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when chuck hagel comes out and pulls back the curtain and reveals they don't know what they're doing, where does this leave the guys in armed forces? >> the guilty parties are in uniform and not. since 9/11, we have not been fighting this as a total war. less than 1% of people are in uniform. america has no skin in the game, yet now we have 50% who want us back on the ground in syria. since 9/11, we have not treated this as a total war. the stuff tony is talking about, yes, of course, we have to be much more aggressive with how we use the internet. we have 430 agencies, ten involved in the war. it's never been so in my lifetime that we had political interference going back to war general scales and i fought. there's nothing new about political interference. the problem is we as a country have not signed up for the fact that we're in a total war. whether you call it fascist islamists or terrorists, we have a country that is not awake to this and is fully willing to allow the american soldier, which i have friends going back on their eighth tour to do all the fighting. >> such a small g

. >>> on that topic, chuck hagel accuses of the white house of trying to destroy him after he raiseduestions about president obama's military judgment. we'll talk about that coming up. ugh! heartburn! no one burns on my watch! try alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews. they work fast and don't taste chalky. mmm...amazing. i have heartburn. alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. it's gotten squarer. over the years. brighter. bigger. thinner. even curvier. but what's next? for all binge watchers. movie geeks. sports freaks. x1 from xfinity will change the way you experience tv. >>> president obama's former secretary chuck hagel critici criticizing, saying it damaged u.s. credibility around the world. joining us now, general jack keane, a fox news military analyst. what do you think about that? does that ring true? >> yeah, absolutely rings true. >> we're talking about the new interview with the former defense secretary saying that -- >> this is the third secretary of defense that has had the same issue with this president, policy differences and staff undermining them. that

at the same time that chuck hagel has come out with this interview. a and. >> if he crossed a red line by employing chemical weapons against his own people. hagel had spent the day approving final plans for cruise missile strikes against damascus. u.s. naval destroyers were awaiting the order to fire. instead, obama told a stunned hagel to stand down. he also went on to say he was micromanaged by the white house. >> confirms what we all suspected when the president made the shocking speech after his walk around the white house with dennis mcdonough. i was struck by the president's comments on syria. because he not just once, but twice patted himself on the back. regarding syria. saying my policy has been a success. when you think about that you're talking about 250,000 plus people have been killed. talking about millions of refugees. talking about iran cementing its role further in syria as a satellite state. you're talking about russia expanding its reach into syria. growing its relationship with iran, with the syrian regime. you're talking about the

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chuck hagel was told to get an attack ready. he was personally stunned when he was told to pull back, and he used this quote, david. there's no question in my mind, that it hurt the credibility of the president's word when this occurred. >> i think this president began to lose the sense of being powerful in the moment that he said he was going to use force and then didn't. you began to have things like the economists cover headline, what would america fight for? >> and did it unravel relationships with allies? with king abdullah? we hear the rhetoric that says it did. do you buy that? >> actually, i think it was significant. going back to the days of vietnam, we heard presidents worrying about american credibility, and sometimes you think, that's such baloney, what's credibility? well, we have a demonstration over the last three years of precisely what you lose when you say you're going to do something and then don't. power is never as powerful in the moment before you use it, when people wonder or worry what you might do. and t

chuck hagel had that stinging criticism in foreign policy saying the president lost criticism with thered line comment. let's listen to a quote from the interview. he says, we don't have a policy and getting this from all of my colleagues from around the world, my counterparts are coming up to me at nato meetings and everywhere saying, what are you doing? where is this going? what does it mean when the world leaders saying, the white house has no idea? >> i think that's the common perception across europe. they've got their own problems, but they certainly don't see barack obama as a leader. i think it's remarkable. if you take the public statement that's have already been made of obama's three former defense secretaries, gates, panetta and now hagel, and lay them side by side, you have a stinging indictment of obama's defense policy. and it hasn't changed over an entire seven-year period and despite rhetoric about how efforts are being intensified against isis, actual operations on the ground have not changed that much either. so, as long as hillary clinton ais prepared to say she's w

chuck t hagel was the 24th secretary of defense. when we asked why, hagel used two phones and that on some limited occasions an email may have been sent to or from the wrong account and he told us at the time ash carter was keeping two sets of email addresses as well. the new york times today said the white house questioned why carter was doing so about six weeks after our report and that would be in may and that he has since agreed to stop doing so. doreen? >> scott macfarlane, thank you. >>> walter reed army medical center closed its doors in d.c. and moved to bethesda. the old site along georgia avenue is getting an historic makeover. new at 6:00, tom sherwood has the details on the new retail and housing that will be coming to the area. >>> thousands of commuters and local residents pass by the old walter reed every day. it moved to bethesda four years ago. many are now hopeful for new development, bringing new housing and convenient retail, restaurant and office space all desperately needed in this underserved middle and upper

