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The Marine Corps has until 2025 to integrate women fully into its training of new recruits on Parris Island, a century-old bootcamp on South Carolina’s coast. That deadline was set by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump.  Female Marines have trained for decades at the camp – but not at platoon level. In the past, women have been deployed in support roles while combat units remained all-male. That is changing across the U.S. military as more women go to war. But change has been much slower in the Marines, as Corps commanders say integrated units are less effective at s...

vice president dick cheney and his lawyer, liz cheney, chair of a national security advocacy group, keep america safe. together they wrote "in my time, a personal and political ma'am war." thank you both for joining us. i want to start with the drone strike that took out the top prop gan diss, at least for al qaeda in the iranian peninsula, perhaps took out the bombmaker for the same group and also took out samir khan. what's your reaction to that? >> well, i think it was a very good strike. i think it was justified. i think it is very effective use of our drone technology. thing i'm...

Command went down there to take a look. this is the first time actually the lebanese army have fired back at the israeli army. it's a very big deal, jon. nome it's hezbollah doing the fighting. so it's very interesting and it goes to show you how tens the israel-lebanon border is right now. anything could set something off. both sides have been warning the other of a possible war this summer and really, jon, the one party that has something to gain in all of this is iran, and that's what both sides are watching now, especially with general mullen's comments, saying there is a plan of attack on...

That they're a little confused. don't think that's wishful thinking, because of how everybody knows i feel about this policy, it just seems it's unsustainable for me now of opponents of this policy to say they're on the military side when they're siding against general mullen and general powell. do you have a sense of what you're up against on the other side of this strategy now? >> they're going to throw everything at us. and bobby kennedy once said change has enemies and change is hard. so i'm not taking anything for granted, even though we have the past two chairman of the joint chiefs of s...

Co-sponsors. i have about two dozen more folks in the congress that said they're going to vote for it if it comes up for a vote, and we're working every day to get even more. and we will have the votes when it comes up for a vote this year. >> it feels to me right now, as opposed to 1993, that the opposition on this is a little incoherent. that they're a little confused. and i don't think that's wishful thinking, because of how everybody knows i feel about this policy, it just seems it's unsustainable for me now of opponents of this policy to say they're on the military side when they're sidin...