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The battlefield. >> nobody campaigned on that, right? nobody campaigned on drafting our daughters. >> make women die in combat. >> that's a great one to go alongside. >> yeah. right. right. >> i don't know, though. here's my -- okay, you're the vet here. >> i'm the vet. so, i did two tours in the middle east. i was an infantryman. it was an all-male unit. i do not believe in women in combat units. not because we had an all male unit so we didn't have to worry about getting women pregnant, right? oh, it's a gay joke. you have to explain the joke, it doesn't land. >> greg: i still get those. >> ...

The battlefield. >> nobody campaigned on that, right? nobody campaigned on drafting our daughters. >> make women die in combat. >> that's a great one to go alongside. >> yeah. right. right. >> i don't know, though. here's my -- okay, you're the vet here. >> i'm the vet. so, i did two tours in the middle east. i was an infantryman. it was an all-male unit. i do not believe in women in combat units. not because we had an all male unit so we didn't have to worry about getting women pregnant, right? oh, it's a gay joke. you have to explain the joke, it doesn't land. >> greg: i still get those. >> ...

Part was inexperienced and untrained. and all the rest, you had a few combat units. all of which were dependent on contractors which were not afghan, on air support and forward advisers which had been withdrawn in part even under the trump administration. so to say that they were combat ready, you have to wonder who on earth had ever given that briefing. because certainly no one i know of in afghanistan would have believed it. >> one of the challenges now is like it or not, the taliban run afghanistan. so when you're trying to negotiate, do diplomacy with the taliban, i saw you believe they ha...

Never even dream dull.- i might face consequences that i never even dream dull. and i guess that is the price _ never even dream dull. and i guess that is the price that _ never even dream dull. and i guess that is the price that we _ never even dream dull. and i guess that is the price that we pay - never even dream dull. and i guess that is the price that we pay for - that is the price that we pay for trying to make this world a little better. , never even dream dull. , never even dream dull. we'll speak live to a us army colonel— who commanded combat units in afghanistan — about how us ...

Id ideas. how do you survive if you're a black person in america during this era? and part of the answer came through african-american veterans of world war i. they fought in combat units in france where they were treated with respect and with honor and they came back to the united states and they found none. >> we have black veterans in greenwood, they fought for their country, they fought for their freedom. so when they come home they expect to be respected. what they come home to is again more jim crow laws, more prejudice and more restrictions on their freedom that they fought for. >> afte...