milley and bring him in handcuffs and hand him over to the russian embassy, ​​because it was mark milley in their sleep. we cut the throat, so why are you bastards, scum, pretending that you sympathize, if you called for this, as your vile newspaper washington post wrote about, then you should rejoice at the death of the russians, rejoice, you organized this, therefore, as they say, from fyodor mikhailovich dostoevsky, you killed yourself, hence your hysterical reaction, but... to solve your problems, we see right through you, we are dealing with a vile enemy, a vile enemy, a merciless and insidious enemy, and we must treat him this way, therefore , every time we are offered... we we are dealing with, but the fact that the ukrainian regime is negotiating, we must remember well, with whom it is not to blame, yeah, but of course, of course, it is to blame, they did not flee to finland, they did not try to hide and sit out, they are not central asia rushed, they did not try to leave there through kazakhstan. when you tell us that yes, what are you, this is isis, and these four will start si

without i now recognize general mark milley with that i now recognize general mark milley. >> thank youmembers of the committee thank you for your efforts and what you are doing. i am grateful the opportunity to be here general mckenzie and my purpose here today is to help you form a holistic excess stomach assessment of our efforts in afghanistan but most importantly i am here today voluntarily to help the families of the fallen. the 13 fallen at abby gate. and the thousands of fallen and tens of thousands of wounded and countless other members who suffered the invisible wounds of war to help them get answers. i am humbled to be here today with three gold star families from abby gate, and i know the other families could not make it, but i intend to contact them in the coming weeks. they know my feelings for them. they know there are no words by me or any general or any politician or anyone that can ever bring back there fallen. but all of us can, and all of us must, honor their sacrifice to protect our country and to be rever grateful that they answered the call to the colors. each of

today former joint chief chairman general mark milley and former step -- satcom commander general cannot comment -- testified about the evacuation. >> on 14th, august the noncombatant evacuation decision was made by the department of states and the u.s. military alerted, marshall mobilize and robley deployed faster than military and the world can ever do. is my assessment that that decision came too late. >> if there is fault it lies in the policy decision that placed the joint force in the situation and expose the force overtime to the possibility of these kinds of attacks. i was the overall commander and i and i alone therefore military possibility for what happened at abbey gate. >> martha: retired major general don bolduc who served ten tours in afghanistan is standing by with his reaction to what he is hearing in that congressional hearing room today. first -- live on capitol hill mark aisha. >> we are hearing some headlines come out of this hearing macpherson for most general mark milley is testifying that afghanistan would not have collapsed, have fallen, had the white house, the

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so the former chief of the joint committee of staff, mark milley, now receives more than joe biden, theleaving the military last year , former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff army gen. mark milley has become a senior adviser to gp morgan at a very large price. began lecturing on the faculties of princeton and georgetown. in addition to the military salary of 204,000 dollars a year, millie probably also receives millions in fees, since he is presented everywhere as an influential speaker. well, the other day miele took part in a major bankers’ event, where he shared some insider’s view of world affairs. he also spoke at the closed summit of the american council of education in washington, a meeting about the global crisis and endless wars. the same agency helps make money in this way, which provides huge fees for the clinton family. well, then about the feat of the pilots and the development of the russian economy right away after a short commercial. order a free credit card with a whole year without interest and receive a supercake in rubles every month, and even without... withdr

once again, you heard that from mark milley there, whereas essentially pulling all the troops out means you lose some of the critical us acids that had been there, like bagram airbase. so a challenging position, once again, we hear million mackenzie going through their perspective on how the chaotic withdrawal all played out there >> no significant testimony from the two generals, oren liebermann. thank you so much. stay with cnn, were back in just moment. >> leaks lives, cia secrets. >> valerie plane, salary, plane trial, replaying, >> lives were at stake yes, >> my children. this is horrifying. >> united states of scandal with jake tapper. new episode sunday at nine on cnn >> have you heard slant jd offers the news you love for less weight you look and sound just like me. >> actually, >> i am you because on the same news programs on sling for less, you mean you're me but for less money. a lot less? i'm all your favorite news programs and more on sling starting at just $40 a month. everything great about me, but for less money, which makes me greater than to think it's the same news fo

