it is my pleasure to introduce secretary of defense lloyd boston and general mark milley. the secretary and chairman will provide brief opening remarks and then we will have a few minutes to take some questions. i will moderate those questions and call on reporters and i would ask you to limit your follow-ups since we do have a limited amount of time today. i appreciate your assistance with this. mr. secretary, over to you, sir. >> good afternoon, everyone. we have made excellent progress at our sixth meeting of the ukraine defense group. we were joined by my good friend , ukraine's minister of defense. and by major general, ukraine's joined forces committee. i am very grateful to them for joining us and for their heroic leadership. they updated the contact group on the latest battlefield dynamics, on ukraine's priority needs and on ukraine's requirements to defend itself for the long haul. i am also very pleased that ministers and chiefs of defense from some 50 countries took part in today's discussion. that again underscores the result of the international community to s

where did milley cross a line or not cross the line? in his mind, he wasn't disobeying legitimate legal orders. what he was trying to say is, i'm not going to let military be used inappropriately improperly as a political and it all right up the end. he was worried about that and i think he was one of the most compelling figures in that presidency. so there's a lot of stories like that. i think, that were sort of known in general and we managed to, i think, bring a lot more to the table. i read that letter. i read it in the new yorker. right. in your excerpt. it is an extraordinary letter it's sort of shocking. it's the sort of thing that that maybe you or or i might think or write. but we aren't the chairman of the chiefs of staff. he wrote it chosen by trump. yeah. and i do. just to echo that, i mean, peter and i have both done, you know, three decades of reporting in washington and as well as reporting overseas from, moscow and other places. i would say that i never encountered in a in some ways reporting that was more kind of mind b

secretary austin was there, the chairman of joint chiefs, chairman milley as well. what are the big takeaways? >> reporter: well, victor, they started today really just outside the nato parameters sitting down amongst themselves about 50 nations represented to talk about what to do next to offer ukraine critical weapons to push back against the russians. the ukrainians, very successful right now by all accounts with their counteroffensive, but over this week we have seen the russians launch a barrage of missiles and weapons at ukrainian civilian areas, and general mark milley, the u.s. chairman of the joint chiefs said deliberate killing of civilians is a war crime. very tough language this morning in brussels. so now they are talking about what comes next, and what milley is laying out is a network of weapons and capabilities that can take ukraine forward, they hope, in the coming months and establish a much more long-term military capability against russia. listen to a little bit of what general milley had to say. >> a lot of the countries that were here today hav

attack the closest thing yet to a no fly zone today the chairman of the joint chiefs general mark milley held a news conference in brussels. told the reporters the u.s. and its allies will provide an air missile defense system to protect ukraine from possible russian strikes. >> what ukraine is asking for and what we think can be provided is an integrated air missile defense system that doesn't control all the air space over ukraine but they're designed to control priority targets that ukraine needs to protect. >> general milley explained many countries have different types of air missile defense system. he said the challenge is to get each missile defense system to work together with others. technically challenging he said but achievable the nato meeting comes after russian forces launched a wave of missile strikes on ukrainian targets. it killed more than 30 people and hurt dozens of others in the past two days. meantime, ukrainian forces continue to break through russia's front lines in the country's south. they say its military has recaptured five villages in the kherson region ukrai

attack the closest thing yet to a no-fly zone today the chairman of the joint chiefs, general mark milley held a press conference and told reporters the u.s. and its allies will provide an air missile defense system >> what ukraine is asking for and what we think can be provided is an integrated air missile defense system so that doesn't control all the airspace over ukraine, but they're designed to control priority targets that ukraine needs to protect >> general milley explained tha the challenge is to get each missile defense system to work with all the others to defend ukraine from missile and drone attacks. technically challenging, he said, but achievable the nato meeting comes after russian forces launched a wave of missile strike on civilian targets across ukraine ukrainian officials say the attacks killed more than 30 people and hurt dozens of others in the past two days meantime, ukrainian forces continue to break throug russia's front lines in tsouth. as they push deeper, ukrainian troops have begun to encounter russia's brand-new recruits. a senior official told richard engel t

