a day on a battlefield they didn't know what to do with it so they came up with the idea through centcom which is central command decided to create burn pits to burn the trash that was being accumulated. over this is where the military during the war collected all their waste in one central location and sort of burying it they decided to burn it they burn everything that you can possibly think of why did it being burned. more. than. two million. why we would burn less human waste. trash. plastics medical. supplies. to name. anything that they wouldn't use anymore they were burned. at times they also had. body pipes. plastics chemicals paint batteries tires literally anything that could be disposed of was thrown in there. and it would dump diesel. days a few. and then lighting that. there was a blue smoke and the haze looked like the san francisco. the smell was extremely toxic very very putrid burn your eyes burn your throat burn your nose i mean it was just nasty dirty stinky. some days the. concoction of the smell of the burn ph and the sewage pit would literally make you would drop yo

also after 9/11 was mobilized to centcom in various stints in iraq and elsewhere in the region. >> host: with us, talking with fewer viewers for the next 20 minutes or so. thomas is up first and humble, texas. republican, good morning. >> caller: yeah, the worker yeah, i work during hazmat materials, things like that and i didn't seen' no one with any gear on after the bombing. [inaudible] i think we were missing like $5 billion. thank you. >> guest: the akamai thinks you're in russian personnel in doom, which was the area where theer chemical attacks took the part. my understanding is allotted to use l both chlorine and sarin ae nonpersistent agents. in agents. in other words can evaporate veryicy. quickly. it is possible to enter into an area for a lot of chemical weapons have been used within a few hours or a few days although probably prudence would dictate you not do so because you never know whether there is residue in titles or whatever. the stuff only lasts for a few minutes for a few hours depending on the agent in the air temperature. >> host: rhonda is in pennsylvania. democr

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department's operational budget, you need to buy me more ammo and he said that when he was head of centcom. so to the administration, we want to work with you where we can, but i eject the whole attitude that's being displayed about developmental assistance being a military, pretty hawkish guy, you can never hold and build without a presence of the private sector and a follow on force that the leader of it will always be the state department. usaid budget, we can always make it better, really appreciate mark's leadership over the years. anything you can do to make the usaid portion of the state department more efficient, please let us know, but i want to let now that all of those who work on your behalf and all of the people in the foreign nationals who help us, we appreciate it. and that you and those under your leadership serve in very dangerous places and i think some of your biggest fans come from the military itself. so with that, i'll go through the higher comparison of the 2018 budget, but it's about a 30% cut. 26% over the 2018 enacted level and 30% over the fy 17. i'm sure, mark,

qatar hosts the americans for what military headquarters in the middle east centcom their date military base is give a toll for u.s. operations in the region we intend to continue working together with debility in the caribbean the caribbean or italy and that can work both good or affected by many and occasionally encounters coming terrorism between united. was countering the spread of iran malign influence in the region this is a crucial visit for qatar's in me for the last ten months his country has had to deal with a blockade imposed by sandy arabia the u.a.e. behind and egypt. remains open for the dialogue as long as it's. there is nothing confined to the sovereignty of the states but that as long as they are respecting the international law as long as they offer spec and our people and their whites this is what's up until we know what that region entire region is suffering from a lot of crises and cannot afford more because two weeks ago sounded a crown prince mohammed bin send then met the u.s. president saadi arabia and its allies say the embargo imposed on qatar won't be lifted

terrorist groups a region lately before i come here i was in tampa i visited the centcom and we met with the generals and it was. a very important visit and it shows how strong our cooperation and cooperation is between. the armed forces of course we speak today and we see the suffering of the syrian people and me and the president we see eye to eye that this matter has to stop immediately we cannot tolerate with a war criminal we cannot tolerate was someone who could more than a half a million of his own people and this matter should end the media thank you very much mr president thank you and to me and i have been working for a number of years now actually even before the fact on terrorism and we're making sure that terrorism funding is stopped in the countries that we are really related to because i feel related but those countries are stopping the funding of terrorism that includes u.a.e. and includes saudi arabia it includes guitar and others. a lot of countries were funding terrorism and we're stopping at it's getting stopped and fast very important and. you have now become a very

members just this afternoon, what they're telling me is they want the president of the united states, centcomies to be on the same page -- with a military option last. >>> how optimistic are you? regrettably we've seen it many times before. last year the president did launch air strikes, and saw in 2013 when president obama said he was drawing a red line after that attack in syria. are you optimistic that the response -- that things are going to be different, whether we take a military tack or a diplomatic one? >> no, i'm not certain we will see a different response, but i think the key here is can the administration put enough pressure on russia who is assad's closest ally to get hinge to change course. russia, of course, a permanent member of the security council, not one of the permanent members who have called for the meeting to take place. thank you both. >>> coming up, the trump effect with biden backing? they are set to stump for separate campaigns. we'll explain what to watch for, after the break. hi, i'm bob harper, and i recently had a heart attack. it changed my life. but i'm a sur