milley.e are taking your calls for the first hour on your level of confidence in the u.s. military. here is an article from the associated press. top former u.s. generals say failures of the biden administration and planning led to the chaotic fall in kabulmare buckley exposed for the first time the strain and differences■ military leaders have with the biden administration in the final days of the war. two of those key differences included that the military had advised thatheleast 2500 servicn afghanistan to maintain stability and a concern that the state departmentasot moving fast enough to get an evacuation started. let's take a look at another portion from that hearing yesterday with the two generals. [video clip] >> you urged the white house and state department to put pen to paper to develop a plan to get americans and our afghan allies out of of guinness tandem right -- of afghanistan, right? >>right. part of the department of defense planning instead of the depart efforts to the secre

know mark >> milley, we should note, is a retired four-star general general trump appointed him chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. trump has an ongoing feud with milli, but this is timing given the millie just testified before congress about the afghanistan withdrawal and the testimony we actually didn't reflect well on the biden administration's handling of the withdrawal from afghanistan, but he's just triggered by the presence of millie and we should note meli. meli gets death threats, millie, like a lot of former trump official joel's who have broken with the precedent has to be protected by security because of that kind of invective in stochastic terrorism, the idea who will rid me of this meddlesome priest and he criticized as these people and they get death threats from his supporters. >> he bad-mouth the military, jake, he bad mouth's law enforcement at every one of his rallies, he rips the capitol hill police, who were there on january 6 this is what he does and it plays with his base. >> all right. guys are not a concern among i guess he has this new campaign team who ran,

as for the americans themselves, you know, that's when you remembered mark milley, that's who i have ever been in units directly with the americans, i have seen how training is conducted with the personnel of the armed forces, this is how they are trained. this sits in every american soldier, we must remember this in the sense that now for them we are no longer even people, this is an enemy, an enemy that is necessary. not a moratorium, but a ban we have now, a moratorium is such a soft word, because according to the interpretation of the constitutional court, article 22 of the constitution, we , strictly speaking, cannot refuse this moratorium, as i understand it, because we have the corresponding article there presupposes the existence of jury trials, they should be throughout russia, this is a practice and the like, well , in other words, that we cannot return to the death penalty without completely changing the constitution. this surprises me a little, because it turns out that this is what they were talking about, and the advantages of international law, listen, we signed this,

milley and jack sullivan will be interrogated by our investigative authorities, yes, this can be doneitory, let's do it in a neutral country, well, for example, in belarus, if you don't want , you are embarrassed by belarus, you have already inherited there in such a way that you will be accepted there, well, let's go to kazakhstan. so i'm afraid that in kazakhstan you will have questions, but let 's find a neutral country, north korea, iran, cuba, venezuela, there are many options, but let's find everywhere, a neutral country where our investigators are, serbia, so, well, probably i hope that, i hope that you are not yet afraid of being accepted in serbia, well , come on, come there, our investigators will interrogate you, you will answer the question. consequences, but then this is propaganda pushing the only version, it’s becoming simply funny, it already looks, excuse me, like panic, by the way, i ’ll add a fifth fact to this british man in a hat, and he, by the way, is a fact - he’s so pretty... maybe such an exotic character in appearance , but he cited the facts that were, but

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former joint chiefs chairman general mark milley and u.s.central command retired general frank mckenzie oversaw the evacuation as afghanistan fell to the taliban. yesterday they told a house committee the administration did not adequately plan for the evacuation and did not order it in time. >> it was a pretty consistent assessment by me and other members of the uniform military up to and including the secretary that the withdrawal of the military forces and the contractors and the nato forces that went with it would ultimately, as i said in my opening statement, to a general collapse of the nsf and the government. >> 13 u.s. service members were killed at kabul's airport in the final days of the war. >>> coming up, abortion stakes. an arizona lawmaker makes a personal announcement on the floor. >>> and new kate middleton controversy. >>> this is "cbs news mornings." " ♪ asthma. it can make you miss out on those epic hikes with friends. step back out there, with fasenra. fasenra is an add-on treatment for eosinophilic asthma that is taken on

leaving their posts former joint chiefs chairman general mark milley blaming the state department for delaying the emergency evacuation >> on 14 august, the non combatant evacuation operation decision was made by the department of state and the us military alerted marshaled mobilized, and rapidly deployed faster than any military in the world could ever do it is my assessment that that decision came too late joining us right now for more on this as democratic congressman greg meeks of new york, he is the top democrat on the house foreign affairs >> committee as good to see you, congressman. thank you so much coming out of the hearing. you said that there was there was nothing new that was learned. you have all been briefed and there has been an investigation into the withdrawal for quite some time but still mark milley saying that the biden administration failed as they called for the evacuation of us personnel to late. let me read this. the fundamental mistake. the fundamental flaw was the timing of the state department that was too slow and too late general mackenzie reiterated that