provided to ukraine to see if that can also supplement some of their needs right now. >> general milleyknow says israel could provide ukraine some very capable air defense systems. israel has this iron dome system as you know. >> right. >> has the u.s. asked israel to step up and do so? >> we've asked countries all around the world to contribute what they believe they can to ukraine's defense and every country answers that call differently, wolf. it's a sovereign decision. i respect that. i'll let them speak for what they will or won't do. that's the appropriate way to handle this. we have been nothing but open and candid with all our partners around the world. more than 50 nations participating in these contact groups that secretary austin has been hosting to see what they can do but it has to be in accordance with their security needs and their ability to provide security assistance to ukraine. >> senior nato official says a russian nuclear strike, a nuclear strike would almost certainly trigger a physical response from the allies. how much is the risk growing right now of the u.s. an

testimony from joint chiefs chairman general mark milley showed other agencies were also aware of the threat of violence, including a warning from a deputy defense secretary on a national security call. >> during these calls, i only remember because it was almost like he was clairvoyant. norquist says during one of these calls, the greatest threat is a direct assault on the capitol. i'll never forget it. >> we got a fresh look at what happens had that concern came to fruition. as the inflamed mob laid siege to the capitol on the 6th, in chilling new video showing the chaos that unfolded inside, as congressional leaders led by house speaker nancy pelosi did what trump wouldn't do, secure the seat of our democracy, the united states capitol. >> we have some senators who are still in their hide-aways. they need massive personnel now. can you get the maryland national guard to come too? >> or some other agency that was under siege, and let me say, you can logistically get people there as you make the plan. >> why dent you get the president to tell them to leave the capitol, mr. attorney g

yeah, i speak up and i criticize general milley. i criticize the top layer of military leadership, he's very political agendas. so we can purge the military of great generals. a political generals. elevated in their place left-wing mediocrity like general milley. you've all seen at home, general milley testifying in front of congress. bloviating about white rage, talking about how we need to teach soldiers critical race theory. in the united states navy right now, they are forcing sailors to use gendered pronouns. the military is not a woke social experiment. i will not tolerate that and it should be focused on projecting a force to defend america and her allies viewed our service members who wear the cloth of the nation demand no less, they deserve no less and when i am in the senate, i'm going to work with tom cotton to get rid of this wokeness. it's a problem. so much of our military -- the troops deserve way better and when i'm in charge they're going to get it host: you're a veteran. talk to us here. mr. victor: there's lots to

yeah, i speak up and i criticize general milley.'ve criticized the top layer of military leadership, he's very political agendas. obama did this, he purged the military of great generals. apolitical generals. he elevated in their place left-wing mediocrities like general milley. you've all seen at home, general milley testifying in front of congress. bloviating about white rage, talking about how we need to teach soldiers critical race theory. in the united states navy right now, they are forcing sailors to use gendered pronouns. the military is not a woke social experiment. i will not tolerate that and it should be focused on projecting a force to defend america and our allies. our service members who wear the cloth of the nation demand no less, they deserve no less and when i am in the senate, i'm going to work with tom cotton to get rid of this wokeness. it's a problem. so much of our military -- the troops deserve way better and when i'm in charge they're going to get it. host: you're a veteran. talk to us here. mr. victor: ther

i can see general milley is horrified.y mcentee's office to kash patel, a guy who writes bizarre children books, pushing this type of theories. it's been proven over and over again that president trump knew he lost, but there's another thing that i think the committee proved, and that's the lunatics were running the asylum. and you know, looking through what they did today, by summing this up, as a military command briefer, at the beginning of this, they told people what they were going to tell them, then they told them, then they told them what they told them. they went through the three phases of how to do hearings and there's other things, when you look at data, there's so much there, nicole. but the doj and fbi need to unwrap a lot of that, especially the white house links to extremists, which are specific, and they're linked and then when you see something like this, when you see the lack of professionalism, when you see, you know, young individuals that have no qualification doing this type of business with people li

here's what former general mark milley said. >> it is odd, it is not standard. it is potentially dangerous, i personally thought it was militarily not feasible. -- >> phil, you cover trump four years, did what you heard from the committee yesterday surprise you? >> it did not surprise me. but it was interesting and revelatory because it added more texture and nuance to something that we knew was going on based on reporting at the time. we knew trump wanted to get troops out of afghanistan. it's something he was pushing within his cabinet and national security team for sometime. and we knew in those final months of presidency that he was acting a radically. he was proposing with military leaders view to be erratic proposals. including in afghanistan. but to hear milley on the record, effectively, with the committee spelling all of this out in plain english. and explaining the dangers, what he viewed as the leader of the military, with the heat view to be the dangers of that withdrawal done on such short notice by the outgoing president, that was revelatory i thin

