military was involved in north vietnam in terms of bombing in north vietnam, that the u.s. troops were all in south vietnam and they were fighting in the south union army against the national liberation front or the viet cong in south vietnam. so, american women who served in south vietnam or in the south. some of them are statione were n saigon, the capital of south vietnam. others were stationed at bases throughout south vietnam. so one of the major bases in south vietnam had a number, quite a number of american women army corps personnel that served. americans ar nurses served in sh vietnam and then the red cross civilian volunteers served anywhere the red cross needed them to be, so they could be in saigon, they could be at another major city or they could be at small military installations out in remote areas in the jungle, held in rural areas and so really they were serving all throughout vietnam. american women served in vietnam found that the way they were treated depended in part on who they were interacting with. many of the women i interviewed for beyond combat s

north vietnam and south vietnam, these two warring factions. collusion to keep that war going because it's good for the nixon campaign to keep that war going. the nixon campaign desperately feared that lbj would succeed in some kind of peacemaking, some kind of serious deescalation of the war. the nixon campaign desperately feared that lbj could create, possibly through some breakthroughs in the paris peace talks, a sense of optimism that the vietnam war might be ending. and if that happened, they felt humphrey would surge, nixon would lose. and so the nixon campaign and president nixon himself directly were involved in communications with the parties, north and south vietnam, to keep this war going, do not, do not advance the paris peace talks. and that kind of collusion is much worse than anything that's being discussed about 2016. >> this is your second book. >> my second book. it took me a while to get through the second book. the first one was 1984. i had had a few second attempts at books that didn't make it to the finish line. and so i'v

he negotiated the release of deputies from the hellish prisons of north vietnam and welcome them homein 1973. he ended the draft and instituted today's all volunteer military. today's secretary of defense, jim matus recently visited the nixon library and from this very podium said an enemy on 9/11 thought he could scare us by hurting us. the maniacs who murdered 3000 innocent citizens of our country and 70 other countries that day of all been taught a hard lesson by the all volunteer military that president nixon was confident could protect our country. that is why the foundation is so honored today to have robert o'neill as our guest. it is my pleasure to introduce the evening's speaker. robert o'neill is a highly decorated navy seal combat veteran and the man who killed osama bin laden. [applause] >> while wearing the equipment displayed here, equipment which is on display for the first time, he fired the shots that killed osama bin laden during the raid on his compound in pakistan on may 2, 2011. he participated in hundreds of top-secret missions including the rescue of captain ric

so he did "operation linebacker" an intensive bombing campaign in north vietnam and they came to theg table and we were able to extricate ourselves from vietnam. we need, what we need is intense military pressure again, for the purpose of bringing them to the negotiating table. he's signaled in a very important way that that prospect of -- of some type of governance involving the taliban. that was an important signal to send in his statement, in his speech last night, that clearly will be, you know -- that the taliban will be paying attention to. that on one hand, it was the fist of toughness, and on the other hand, it was a statement saying that we want to negotiate with you. that there is a path to a negotiated settlement. >> the president also directly challenged both pakistan and india. neighbors over there. to do more in the region. as you know, pakistan very much, at times, a key ally in regards to afghanistan, but not necessarily all of the time. listen to something the vice president, mike pence, said earlier today, because i think it's significant. listen to this. >> pakista

from the prison of north vietnam and welcomed them home in 1973.oday's all volunteer military. today's secretary of defense jim mattis recently visited the nixon library and from this very podium said an enemy on 9/11 who thought they could scare us by hurting us -- the maniac who murdered over 3,000 innocent citizens of our country and 0 other countries that day have is all been taught a hard lesson by the all volunteer military that president nixon was confident. could protect our country end quote. that's why the foundation is so hon norred today to have robert o'neal as our guest. and it's now my pleasure to intercourse our speaker and this evening's mod ray he is a highly decorated combat veteran and man who killed osama bin laden. [applause] while wear withing equipment gleyed steps from here in the water and the court, equipment which is on for first time i might add neil fired shots to kill osama bin laden during the raid on his compound in pakistan and may 2nd, 2011. robert o'neal participated in hundreds of top secret missions including r

