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general jack keane. >>> up next.bama adviser throwing his early support behind hillary clinton's early, early run for the presidency. the anniversary of controversial comments. could those keep her out of the white house? we'll be talking with one the leading conservative activist who has a brand new ad to celebrate the anniversary. celebrate the anniversary. david [ male announcer ] e new new york is ope open to innovation. open to ambition. open to boldids. that's why n york has a new plan -- dozens of tax free zones all across the state. move here, expand here, or start a new business here and pay no taxes for ten years... we're new york. if there's something that creates more jobs, and ows more businesses... we're open to it. start a tax-free business at startup-ny.com. the country now raising money to put hillary clinton in the white house despite the fact she hasn't announced her candidacy formally or any other way. priorities action u.s.a. raised nearly -- just about $30 billion in 2012. excuse me, $80 billion

general jack keane, our four star general and fox news military analyst.f this is true, what does it mean? >> we would be repeating the same mistakes we made with our ill conceived policy in iraq that has led to disastrous consequences that are being played out in front of our eyes. if we do that afghanistan in 2014 or 2016, what he can expect the the same result. the taliban forcing themselves on the afghan people. here is the second big problem. we are conducting war against the al qaeda in pakistan from bases in afghanistan. we need the intelligence we gather. and we need the footprint and the security to be able to conduct that war successfully. we pull out we put that at risk and that's a direct threat to the united states. bill: politically speaking there is a big equation when it comes to politic. is this how the president says at the end of the second term i ended two wars? >> i think that's it. the focus has been on ending the war as opposed to winning it. that's what gates was talking about in his book how difficult it was transitioning from one

general jack keane. >>> up next.ajor obama adviser throwing his early support behind hillary clinton's early, early run for the presidency. the anniversary of controversial comments. could those keep her out of the white house? we'll be talking with one of the leading conservative activist who has a brand new ad to celebrate the anniversary. david with us next. lou: the largest super pac in the country now raising money to put hillary clinton in the white house despite the fact she hasn't announced her candidacy formally or any other way. priorities action u.s.a. raised nearly -- just about $30 billion in 2012. excuse me, $80 billion. and will be cochaired by barack obama's campaign manager. and former michigan governor jennifer. -- that's exciting news. it comes exactly one year to the day after mrs. clinton testified about the benghazi terrorist attack. our next guest organization released a new web video to commemorate the occasion. >> that was easily -- that was not the fact -- >> but. >> people could have known

i'm joined now by retired four-star general jack keane. he has read the entire book. rmer vice chief of staff of the army and a fox news military analyst. general keane, good to have you here today. >> glad to be here, martha. martha: i guess the first question because you have read the entire book and most of us have not, is it being mischaracterized based on the quotes we've all got so far? >> no. certainly, secretary gates waited to page 557 of the 600-page book to place in italics the sentence that everybody is talking about in terms of the president not believing in his own strategy. so he clearly knew what he was doing and wanted that degree of emphasis. but the book is certainly about a lot more than just that. it's also about his love for the troops and his personal responsibility he believed he had in sending all of those troops to iraq and to afghanistan. he wrote those deployment orders for the surge troops, and he knew that he was sending some of them to their death and also being maimed. and he personally embraced those emotional feelings. and i think as h

. >> general jack keane, a retired four-star general, vice chief of staff and fox military analyst. he wrote the review of the gates book for "the wall street journal." great to see you, general. >> good to see you, gretchen. >> the one theme i'm getting from all of these interviews that robert gates is doing is that he has no regrets for writing this book. duties the same thing when you read the book? >> absolutely. the book surprised me on a couple of levels. one, how refreshingly honest it is and particularly about himself. he throws out there his flaws and mistakes. the other thing is, it's a moving book in a sense. secretary gates kept feelings close to himself. in the book he opens up and talks about his love for the troops and what that meant to him and how it touched him personally and professionally with his life, how eventually his feelings for him clouded his judgment to a point he felt he had to resign because of it. >> it's interesting because there was a snippet from the book early on before it actually came out that he said hillary clinton, who may want to run for pre

jack keane, thank you for your time, sir. great to get your reaction.he general out of washington. tomorrow night robert gates is on with sean on "hannity", 10:00 eastern time. more then. martha. martha: thunderstorms packing wind that led to this. >> you see the windows -- whoa, no, look at that! martha: no match for mother nature. we'll tell you where that happened. bill: also here's a bombshell yet. alex rodriguez taking a last swing trying to fight the year-long suspension as the man who dropped the dime on him goes public. >> he asked me to inject. >> you injected him? >> yes. >> personally? >> personally. gs accounts? that's right, no hidd fees. it's just that i'm worried about, you know, "hidden things." ok, why's that? well uhhh... surprise!!! um... well, it's true. at ally there are no hidden fees. not one. that's nice. no hidden fees, no worries. ally bank. your money needs an ally. because an empty pan is a blank canvas. [ woman #2 ] to share a moment. [ woman #3 ] to travel the world without leaving home. [ male announcer ] whatever the reas

jack keane is a former vice chief of staff of the army and a fox news analyst. doku umarov, do you believe he's behind this? >> most russian security officials believe he's behind this attack. the fact of the matter is he hasn't claimed it, but it has his fingerprints all over it. as world attention is focused on the games. he wants the world attention on his cause and what he's trying to achieve. and he clearly wants to diminish and undermine the success of the games because clearly this is a state thing putin wants in terms of the prestige that the olympics always bring to a country, and umarov wants to undermine that prestige. patti ann: his group of chechen rebels is believed to have inspired the tsarnaev brothers, they were from the caucasus. is that the strategy to hit the soft targets and not sochi itself, but a transportation hub that people will pass through to get there that's less protected? >> i don't think we know what is ultimate strategy is. but sochi is pretty much shut down. people can come in there, but everything will be examined, their bagged