general milley, we know how very busy you are at this time of crisis. and are deeply honored you are with us. welcome. please take your seats. don't stand for me. you've got another group. you're gonna be standing for the real heroes tonight. you know one of the guys i saw out here. i don't know if you know it name is arnold mayor. you're gonna be standing for him in just a second. he's one of my professors at princeton back in the day. professor european history, give me a b minus. i always thought it should have been a hey, look at good evening. thanks everyone for the opportunity to speak tonight for me. this is very humbling. and and i appreciate. the introductory remarks yes, there's a lot of things going on, but there's always time to never forget. and and i'm very very humbled to have an opportunity to say a few words tonight. i know that an event like this takes a lot of time and effort on the part of folks who put it together. so let me just recognize alan holt and shelley along with the ambassador stu. eisenstadt. thank you so much for your le

i am jim milley at, editorial publishers weekly and this is christopher finan author of the new book how free speech saved a democracy. just out the last few weeks. i have known chris for probably better than 30 years. currently he is executive director of the national publishing against censorship. and before that he had a long standd overseeing american booksellers foundation for free expression. and so chris, i thought maybe we would begin their talk about maybe some of your earlier background and how you have been interested in the whole free speech movement. and how maybe that will keep the country free. >> i've been doing this for over 40 years now. i got involved in the early 80s. i was looking for a job after i left graduate school. and i found an ad, saw an ad in the "new york times" when they used to have classified ads. it was for a coordinator for a first amendment trade association. i had no idea what that was. but it sounded like me. that sounded like a great opportunity. i was very interested in the issue. at one point i thought i was going to be a reporter. but i grew

valery zaluzhny and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff of the united states of america mark milleyhny thanked the entire american people and their leaders for their consistent and unwavering support for ukraine in this difficult times, the united states of america is ready to help the economy of ukraine by allocating one and a half billion dollars every month, the investments will continue until the end of the war about it writes blumber with reference to own sources in the white house, according to their data, the administration of president joe biden held negotiations with eu officials and insisted that europe do more in terms of financial assistance to kyiv. next week in chernivtsi, the championship of ukraine in volleyball continues, this is the first time in the hands of independence when the duration of the competition is held in only one city, following the men's team wrestling women's teams also started for the championship, for some reason athletes returned from abroad to ukraine and what happens to domestic sports during the war, our ivan syretskyi will tell so women voll

pavly well, but with all due respect to the lieutenant general, we understand if mark milley made a similartement yes, i don’t know, ben voles, well, no really. maybe you in the kremlin would think hard about your behavior, and in any case, if they used, for example, hypothetically, tactically , nuclear weapons, in particular, in the south, they are talking about launching , for example, from the sea, or would it be their strategic aviation is involved, and in general, what are the possible consequences of the use of tactical nuclear weapons of low or medium power, well, actually, first of all, the general enters that this is not such an informal communication channel , he can tell the russians what they cannot say for diplomatic reasons. the military does not act and actually speaks its own opinion. when he speaks, he proves to the russians the position of the united states of america. if the russians try to use nuclear weapons, the answer may be non-nuclear, but it will be devastating for the entire russian state . military machine, as for the use of tactical nuclear weapons by the russia

be blamed on ukraine. ended the opinion related to the results of rammstein, us army general mark milleyated that ukraine does not currently control the entire airspace , but many member countries of the contact group on the defense of ukraine have the necessary air defense and anti-aircraft systems, in particular, many countries of the rammstein group have patriot systems, as well as israeli and german ones systems mili states the task of bringing it together install on the ground train personnel ensure that they systems are linked to command and control that there are radars and they can talk have an established connection with each other is difficult from a technical point of view, but it can be achieved and we strive for it, it is clear that the deployment of such an internet system involves satellite support, and ukraine and its partners will now move in this direction, i don't know if you can call it that behind closed doors, which the ukrainians asked for. what, not fully understanding the situation, not realizing how our relations with partner countries work in particular, but so

zaluzhny and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff of the united states of america discussed mark milley thanked the entire american people and their leaders for their consistent and unwavering support for ukraine in this difficult time. the united states is ready to help the economy of ukraine by allocating one and a half billion dollars every month, investments will continue until the end of the war , bloomberg writes about this with reference to own sources in the white house, according to their data, the administration of president joe biden held negotiations with officials of the european union and insisted that europe do more in plan of financial assistance to kyiv, i would like to remind you that the leaders of the european union will discuss the financial needs of ukraine at an informal summit in prague, which will take place at the end of the next week, pope francis condemned new attempts to seize ukrainian territories by russia and called on putin to stop the war and zelenskyi to be open to serious proposals for peace. this was reported by vatican news, the head of the roman ca

