honesty about what happened under mao tse—tung?s of chinese who were starved to death, who lost their lives during the famine, during the quote—unquote "great leap forward" 7 is there room for honesty? well, this is exactly why i have some problem when you use the word "propaganda" in english, because the celebrations we are doing today for the achievements of the communist party of china, or china as a nation, for example, are really telling the real stories. and these real stories are actually not fully told by many of the western medias. now, if we compare china today with 1949 and with 1978, when i started to go to college and preparing for my work for deng xiaoping, for example, in the 1980s, i would say china has completely transformed itself from today, compared with 1949, and ever since 1948. of course, for a nation with china's size, every day, we make some mistakes. we do not need to be proud of our mistakes, but we need to celebrate our great achievements. i would say no country, ever since 1948, has made as much progres

. >> i've read mao tse tung. i've read karl marx. i've read lenin. that doesn't make me a communist so what is wrong with understanding, having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend, and i personally find it offensive that we are accusing the united states military, our general officers, our commissioned, our noncommissioned officers of being, quote, woke or something else because we're studying some theories that are out there. >> reporter: that answer drawing ire from congressman matt gaetz who later tweeted, with generals like this, it's no wonder we fought considerably more wars than we've won. at least 17 states are now considering rules banning critical race theory in classrooms. >>> the white house says there are no plans to change the time line of the ongoing troop withdrawal from afghanistan. a new report claims the afghan government could fall to the taliban six months after the u.s. military leaves. lawmakers are urging the biden administration to speed up the visa process for afghan interpreters

back in the early 1980s, the communist party thought it wise certainly given the experience under mao tsemit on the presidency. xijinping, just a couple of years ago, engineered its removal. personally speaking, do you think that was a mistake? allow me to make this point — even if president xijinping serve in his leadership position all the way up to 2035, xijinping, by then, by 2035, would be younger than deng xiaoping, for whom i worked as his interpreter. i'd just like a direct answer to the question. do you think the removal of term limits was a mistake? my answer to your question, stephen, is that china now needs a very strong, powerful leader who sees where china is and why china needs to stand firm on matters of principle on the global stage and refuse to cave in to whatever pressure coming from washington. this is the leader we need, and xijinping is indeed this kind of leadership that china is very much embracing right now. much of the pressure that china faces right now isn't actually coming just from the united states. it's coming from the entire international community and, i

. >> i've read mao tse-tung. i've read karl marx. i've read lenin. that doesn't make me a communist. so what is wrong with understanding, having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend? and i personally find it offensive that we are accusing the united states military, our general officers, our commissioned, noncommissioned officers, of being, quote, woke or something else, because we're studying some theories that are out there. >> and jon karl, general millie saying, what's wrong with understanding the country we're here to defend? >> reporter: to sensor the study of america's troubling history on race, saying it matter to the cohesion and discipline of the military. >> jon karl live in washington. jon, thank you. >>> next tonight here, a guilty plea and then an apology involving two separate cases, two suspects charged in the capitol riot. first, graden young, a member of the far right group the oath keepers, pleading guilty to conspiracy and obstruction and promising now to cooperate in the conspiracy case

i've read mao tse-tung, karl marx, i've read lennon, that doesn't make me a communist.t's appropriate and what are the democrats getting out of it. >> i asked a friend of mine at west point to send me a core syllabus and thankfully he did. i saw what the entire course was. it was one of about 30 or 40 classes who those taking this elective were introduced into various ysing about culture, diversity, race, sex, and how it contributes to their role as leaders. that's the course. so to have these two congressmen, waltz and gaetz jump on this issue as part of a hearing that was supposed to be discussing the $700 billion defense expense budget shows they're not taking their job seriously, and if you look at that, it gives the cadets an indicate ore f things they might face in combat, in leading their soldiers, and serving as leaders in the army. you have to get a bunch of diverse views. the great thing about critical race theory and the debate going on, it's cautioning people to look at exactly what it is. and just like other theories taught in graduate-level education, it h

they don't talk about how mao tse-tung murdered 60 million of his own people.n murdered 25 to 30 million of his own people. they don't know how current communist china rounded up uyghurs, 2 1/2 million who are tortured, who are raped. who are murdered. they don't talk about that. many of the supporters of black lives matter defend communist china. so these are massive gulags. these are massive genocidal states. bernie sanders never criticizes them. criticizes america. we have slavery going on in the world right now throughout the world. we have it going on in africa. we have it going on in the middle east. we have it going on in the far east. as i said we have it going on in xi's china. real live slavery today. not 150 years ago. slavery today of black people, muslim people, white people, all kinds of people, nothing, not a word. you look at black lives matter, what the hell have they done in our inner cities to help our communities? they don't fight for school choice. they don't fight against inshrined democrat party iron fisted rule which destroyeded so many

. >> i've read mao tse-tung. i've read karl marx. i've read lenin.doesn't make me a communist. so what is wrong with understanding, having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend? and i personally find it offensive that we are accusing the united states military, our general officers, our commissioned, noncommissioned officers of being, quote, woke or something else because we're studying some theories that are out there. >> reporter: general milley said it would be an especially bad idea to censure the study of america's troubled history on race. he said that understanding that, quote, matters to the discipline and cohesion of this military. cecilia? >> jon karl, thank you so much. >>> we are following a lot of other headlines this morning including the latest on the breaking news out of miami after that deadly building collapse overnight. we're on the scene. >>> also ahead that explosive moment in court from britney spears. she is asking to end that conservatorship and we're learning just how much her life h

when mao tse-tung killed over a million of his own people, tiananmen square, as you say, and when peoplethey get sympathizers, apologists to say, well, it's really not so bad what's going on in china. look at the recent repression. just last week 500 police raided apple daily, which is an anti-communist party publication that jimmy lye owns, and he is sitting in a jailhouse in hong kong. can you imagine this? 500 police enter a newspaper's headquarters and pull out of there their senior executives, managing editors, and put them in jail. freedom of the press is dead in hong kong. now, why are they doing that? because the apple daily criticizes the chinese communist party, and china will have none of it. maria: right. >> facebook, in this country, up until just in may has been denying any accusations in facebook against the origins of -- maria: that's right. >> -- of the virus coming out of the wuhan lab. maria: coronavirus. that's right. >> and they just finally, finally removed that reduction. that is censorship this our own country. that's what the author, paul wolfowitz, was talking a