milley, as well as the commander of us central command. now, we have heard from both of these leaders before, including in congressional hearings about the afghan ms ten withdrawal. and they have both testified that they recommended to president joe biden keeping a small force of us troops there somewhere between 2,500.4500. they both say that the president listened to their opinion, as well as other opinions they felt they were heard, they felt they had the opportunity to present their position. the question then is, what is the difference with this hearing? we're expecting to start here in just a short bit. and the answer is, now they are both civilians, which means they are not bound by the same rules of what they can and cannot say as they were when they were in uniform, the top us general and the top general of central command. so the question is, do they try to use a bit of that freedom to go further and they're discussions of what happened further in the criticism of how this all played out. and that's what we're watching for here a

so mark milley, who was the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, he has said publicly that he believes it was a strategic failure by the united states to essentially allow the taliban to take over the entire country, to take over kabul in 2021. he has said that he believes that the evacuation of us personnel of afghan allies should have been done and begun much sooner. and general frank mackenzie, who is the centcom commander at the time he has said that he recommended to president biden that roughly 2,500 american service members today in afghanistan in order to have that stabilizing presence there, the biden administration has said repeatedly in their defense that if they had kept the troops there, they would have been attacked by the taliban because of the decision by the trump administration to strike this deal with the taliban to leave by may of 2021. and so they basically have said their hands were tied. we'll see what mackenzie and merely say today in the hearing, but it should be eye-opening because as i said, they do have a little bit more freedom now that they're not in gover

withdrawal from afghanistan with retired general mark milley , former chair of the joint chiefs of staff and retired general kenneth mckenzie, former commander of u.s. central command. watch the house foreign affairs many live at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 3. c-span now or online at c-span.org. >>> rouser latest collection of products, apparel, books, home decor, and is a series. there's something for every c- span fan and every purchase supports our nonprofit operations. shop now or anytime online at stan sharp. >>> now we head to the mountain state of west virginia where republican governor jim justice discussed his state's recent accomplishments in economic development and infrastructure including plans to construct a $50 million agricultural lab at west virginia state university. governor justice was elected in 2016. this is his final state of the state address due to term limits. it runs under an hour and a half. >> ladies in general -- gentlemen, the honorable jim justice. [applause] okay >> [ napplause ] >> okay, sit down. you all look like you are getting tired. and you've got t

mark milley testified that he received no call from president trump at all that day. so even if he did say that it really took no action about it. and then at the end of the day after all the violence that happened after 150 police officers were injured the thing that donald trump says to the valais when they're one-on-one is that mike pence really let him down so that was really all still on his mind. was still his discipline appointment and his and his anger at his own vice president for not helping him overturn the election. and not what was not on his mind was that the riot and the violence that have just happened. >> so it's interesting, the valais testifies at the, toward the beginning of the day, he told mike pence it would be the end of his political career at the end of the day, mike pence let him now >> but yes, that's exactly right now. there's a couple other things i would like to point out. the valley also talks about how trump was tearing up documents that almost every document that he got, he would tear it up almost immediately, whether that was a pictu

it is certainly one that became increasingly inevitable and that's what general mark milley and general mackenzie talked about here. the question here is the timeline. the defense department began the planning around what's called a neo as you point out, a non combatant evacuation operation in the months ahead pressing, they said and this is both mackenzie and milling pressing the state department for their plans on a timeline and ultimately for the order to give a neo it is not a defense department decision to say yes. evacuating. >> that's up to state, even if >> it's the defense department that carries out that evacuation, essentially an emergency evacuation with its assets. you see some of the aircraft were involved in the kneel on your screen right here, makenzie said a month earlier, hebei again to doubt and this is in july of 2021, whether state could effectively carry out a neo as he waited for the order to come down, an order that only came on august 14, which is one day before some members of the afghan government's leadership fled the country. here's what he said >> orders to

