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Milley is speaking out like this? >> first of all, good everyone, don. ive known general mark milley for years and his comments were spot on. admission of all of our military leaders from our highest general all the way down to our youngest squad leaders is to promote cohesion so that our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines and guardsmen can win americas wars. thats what is behind us is understanding where people are coming from, what they have experienced historically, fact based but it about un...

>> okay, so that was mark milley. joining me the co-author of "hunting the caliphate something . also with me is a national political correspondent from "politico." meredith mcgraw. what an interesting conversation. general, how important is it the top military brass like general milley is speaking out like this? >> first of all, good evening, don. its extremely important. ive known general mark milley for years and his comments were spot on. the mission of all our military leaders, from our hig...

Marines and guardsmen can win americas wars. thats what is behind us is understanding where people are coming from, what they have experienced historically, fact based, but its about unit cohesion. >> meredith, listen, i know you have a new piece out in politico, president trump are attempting to capitalize off the push against the teaching of critical race theory. steve bannon says it is the tea party to the tenth power and you report that its only an attempt by republicans to take back power. ...

Ever fought. fact, it took 100 years after the civil war to end segregation which was worse than apartheid. so those are facts. its something that should be part of the curriculum and a part of what people are talking about in the military so you can understand where people are coming from to help promote unit cohesion. >> yeah, and just so you know, k through 12, k through 12, listen, everyone as we have said from every single person who has been on here, school board leaders, superintendents, ...

You want to understand the violence domestically or one side and one agenda which is it. this is a general insulated from the reality of troops. captain tom cotton getting hundreds of tips of critical race theory in west point, mandatory briefings and vetting troops at the pentagon. this is inside the pentagon. they put their generals in front of the dais to say its no big deal. our countrys most important institution as far as maintaining our national security needs unit cohesion. critical race...

Senator, always good to have you on the program. is what is happening with the military different and if it is, how so, then what we are seeing happen with school districts in classrooms across this country? >> well, thanks for having me. what we see in classrooms in school districts is very alarming because schools are trying to indoctrinate young children hateful fundamentally flawed irredeemable country frismt we allow a generation of our kids to be indoctrinated with those views, then what d...

Are still against this reform is shocking. today is the first time that we have a secretary of defense who agrees that sexual assault should be taken out of the chain of command. >> nbcs courtney kube is at the pentagon. there is movement on a couple of different paths. nothing is a done deal. >> absolutely. gillibrand fails to point out at that press conference earlier that general mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs has come out in favorite of changing this and i think whats importan...

To make the system fair and less biased because we know in this instance of military sexual assault theres a bias against the survivor because enough cases arent going forward and not ending in conviction. >> defense secretary lloyd austin supports this move it sounds like but general mark millie has some questions and issues. here was his statement back in may. removing commanders from prosecution decisions may have an adverse effect on readiness, mission accomplishment, good order and discipli...

Just before secretary austin began his testimony you and senator gillibrand gave a press conference with house speaker nancy pelosi introducing a proposal that goes farther than what secretary austin said moving all sexual assault cases out of the chain of command. tell us why thats important. >> its important because those particular crimes, non-military felonies, are ones that have historically been used by the discretion of the commander, and we have found that theres bias so that black and b...

Another book on the list, to unit cohesion and the ability to fight and win wars. >> when you go to basic training, whether enlisted or an officer, your brother down to say the superficial differences dont matter when we come together as a team to close with and destroy the enemy. in the navys case as we try to maintain global dominance on the high seas, all it has to do with is catering to the latest fads of the current administration which is trying to push these theories throughout government...