army lieutenant colonel and matthew hoh senior fellow at the center for international policy gentlemen thank you so much for joining us tonight daniel i'm going to start with you or danny and please just tell me why it is that you even wrote a report like this where you were you assigned to something or just after seeing so much experiencing so much you felt the need that you had a story to tell it was the letter i had the job that i had there was required me to travel all over the country and to talk to soldiers at every level from the highest commander to the lowest done to your old private. and what our soil there over tom especially was beginning to be clear was so different than what the public assertions or that i started to have. problems with it but that turned into something more when i started seeing the of the results of men dying as a result of this in missions that. made no sense and were then later characterized as big successes when in fact they were not and in later in the summer a couple of guys in particular that i had met. were killed in action a couple of weeks late

army lieutenant colonel and matthew hoh senior fellow at the center for international policy.

when davis was here on the show he was accompanied by a former state department official matt ho matthew hoh and i asked them both just two days ago if there had been any criticisms or attacks waged yet and what they thought the chances were that that might happen. and so i'm just wondering if you think that there's going to be backlash and wondering if anyone has already attacked you already.

and when davis was here on the show he was accompanied by a former state department official matt matthew hoh and i asked them both just two days ago if there had been any criticisms or attacks waged yet and what they thought the chances were that that might happen and i'm just wondering if you think that there's going to be a backlash and wondering if anyone has already attacked you already said that you are putting national security at risk or being traitor well i got to say so for you know i got it from the rocks also going to give credit in so for the senior leaders in my chain of command in particular has said nothing bad is going to happen to you because of this you're not going to be you know your clearances are going to be taken away you continue your job every day so so for everything's been good to go with it continues on you know after shows like this come out and what not is going to be another matter but so far they don't for you so what's your guess. that was tuesday fast forward today which is thursday and b.c. is pentagon correspondent jim acosta reporting at the pentagon has