. >> just testified before congress, i'm referring to former joint chiefs of staff chairman mark milley and former us central command commander kenneth mackenzie. and they slammed the us state department for failing to order a noncombatants evacuation operation sooner. >> if >> they had, they say that would have allowed the us military to evacuate us and afghans to cnn's oren liebermann is at the pentagon. orange part noncombatants evacuation operations, always ordered in situations like these will give them the situation we were looking at in afghanistan in the summer of 2021 it is certainly one that became increasingly inevitable and that's what general mark milley and general mackenzie talked about here. the question here is the timeline. the defense department began the planning around what's called a neo as you point out, a non combatant evacuation operation in the months ahead, pressing, they said and this is both mackenzie and milling pressing the state department for their plans on a timeline and ultimately for the order to give a neo it is not a defense department decision to s

here's the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general mark milley, speaking to congress right now, congress asked lost limbs and were grievously wounded and you did it's selflessly what professionalism, courage, compassion, and with great sacrifice and finally to the goldstar families that are here with us today. and those that could make it there's nothing that i can say or do. it's going to fill that gaping hole in your heart but as i've told you before, i'm committed >> and i will honor that commitment >> to get you the answers, to get you to the truth and i will personally and i know everyone else will as well honor your sacrifice and the sacrifice of your loved one. thank you, mr. chairman, i look forward to questions. >> thank you, general millie, i now recognize general mckinsey for his opening statement. >> jennifer, thank you. and i'd like to just open microphone i'd like to ask you this opening statement be submitted for the record. objections, so we're chairman mccall, ranking member makes distinguished members of the house foreign affairs committee. i'm here to vol

mark milley testified that he received no call from president trump at all that day. so even if he did say hey, that he really took no action about it, and then at the end of the day after all the violence that happened after 150 police officers were injured the thing that donald trump says to the valais when they're one-on-one is that mike pence really let him down so that was really all still on his mind. was still his discipline appointment and his and his anger at his own vice president for not helping him overturn the election. and not not what was not on his mind was the riot and the violence that had just happened. >> so it's interesting, the valais testifies at the, toward the beginning of the day, he told mike pence it would be the end of his political career at the end of the day, mike pence let him now that yes, that's exactly right now. there's a couple other things i would like to point out. the valley also talks about how trump was tearing up documents that almost every document that he got, he would tear it up almost immediately, whether that was a pict

you have been very focused on afghanistan and you held a hearing from mark milley and frank mckenziehis past week. they both said, the state department failed to adequately plan for the withdrawal from and -- evacuation from afghanistan. given the threatened environment the u.s. is facing right now on mul multiple continents at once, haiti and nigeria, are you confident that the united states government is prepared to protect its people in all of the posts and carry out evacuations if needed. >> haiti, we're starting to evacuate them. what happened in afghanistan, the generals were clear. it wasn't the d.o.d., it was state department that never came up with a plan of evacuation. this which by law they were required to do. >> they said it was too late to put in place. >> it was put in place but only at time that kabul was falling and the embassy was starting to be evacuated. i think they thought they would continue thei operations in the embassy and normalize with the taliban and stay there beyond the military retrograde and i think that was a serious error in judgment. and bashir wil

you have been very focused on afghanistan and you held a hearing from mark milley and frank mckenziehis past week. they both said, the state department failed to adequately plan for the withdrawal from and evacuation from afghanistan. given the threatened environment the u.s. is facing right now on multiple continents at once, haiti and niger, are you confident that the united states government is prepared to protect its people in all of the posts and carry out evacuations if needed. >> haiti, we're starting to evacuate them. what happened in afghanistan, the generals were clear. it wasn't the d.o.d., it was state department that never came up with a plan of evacuation. which by law they were required to do. >> they said it was too late to put in place. >> it was put in place but only at time that kabul was falling and the embassy was starting to be evacuated. i think they thought they would continue their operations in the embassy and normalize with the taliban and stay there beyond the military retrograde and i think that was a serious error in judgment. and bashir wilson was the m

for, against this background it was just proclaimed in january, let me remind you, because general markt to say this six months ago, who said that the russians should fall asleep in horror from the fact that their throat could be cut at night, that is, then it was said as words in january already. indiscriminate shelling of cities, which was supposed to provoke, and here again i want to remind everyone, when they now say that terrorists had relations, these scoundrels in ukraine or not, but one of the main movable, as it were, the movable core, these were the scum from the rdk and other, well, actually international terrorist organizations, starting from the same jihadists who are part of the ichkerian, so-called units and the same ...our defectors, or more precisely, defectors, our traitors who gathered there, the nazis, who, in fact, became the main striking force, i repeat, these are official people who officially serve in the gurs, which are officially controlled by ukraine, therefore, i say again, in military terms , the bet on terror today is the main bet of the current military p

mark milley testified that he received no call from president trump at all that de even if he did let's that he really took no action about it. and then at the end of the day after all the violence that happened, after 150 police officers were injured. the thing that donald trump says to the valais when their one-on-one is that mike pence really let him down. so that was really what was still on his mind, was still his his disappointment and his and his anger at his own vice president for not helping him overturn the election and not what was not on his mind was that the riot and the violence that had just happened. >> so it's interesting, the valais testifies at the, toward the beginning of the day, he told mike pence it would be the end of his political career at the end of the day, mike pence let him down >> but yes, that's exactly right. now. there's a couple other things i would like to point out. the valley also talks about how trump was tearing up documents that almost every document that he got, he would tear it up almost immediately, whether that was a picture, whether that was

