central command, retired general david petraeus. thank you for joining us.t into this beautiful map to talk about what the weapons system might or might not do, tell me how significant you think this visit is by volodymyr zelenskyy. >> i think it's huge, jake. it's both symbolic and substantively very, very significant. symbolic because the individual who has led this in a positively churchillian manner is here. his first visit outside of the country since the war began and to the country perhaps more than all the others put together, as enabled his country to defend itself so far. but substantive because there's $45 billion in an omnibus that could be voted on this evening by the senate. if that gets through, that could take it through next year and be of enormous assistance with security for ukraine. again, doing that before the next congress is very, very important, and i don't think that the timing oh of this was just purely coincidental. >> let's walk through what's going on in ukraine and how these weapons systems might help. the ukrainians are on the

thanks for being here. >> thanks, neil. >> neil: general david petraeus. moments away from seeing something pretty historic for the first time, president zelensky of ukraine is out of ukraine throughout the war. he's refused to leave the country. again, much of the aid depends on the approval of the omnibus spending measure, 1.7 trillion. let's go to rebecca heinrichs right now. rebecca, that aid is pending. it's coming. i don't know whether it will be in the form of this omnibus spending measure. he's going to get it. there's new chiefs in town in the house that will police it more aggressively. what do you think of that? >> i think it's fine. the concerns are valid. they want to know where the money is going. as general petraeus said, there's oversight measures that were inserted in this omnibus bill for ukraine. that is to the credit of mcconnell and other republicans. all of this senior republicans in the house of representatives who are the most senior on all of the appropriate committees are on the defense for ukraine. they want to learn the lessons

. >>> joining me now is retired four star army general david petraeus, former commander of u.s. central command. general, always good to have you on. >> thank you, jim. >> as i was watching the speech yesterday, as well as the visit in general, it struck me that the u.s. and ukraine are even more so than they already were joined at the hip in this war as allies. is the ukraine war more obviously and more openly a proxy war in infect between the u.s. and russia and should americans then be concerned that the chances for escalation beyond ukraine have now increased? >> well, i think that's correct in large measure. but it's not just the u.s. and ukraine. it's the nato countries and the west. and ukraine. i thought that president zelenskyy was quite persuasive in making that very point. again this is not just charity for ukraine, this is investment in western security, u.s. national security to be sure. in fact, i thought it was very compelling and a very skillful speech. you know, if you recall, he is, of course, the former actor. he played the president. that is part of how he go

discussion with the participation of david ketler, maryana burgheri, general veslipark, general david petraeus, we are now listening to a video address of oleksiy reznikov, dear friends, good afternoon at the beginning, i want to congratulate the team of organizers of the forum because holding such an event in the conditions of the hot phase of the war is a demonstration that ukraine remains indomitable and our confidence in victory is unshakable, the forum is taking place on the 31st anniversary of the referendum in which the ukrainian people clearly decided in favor of independence, it was then that the internationally recognized borders of our state were formed, today when we talk about the goal of our struggle, the return of all territories within the internationally recognized borders is the first and necessary sign of our victory necessary but not sufficient after what has happened in 8.5 years and especially in the last 9 months, the return of the formal status quo will not be sufficient not only for ukraine, but for europe and the whole common world, there have been many changes, the b

but ask retired general david petraeus. >> grant truly was the man who saved the union. more than any other individual in uniform that ultimately ensured that the north won that war and that the union was preserved. >> reporter: as america's deadliest war ground on with no end in sight, president lincoln turned in desperation to grant, who took command and chased lee all the way to the courthouse at appomattox and accepted his surrender. >> he is arguably the greatest battlefield general in american military history. no other u.s. army general did what he did, which was to demonstrate true brilliance on the battlefield at every level of warfare. >> reporter: a portrait quite at odds with many of the historical depictions of grant. >> he was dismissed as incompetent or corrupt or an alcoholic that couldn't manage his demons and his alcohol. lincoln when told that grant drank famously responded, find out what he drinks, give it to the other generals. at least he fights. >> reporter: the wheel of history has turned and grant now stands on the pedestal with only two other am

navy in china major threats this country faces right now predominantly from you communist china david petraeusg telling foxnews.com he is concerned about military readiness due to misperceptions, this ndaa has flat spending on defense i know you and colleagues talking about you know we got more money than president biden wanted, allocated toward defense. when you consider inflation, running at 7, 8% right now look at numbers there is no major increase in defense spending in this new bill. >> no you are exactly right we passed the ndaa in conference meetings back in june, they use it as a political ploy have been wanting toing the load things down with things nondefense should have been done three months ago some kind of clause for inflation if we don't have defense for this country we are in a huge problem as you said earlier china is sprinting out sprinting us to the finish line in space in the ground, on sea, in the air. and we're sitting back watching it happen we got to make minds up if we want to protect american people with this administration, or with are we going to worry about woke ag

director david petraeus on the deal. >> you hate in a sense to reward what russia does but on the otherhink it's an understandable imperative to get our citizens home and sometimes that requires us to take actions that we would rather not take because again the individual going back is a very reprehensible individual with the blood of many people on his hands. >> harris: i call him a monster. meanwhile paul we lon spoke to cnn. i don't understand why i'm sitting here. my bags are packed and i'm ready to go home. i just need an airplane to come and get me. rich edson has more from the white house. rich, you know, it has been protocol that the next one in line is the next to go. it didn't work out this way. >> paul whelan is a few weeks away spending four years in russian custody. white house maintains the only deal on the table was brittney griner for bout. griner is back in the united states and whelan is in a russian prison. >> they never said to us we want bout back. they are treating paul differently. paul was never in the mix in their mind with respect to mr. bout. it was just for b

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a conversation together and never put a single thing into cyberspace and it was until general david petraeus, that's in my book, used that trick to cheat on his wife with his mistress. and i told my buddy. >> he said i've got another one and that's the fun of the book and you know, exploring the characters, i'll use that and we're supposed to talk among ourselves and i'll say that i'll ask the first question and we'll ask each other questions that we don't know we're going to ask and i'll say when you're writing one like sandy, 20, 30 years ago and now your newest character, outcast, nothing like rusty was in presumed innocent, and i can see you've got your answer. it's fascinating to me, and i read those books in the 1990's and here we are in a whole different world, but it's, please-- >> well, i -- pinky is 40 years younger than i am. she's female. she's bi. so, you know, it was a reach to write about her and you know, i was afraid of getting clobbered with, you know, charges of cultural appropriation or something like that and i did not mean to write in her voice to start. it's, you know,