host: thank you so much, allison jaslow, ceo of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. i appreciate your time this morning. thank you. guest: thank you for having me. host: thank you for everyone who called in today for "washington journal." we will be back in tomorrow with another edition of the show at 7:00 a.m. eastern. everyone, have a great day. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2024] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ host: it is sunday, november 24, 2024. president-elect trump has named his nominees for top cabinet positions as well as choices to lead what could become a new agency in the coming administration. the department of government efficiency. this morning we want to hear your thoughts on this proposal. our number for democrats is 202-748-8000. for republicans, 202-748-8001. and for independentss 202-748-8002. we also have a special line for federal workers at 202-748-8003. that's also the number where you can text asked but please to b

host: thank you so much, allison jaslow, ceo of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america.reciate your time this morning. thank you. guest: thank you for having me. host: thank you for everyone who called in today for "washington journal." we will be back in tomorrow with another edition of the show at 7:00 a.m. eastern. everyone, have a great day. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2024] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

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>> well joining us in our fifth seed is iraq war veteran allison jaslow. she's the ceo of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. allison, this is quite the pickle that pete hegseth finds himself in it's very serious. the allegations that he's facing. and frankly, i don't think it's that hard to find a lot of people who don't have these things in their background who could be kavanaugh, if that's what's happening to him. >> well, abby first of all, thank you for having me. and i'd actually like to draw attention to something that i don't think gets enough attention. and the fact that he lobbied to get convicted war criminals pardoned by the former president, who is now the president elect. these are men who were turned in by men who were serving alongside of them. >> and so do we want to put somebody in the secretary of defense role who seemingly thinks war crimes are permissible? to me, that's the most like disqualifying factor i can talk all day long about why i think women should stay in combat roles, and why we shouldn't have somebody who potentially

barry mccaffrey is here, and ceo of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, allison jaslow is here.frey, i start you. your thoughts on what we have in terms of information. i feel like we wasted a lot of time waiting for the event where they announced their endorsement of kamala harris when all the information is staring us in the face. >> this is all out in the open. you have to go back to 2020, when it was clear to me and other observers, and i was saying this on nbc news, that trump was setting up obviously the potential for a coup against the constitution of the united states to seize the election. he had an acting secretary of homeland security, he had an acting attorney general, he had an acting secretary of defense. he tried to fire the cia director and put an acting director in there. and we should also remind ourselves that the chairman of the jcs, general mark milley at the time, but continuing, has no command authority over the armed forces at all. he's an adviser to the president, the secretary offense defense, and the national security council. so when secretary esper w