general mark milley did to earn those four stars. there's his extensive background of combat experience in egypt, panama, haiti, bosnia, iraq, afghanistan, somalia and colombia. there's general milley's long list of awards and honors from the army's distinguished service medal to the legion of merit, the national defense service medal, the afghanistan campaign medal, the global war on terrorism service medal. there are too many to actually list here, and despite the extraordinary. record of service and patriotism and courage, this is who donald trump has chosen to humiliate and potentially demote. it's petty, like ordering general milley's portraits to be yanked. >> off the walls. >> at the pentagon. but make no mistake, it is also dangerous. trump's retribution punishing general mark milley by pulling his security detail is a serious threat to mark milley's life. we know that in the wake of the 2020 strike that killed a top iranian commander, soleimani. >> quote. >> the iranian revolutionary guard posted a video explicitly threatenin

they're focused on retribution against general mark milley.we cannot do much about that. i just read a headline today that the new attorney general is going to target people for retribution. that is very, very unfortunate. she made it very clear at the hearings that she would not be doing that. but now i read that she will be. look, we can only do what is necessary to inform people about what's going on. i think that we have a responsibility of protecting the press. the press got a responsibility of informing the public. and all of us have a responsibility of carrying out our duties and responsibilities in such a way that the american people will benefit for good, wholesome and secure existence going forward. that's a responsibility all. >> of us share. >> and if we are endangered as the third stool and the press is being misinformed as to information, we have a responsibility to work together to inform the public as to what's what's going on. >> look, i appreciate your candor and informing the public at this point is, is something that trump'

also taking out, for example, down the security detail for former general -- chief of staff mark milley. this is about retribution. and he is putting people's lives in danger, which is just unbelievable. and i wish more people would stand up. >> senator, thank you. >> thank you, margaret. >>> "face the nation" will be back in a minute. stay with us. the same way, you have... the fearless investor. the type a cpa. the boot strapper. the boot maker. hee-ha. but many do have something in common. we all trust schwab with our wealth. thanks to our award-winning service, low costs and transparent advice, every day, over a million multi-millionaires, trust schwab with more than three trillion dollars of their wealth. ♪♪ >>> we are ejoined by florida republican congressman brian mast, the chairman of the foreign affairs committee, oversight over the state department and programs. he joins us from fort pierce, florida. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> i want to start first on the tariffs that were announced overnight by president trump. you know there is a free trade agreement with mexic

because moments before he left office, he issued preemptive pardons to mark milley, members of the januarys well as five members of his own family. so just to be safe, i have legally changed my name to sara jones biden. we've already changed the sign on the outside of the building. even though he wasn't president until today, trump's presidential agenda kicked off yesterday. the widely anticipated tiktok ban went into effect on saturday night, and the black-out lasted 14 hours. it's what's being called "the most productive 14 hours in american history." meals were prepped, dentist appointments were made, emails were sent, conversations were had, children's names were relearned. it was devastating. during the outage, when users opened tiktok, they were met with a screen that said, "a law banning tiktok has been enacted in the u.s. we are fortunate that president trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate tiktok once he takes office." it was a pathetic, transparent ploy to suck up to trump that completely worked, because shortly after, trump posted "i'm asking c

trump for ending government security protection for a number of aides including mark pompeo with, mark milleyetail for life, but those decisions are supposed to be made on neutral assessments. pompeo, bolton and, hook are threatened by iran. the justice department even charged a member of iran's revolutionary guard with trying the hire a hit man to kill john bolton and trump, unfortunately, is is leaving them unprotected. paul: america ane. a a miss to to former new jersey senator bob menendez. he was sentenced to is 1 is years in prison -- 11 years in prison for a corruption scandal that famously involved accepting gold bars as a bribe, and when he was asked about, he blamed point the prosecutorial system, and he said i think trump was right. so he may well be correct about that, there definitely have been biased prosecutions, but the prosecutors had him absolutely dead to rights there, and he should be accepting blame and seeking remorse from the if public. paul: that's one pardon i don't think trump will grant dan. >> president trump's executive orders have been hard to keep track of, but

security clearances as a means of revenge against political enemies or adversaries or generals like mark milley. but it fits the pattern that you've just articulated in the earlier story about referring a list of people who may be prosecuted as a result of elon musk recommending them. elon musk is responsible for the biggest public corruption scandal ongoing in real time, right before our eyes, stealing information, controlling agencies that provide contracts to his companies, spacex and starlink and tesla, billions of dollars and regulate those companies. so if we're worried about corruption, we should be investigating what elon musk is doing with doge. and that's exactly what i am doing through the permanent subcommittee on investigations. we've begun that investigation with letters to all those companies asking what they're doing with the information, who controls it, who's involved. but this kind of retribution really should have no place in the united states government. >> senator richard blumenthal, thanks so much for joining tonight. >> thank you. >> coming up, more on the action. presid

barack obama, george bush, mark milley, you know, pick a whole host of.former presidents, former military officers, if indeed they're inclined to do this, which they have not shown to be. >> up to the election. i no. >> no, no, i know, but. >> this is. >> how else do you get people's attention? >> i mean, you. >> need the most famous, the most powerful, the most moving figures in recent history. if you are looking for some leadership among the opposition to stand up and say something together, not just an. >> off. >> and you. >> don't think. >> the american people. >> are going to say we're done with elites? >> wasn't that? >> i don't know about that. not those people, not necessarily. there's some that they would say that about, but i don't i think if they spoke with. >> one voice, i think they're looking for courage. they're looking for courage, not partizanship. i mean, look at someone like like colonel vindman when he stepped forward, like widely celebrated, even somebody going back to the iraq war, like cindy sheehan, they're looking for courageous p

then he got in in about 15 minutes later, it seemed suddenly retribution was being sought out by mark milley and lisa murkowski and todd young and mitch mcconnell and all these people, dave mccormick, all these people understanding how dangerous the world is and how our enemies want to come to the united states and kill americans and undermine our way of life. i'm curious, are they really going to vote for somebody who has promised retribution, who has promised to be part of this purge that's going on right now inside the fbi? >> yeah. i mean, one of the things that's been curious about this whole, you know, attack on the fbi in the last few days is the timing doing it before the vote for kash patel means you cannot tell yourself that. well, actually, kash patel will be a perfectly normal fbi director who will be fine. you know, he'll make some reforms, but it won't be the bloodletting that people had feared. you know, the leftists are just, you know, caterwauling. we can we can just ignore that because it's just them complaining. well, no, i mean, they've been very clear in the last few day