south com you calm centcom and now africa. under the stated goals of fighting terrorism and providing humanitarian assistance afrikan implanted itself on the continent conducting military exercises with a growing number of african countries. but was this the only reason for africa repast create i saw me talk to the oil is that it's not there i mean sort of court you know or is that a private area goes up from utah is a notorious list therefore so who gets it all to. security don't those also go to make sure i don't they are me arrested because all the screwed up by donald danced of all. she. had for me. established itself as a counterweight to french and american interests on the continent. in the first decade of the twenty first century china had overtaken the rest of the world to become africa's not just trading on. this new us side is also called snorkeled of all who don't bow to tape is so sexy don't doubt it all about that you get a false a top under the need to do so was a fake done or designed for it is he fulfilled his

when centcom, tampa, florida, the general, commander, starts, getting after bomb damage assessment on what occurred. it appears as if, manned aircraft were used. they may well have given the, the brilt brits and french. separate geographic target areas. it does not apore that s-400s were employed. they cannot take on f-35 u.s. stealth air craft. they darn sure can take on the bri brit and french aircraft. involved in the raid. so, it appears the russians hopefully sat it out. and won't feel compelled to respond. a lot of it, as you heard and reported on, a lot of threats coming out of the russian general staff in moscow. will not only target your missiles will target the carriers. if they do that, they'll be in a very bad position. you don't want to take on -- u.s. naval air power, or u.s. air force. f-35s. hopefully, secretary mattis, joe dunford appeared to me tried to construct a strike of symbolic and military value that wouldn't get us on the up escalation. >> general, thank you. it is, it has been -- a great pleasure for us to be able to, to, have some one like you to ask all of

the most senior levels of the united states military, the combata combatant commanders, the head of centcomto come up with options for military action in syria and yet sitting there all of them including the chairman of the joint chiefs, including secretary mattis listening to the president make a domestic political statement about his own personal situation, john? >> uncomfortable to say the least. barbara, thank you very much. >>> so who exactly is michael cohen? we have an in-depth look at the president's personal lawyer, confidant, fixer next. [whistling] hello. give me an hour in tanning room 3. cheers! that's confident. but it's not kayak confident. kayak searches hundreds of travel sites to help me plan the best trip. so i'm more than confident. forgot me goggles. kayak. search one and done. let's take a look at some numbers: 4 out of 5 people who have a stroke, their first symptom... is a stroke. 80 percent of all strokes and heart disease? preventable. and 149 dollars is all it takes to get screened and help take control of your health. we're life line screening... and if you're ov

this is what joe votel was talking about the other day, the commander of centcom, let's get folks backr homes and do a handover. that does take about six months. >> i just recall all the criticism of a precipitous withdraw of forces from iraq because the united states was not appropriately, forcefully involved in a political solution which you're not saying, and general marks, your comment on this, that we don't have to be a part of anymore because the mission has been accomplished. >> the mission i think has not been accomplished. clearly we have done an incredibly phenomenal job against isis, not without the help of the kurds. let's be frank in terms of their contributions which have been significant. my concern is syria, a very doctoral term that we see, a little tongue-in-cheek, it's a mess. we're not there to do anything with assad. assad is a dictatorial leader, he's been brutal. we have seen that in living color for the past decade. my concern primarily is turkey's role, its interventionist role now that exists in that northern border in syria and the fact that tur ki is a nato

centcom has plenty of troops and options in the region even without a carrier. i don't think that's a main concern. the only reason we heard from mattis is there happened to be a visit by the qataris to be pentagon. they sit down for a photo spread, let a reporter get one or two questions in. mattis hasn't addressed this. we don't expect them to explain to the bheem their options are and what they're doing. this pentagon has been radio silent and left it up to the white house. you said, it may be day one for john bolton. less interested about that. more interested what mattis and general dunford and the rest of the military community has been able to do to convince president trump to some moderate response versus whatever his first impulses may be's that seems to have been the pattern. whatever trump puts out, a tweet or a comment, whatever really happens as a policy is a little less than that. that's where we are. waiting to find out. >> susan, you can't rule out the politics. mid-term coming up. whatever the president decides to do, a topic of conversation for