general jack keane coming up next. next. stay with [ male announcer ] e new new york is open. innovation. open to ambition. open to boldids. that's why n york has a new plan -- move here, expand here, or start a new business here and pay no taxes for ten years... we're new york. if there's something that creates more jobs, and ows more businesses... we're open to it. start a tax-free business at startup-ny.com. lou: that attack was part of iraqi forces taking over places that were run by al qaeda. and another foreign policy failure for this administration in afghanistan. the afghan government leasing 72 prisoners that the united states had insisted were involved in common doesn't of troops. afghan officials say there isn't enough evidence and decided to release them from the prism. my next guest has read the entire robert gates book and says the former defense secretary released the book trying to prevent the events in iraq in afghanistan. also if fox news military analyst. general, what are your thoughts upon reading the book, which puts you in a very rare five class. >> well

general jack keane coming up next. stay with us.ou: that attack was part of iraqi forces taking over places that were run by al qaeda. and another foreign policy failure for this administration in afghanistan. the afghan government leasing 72 prisoners that the united states had insisted were involved in common doesn't of troops. afghan officials say there isn't enough evidence and decided to release them from the prism. my next guest has read the entire robert gates book and says the former defense secretary released the book trying to prevent the events in iraq in afghanistan. also if fox news military analyst. general, what are your thoughts upon reading the book, which puts you in a very rare five class. >> well, first of all, it is refreshingly honest as a memoir. because he doesn't leave himself out. he admits all the mistakes that he made in some of them are serious. usually don't find those very much because he talks time and again about the troops and the personal responsibility that he bears for their safety and welfare an

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first of all, general jack keane has been on this channel and spoken about the mistakes made in the surge, ineffective from a military point of view. i'm not cherry picking. inside this book, and i still have to go through it in detail, and in the press i've looked at before, we have a secretary talking about one key issue. the difference in how presidents act versus their words when it comes to the military. bush had clearly by his deeds and by what he did, how he believed in the military. obama goes back to the clinton '90s when they wanted to eviscerate the military, lower the navy from 600 ships to less and jim webb resigned over that. here we have another secretary -- >> are you still debating the bush war record? i'd love to hear you debate it. >> there's so much debate in this boom. unfortunately, i've got to go. julie, david, great to see you both. >>> remember that polar vortex that brought record-freezing temps last week? wait until you hear about this week. a cold snap set to hit the country again. plus, all this frigid weather making warm drinks popular. now mcdonald's is faci

jack keane on this report. the obama administration's web of lies. tonight, 7:00 p.m. eastern.w has taken a small tumble. we were down 60, now we are down 90. charles has a opportunity on ebay. it is putting your money into something that is on. charles: something that could be a huge investment. here is the thing, that is a guy named stuart varney. that is on ebay. [laughter] >> the bidding has not necessarily been "fast and furious." stuart: i did not know about that. how much would you bid? charles: i would start at $20. i will get this thing really going. stuart: that is all it is worth? that is from my days with another network. autographed, did you say? is it? who is selling it, do you know? my wife. [laughter] stuart: get it off the street. that is not a bad picture. should we move onto something else? charles: i think we should. stuart: concerned about a probe and conflict of interest. an obama supporter that donated to the president, she is running the internal irs investigation. charles: both men make contributions to the president and democrats in 2000 through 2004.

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they were sick and tired of us as a dictatorship and frankly what jack keane said earlier democracy and patriotism. they felt that the outside game with stealing the nations wealth and they didn't have an equal opportunity to build better lives for their families. we should have supported them from the beginning. it has spun out of control but these people are not going to give up. they are still there. they are the moderate nonextremist sort of syrian patriots. since then as you have said, syria has become probably the frontline of the al qaeda violent it islamist extremist today because they are all pouring in and they are links now with what is happening in iraq. but in answer to your question in my opinion chairman king, it's not too late. if we sit back frankly it can only get worse. there were two bad results here. one is that assad winds which is a win for iran incidentally and the other is that the al qaeda groups win, so we still have what i would call still believe it or not a pro-american element there, a group that we can work with. they are angry with us and disappointed in

next we are pleased to have a very distinguished witness, general jack keane.completed 37 years in public service in december of 2003 culminating as acting chief of staff and vice chief of staff for the u.s. army. he currently serves as chairman of the board and the institute for the study of war and sits on the board of directors for met life and general dynamics. thank you sir for being here. next dr. seth jones associate director of international security and defense policy center at the rand corporation. he served as plans officer and a budget to demanding general the u.s. special forces in afghanistan as well as representative for commander of the u.s. special operations command to the assistant secretary of defense for special operations. the witness is full written statements will be included in the record. the chair now recognizes senator lieberman for his testimony. >> thank you chairman mccaul and ranking member thompson. thank you for convening this hearing and thank you for inviting me to testify in thank you for putting me in the great company of t

stuff but her search opposition despite counsel from such petraeus and commence as former general jack keane should be a mark against residential president. lon, montanan dil the democratic caller. you are on the air. caller: i was calling into c-span network. i was not calling into the show. host: you are not going to be on air? caller: was on the show last month. just remind people on your show calling in that mr. obama was elected twice to bring the troops home. host: randy in missouri. democratic caller. you might want to make it quick because the house is about to come into session. caller: what i want to talk -- theyou'll issue was whole issue was pushing about obama lacked conviction about afghanistan warbled on the lady called in and told you that in he writesn his book with he agrees with them. host: we found that part and read it for you. we have to leave it there. the house is now in session. live coverage here on speed -- c-span. washington, d.c., january 9, 2014. i hereby appoint the honorable luke messer to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, john a.