milley: probably not, but i'm ok. >> good, good. well, we're honored to have you here and to share your expertise and knowledge about it. what is a dangerous world? and, and i know you've given a lot of thought to it and you keep tabs on everything going on the world. let's go around the world to some of the hot spots that you're keeping an eye on. let's start in the middle east. we've seen what's happened over the last few, almost the past year. we saw this past weekend the israeli strikes in iran. you and i in the pentagon been talking about israeli strikes in iran a few years ago. that was a very big deal. it is a very big deal. what's your sense of where this goes next and just how dangerous it is going forward? gen. milley: first, let me thank you and the team for inviting me and, uh, i recognize that i can't see hardly anybody but i know that the people in the road are controlling basically $24 trillion or $25 trillion of a $30 trillion economy. so good on you for doing that. and you may or may not quite realize it, i know peo

move most crucial people in trump administration who'll sit things right again, after we had general milleys plummeted you and have recruitment is a disaster and people they are recruiting are not the right stuff. pete hegseth is the perfect man, the absolute avatar of the american fighting man, the american warrior he will get recruitment levels up and moral up. larry: the evaluation, this is military evaluation. absolutely outstanding officer, intelligent, mature, gifted. tremendous asset to his his -- battalion. and et cetera. david webb, putting thi this story to bed, but we have learned through biden appeasement never works. >> you said in the beginning, when you combine lies with apeacem appeasement, that is what joe biden does he launched his campaign on charlottesville lie, and high lied about various quote accomplish aments he gives you the truth without the facts behind it. you can go through this speech. with pete hegseth there is a choir principle involved in military, do you trust your commanders, do they have your back as you have theirs, whether you are in platoon or sergeant

and mark esper and general mark milley, who were the two leaders at the pentagon at the time, talkeds trying to do, she's a new senator from michigan. she's worked at the pentagon. she has a lot of experience in this. was trying to get pete hegseth to talk about what he would do if he, as a defense secretary, was facing a president who is trying to do something that is illegal. would he talk him out of it? would he fight him on that? would he just salute and carry out whatever trump says? >> and you can't really say that this is a hypothetical situation because it happened with the exact same president. >> so he would have 30s would you say he mostly ducked? >> he completely ducked. >> he ducked a lot of he ducked most of the democratic the democratic questioning. he ducked a lot of. but he definitely ducked on on that one the same way he ducked other senators who were trying to pin him on other a whole, whole host of other issues. yeah. >> helene cooper, the last time we had you on, we were talking about ufos and the government's dealing with that issue. now we're focused more on pr

general milley clarified that that is an estimate out of more than 2 billion man hours that the department of defense invested during the time period. >> where's this published, sir? >> this is published by megan myers, and i will get the. >> okay. >> military.com. i'm sorry. >> without objection, it will be admitted to the record and, senator slotkin, welcome to the committee. thank you. >> you're recognized. >> thank you, senator, and thank you for referencing the great carl levin as you introduced me. we miss him in michigan. for those who i haven't met in my one week that i've been sworn into the senate, i'm a cia officer recruited after nine over 11. i did three tours armed in iraq alongside the military, and have worked for four different secretaries of defense, both democrat and republican, proudly, and watch them make decisions that literally determine the life and death of americans in the dark of night. i'm also a democrat representing a state that trump won, right? we both won on the same ballot. so i understand that president trump has the right to nominate his people. we are g

like a joe biden picked general milley and the person missing for a week.hey picked the guy with the lipstick who was stealing the luggage everywhere, the guy that was the head of the nuclear program. biden was very liberal and he went the liberal way. the results weren't that great. trump is going to be able to pick whoever he wants to pick, as long as they are not treasonous and open the borders and let 10,000 people in, terrorists and rapists, i have no problem with it. if it is successful, will vote him back into power again. don't get personal with these people. we are dealing with washington, d.c., these people sell out our country with $35 trillion in debt, both parties. america, wake up. don't get upset at one party or the other party. they are all involved. let the men have a shot and we will see if we get going in the right direction. god help us, we need all the help we can get. pedro, you are a gentleman, thank you for putting up with all of this stuff. host: janine in dallas, texas, democrats line. caller: i was just thinking, i see pete, i can

that this is some feel good exercise ignores the fact that whether from mad dog mattis to general milley, you have people that have been fighting and in iraq and afghanistan were there at the worst times in fallujah. and it's just an insult, just an absolute. and again, we there is so much to talk about here, but we've just got to go full stop because i'm sick and tired of people tearing down the men and women in uniform that are protecting us. and i'm sick and tired. you know, people want to lie about the economy. they can lie about the economy. well, i don't take that as personally. i mean, because that's their own problem, because they're going to be judged by how they do compared to the united states economy right now, which is the envy of the world. we have record low jobless rates. the stock market is at record highs. i mean, they'll have to deal with that. but this insult that somehow our military is weak and woke is just an outrageous lie. and it's an insult to our men and women in uniform. i want to bring in right now, general barry mccaffrey, you talk about american heroes. he'

then they, milley and austin, come in and thump their in drone strike. seven children.at is not justice that murder. so if you are with me and if you with the greatest president of our lifetime then it is up to us to stand him. it is up to us to unify this country. we are not to separate. we are not the racist. we are the greatest set of americans we have ever had. and we an equivalent, powerful in donald j. trump. so i leave you with the following. our mission is simple just to do exactly what our brave leader donald j. trump has always done and put americans first and not to run this country by diy and white rage and climate. i. i am proud to be an indian american, am proud to call las vegas my home. i moved out here after our administration. you all have welcomed me with open arms and i cannot thank you enough. i will fight every single day for this great state. and as president trump said, if we win nevada, we win the whole -- thing. i will take the fight to every across this country for our great leader, because donald j. trump deserves our effort. love our convict

then there were called to general milley and others about securing the capitol.he capitol police. there wasn't a lot of time for reflection. there was a job to do. >> right now you're looking at images from the floor of the house of representatives. members of the house and senate are gathering in what is their -- and there is the speaker, mike johnson, and vice president kamala harris. it's obviously a bipartisan or even nonpartisan event, where the leaders of this country come together to count the electoral votes. there's ted cruz, senator from texas, who was one of the main individuals who helped cause what happened four years ago by putting forward the falsehood that the vice president could somehow do something to stop the electoral count. there's democratic leader hakeem jeffries with katherine clark, his number two. what are your thoughts as you watch this in action? >> ted cruz obviously was the first senator to object, and obvious lay, just looking back on this, what the vice president maintained at the time, as marc knows well, is he did not have the p