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chuck hagel criticizing our president obama runs things were brand things. here is the quote.of suffering the tough decisions. there were always too many people in the room. >> that best describes the obama administration. the accusations of micromanaging the ability to have too many people in the room. talking about pentagon issues. >> the president ruined the credibility with the redline comments. national security advisor was way too nitpicky. he is saying that there is a suspicion on the part of the white house. >> there is a third party and there. the third party does not know anything about the military. >> and prevent anything from getting done. was this a monumental tv blunder or what? steve harvey crowns at the wrong contestant as miss universe. then he makes it worse on twitter. full story next. >> i have to apologize. the first runner-up is columbia. [cheering] ♪ i built my business with passion. but i keep it growing by making every dollar count. that's why i have the spark cash card from capital one. i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy for my studio.

. >> you may remember similar headlines surrounding chuck hagel. news 4 i-team broke that story in march. >>> attorney general loretta lynch helped spread some cheer, holiday cheer for kids in the district today. lynch joined d.c. police and vincent gray at a community party in southeast where she met with seniors and community leaders and handed out early esents to some of the children. lynch said she wanted to thank the officers for keeping residents safe during the holidays. >>> despite a major setback, christmas gifts for thousands of kids in our area are now being delivered. this weekend thieves broke into a warehouse and stole donated gifts leading to fears that some kids would have to go without, but as molette green tells us volunteers stepped up to make sure that didn't happen. ♪ >> jingle bells plays in the background on a day filled with holiday cheer as thousands of toy bags go to needy families in the area. >> i have a full-time job and it's a struggle out here. >> reporter: virginia is the first to get hers here to check off a long li

and today in an interview, former defense secretary chuck hagel said his micromanagement of the pentagon was dangerous, that becomes the third former defense secretary for president obama chosen by president obama, who have come out to question his strategy in dealing with the terror threat. so i expect he will try to be reassuring on that score, he will also of course tout his domestic agenda and his plans for what will be his last year in office as, you know, last year a very tough time to get anything done, especially when dealing with the congress that is controlled by the other party. >> although some word, that more executive actions are brewing on gun control. >> yes. he's working up some time in the next few weeks we are told. he will come out with steps he believes he can take without congress to deal with the gun threat, but ian on that, he faces a problem with the american public. we saw that majority of voters say they don't approve of the idea of banning assault weapons. really quite extraordinary given the sustained campaign that the white house has done to get more gun con

chuck hagel, the former defense secretary, had some sharp criticism in "foreign policy" magazine of thisn a piece headline "the white house tried to destroy me. whether it was the right decision or not --" he's referring to the decision not to go against assad after assad crossed the redline president obama announced on the use of chemical weapons. "whether it was the right decision or not, history will determine. but there's no question in my mind that it hurt the credibility of the president's word when this occurred. a president's word is a big thing and when the president says things, that's a big deal." did the president hurt his leverage overseas? especially in the persian gulf with arab leaders by note using force against assad back in 2013? >> i think what we have to look back to 2013 is to see that, in fact, what the president did working with secretary kerry -- and i was part of that effort as well -- was to get chemical weapons out of syria, which was very critical. because if we had this situation now where assad had chemical weapons, we would have an even more dire circumsta

it was called the chuck hagel and bob byrd vote. it said if you come back from any of these places that, where you're putting this together with a treaty, whether it's kyoto or another treaty, we will not vote to ratify a treaty that either is bad for the economy of america or doesn't treat china and the developing countries the same as it treats us. well, that passed 95-0. so when they go over and they come back, it's dead on arrival. the thing is everyone knows except for the 192 countries that were over there. so we can't figure out why they would call this an historic event over there. while the administration is pushing forward with economically disastrous climate regulations before the end of his presidency, china gets to conclude business as usual including emission tion -- emissions growth through 2030 each year. they came back saying we have to increase our co2 emissions for 15 more years. this morning -- i think it's yesterday morning, just three days after india signed off on the fining paris -- the final paris agreement,

voted but today this 94-page rhport came out today and basically+ that then secretary of defense chuck hagelt give the '3 0 day notification in advance of these transfers and basically the bottom line is by the majority who voted to put this report out that the administration broke the law bottom line. >> all right. so that's the headline from the house committee and i understand two democrats put their signatures on a dissent. but the other 22 -- no, you said 27. the other 25 haven't said anything. >> right. we didn't hear from them. the two dissenters include adam smith a democrat out of california and jackie speier also only a democrat. she is out of california as well. she is out of washington and he is out of california. basic live what they said this was unbalanced partisan and needless attempt to go after the administration. now, we have a source who was inside some of putting this investigation together. and they say that basically congressman smith was president obama's guy in the room. he was the one that sort of throwing a wrench in things. by their account this one source they sa

chuck hagel recently confirmed his slowness to approve detainee transfers led to his being force out his job by the after less than a year this past february. hagel added that white house officials tried to, quote, destroy his reputation on his way out. those allegations surfaced on the day the president gave that year-end news conference, but he wasn't asked about them. so the white house has not yet responded to hagel's claims. shannon? >> all right, james. thank you very much. here with more reaction, pete hegseth, a veteran of the wars in iraq and iran. also was a guard at guantanamo bay. and a white house senior adviser under president bill clinton and writer for new yorker.com. gentlemen, good to see you both. richard, i'll start with you. the pentagon denies there were any intentional delays. the white house is denying any tension with the pentagon. where does that leave us? >> well, obviously, in this country, we have civilian control of the military. and in theory, the pentagon is supposed to take orders from the civilian commander in chief. so most of the time i'm sure it w

