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So this has clearly gotten ahead of us. i think what -- you know, this is monday morning quarterbacking, but the fact is that a month ago, i, and several of my colleagues, have written pieces saying that the problem with the afghan army was as much as anything a morale problem and if you wanted to cure that, or bolster them up, you needed to add the air support and say that we were going to continue air support after the 31st of october. it was the sense of abandonment by us that reinforced a lot of other problems. i know the short answer people love to say is they quit fighting. they've been ...

Knowing that they would have potential medevacs, that they would have personnel recovery assets at their capability if needed, that all went away when the u.s. announced that they were going to have the military out within just a couple weeks from now. and it caused a real morale problem in the afghan military. so the assessments that said that afghan military would continue to fight against the taliban, well, that didn't factor that in and it didn't factor in one other enormous thing, and that is the taliban have been -- have shown they're willing to fight and die for their cause. well, the a...

>> yes, you do. >> what kind of police commissioner would you be looking for that can deal with both police reform and deal with the question of policing at the same time with the morale problem, but with the problem that we still want to see policing deal with things like mental health and readjust these budgets to deal with that? what kind of commission are you looking for? >> great question. as a reverend you can appreciate, this is a 14 and 14 moment -- >> very important. >> arrested, beat by police officers, go into the police department but at the same time, when i was arrested and beat ...

Internet in a really ugly way and which ones represent people who are actually planning some kind of physical attack. you know, i heard from one senior -- i heard from one senior security official who was saying, you know, look, like just because the number of threats has risen we shouldn't assume that means that the actual threat itself has risen. now, for senior leaders that signals that, okay, it is maybe less likely we are going to get caught by surprise by another january 6th style attack, but for line officers in the capitol police this feels like senior officials aren't taking the threa...

Good case against this guy. they had realtime information from the other members of the platoon. other people who were on the battlefield. who witnessed gallagher kill this kid, was a teenager, with a hunting knife. and then pose with the body. over the loud objection, in realtime, from the people who were -- who were his juniors. and then ordering some of those other s.e.a.l.s. to participate in what the navy considers a war crime along with him. there are a number of -- of military chain of command problems there. obviously, there is -- that is a textbook definition of a war crime and the na...