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California the british commandos dominated us forces and the us asked for a reset halfway into the 5-day war fighting exercise having suffered significant simulated casualties which at one point the commandos had a tech almost every american assets. here is republican senator josh halley, member of the armed services committee. what is china thinking when they see this, the afghan withdrawal and now this? >> they are probably wondering why it is that people like general milley and secretary aust...

U.s. forces. and the u.s. asked for a reset halfway into the five-day war fighting exercise, having suffered significant simulated casualties. at one point, the commandos kill board had a tech against almost almost every american asset. here now is republican senator josh hawley, member of the armed services committee. senator hawley, i mean, what is china thinking when they see this? the afghan withdrawal -- the withdrawal and now this. >> well, you know, they are probably wondering why it is t...

These things are wildly popular. this is one of the most popular things we have seen. they are having a signing ceremony and they are having to take care of this. we had months of sausage making and we saw what happens when you have that kind of thing. voters hate watching party on party fighting. we have to get the bill passed. were going to take a beating in the election if there is go to be democrat on democrat fighting. >> and they have taken a show to

Ocean. so i think that is military force. i think our message should be more on deterrents than war fighting. >> and i want to talk about something that is so troubling, the havana syndrome, misnamed, but that is thousand is being named. i spoke to adam schiff about it. >> do you think it could have started as routine that could have been weaponized? >> we have so much work yet to do on what is causing this i

Any kind of from afghanistan ar the people that are already tie to this moneymaking scheme. they are the ones that would work great why would they want to have a grand strategy that would cut down their own work. unless you focus on that part, nothing is going to change. >> its not just the defense contractors that generals work for when they leave, its the bureaucracy at the pentagon, theyre not focused on war fighting,. >> its the entire ecosystem of work which is produced in which we started ...

Kind of a withdraw from afghanistan are the people already tied to the money-making scheme. why would they want to have a grand strategy that cuts down on their work. unless you focus on that part, nothing is going to change. >> tucker carlson: not just the defense contractors, the generals work for when they leave, its the bureaucracy at the pentagon, not focused on war fighting, but on -- >> its in our ecosystem of work which is produced and which wed like from schools to universities to can k...

To our national security. decades if not hundreds of years, if not thousands of years of institutional knowledge and experience of war fighting, ive got a lot of text messages from my former colleagues who, of course, will get out. you are talking about senior leaders with massive amounts of knowledge? there is a reason the military uses retention bonuses at that level, right around the 20 year, they know they are going to lose some, but they have to keep a lot of its additional knowledge and le...

Are, it hurts. >> the blatant lies and misinformation from the highest people in our government on a daily basis throughout this entire, you know, drawdown, pullout, whatever you want to call it. its disgusting. >> when you start factoring politics into war fighting, bad combination, right? when you look at the wars from the past, yes there was some of that. but not what it is today. our founding fathers didnt intend for politics to be a career. if you made it a career, you probably suggested --...

Maybe we need a new approach because 20 years of war fighting with the greatest army and greatest troops around and all this technology and we werent able to win. >> to ask ourselves what is what is winning, the united states as a very specific role in the world and if we walk away from afghanistan, we saw the story before coming in 2011 all the troops came home from iraq and they want up right back there in 2014 because of foolish policy, we need to go up, there are people in this world who wan...

Thoughts yesterday? someone whos been involved in the beginning through the bush administration, what were your thoughts yesterday when it was announced this mission has ended? >> my own reactions, willie, were a mixture of relief and sadness. relief that obviously our troops are out and so many people are saved. but sadness i dont believe it had to be this way. and i think that has to do with how we fought this war. i think a lot of critical decisions over the last 20 years were simply wrong, w...