i just hope that, you know, we try to use diploma -- diplomacy with north vietnam and any country. it's just something that, you know, very scary. but overall, i think he's doing -- at job and host: who are you supporting in the gubernatorial race this year? caller: i was very upset with christie as far as his job was concerned in new jersey. we really need the tunnel going into new york because we're just relying on so many of these cars trying to get across the washington bridge or through the lincoln tunnel or the holland tunnel. it's an absolute nightmare. my son works in new york. and he can tell you just how horrible it is to get there. and we had the opportunity and christie all of a sudden just vetoed that. so that's a shame. but i'm not really sure yet. i'm still going to support as far as the governor is concerned. christie are probably go down as one of the worst governors the state of new jersey has ever had. and i'm very happy that trump didn't take him into his administration because i think, you know, he had more trouble than what he now has with his family members,

vietnam's him by province. deadly flash flooding was hit the southeast asians mountainous north for a wee. forcing locals to flea. i could only run all of my belongings schools and for. are gone we have nothing left full i look really fit in night i. i want to do it at my wife and i don't know what to sleep we have to look for relatives nearby for the night. we have no vehicles to go home now we have to catch a coach and we have no money. we don't know what to do. it out of him. state television showed the military working alongside rescue crews to try and bring things under control and locate those still missing. however beyond the hundreds of homes destroyed across at least four provinces. infrastructure has been badly hit too including water systems and farms. authorities are doing what they can to resettle and feed those who've lost their homes. but the estimated damage to come with a bill of over forty million dollars. vietnam's no stranger to deadly weather. similar conditions last year left over two hundred dead and missing. and the damage standing out and eventual cost of one point

shooting war -- during cold war that was some 58,000 americans and, of course, had many more of vietnam worked north and south. so one could say easily that hundreds of thousands of lives were lost and one could say at the same time -- that the cost of this was many in the trillions. over the years -- people ask was it worth that but what -- and for my mind bringing an end to the cold war which had been so much at the center of our foreign policy and our national security for more than four decades that was a good price to pay to end that war peacefully without any fire any shots being fired. >> what's had the legacy of the cold war with our relations with russia today? >> i think initially they were pretty good. back in the times when he came in following mckeel there was a period they might say of daton so good under putin and change there is we have to see how that play manies out but you cannot understand -- russia but without understanding of soviet heritage and legacy one has to realize that mr. putin spent the first 41 is years of his life under communism that he was ten years being trained b

situation in charlottesville having been in a couple situations similar to that, stressful flying over north vietnampond on the spot, and as charlottesville unfolded, the facts were unfolding themselves, and i think now there's a much better view of what is going on the attorney general has talked about a full investigation and getting to justice, and my sense is with the president i thought he handled it very well. if you go back eight years, go back eight years and then up until this current election, there was a lot of quick talk on situations that turned out to be not accurate, so jumping to the gun is one thing, and i don't think this president has been doing that >> all right gentlemen, thank you both today. john mcnabb and bill simon, appreciate it. >> now talk about a drop-off two years ago venezuela boasted profits in oil of more than $7 billion. those profits have now fallen far short of just $1 billion it seems impossible, but we're going to breakowthe mbs ghafr is dn os rophone feedback) listen up, heart disease. you too, unnecessary er visits. and hey, unmanaged depression, don't get to

from north vietnam they employed them not to do it so that when nixon began his bombing of cambodia the s.d.s. was destroyed as a movement. and it did all of the things that the nixon administration wanted which was to paint the left as dangerous as and. and violent and and it played totally into the hands of of the state i mean i think we should also acknowledge that violence even when it's carried out in a i don't like the word just but when it becomes inevitable as that was when i covered the war sorry of all or when i covered the war in el salvador it doesn't save you from the poil of poison of violence it elevates those who have a penchant for violence and a capacity for violence. and i think for me that's why violence is always tragic i'm not a pacifist but i think in this case. it's a lot of people who are kind of looking at resistance as a form of catharsis and if we're going to topple the corporate state which we must do to save our country and ultimately to save our planet it's not about how we feel it's not about joining a group of. you know one hundred black clad massed figu

opposite of what ljb was criticized for, hunching over the desk and picking bombing targets over north vietnam president obama spent months trying to figure out his strategy. ultimately left frustrated. president bush never finished the war he started there. but i'm curious if i could ask carol a question. the idea of moving john mickelson out, moving the general out seems in concert with the buzz you're hearing about whether or not general mcmaster, the national security adviser might be moved to afghanistan. do you think these things are connected? is there a bigger shift on the way? >> the way it was described to me was the question about whether the commander would be ousted was left unresolved. so there is talk about replacing him, but if you talk to people about what that impact it would have, they say not really any, and in the meaning dunford, he defended nicholson. he said the president met him. perhaps they should set up a meeting. the defense secretary, mattis, also defended him and said the reason that we're not winning is because we don't have a strategy right now that's a winning

