while i was working on issues of women and men and work, there came mcchrystal's book team of teams and i was so thrilled. because he describes exactly being in charge of special forces in iraq. and he has got a fight, al qaeda in iraq. he opens with this description of an attack and then very quickly the people involved figure out what happened and reconfigure and repair the damage to their network. and then go on. and you are reading and you think, he is describing our special forces! he's not. he is describing al qaeda in iraq. he is saying that kind of stability and adaptability and nimbleness, was characteristic of the al qaeda in iraq network. we could not match that because even though our special forces is the most nimble part of our military, we were too hierarchal. so then he describes special forces and he says first we had a command. there was, he was on top and there were all of these different groups. intelligence groups and logistics group and communications group and he figures out how to make that command into a team of teams. where he has got different groups. each one

was knocked in a different direction so when i was working on these issues then here came general mcchrystal book and i was so thrilled because he describes exactly to be in charge of special forces in iraq to fight al qaeda and opens with a description of an attack then very quickly the people involved to figure out what happened to reconfigure and repair the damage and to go one then you say those are the special forces but he is not he is describing al qaeda it is in iraq with that kind of flexibility and adaptability was a characteristic of the al qaeda end in iraq network we could not match that we were to hierarchal so he describes the special forces to say we had a command of teams with all these different halogens groups and he figures out how to make the commitment into a team of teams with different groups each is connected to all the others but in the ways that our flexible enough so the network can be one big entity to describe the strategy of the share of consciousness or come back together in this team to act independently with the power of execution that is a strategy to use i

and around this time we have general stanley mcchrystal coming in is as a jsoc commander, task force714 is the task force he sets up in iraq. and at the time, it was not particularly active and there's still a lot of people who thought that elite forces should not be doing daily operations. they should focus only on the big targets. mcchrystal decided that we can't do that and saddam has shown it's not going to work so he looks for ways to ramp up their operations and does so very effectively. there are originally 10 operations per month and when he comes in 2004 goes up to 302,000 in 2006 and this is made possible by advances in communications technology. also by the fact the iraqis are using cell phones and computers without a lot of thought as to the fact that they are getting intercepted quite impressive and a lot of people think atthis scale we can in fact destroy the insurgency . we also have on the right side, this is another term that people get confused about but there's white sox are the operators were not part of jsoc so is mainly special forces, navy seals at this time. t

mcchrystal decides that -- we can't do that. saddam shown that will not work so he -- looks for ways to ramp up their operation and does so effectively and only ten operation os per month when he comes in 2004. it goes up to 300 in 2006. this is made possible in communication technology and also bit fact that iraqis are using cell phone and computers without a lot to the fact that they're getting intercepted so quite impressive and people think this scale we can, in fact, destroy the insurgency. we also a have -- on the white soft side and this another term that will people sometimes get confused about but white soft are bairvegly the operators who are not part of jay soft so mainly special forces and navy s.e.a.l.es at this time. but they also decide that they want to do this surgical strike precision ride go out and haul down bad guys in the middle of the night and this is a move away from their traditional, more traditional role of working with local force local populations. and we'll come under fire from a number within the

david: a pleasure to be joined by stanley mcchrystal, author of the book "team of teams."r of isaf. let me ask you about mozilla. we heard from the president today, he was speaking in paris alongside the new french president and he talked about the victory he's marked and most will. do you agree that we have a battle here that was hard fought , do you talk it up as a victory in the fight against isis? stanley: it was definitely a prerequisite for moving forward or it was symbolic. when most of l2 isis, it was a shock to people. it was necessary to take it back , it was necessary the iraqis do it. it was a coalition of different parts of the iraqi forces. that was just incredibly symbolic and key. thed: what is your sense of integrity or strength of the iraqi forces at this point? goal from day one was to view them with the ability to defend themselves. how are they viewing that now? had a low think they point after america left and with the rise of isis, it was seen that they were much more fragile and much more sectarian than they needed to be. my guess is what has happen

and also in afghanistan when generals petraeus and mcchrystal recommended to him the force level needed to win in afghanistan, he gave them 25% less and then pulled them out in is a months -- 15 month ts, guaranteeing the protracted war that we're not winning now. that was done by a commander-in-chief who made that horrific decision. donald trump is committed to winning it. that was step one. we never had even that statement made before. and he's also taken a whole of government approach in it. not just the military. he asked his allies in the middle east in particular which is the breeding ground for radical islam. that speech he made with national leaders there, he told them i need you to drive the radicals out of the schools and mosques where they gather. you need to stop funding them. we, meaning the west, we cannot undermine muslim ideology which is so corrupted by these radicals. you have to do that. you have to provide your young people the alternative. david: right. >> so he is enlisting support from our allies in a way that his predecessor never did. and he's committing the pen

general mcchrystal was here along with prime minister trudeau and then the secretary of defense, ashr he spoke here two years ago. in the afternoon some go horse back riding or whitewater rafting and there are a number of private meetings. >> haven't they said they're not there representing the white house, they're paying their own way, they're private citizens. if a big merger gets announced, big mergers will have regulation around them. they need government approval. isn't that a little sticky? >> i'm sorry, is it a little sticky, look, the deals that are made here are generally made behind closed doors. i mean, i know randle stephenson the ceo of at&t which has the pending acquisition of time warner is supposed to be here today. i'm sure what we -- we'll see them. so i think the question of what the regulatory stance is going to be, something that's going to be, you know, in this very much in the spotlight here, stephanie, because of the ceos we have talked to, there is this expectation that president trump is bog to take sort of a -- is going to take sort of a regulatory touch th

rules and disrupting the system when he was the head of intelligence operations for general stanley mcchrystal in afghanistan. he-- while he was in government, he was known as a rogue operator. here we have his work -- his very first presidential campaign, and if this report is proven to be true, it does seem like he would be fairly implicated. >> yeah. and david, i just want to say, sometimes the most credible information we get is from anonymous sources because they can't talk, and they're in a situation, they're not anonymous to us, we just project their identity. but having said that, david, this gentleman writes down under his own name, matt tate, so you do get a sense of who he is. he says towards the end of one of our confidences, smith said his team had been contacted by one on the dark web. this person has the e-mails from hillary clinton's private e-mail server and smith wanted to establish if the e-mails were genuine and ensure they became public prior to the election. what he wanted from me is to determine if the e-mails were genuine or not. i mean, you want evidence of intent, my

folks we'll all recognize from general breedlove to admiral mullen to general petraeus, to general mcchrystal. i think we should keep that in mind when we review the president's budget. which i believe is particularly short sighted with regard to foreign assistance. i want to move now, secretary mattis, to something you said at your confirmation hearing in january. i asked you for your assessment of the key threats to our vital interest and at what priority level. and you said the principal threats start with russia. do you still view russia as a significant threat to the united states? >> yes, senator, i do. >> senator, i think the european reassurance initiative alone of $4.8 billion, is designed with one target in mind. that is to dissuade russia from thinking this is a time when they want to test nato or the americans, i would also point out that in terms of technology, we are looking at specific technologies that address some of the maturing threats that they have. air, space, under water. that that sort of thing. and i think, too, that the investment in prepositioned equipment, that all