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Basically saying no, no, no to all of that, and i think china's instincts are correct, so we will see where this can go. it is often easy to start a negotiation with broad principles that sound like apple pie and motherhood, and we don't want to get our hopes up we don't want to get our hopes up too high, but china has at the right things today, and i'm behind what they have done. pare behind what they have done. are there any particular areas that china has leveraged over russia on? ~ ., ., , china has leveraged over russia on? . ., ., , ., on? well, china has not provided _ on? well, china h...

As such. openly argument the ukrainian military is an another example. i think that's why you see so many people so concerned about the risk for escalation here. >> and the white house has warned that russia could use chemical weapons, speaking of escalation concerns. and that president biden warned of a severe price the kremlin would pay. what do you think that means? i mean, what kind of severe price? could that be a red line for direct combat involvement? >> well, you know, it's horrible to contemplate. but were russia to go in this direction, you know, i think there would be enormous press...

Service members, the country is safer. that is what we heard him say to the troops on christmas day. you just played a little clip of that. i think he'll also make the case afghanistan is certainly better taking over their own security and holding democratic elections. although, he has acknowledged it's still a very dangerous place. and the reality, of course, is very complicated. 13 years $1 trillion in u.s. spending. and 2014 has been the deadliest year since the start of the war. civilian casualties expected to hit 10,000 this year. another 5,000 afghan forces have been killed, a number tha...

Ignorance -- was their ignorance of the military culture. they just didn't understand. and this is joe biden, president obama talking about ordering the military to do certain things. is that your biggest day-to-day problem with the obama administration? >> just to reinforce your first point, i -- take afghanistan. i agreed with all the decisions president obama made on afghanistan, the whole time i worked for him, two and a half years. and those were his biggest decisions, including the decision to end our combat involvement in december of 2014. i agreed with and supported his decisions on vi...