former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark milley and retired general kenneth mckenzie placedme on the state department for waiting too long to order evacuations. milley acknowledging he doesn't know the exact number of americans or afghans who helped the u.s. trying to escape the taliban who were left behind. >>> tonight, 24 hours after that phone call between president biden and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, biden warning netanyahu against the offensive in southern gaza into rafah, what netanyahu is now saying tonight. abc's matt gutman from israel. >> reporter: tonight, just hours after that phone call between president biden and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, during which biden warned netanyahu a ground invasion in rafah would be a mistake, the israeli leader doubling down, telling lawmakers here in israel, there's no alternative. his defiant comments coming after that blunt warning from biden. the two speaking for the first time in over a month. yesterday, netanyahu agreeing to hold off on a ground operation until consulting with u.s. officials in

mark milley, former joint chiefs of staff chairman, and kenneth mckenzie, who led the us central commanda house foreign affairs committee hearing on the withdrawal from afghanistan on tuesday. it was their first testimony since each of them retired, allowing them to be more candid then in previous testimonies. having a plan is one thing. preparing the plan, vetting the plan, coordinating the plan with the people that are going to actually carry you out, the department of defence, that's another set of tasks completely. and that was too little, too late. it was myjudgement that it was far too little, far too late. was that your assessment, general milley? it was. and i would broaden it a little bit by saying it was a pretty. consistent assessment - by me and other members of the uniform military, up - to and including the secretary, that the withdrawal. of the military forces, and the contractors in the nato forces that went with it - would ultimately lead, j as i said in my opening statement, to a general collapse of the nsf - and the government. in the tumultuous final days of the exit,

mark milley testifies i quote.e of the afghans who were working with us were hunted down and killed, i'm pretty sure some of them were killed in pretty brutal ways. others were able to escape from the country, one way or another, remaining, the rest became silent. hid, that is, people who collaborated with you, you are sitting in warm rooms today, discussing that they died, well, because definitely in their homeland they are considered traitors, that you were occupying troops on the territory of afghanistan. many people, it seems to me, including in ukraine, it would be worth thinking about certain things that are happening at the moment, including in the context of the deployment of foreign troops on the territory of ukraine, that’s the most interesting thing, i would also like to hear your comment regarding... the fact that official kiev after all, he reacts somehow strangely to such statements, there is no inspiration that yes, yes , come, french, we are waiting for you, germans, welcome, everyone is saying that

mark milley, former joint chiefs of staff chairman, and kenneth mckenzie, who led the us central commandoreign affairs committee hearing on the withdrawal from afghanistan on tuesday. it was their first testimony since each of them retired, allowing them to be more candid then in previous testimonies. having a plan is one thing. preparing the plan, vetting the plan, coordinating the plan with the people that are going to actually carry you out, the department of defense, that's another set of tasks completely. and that was too little, too late. l it was my judgment that it was far too little, far too late. was that your assessment, general milley? _ it was. and i would broaden it a little bit by saying it was a pretty consistent assessment by me and other members of the uniform military, up to and including the secretary, that the withdrawal of the military forces, and the contractors in the nato forces that went with it, would ultimately lead, as i said in my opening statement, to a general collapse of the nsf and the government. in the chaotic final days of the exit, 13 us service memb

mark milley, formerjoint chiefs of staff chairman, and kenneth mckenzie, who led the us central commandnistan on tuesday. it was their first testimony since each of them retired, allowing them to be more candid then in previous testimonies. having a plan is one thing. preparing the plan, vetting the plan, coordinating the plan with the people that are going to actually carry you out, the department of defense, that's another set and that was too little, too late. it was my judgment that it was far too little, far too late. was that your assessment, general milley? it was. and i would broaden it a little bit by saying it was a pretty. consistent assessment - by me and other members of the uniform military, up - to and including the secretary, that the withdrawal. of the military forces, and the contractors in the nato forces that went with it - would ultimately lead, j as i said in my opening statement, to a general collapse of the nsf - and the government. in the chaotic final days of the exit, 13 us service members and dozens of afghan civilians were killed in a bombing at the aiport i

