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Allies anxious about july 4th fest. the white house called the pentagon less than a month ago to tell them to start drawing up a plan to get the president his tanks. no time to draw up a cost estimate, just do it. and so, yes, this military display the president has ordered up for tomorrow, it is causing anxiety for lots of americans, for reasons beyond its cost to the taxpayers, right? cnn had this headline today. military chiefs have concerns about politicization of trump s july 4th event. this is the headline in the new york times today. some retired and active duty military officers and some defense department personnel said the participation of the military in president trump s salute to america appears to politicize the armed forces on a day when the nation traditionally toasts its independence in a nonpartisan ....
Hotel. thank you, ayman. now let s go to jim miklaszewski on duty at the pentagon. here we have another militant jihadist battleground on the earth. second, so many people expect the u.s. military to come in and do something. that happened today by happen stance. we had some special operators there? that s exactly right. six americans managed to evacuate that hotel safely. five of them were civilian d.o.d., defense department personnel or u.s. military. so they were able to get out of the hotel safely when those gunmen grabbed up at least two dozen hostages. and then what happened, there are 26 u.s. special operations forces that are pretty much assigned to mali for the time being and they re spread out across the country to train mali security forces in terms of any ....
State department has placed on those with knowledge of the benghazi attacks. joining us now, virginia republican congressman frank wolf. those ndas, non-disclosure agreements, do you know for a fact they were requested of american personnel? yes, i do know that they were requested and i know that they have been signed. i ve been told that. and we re asking the administration for that, to verify it but secondly, if they give us the names of who signed those agreements. jon: so why would american personnel be asked to sign non-disclosure agreements? so the congress and the american people would not know what happened that night. jon: you think this is an active attempt by, what, defense department personnel, administration personnel, cia personnel? i think it s an active participation of quite frankly the administration, to find out, to make sure that the american people and the congress do not find out what went on. ....
greta: it is not safe. that s what ourt3 governmentjmfs telling americans. the japanese seem to be tell a different story. here s what we know. the u.s. military is authorizing voluntary evacuations of family of defense department personnel from bases in mainland, japan. 14 buses are on tear way to sendai now because they need to rescue americans. anyone within 50 piles is being warned by the u.s. to evacuate. 65 mileses terrifyingly close with the fires, explosions and wind blowing radiation. greg palkot joins us live in osaka. tell me about osaka and what it is like there? reporter: osaka is sort of the chicago to tokyo s new york. the second city of japan. we are 250 miles south and west. it is where some of the ....
greta: it is not safe. that s what ourt3 governmentjmfs telling americans. the japanese seem to be tell a different story. here s what we know. the u.s. military is authorizing voluntary evacuations of family of defense department personnel from bases in mainland, japan. 14 buses are on tear way to sendai now because they need to rescue americans. anyone within 50 piles is being warned by the u.s. to evacuate. 65 mileses terrifyingly close with the fires, explosions and wind blowing radiation. greg palkot joins us live in osaka. tell me about osaka and what it is like there? reporter: osaka is sort of the chicago to tokyo s new york. the second city of japan. we are 250 miles south and west. it is where some of the ....