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Differences with, the two republican senators there. he recently called out senator john mccain for his vote against advancing the health care bill. also senator flake has criticized the president. he wrote a book that questioned the president's conservatism, criticiz criticized him on immigration. he tweeted it was a nonfactor in the senate, adding he is toxic. he talked up flake's primary challenger. he won by four percentage points, rob? >> rich, thank you so much. live from new jersey. okay, joining me now by phone, fox news military analyst colonel david hunt. thank you for joining us ton...

The white house is shrugging off the fact that it took the president 18 days to fire national security adviser michael flynn, downplaying testimony from former acting attorney general sally yates that she had repeatedly warned that flynn was compromisinged by russia and could be subject to blackmail. press secretary sean spicer suggests yates' warnings were taken with a grain of salt calling her a political opponent of the president. he says it was, quote, widely rumored that she was a supporter of hillary clinton and would be a part of a clinton administration. more than 15 years after u.s....

We heard from sean spicer was the verb he used. eliminate the threat and not annihilate. normally you have degrade, defeat, destroy, and then annihilate. it's a continuum. what they are talking about with isis and syria is annihilate. complete destruction. a quick note, they didn't use the terminology in mosul. the plan was to let some of them escape and kill them later. and the final stage of the campaigner, the beginning of the end in syria, they are talking about annihilation. heading thes from what spicer said, the eliminate verb and what he was talking about, i would not expect a huge tro...

Who i have known since 2007 when we were arguing against a troop increase in iraq and i can tell you on a personal level especially reading his book he cares what happens to the soldier or the marine on the ground embedded in combat and i think in afghanistan with green on blue killings, a question of projection of force and embedded with afghan troops, this is someone to say is this worth the sacrifice and there was a large debate in washington, d.c. prior to the increase of troops in afghanistan and hagel quietly was on the side that was against the president's plan of sending more troops an...

Troops. >> and that was speaker pelosi responding to vice president biden saying we may see a couple of thousand leave. john what's your assess ment of what you're hearing. >> this is the white house mess, and they're going to have to -- there's a lot of people inside the white house, the national security advisor, the vice president, a mission that just focused on al qaeda, didn't require a lot of troops, they sort of got bullied into this troop increase. so you could basically drive a truck through the strategy. you know, certainly we didn't support it. we supported a much more limited focus...