should mark milley be worried if donald trump gets a second term? absolutely.one of my favorite preoccupations during my time as national security advisor was counting how many times donald trump said that john kerry should be prosecuted for violating the logan act because of what he said about our iran policy. i have long thought the logan act was unconstitutional to begin with. but, donald trump remembered it was threatened against mike flynn and he never let it go. anybody that thinks he has forgotten about the logan act would be mistaken. we will hear a lot about that too. people question, i think, how exactly the retribution would take place. because, after all, donald trump will have to go through the justice department. he won't bring the cases on his own. he will have to use attorneys at the department. as he thought he could during the first term because he believed then, and i think still believes, that people in the government, political appointees, or, career people should be loyal to him. that is what he asked of james comey in a famous early conve

should mark milley be worried if donald trump gets a second term? absolutely.e of my favorite preoccupations during my time as national security advisor was counting how many times donald trump said that john kerry should be prosecuted for violating the logan act because of what he said about our iran policy. i have long thought the logan act was unconstitutional to begin with. but, donald trump remembered it was threatened against mike flynn and he never let it go. anybody that thinks he has forgotten about the logan act would be mistaken. we will hear a lot about that too. people question, i think, how exactly the retribution would take place. because, after all, donald trump will have to go through the justice department. he won't bring the cases on his own. he will have to use attorneys at the department. as he thought he could during the first term because he believed then, and i think still believes, that people in the government, political appointees, or, career people should be loyal to him. that is what he asked of james comey in a famous early convers

the slit throat, an important detail: during the exercises in wiesbadan back in 2022, army general markved as head of the us joint chiefs of staff, with these words he gave parting words to ukrainian officers, there should not be a single russian , who would go to bed without wondering if his throat would be cut in the middle of the night, should you go back there? we understand perfectly how everyone plans their american operations, we see how they carry out this all over the world, afghanistan alone is enough for us, yes, we saw what chaos was going on there, so today they said isis was taking revenge for some afghanistan, which has been over for 35 years ago, and today all the current residents of afghanistan remember with great pleasure exactly the period when i was there. the soviet contingent is limited, mark milya is a man who was removed in september 2023, precisely for those failures that the united states has suffered all over the world , i don’t think that now, first of all, in ukraine, first of all in ukraine, i want to say this, that’s what he said, he spoke the truth and t

this is a quote from us army general mark milley, who convincingly advised the kiev regime to intensifyror against russia. you must go back there and organize strikes in the rear. in response, one of the leaders. russian terrorists, budanov reported the following verbatim through the american press. we killed russians and will continue to kill russians around the world. on january 5, one of the future perpetrators of the crocus massacre , muradalira chabalizada, arrives in istanbul and , with unknown money, lives in the fatih district in a four-star hotel for almost 2 months. on january 31 , the biden regime’s supervisor on ukraine comes to kiev for secret negotiations. as i said in kiev 3 weeks ago, with the additional funding , putin will be in for a couple of unpleasant surprises. what have you been doing with whom in istanbul all this time? faridun shimsidin and muradalira chabalizada met, we do not yet know who paid for their accommodation, we can only guess. on march, terrorists fly from istanbul to moscow. on the night of march 2-3 , fsb special forces liquidate five militants wh

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it was because of mark milley and mark esper that it wasn't a more reckless timeline. donald trump wanted to move >> mark milley put my point is the advice given to joe biden by, by tony blinken and others was not the same thing that happened with president biden. did not what he did not reprehensive. >> you say you sit first of all, you're right that people are war three. there's no doubt about that. the question is is not supporting ukraine, leave them the moral issues of supporting a democracy that's being overrun. but does it make it less likely that american troops have ax, ax? and here's why i agree with you. i think that we should be and tonight, the president should have said we're. not handing bags and money to craniums. we're building the us military industrial base. we're helping americans go to work and resupply our own military. that's an opportunity to ms common to defeat our enemies, right? for pennies on the dollar and i would say this, but you know, if we don't, if we don't do that, what's going to happen in january of 25 we're gonna be sending people

host: that was retired general mark milley.aking your calls for the first hour on your level of confidence in the u.s. military. here is an article from the associated press. top former u.s. generals say ■dfailures of the biden administration and planning led to the chaotic fall in kabul. mckenzie buckley exposed for the first time the strain and differencese biden administration in the final days of the war. two of those key differences included that the military had advised that the u.s. keep at afghanistan to maintain stability and a concern that the state department was not moving fa enough to get an evacuation started. let's take a look at another portion from that hearing yesterday with the two generals. [video clip] >> you urged the white house and state department to put pen to paper to develop a plan to get americans and our afghan allies out of of guinness tandem right -- of afghanistan, right? >> that's right. part of the department of defense planning instead of the department of state planning, and i made to the se