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qatar hosts the americans for what military headquarters in the middle east centcom there were date military base is typical for u.s. operations in the region we didn't get to continue working together with debility in the caribbean the caribbean or italy and that can work both the door affected by many fronts and particularly encounters coming terrorism between the united states . was countering the spread of iran malign influence in the region this is a crucial visit for qatar. for the last ten bones his country has had to deal with a blockade imposed by sandy arabia the u.a.e. behind rein and egypt. remains open for the dialogue as long as it's. there is nothing in trying to the sovereignty of the states but that as long as they are respecting the international law as mobilized they are spec and our people and their lights this is what's up until we know what that region entire region is suffering from a lot of crises and cannot afford more because two weeks ago sounded a crown prince mohammed bin send than met the u.s. president saadi arabia and its allies say the embargo imposed on qata

here at centcom, they pride themselves on finding options for the president. that's what they do. they're constantly targeting. they're constantly planning. they have a team of lawyers going through everything. we know a lot of the russian and iranian assets are in syria. especially on the russian side. in part because the u.s. speaks to russia almost on a daily basis. now, most of that is in the eastern part of the country. but that deconfliction remains open. u.s. officials calling their russian counterparts. so communication, at least at the tactical level, is alive and well. at the strategic level, you have tweets from the president and response from pestcof coming out. so that's the level. >> certainly this is going to give senators plenty to talk about. mike mpompeo is going to appear for his confirmation in an hour from now. he's got a reputation as a hard-liner, even a war hawk, but he says it's a title he no longer deserves. today, he is going to do his best to change the narrative. looking at his prepared remarks that nbc obtained, he repeatedly talks about diplomacy in

that's general votel in charge of centcom. secretary mattis. the military side is fully staffed up on this. they just don't have the state department counterparts to make sure that the military action is balanced with diplomacy. >> the suite of options that you just referenced what do we know about the range of options we're talking about here? >> when the pentagon looks at military options, they think in terms of effects, assets they have out there the ability to deliver these effects and then finally strategy. what's the larger message they want to send? we don't have any indication that they've made a decision on any of those counterparts, whether it's effects, assets or strategy. we know they have some assets in the region. they have a few destroyers in the eastern mediterranean. we don't know how many nuclear submarines there are that can fire off t-lams, these tomahawk missiles. they keep the submarines location a secret. any of those destroyers, they have 96 missile silos. you can generate a lot of effects. don't forget, there are a lot

you take care of my mississippi rifles which are deployed into centcom next year. thank you. i yield back. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for your good and effective service. secretary mattis, i admire you for so many reasons, one of which is your candor. i want to bring up two issues in congress with your leadership, one of which was brought up by congresswoman tsongas earlier today about the defense manpower data center scrubbing data regarding troops levels in iraq, afghanistan and syria. i just want to bring that up. doesn't make any sense we would not share that information. i had written a letter to you back in january about the special inspector general's report on afghan reconstruction which is a report that's been issued for some time now and it always had information regarding population and district control. that information was originally listed as classified. in response to my letter i was told that decision to classify the data was an oversight by nato resolute support. i just want to point these two things out. we're watching these things and it doesn't

i can tell you that we've had a close partnership with centcom and the boots on the ground and our work has been on the stabilization side in the area in and around raqqa. >> while you are there, i believe turkey was engaged in offensive operations against the kurds in a different part of syria, right click >> that's true. >> is your assessment that the turkish role today is helping our efforts or hindering our efforts? >> i can't speak to the military consequences. i can't say it's a very complicated situation. >> has it hindered your efforts in providing relief? >> on the humanitarian side, we provide humanitarian assistance on the basis of need. we provide assistance throughout the country. certainly, anytime the security situation is uncertain, it makes it more difficult to do our work. >> i think the reality is that turkish actions essentially require the syrian kurds to focus on defending themselves from the turks instead of finishing the job against isis and getting the job of rebuilding. i hope this committee will look carefully at that. let me ask you about the internally displ

so said the centcom commander. we should listen to his words and take action in accordance with those words. the administration must continue to lead the international community in humanitarian assistance to the syrian people and accelerate support for programs that promote good governance, rule of law, basic services -- basic service provisions in communities liberated from isis control. while we believe partners in the region should also contribute more generously, we should lead by example by robustly funding relevant accounts in the fiscal 2019 budget. i'm also thankful for the brave americans who have volunteered their skills and their time to help the people in syria survive -- literally survive. i think in particular the syrian-american medical society -- sirn american medical society, -- syrian american medical society. these courageous volunteers stepped in to fill the gaps left by the international community. i have to say risking their own lives virtually every minute they are on the ground. more seven y