and as you know in 1972 at christmas time, nixon bombed, you know, enormous bombing of north vietnam,o reporters, you know, off the record or on background, you never know what the president might do. so, that was something that did happen. but nowadays, i think what nixon would say is, i never used language like fire and fury. i always tried to moderate crisis, not escalate them. that's what dwight eisenhower used to do when they used to go out and roar about saying we're going to send the missiles flying over new york city and we will bury you, eisenhower said, you know, the way that we show strength is to be mild and quiet. >> susan. >> michael, i'm wondering what you think about the extent to which president trump is trying to follow explicitly in president nixon's footsteps. he seems to often want to use foreign policy crisis as a distraction from sort of the talk inside the white house here and back in washington. >> yeah, susan, i think that is entirely right. and i keep on going back to what steven miller, the white house aid said in february on five different networks saying,

look at what happened in vietnam? a north vietnamese married a south vietnamese.nd now their businesses are everywhere. get it together, america, because they are coming. that statement from tennessee. reckless rhetoric is not distract -- strategy to keep america safe. off of facebook, another person when north korea makes good on a threat, will your crybabies have the same sentiment? what you cheat your children when someone bullies number hits them repeatedly? -- them or hits them repeatedly? facebook.com/c-span is how you can post your responses there. best, north carolina, republican line. you're next. caller: i see this whole thing through -- i am pragmatic. math, and how the close china is to north korea, first of all trump is sending a message to china. pitbullme to make your heel. what is in it for china to let north korea log nuclear missiles at the united dates -- states? contributore, huge to their rising economy and increasing standard of living over there. why in gods's name would they let north korea do something like that to the united states? we ar

certainly no, that the american air force burned down nearly every village in town in north korea, that in vietnam we dropped more bombs on the vietnamese than we did on the japanese, or on the germans in terms of tonnage. and we conducted the largest chemical warfare program in the history of the world against the vietnamese, something that millions of people are still sickened with. there will be babies born today with deformities because of. if we fast-forward to the results of our air campaigns that the iraqis are certainly still paying for, certainly that the libyans are still paying for, that the afghans are still paying for, and for which there have been no results that anyone can point to to say this is a been a benefit. and certainly, how can anyone the air campaign being conducted by the united states rational, or moral response? speakingrst started publicly against wars in 2009, i was asked -- you have been in both -- you were in both -- and that isaying "served," the incorrect word, i feel. you were in iraq and afghanistan, where the similarities and differences between the two? i fell

if you don't have letters you might have a cousin who served in iraq or afghanistan or vietnam or north korea, help us get the message out. one thing i will say is it is a wonderful family activity to bring these letters out, go through them. what always strikes me is the younger generation, grandpa is the biggest guy i ever met and they read his love letters from 18 or 19 years old, where was this guy? he was really funny and engaging and like a kid. it shows them a different side of family members they think they already know. holding my cousin's letter from world war ii, creates a bond and we let students and others hold these letters. i held a letter by general pershing, that is the effect we want on other generations that we are able to do. thank you for your question, your comment. >> you and i have known each other since almost 20 years since 9/11. i know you took the opportunity, you went back to vietnam. speak about talking about war letters from the other side that you discovered in vietnam. >> part of the reason for my trip, 40 countries around the world, find letters by our

north korea on this map. there no that's that's siberia ok. there that's that's still siberia. that's that's southeast asia that's you know that's like vietnam. man mark there you go yeah that's that's north i knew that she would get it when you find north korea on this map of the world her all that's australia actual oh well north korea . southeast asia that's cambodia that's. ok so it's here that's australia where someone at saudi arabia forget me i'm hopeless it's for a it's. around here around there yeah you're right that's that's north rim right there you go you got it there you are like it's close somewhere furthermore it turns out there's actually a correlation between knowing where north korea is and favoring military action those who don't know where the country is are actually. more likely to want to send troops right now millions of americans are convinced that north korea is out to get them and it seems like those who are the least in the know are the ones running the most scared. r.t. new york. the new york times is facing growing criticism after internal e-mails revealed employees are allegedly encouraging government officials