milley, an american four-star general, former commander of the chief of our general staff gerasimov,ian special forces who worked alongside... american green berets in the hope of inspiring them before operations in enemy-controlled territories, there should not be a single russian who goes to bed without thinking about what his throat will be cut in the middle of the night, mealey said , according to an official with knowledge of this event, you must go back there and organize a campaign behind the front lines, the publication appeared in the washington post, since then no one denied unknown about the principles of democratic journalism, objectivity, and so on. so, let's remember that they represent a state that tortures more than one. directly of the terrorist act itself, i would like to draw your attention to what vladimir vladimirovich said very clearly, and he said what, that in every terrorist attack there are ideologists, customers, there are organizers, there are performers, today we have achieved what, we really detained the perpetrators, and no matter how these foreign jour

milley, many were killed, others were torn to pieces, spoke into pieces once there some tried throughll with very with great consequences, that’s the peculiarity, you are now reporting so that the ukrainians know that some will be saved when the americans, the americans abandon their own, i remind you that afghanistan is just like a very significant topic, there is a lot on it hearings are underway on this issue, as i would like to remind you now in iraq that the situation is quite specific, in fact, especially in its northern part, so this is not just a statement, because i remind you of part of the charges that are being brought against republicans are concerned with the withdrawal from afghanistan, and now all this will be accelerated, because as if the candidates have already decided, but as for the decision, it was not biden who made the decision on the withdrawal, he said that biden personally, yes, the situation there was as follows, his there he warned, as it were, individual law enforcement agencies about what could lead to very serious risks , accordingly, he delayed there,

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. >> laura: well, mark milley did talk about the chain of command today. watch this. >> one thing that you may take a look at is the law on lead federal agencies with respect to noncombatant evacuation operations. who has decision authority. right now the law is ambassador and secretary of state. command and control and the decision authority and who is in charge matters. and when you make these calls matter. so i think that's something. i believe it's codified in law, actually, about the department -- i'm not positive about that but i think it is. >> laura: lt. colonel so the state department we hear made this call. we don't elect generals. he is the commander-in-chief and presumably he was in the situation room on top of all these details, right? who is in charge here? >> that's really one of the big problems there was a lot of guys that kind of wanted to do something but didn't want to take responsibility so then you have this disaster here. and i give just a little bit of leeway the original plan was the withdrawal of the military forces and they thoug

. >> generals mark milley and frank mackenzie back on capitol hill this time as private citizens blasting the biden administration for the chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan. >> if there's fault, it lies in a policy decision that placed the joint force in the situation. >> the general telling lawmakers afghanistan would not would not have collapsed had white house followed pentagon assessment to keep u.s. troops on the ground. >> the afghanistan government and afghanistan security forces would not have collapsed in august of '21 had we maintained that posture. >> they also blame the state department for ordering an evacuation too late. >> the fundamental mistake, fundamental flaw was the timing of the state department. >> and that was too little too late. >> it was my judgment that it was far too little far too late. >> few democrats who attended the hearing say the failure lies in 20 years of american policy. including that of former president trump. and they wondered why the generals even showed up today. >> so there is not really anything new that was learned today because you've test

and at that point, there was there was an interesting statement from general mark milley that the americanhe head of the american military, who'd been an enormous and very st ser ozelensky, one n individuals pushing president biden to give them more weapons. he gave a speech the day from h. his on, and he basically publicly said to the ukrainians negotiate. now negotiate from a position of when you have the opportunity, seize it, seize the moment. and the response he got from the ukrainians, both zelensky and the top military commander in ukraine, general vali resolution. so general miller's counterpart was very forceful saying no, no going to push, we have the momentum. what are you talking about? negotiate. we're winning. you know, nowoo the then has been, you know, much, much. there have been much fewer victories. it's been quite a slog■ so looking looking back, i think that was that was that was a something that general milley certainly pointed to as a potentialá turning point where there was this moment where the ukrainians maybe could have or should have taken a different course. sot

on tuesday former joint chief of staff general mike trent mark milley will testify on all of this.essman a former green beret mike is a member of the committee he joins us now. once a green beret always a green beret congressman good to see you on the sunday. >> yes, thank you. looking forward to this hearing and looking forward to trying to get some answers and some closure for the gold star families the some of whom will be in the audience. also looking forward to some type of answers for all of the veterans out there who again need closure and are still three years on looking for some type of accountability for this disastrous disgraceful withdrawal. eric: what are you looking for precisely? >> we are going to have general milley now retired he was the chairman of the joint chiefs. general mackenzie was a mckenzir of all forces in the middle east. where were the disconnects between what they were advising and the decisions joe biden actually made? he has repeatedly said the buck stopped with him he takes responsibility. but then in the same breath he said the whole thing was an

