Recognizes that sound. Well, thats correct, brian. If you remember Defense Secretary mattis was the first led the first marines on the ground shortly after 9 11. Lets get with the breaking news, moments ago fox news has learned the taliban claimed responsibility for a massive Rocket Attack at kabuls International Airport. 40 to 45 rockets and rocket propelled grenades landed near the Passenger Terminal just less than two hours after Defense Secretary jim mattis arrived with his entourage which included the press. Now, im told that mattis was in no danger. He had already left the area aboard helicopter and Rocket Attack was not near the location where he landed. But, still, brian, its the same airport and certainly raises a lot of questions about security in afghanistan 16 years after the 9 11 attacks. Now, mattis a day ago was traveling in india, which might have put the taliban on some kind of alert. It was not public that Defense Secretary mattis would be arriving in kabul today. He
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didn t last very long. it was just last night, he did a podcast with host jim gray and said, i m still taking it day by day. wasn t ready to announce last night but today, he released the long statement. two interesting things about his announcement. one, he never actually uses the r word. you never see the word retirement in the post. so take that for what it s worth. and this is all the talk right now in boston. not to be whiney new england guy, but he released a nine page retirement statement on instagram thanking bucs, trainers, teammates, city of tampa, his agents, trainer, not one mention of the patriots or bill belichick or robert kraft. everyone up here is like, what the heck? what s with the snub? what is that about? i don t know. i don t know if it was an intentional snub or if he s decided like, i think the most generous interpretation is, he s
a greater western troop presence near your border. you say you think putin is looking for a way out. what specifically do you see that indicates that? first of all, he says he keeps saying that, oh, i never intended to invade ukraine. well, of course we know we take that for what it s worth. second, however, he has exchanged notes with the united states. they have exchanged ideas and written responses back and forth. the foreign minister lavrov has sent a message to 57 countries in osce asking for information or ideas about a very nebulous concept called the in divisibility of security. that step is clearly going to take months for any kind of response. they re looking to delay, to change the subject from an invasion to a more negotiated