. >> reporter: today former defense secretary chuck hagel told "foreign policy" magazine, president obama'secision in 2013 to stand down on strikes in syria ignoring his own red line on assad's use of chemical weapons, dealt a severe blow to u.s. credibility which many argue has given space for isis to grow and for russia to enter. as the coalition continues to pound isis targets in syria, including these strikes which helped thwart a massive isis attack, the u.s. has set its sights on the branch in libya, killing the affiliate's leader in an air strike last month. now these photos show u.s. military personnel on the ground in libya, help willing to beef up the libyan army's defense against jihadists. in a swing through the region, the secretary of defense warned isis global reach is never-ending. >> we're in syria and iraq, which is the -- the tumor of this movement. we are seeing nest of isil spring up around the world, including in afghanistan. >> reporter: a u.n. diplomat tells me the negotiations to be led by the united nations are only going to work if the u.s. and russia stay united.

. >> i want to get your reaction of chuck hagel who made remarks of the white house trying to quote, destroy him and saying he was convinced they had no viable strategy in syria and didn't see eye to eye on how to prosecute the war against isis and the fourth defense secretary in years. what's your reaction to all of this? >> i have to say, i'm not surprised. i think he needed to open his eyes. he was walking into a trap. his reputation, his name was used against him and he was undermined. if you read that interview, these interminable meetings, no strategy, no policy came out of the meetings whether on syria or anything else and then when he tries to get the president to decide on something, what happens? he's undermined by susan rice, by members of the administration. leaking information against him. this is a vindictive white house that even if you're a cabinet member, if you don't tow the line, they will do you in. they will undermine you and i think hagel's finally telling us what the inside of the machine looks like. >> he seems to be following by panetta and gates that the fac

. >> you know, chuck hagel are all saying the same thing about the administration, they are waiting to the last minute to do these things, that's also contributing to the problem, is that fair to say? >> it's fair to say. we have seen time and time the administration is making political calculations out of the white house instead of national security. we don't want to bomb oil fields. >> how far can donald trump get with this. in a head half -- head-to-head -- >> hillary's numbers are advancing in a one-to-one competition. the really angie and frustrated voter who really doesn't like -- having politicians and overpromise and underdeliver. we do have candidates that are wonderfully qualified to be president of the united states, you have marco rubio and ted cruz and chris christie. that doesn't mean he's qualified but tapped into this anger and anxiety. antiantihas he written the play for campaign operatives? >> it's so unique, the perfect storm. the situation on the ground in terms of what is going on it's completely unique. >> maria: go back to when rudy guliani was in the lead. >> wh

i am happy with the fact that he announced ash carter cash we have definitely suffered since chuck hagel took over, but when i heard that sending ash carter allies try to get more on board -- really happy with that. in the saudi's have announced they are putting the coalition together. having russia and germany involved -- i think president obama is starting to understand that the american people are concerned and scared. they're looking to the president to lead. we need to make a digital defense and offense. what do you think about him also dispatching secretary john kerry to talk with russia? he will be meeting with his and thenrt over there he will be meeting with putin and he will ask for help in syria trying to find some kind of get the medic solution -- diplomatic solution. caller: i think that is appropriate. john kerry has been criticized very heavily but i think he has to the best he can. i do think that the minister and john kerry have a decent relationship. a definite threat to the chechnya and rebels. i know he understands the magnitude of what it means for at the hands of is

-- there was a website which had an interview with president obama's former defense secretary, chuck hagel. the headline saying that ignoring the red line hurt the president's credibility worldwide. mr. hagel quoted as saying, for one thing, there were way too many meetings when it comes to syria policy, describing a process in which officials mulled issues about every getting to "where we need to be." he goes on to say, we kept deferring to tough decisions, and there were always too many people in the room, he said. mr. obama's decision to ignore his own red line on syria has come under scrutiny in the last two years as the united states struggles with the strategy to usher out president assad and roll back the gains of the islamic state. mr. hagel also quoted as saying, "whether it was the right decision or not, history will determine that." there's no question in my mind it hurt the credibility of the president's word when this occurred. read that more in the "new york times." you can go to foreign policy, the website, for more of that interview. how would you rate president obama's yea