vietnam. it was ambushed on april 1968 by north korean communists in a flagrant, daylight raid across the korean dmz. the free soldiers of the second u.s. infantry division and the korean group were killed in this truce violation, had been on their way to lunch. some time later on in august, as the men of the 76th battalion lined up for supper, their mess tent was suddenly hit by heavy machine-gun fire from communist raiders. two u.s. soldiers, one korean, killed. 26 other people wounded, including two korean laundry women. this is where a barracks building stood, located at a camp. it was demolished by a planted timebomb. two soldiers were killed in their sleep. these are only a few variations on the communist theme. 30 miles north of seoul, the joint military armistice commission meets to discuss violations. the north korean side invariably flaunts the line, blandly ignoring all charges, and pulling up a smokescreen of fabrication and countercharges. all have been ignored or denied. not only does it provide a spectacle of communist fantasy, but in the united nations honor guard, and impressive

koreans know that the american air force burned down nearly every village and town in north korea, that in vietnam we dropped more bombs on the vietnamese and we did on the japanese war on the germans in terms of tonnage and we conducted the largest chemical warfare program in the history of the world against the vietnamese, something that millions of people are still sick and with, something that babies will be born with deformities because of. if we fast-forward to the results of our air campaigns that the iraqis certainly are still paying for, certainly the libyans are still paying for and the afghans are still paying fo for, and for which there has been no results that anyone can point to to say this has been a benefit and certainly how can anyone say that the air campaign being conducted by the united states is a sane, rational, or moral response. when i first started speaking publicly against the wars in 2009, i was asked, you've served them both, you are in both. i hate saying served. that's the incorrect word to use. you are in both iraq and afghanistan. what are the similarities. what are

writing and i'm chasing >> >> with that release they showed on the notes the north huge miscalculation the people throughout south vietnam would rise up to support the revolution that supports all through historyhatt up to so can you talked all about if there is any perspective to help clarify that? denied that is a good question. so they were trapped with a violent independence communist movement on one side that would take t retribution against those that would be accepted theke saigon government and people with no education wanted tove be left alone. they would into live their lives. but they would execute or young men would be taken to serve or the south vietnamese troops or it would be equally brutal famously with the torching of villages one of those big projects was to clean people o lot of those in ancestral villages into the safe villages which essentially was a compound surrounded by barbed wire period anyone who understood of the culture the very people you're trying to help so there were miscalculations by the south vietnamese.d peop but when they did get supported which didn't happen that engendered a great

korean serving of the american air force burned down nearly every village and town in north korea, that in vietnam we dropped more bombs on the vietnamese and we did on the japanese, or on the germans in terms of tonnage, and we conducted the largest chemical warfare program in the history of the world against the vietnamese, something that millions of people are still sickened with, something that they will be babies born today with deformities because of, if we fast food of course to the results of our air campaigns that the iraqis certainly are still paying for, certainly that the libyans are still paying for, that the afghans are still paying for, and for which there has been no results that anyone can point to to say this has been a benefit, and certainly how can anyone say that the air campaign being conducted by the united states is a sane, rational, or moral response. when i first started speaking public against the wars in 2009, i was asked you been a both come you served in both, you were in both, i hate saying served it, that's the incorrect word to use i feel, you in both iraq and afgh

north korea on this map. there no that's that's siberia ok. there that's that's still siberia. that's that's southeast asia that's you know that's like vietnam. man mark there you go yeah that that's that's north i knew that she would get it when you find north korea on this map of the world oh that's australia actual oh well korea. southeast asia that's cambodia that's. ok so it's here that's australia where someone at saudi arabia forget me i'm hopeless it's for a it's. around here around there yeah you're right that's that's north rim right there you go you got it there you are like it's close somewhere furthermore it turns out there's actually a correlation between knowing where north korea is and favoring military action those who don't know where the country is are actually more likely to want to send troops right now millions of americans are convinced that north korea is out to get them and it seems like those who are the least in the know are the ones running the most scared. r.t. new york still plenty of stories on the weekly today including the saudi government waging a war on one. explanation and. thanks for sharing your sunday w

nearly 50 years later for jim mccloughan, the memories of that raging battle in vietnam are still vivid. >> there's two north vietnamese regular soldiers with ak-47s staring right at me. and i'm thinking i'm a dead man. >> reporter: the 23-year-old army medic, "doc," they called him, defying danger over two days repeatedly running back into the kill zone to rescue injured and disoriented comrades, even as he suffered his own wounds. his commander urging him to helicopter out. >> i had blood all over me. and i said, "no, i'm not getting on." and he said, "why not?" and i looked at him, and i'll quote this. i said to him, "you're going to need me." >> reporter: mccloughan braved enemy fire not once but nine times, single-handedly saving the lives of ten members of the charlie company. >> i'd rather be there and dead than in a hospital someplace and find out "x" number of men were killed in this battle. >> reporter: finally today, that sacrifice was honored. >> private mccloughan carries one immortal title, and that title is hero. >> reporter: this is not the jim mccloughan award. whose award is this? >> this a