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i want to move on i gotta get you taken washington retired generals mark milley and kenneth mckenzie a strategic failure. i believe as i view general what can we expect to hear today and were finally getting the spotlight on something many believe really was a catalyst to put our adversaries on the march the botched withdrawal where we lost 13 servicemen. >> certainly afghanistan is all about. we surrender the country to her adversaries and we walked away from an ally who we were supporting for 20 years. that is what the message to the world was. we focused on the chaotic withdrawal. the message of the adversaries got in many of our friends is what i just described. a judgment call in a mistake in judgment which led to strategic failure, general milley is right in describing this and recall this the entire military chain of command to include the director of central intelligence recommended that we keep the troops there the small modest advancement of 2500 similar to iraq and syria right now and eastern africa, keep them there and are six nato nations had more troops there than us, t

donald trump called for the death penalty for general mark milley he mocked the hammer attack on the80-plus-year-old husband of nancy pelosi. he's called repeatedly for the summary execution of shoplifters. he has endorsed murders, he has asked vladimir putin a view days after vladimir putin launched his genocidal war against ukraine, he asked vladimir putin for help against joe biden. can we stop here. these stories on earth 2.0 would have dominated the year's headlines. this would have been disqualifying moments. they would have been wall to wall coverage and yet, as i go through them you might go yeah i kind of forgot about that one because the news media, again, i think if you ask them you know, this is not normal you know that right? and yet, we still pretend that it's normal or we pretend that it's reasonably within the range of normal politics and as you watch theolitic actually if you blink think, yeah it's 1996 all over again, or it's when in fact we are seeing this amazing transformation of american politics. and i know i'm preaching to the choir here, but we are not suffic

. >> john: those listening to mark milley's service history want to jump for a another piece of newscourt decision with the border laws. >> sandra: they declined to block the texas law that would allow state law enforcement to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the border. lieutenant governor dan patrick is now on the phone with us to react to this news and tell us what it means for the border crisis. welcome. >> hi, center, hi, john. look, i am catching my breath right now because this is the story how the supreme court has which i wrote and passed, the governor signed it, that would give texas the right to arrest those here illegally. we can put them in jail or we can send them back. i was on fox just yesterday morning, kind of in a lighthearted way i said i know the supreme court is listening as they get up court this morning and we are being invaded. by land, by sea, by air. it is drones, it's both going into florida, they have been taking drugs and illegal immigrants to florida for years across millions have come across the border under joe biden so it sounds like to

. >> laura: well, mark milley did talk about the chain of command today. watch this. >> one thing that you may take a look at is the law on lead federal agencies with respect to evacuation operations.r who has decision authority anda right now, investor secretary of state commander and control indecision and authority and who was in charge matters. whenll you make these calls matter. so i think that is somethingrt,t believe, by the law but i'm not positive but i think it is. >> laura: lieutenantstat colonel, so the state department we hear made this call, but d obviously, we don't elect is generals.nd be elected president. so he he is the commander in c. presumably, he was on top of all the details, right question rick who is in charge of your question >> well, one of the bie problems iske they want to do something but didn't want to take responsibility so you have this disaster here. and i give just a little bit ofi leewaygi in that the original pn was for the withdrawal of the military forces.nd tey they thought they were going to have the government the

those types of bits of information that chairman mark milley and the general were able to put in places to prevent this in the future. the fact that the democrats count be there to evaluate 13 brave heroes who lost their lives is a shame. >> sandra: emotions were running high in the hearing room yesterday. after intense pressure from gop lawmakers the d.c. attorney general, this happened overnight. decided to drop the charges against the gold star father, his son was one of those 13 service members killed in the abby gate attack. he was charged after heckling the president during the state of the union address. >> 30% [shouting] >> 30% they went up. >> sandra: darrell issa pushed against the changes. >> yes, he said something without a microphone and he was ushered away. but it did not effectively stop it. so it certainly is within the discretion to say they see no reason for charges. these gold star families and the loved ones they lost are examples of a loss that all of us have to not just give lip service to, but give our time to. >> sandra: sources told us that he cried when congre