general milley was the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff at the pentagon. >> are you familiar withemo reportedly signed on november 11, 2020, ordering that the troops be withdrawn from afghanistan and somalia? >> yes. >> i think we might have seen some things. it says, in the memo, here is your task to get u.s. forces out of somalia. get the forces out of afghanistan. >> when he first interviewed and met colonel douglas, it is in fair to say that you discussed the decision of withdrawal from afghanistan, correct? >> i am sure that was a part of it. yeah. >> the position he was taking over there with senior advisor and the secretary of defense. is that right? >> correct. >> leadership are not going to take any of the steps without the order? >> without a directive. yeah. >> while i eas in the meeting, this was my answer to him. i said, if you want this to happen -- our president wants this to happen, he has got to write a order. >> you never wrote it down? >> i sketched on a piece of paper for him, some key statements. the president directs. what is the right word? boiler plate lang

the journalists, the head of the pentagon, and the head of the united states, mark milley, the americans, will be boycotted by journalists, and accordingly they will tell what they agreed to. and what kind of help do the allies provide to ukraine, what weapons, what kind of money, does he like silence? you know this. about the ramstein format meeting, which always takes place behind closed doors, this moment is still ongoing, accordingly , and only the beginning was public, that is, the opening speech american defense minister lloyd austin, opening today's meeting, mentioned the recent russian air raids on ukraine, assuring that this only deepens the allies' determination to help ukraine defend itself against aggression with the help of already provided weapons. therefore , the head of the pentagon called on partners from half of the world's territories to continue working together to bring them closer together ukraine's victory, the whole world has just once again seen the malice and cruelty of the war chosen by putin, which is based on aggression and is conducted with deep contempt fo

general milley was the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff at the pentagon. >> are you familiar with a memo from the president reportedly signed on november 11, 2020, ordering that the troops to be withdrawn from afghanistan and somalia? >> yes. >> i think we might have seen some things where this memo from john mcafee to douglas mcgregor. it says, here is your task to get u.s. forces out of somalia. to get u.s. forces out of afghanistan. >> when you first interviewed colonel douglas mcgregor, is it fair that you discuss this decision of withdrawal from some allea and afghanistan? >> i am sure that was a part of it. >> the position he was taking over there with senior advisor to the secretary of defense. is that correct? >> yes. >> on that same day, meaning dod leadership was not going to take any of the steps without an order? >> without a directive. yeah. >> i explained in language that should be in the order while i was in the meeting and this was my answer to him. i said if you want this to happen or the president wants this to happen, he has to write an order. >> you never wrote

general milley was the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff at the pentagon. >> are you familiar with a memo that the president reported in 2020, ordering that troops be removed from afghanistan and somalia? >> yes. >> i think we might have seen some things where this memo or something says here is your task, to get u.s. forces out of somalia or out of afghanistan. >> when you first interviewed colonel douglas mcgregor, is it fair to say you discussed this decision of withdrawing from himalaya and afghanistan? >> i am sure that was part of it. >> the position that he was taking over there was a senior advisor to the secretary of defense. >> yes. >> on that same day, just so i there, he responded saying dod leadership is not going to take any of the steps without that. >> i explained in language -- this was my answer to him, he said the president wants this to happen. he has to write an order. i sketched on a piece of paper for him some key statements. the president direct. this is boilerplate language. >> it was myself and wanted my assistance. >> the president signed it and boom, it

he didn't relieve austin or milley of command after afghanistan. that's what's supposed to happen when you have a failed mission. i hope when we win we can hold some hearings and get to the bottom of who is responsible for afghanistan. i hope we can reinstate our navy seals who were kicked out because they didn't take a shot. we have to protect our military. it's headed in the wrong direction. brian: adam laxalt. thanks so much. thanks for your service. >> adamlaxalt.com. thanks so much everybody. brian: inflation and education and the border. how can republicans fix these things? talk radio's hugh hewitt weighs in. the mostly commonly misspelled words. do you know what they are? we put tomi lahren to the test in our "news d at his home in san francisco yesterday. he's expected to make a full recovery. brian: with the mid-term election one week away, some of the issues, inflation, education, and the border. if republicans win, how are they going to fix it. talk radio host hugh hewitt joins us next. three realities powering a republican sweep. so yo