so paycom geographic boundary or centcom geographic warfare isn't as interesting. so the united states of america without a strong cyber standard or without us debating the information warfare space means it's a potential target for a potential adversary. >> can you give a concrete example of the kind that we have? you mentioned we have a national security strategy which should include a cyber strategy but are you saying it's not implemented, it's not robust enough for your zmfrt. >> no. it's really not. i visited estonia last fall. in estonia in 2007, it was taken down by a cyber threat, took to their knees and they changed their entire perspective as a country on what the cyber threat means to them and their survival as a country. so they put coding in elementary schools because they thought the threat was significant enough. i'm not sure if we've got on the a point where we believe that something we can do as a nation would strengthen our ability to protect ourselves from this new threat. it's a new threat so the specifics would be i may be a bit paranoid but wh

nexus were in the hezbollah activities in latin america serve as financing the operations and the centcomo are picking a speech to this budget request treatment of iranian backed hezbollah threat and latin america because in prior instances with other officials there has been an appropriate focus on the centcom ao are but i want to make sure that threat you just identified is well-resourced. >> congressman one of the things we have had is that all the problems can be solved in a military dimension but when i look at trans regional groups like hezbollah there at read things they need to survive. they need people. they need the resources and then they have an narrative, the message. that's what allows it to survive so we can deal with the physical manifestation of hezbollah in places like syria or yemen and we are not currently dealing with them right now except in the diplomatic and common is going to take whole of government approach and it operates trans recently. >> how does the budget request where it diluting this year served from that standpoint? >> i will get back to congressman on

i visited centcom. we met with the generals.was a very important visit and it shows how strong our cooperation is between the armed forces. of course we speak today and we see the suffering of the syrian people and me and the president, we see eye-to-eye this matter has to stop immediately. we can not tolerate with war criminal, someone who killed half a million of his own people and this matter should end immediately. thank you very much, mr. president. >> thank you. emir and i have been working a number of years before in fact on terrorism. we're making sure terrorism fund something stopped in the countries that we are really related to because i feel related but those countries are stopping the funding of terrorism. that includes u.a.e., it includes saudi arabia, it include qatar and others. a lot of countries that were funding terrorism. we're stopping it, getting stopped, fast, very important. you have become a very big advocate. we appreciate that. >> thank you, mr. president. i want to make something very clear, mr. presi

watched this campaign unraveled, really unfold the last couple of years, in my current position as centcomcommander but before that as a special operations commander bui was really indirect support of general austin and his efforts and very much involved in this, i i would tell you at this point if we were to go back a year or so ago we are probably six to eight months ahead of where we had anticipated on being at this particular point. the military success that we've had throughout the campaign has been quite extraordinary, and it has moved very quickly as we been through some very lengthy fights, mosul was a nine-month fight led by the iraqis agouti forces, supported the coalition. raqqa about the same, very difficult fights but as we have come to these major urban battles, the follow-up special in iraq has been very, very rapid and has moved much faster than even we had anticipated it would. i think that's been a characteristic of what we are seeing. it is something that as a military professional we are always very cognizant of, as our security situation, getting out in front of the re

at the builder board meeting in 2008 centcom i think what we really need of the world government is a massive financial crisis. at 8:00sunday night p.m. eastern on c-span. >> here's some of what we're covering wednesday on the networks. on c-span at 10 eastern, live coverage to amend the dodd-frank regulation at. c-span two, the u.s. senate considers that nomination of john raining. 10:00 a.m. >> in a half hour, we talked to congressman robert pittenger about efforts to tighten in for an -- foreign investment rules to address concerns about u.s. tech companies. and representative rocha hunt up on mark zuckerberg's capitol hill testimony. and a discussion about the cbo of a $1 trillion deficit in 2020 with william hoagland of the bipartisan policy center. we did not take a brought in a few of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake. it was my mistake, and i am sorry. it,arted facebook, i run and i'm responsible for what happens here. ♪ the first day of testimony before the senate, facebook ceo mark zuckerberg promised reforms of the company's practices when it comes to data prot

uranian backed hezbollah threatening latin america because there has been an appropriate focus on centcomnd what we are seeing on the korean peninsula but i want to make sure that threat -- >> one of the themes we had today is not all the problems can be solved in a military dimension. it is really three things they need to survive, they need the resources and the narrative, the message which allows extremists to survive. we can deal with physical manifestation in syria or yemen, we are not currently dealing with them except in diplomatic economic space but it will take a whole government approach to deal with an organization like hezbollah. >> how does this budget request we are evaluating service that threat? >> i will get back to you, to see if there is a specific way to do that other than increasing our capabilities to deal with whatever threat we deal with. >> i'm interested in determining whether we are engaged in adequate training and the right of human activities from dod standpoint -- >> supporting the sovereignty of iraqi is one way to deal with malign influence in the region, s