already been mitigated because of extenuating circumstances. that justice system was working. from an operational perspective, it also has the corrosive effect of limiting the ability of the chain of command do what it needs to do in order to ross cute prosecute a war fight. and so in says insion one hand go with his base and do the things that his base wants him do like in the eddie gallagher case, but on the other hand, he also wants to exercise his authority as commander in chief and what he is doing here in afghanistan absolutely the right thing for a commander in chief, but it shows there is no coherent strategy. your insight is absolutely invaluable. thank you of course for all your being sacrifices for this great country. we have also now learned that the department of justice s
going to happen in washington d.c. that would be interesting. as for the exercises themselves, i do think they re valuable. we gave up on the major exercises, and this exercise, i ve participated myself in this type of exercise as a two-star general. most of it is computer-based tabletop exercises to determine all the big issues in a war fight with north korea. what we have to remember so our viewers understand this, north korea has a significant conventional capability. and this is a country that clearly can rain down on seoul, korea, with thousands of artillery shells and conduct a very serious invasion of south korea. in fairness to our troops there, to the south korean people, to our own families that are there, it is right that we practice at some level a war with south with north korea. so i think it s responsible, what we re doing. i do agree canceling some of those other exercises was in our
clean as a whistle. which is good for any big city mayor. they were planning on doing this in november. the president has a good chance of losing the house. i don t think it mattered that the pentagon didn t want to pay for it, and the city didn t want to pay for it. he didn t want to look like a fool after a bad election having a military parade. some of these weapons are heavy that they leave tracks on tar. it s not a joke. meanwhile president trump escalated a new fight, a new war fight i believe, and fighting with everybody like groucho marx these days. we are not going to make america great again, it was never that great. we have not reached greatness. well, governor cuomo received a backlash for that remark, and
pentagon are ongoing despite the fact that the senate can t get its act together? the essential operations are ongoing. that includes security, counterterror. the troops overseas in harm s way. the one thing we will see if this is to continue on for a matter of days or longer, secretary of defense jim mat his is a retired general. if there is anyone who is going to continue to make sure that the war fight, the individuals who are forward deployed, that they get everything they need, it s jim mattis. i feel very comfortable of that. where we will see this back home, and other places overseas as well, not necessarily in a combat zone. but this means that training is canceled. maintenance can be canceled if you have civilian maintainers. it is what the military calls the second and third order effects that will have the impact. those individuals who are forward, in afghanistan, in iraq, in syria, in combat zones and africa, they will continue secretary mattis and the military will con
humanitarian catastrophe that has so far claimed a quarter of a million live and displaced 11 million people. my son went to summer camp with a young boy who happened to come from syria. he an his family now have fled to safety. but in this world, that makes them the lucky ones. maria? what a story. thank you, eric shawn, with the latest. we re back with armed services committee chairman congressman matt thornberry. the $612 billion defense bill designates $89.2 billion of overseas continued fund, money for war fight as regular department of defense budget authority so the pentagon can escape those sequestration budget cuts. he says that s no way to fund our national defense situation, which is why the president is vetoing threatening to veto this. yes.