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you know, you had general milley, a chinese general, telling them, don't worry, you know, you've nailed this desire is but we're not going to, you know, whatever. i just to me that is this not tyranny. when you think let me pause there and get professor hochman to to chat a little bit about, i don't know, you know, about that specific case, but the nsa in general, i'm not familiar with this specific case that the caller refers to, but this charge that the caller is making of wiretapping and electronic surveillance as a form of tyranny, this is an old refrain and was a refrain that was once. mainstream in american political culture. this is a kind of position against electronic surveillance conducted either private citizens or the government that animated both the right and the left for about a century we live in a very different political age and. those positions have, i think, been pushed somewhat to the margins. the caller's also referring to, i believe, at&t listening room it's room 606 or 612 and the folsom street, at&t switching station in san francisco. this was discovered in, i b

general milley was the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff at the pentagon. >> are you familiar with memo that the president reportedly signed on november 11th, 2020, ordering that troops be withdrawn from afghanistan and somalia? >> yeah. >> so i think you might have seen some things where there is a memo or something from -- johnny mac of eta douglass mcgregor. it says here is your task get u.s. forces out of their. out of somalia, forces out of afghanistan. >> when you first interviewed and met colonel douglas mcgregor, is it fair to say you discussed this decision of withdrawing from somalia and afghanistan, correct? >> yeah, i'm sure that was part of it, yeah. >> the position that he was taking over there was senior adviser to the secretary of defense, is that correct? >> yes. >> so on that same day, just so i'm clear, he responded back to you that they, meaning d. o. d. leadership was not going to do any of those steps without the order. >> without a directive, yeah. >> i explained in language that should be in the order when i was in a meeting with -- this was my answer to him

but to hear milley on the record, effectively, with the committee spelling all of this out in plain english. and explaining the dangers, what he viewed as the leader of the military, with the heat view to be the dangers of that withdrawal done on such short notice by the outgoing president, that was reveler tory i think for the american people. >> these are just some of the developments -- i want to ask ask you about the mar-a-lago -- -- they're trying to stop the -- can you talk about their argument? >> they really sharp and in their filing today the argument they've been making all along. this is completely out of order. it just made no sense to them. i think they're right about this. that judge cannon took jurisdiction over this criminal case, rather than having donald trump make the arguments he wanted to make in front of the magistrate who was supervising that search warrant. and then continuing up that chain. but i think the upshot of all this is that trump probably delayed matters here about three months. this entire thing is a distraction. it looks like it's going to be result by ma

here is general mark milley, who was also present for this call, describing deputy secretary norquist'sning. >> so during these calls, i -- i only remember in hindsight because he was almost like clairvoyant. norquist says during one of these calls, the greatest threat is a direct assault on the capitol. i'll never forget it. >> this email, for example, was an alert that the secret service received on december 24 with the heading "armed and ready, mr. president." according to the intelligence, multiple users online were targeting members of congress, instructing others to march into the chambers on january 6 and make sure they know who to fear. in this report received on december 26, the secret service field office relayed a tip that had been received by the fbi. according to the source of the tip, the proud boys plan to march armed into d.c. they think that they will have a large enough group to march into d.c. armed, the source reported, and will outnumber the police so they can't be stopped. the source went on to say their plan is to literally kill people. please, please take this ti

vice president and served as chief of staff to the security council for president trump and general milley, joint chief of staffs at the pentagon. >> familiar with a memo the president signed on november 11, 2020, ordering that troops be withdrawn from afghanistan and somalia? >> yes. >> so i think you might have seen some things where this memo or something to douglas mcgregor, it says here is your task to get u.s. forces out of somalia, out of afghanistan. >> when you first interviewed and met colonel douglas mcgregor, is it fair to say you discussed this decision of withdrawing from somalia and afghanistan? correct? >> yeah, i'm sure that was part of it, yeah. >> and that was -- the position that he was taking over there was senior advisor to the sent of defense, is that correct? >> yes. >> so on that same day, just so i'm clear, he responded back to you that they, meaning dod leadership was not going to do -- take any of those steps without an order. >> without a directive, yeah. >> i explained in language that should be in the order while i was in the meeting with mcintie, and said if