>> well, i wrote a lot about joe from the facts of life, which was kind of ridiculous 80s centcom about a girl, private school, boarding school. but it is also like a very early attempt at diversity. so there was a kind of a fat girl and there was a black girl and there was a superrich white blonde girl who was kind of the villain, then there was the working class joe who fixed her own motorcycle and she wore a leather jacket and she had a cool hairstyle. i think a lot of those images in the '70s and early '80s of tomboys, a lot of girls all kinds of girls like them, whether they were tomboys themselves or not. by also come thinking back on it, the dichotomy between the kind of heroin in the villain, but the building was the traditionally feminine super blonde superrich woman who was mostly horrible. and jo misbehaved also but she could do things like fix the motorcycle. it was no comparison to that. but i think it also shows how those tropes of the girly girl and the tomboys were always pitted against each other and in a way this kind of false dichotomy. you can actually -- going back

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centcom commander announced that the united states will be pulling more than 2,000 troops out of iraqarly cutting the u.s. presence there in half. this comes as the president tries to undo the damage done by multiple reports that he denigrated military veterans and questioned their service, reports that the president continues to deny. >> they make this stuff up. they make it up. they make stuff -- it's called disinformation. they give a phony deal out. they did it two days ago with the military. there's nobody that loves the military more than me. so they made -- they made -- you know, i was very lucky, though. i had 15 incredible american patriots that came by and they said he never said that. they were there. >> reminder, fox news confirmed those reports. fox news. i want to bring in my friend paul reikoff, the founder and director of the iraq and afghanistan veterans of america and also the host of the angry americans podcast, which i highly recommend. paul, let's start with this. the administration official also said the president will announce an additional withdrawal from afgha

centcom commander general kenneth mckenzie later described the escalation as not consistent with someone negotiating in good faith. nevertheless, after months of violence, delay and a contentious prisoner exchange, the government of afghanistan and the taliban finally met in doha earlier this month to begin intraafghan negotiations. many afghans remain deeply distrustful of the taliban's true intention. in particular, many afghans, especially women and girl, are justifiably concerned that the human rights and democratic gains they've achieved with u.s. support since 2001 could become jeopardized if the taliban return to power through force or through a negotiated settlement. given the legacy of past failures, we must remain clear-eyed about the stakes of this moment. if the taliban are unwilling or unable to abide by their commitments, or if political negotiations collapse, the resulting crisis would likely have a grave consequence for those afghan people, regional stability and international security. so i'm grateful to our witnesses special representative ambassador zalmay khalilzad, t

in the novel is on a centcom called i'm moving in. he was always getting adopted by which white people. so i'm moving in seemed like realism. got an agent and sense of the book and everyone hated it. i think i became a writer then like i would get a real job, become a lawyer or something like that, i wish is going to write another book and maybe people like it, maybe they won't but i'll learn how to write by the end of it. i figured people like plots. maybe i will have plot driven book. what the heck? i wrote a detective novel and steady suspense and i thought i was washing 2020 as often do in those days, in my 20s. in the 1990s. there was an article on the hidden dangers of escalators. apparently if you don't repair as clinton you detach from the sides and you can lose a toe, very terrible thing obviously. at the escalator inspector was interviewed and i thought that's the random job. escalator inspector and growing up in new york you always see -- there's a law, not necessarily enforced anymore, of the elevator inspector sort of sig

centcom announcing just a couple of minutes ago that american troops will be reduced down to 3,000 over the next few weeks. is that a good decision? what's the impact? obviously, there will be some politics involved here a couple months before the election. the president can say i'm bringing the troops home. but what about this decision? >> it leaves me uneasy, willie. there's two reasons to keep the troops there. one is the war against terrorism doesn't end. it's an open-ended proposition. the other thing is if we're that worried about iran and the middle east, one of the ways we push back against iran is by our closeness with iraq, keeping a u.s. force presence in iraq. and to do this unilaterally to reduce our presence in iraq it seems there's an increasing gap between the robustness of our rhetoric against iran and what we've seen in syrian, now what we're seeing in iraq, the winding down of an american physical presence in the region. >> so, mark brzezinski, the g7 yesterday, as i'm sure you know, condemned the poisoning of navalny and actually pompeo signed on, despite the fact do