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Here on cspan, newsmakers is next with republican ngressman Mac Thornberry of texas. 8 00, a conversation with a vanity fair columnist on q a. On newsmakers, we are joined by congressman Mac Thornberry of texas, chairman of the House Armed Services committee and on wednesday saw his defense policy bill passed in the house. To help with our questions today we are joined by a reporter from the washington took washington post. The bill did pass wednesday night, but now he had toward the next stage where there will be seven points of disagreement between the bill that came out of the house and wha...

Was commanding the forces in northern iraq. he visited at least three times during one of our 15-month deployment missions. and he really probed into the tactical aspect of the fight. i tried to put before him my iraqi counterpart and iraqi three-star generally, as well as my own sergeant major, command sergeant major so he could get a feel for not only what we were doing but what the iraqis were doing and what the soldiers were feeling. what i'll say he was a different kind of congressional delegation too. most code would come to the battlefield and want to shake their constituents hands and ...