surprised by this. you dont want a four star commander ...