vietnam war. new threats tonight from north korea, veronica de la cruz tells us -- >>> new threats tonight from north korea. veronica de la cruz tells us the north got stung by some new u.n. sanctions and promises to ta revenge on the uned states. >> pyongyang blames the u.s. for those sanctions. the first time in eight years the two koreas and china talked at a regional security conference in manila, but the north remained defiant and promised retaliation. in a statement the north vowed the u.s. will pay by a thousand fold for heinous crime against north korea and that it is ready to teach the u.s. a severe lesson. secretary of state rex tillerson responded saying the u.s. will negotiate if north korea stops its nuclear and ballistic missile program. >> we've not had an extended period of time where they have not taken some type of provocative action by launching ballistic missiles. so i think that would be the first and strongest signal they could send to us is just stop these missile launches. >> the sanctions are expected to cost north korea as much as $1 billion mostly banning exports of coal ,

north korea on this map. there no that's that's siberia ok. there that's that's still siberia. that's that's southeast asia that's you know that's like vietnam. man mark there you go yeah that that's that's north i knew that she would get it and you find north korea on this map of the world her all that's australia actual oh well north korea. southeast asia that's cambodia that's. ok so it's here that's australia you're someone that's saudi arabia.

north. you have a couple purple hearts from vietnam and i know you lost a lot of friends in vietnam and now people buried at arlington. i know it's a raw issue with you because i heard you give speeches and seen you tear up and your heart breaks for these families. the biggest thing i heard tonight was obliteration, winning, taking the handcuffs off. letting the generals and the guys on the ground decide and no longer was it going to be about nation building and no longer will we have these ridiculous rules of engagement. >> first time we have a definition of victory obliteration and preventing the taliban from taking over and stopping terrorists. straightforward and good stuff and the right thing to say in the aftermath of the eight years of the previous administration. he'll shift from a time-base to condition-based decision and implement the economic and military strment instruments of power and put pakistan on notice. and it's all long overdue. obviously this is going to make a difference. here's the problem, we've now had 17 generals running the war in afghanistan. i've been there. you

north. you have a couple purple hearts from vietnam and i know you lost a lot of friends from vietnam and know people buried at arlington. i know it's a raw issue for you because i've watch you give speeches and tear up and your as tough a guy i'll meet in my life your heart bleed for these families. i heard obliteration, winning, taking the handcuffs off and letting the generals and guys and gals on the ground decide and no longer will we have ridiculous rules of engagement. >> for the first time we have the definition of victory, obliterating the enemy and preventing the taliban from taking over and stopping the terrorists from attacking america. good stuff to say in the aftermath of the previous administration. he'll integrate the military diplomatic and economic instruments of power and put, as ambassador bolton said, put pakistan on notice. and not giving away what we're going to do to attack good and long overdue. -- overdo. this is going to make a difference. here's the problem, we now hat 17 generals in 16 years running the war in afghanistan. you and i have been on the air more times

north. you have a couple purple hearts from vietnam and i know you lost a lot of friends in vietnam and now people buried at arlington. i know it's a raw issue with you because i heard you give speeches and seen you tear up and your heart breaks for these families. the biggest thing i heard tonight was obliteration, winning, taking the handcuffs off. letting the generals and the guys on the ground decide and no longer was it going to be about nation building and no longer will we have these ridiculous rules of engagement. >> first time we have a definition of victory obliteration and preventing the taliban from taking over and stopping terrorists. straightforward and good stuff and the right thing to say in the aftermath of the eight years of the previous administration. he'll shift from a time-base to condition-based decision and implement the economic and military strment instruments of power and put pakistan on notice. and it's all long overdue. obviously this is going to make a difference. here's the problem, we've now had 17 generals running the war in afghanistan. i've been there. you

publication of the book, notes that, you know, one of the north's huge miscalculations was the people of hue, indeed the people throughout south vietnam would rise up to support the revolution. this, of course, echoes all through history, that sort of-- up to and including the invasion of iraq and i just wonder if you can talk at all how your interviews in vietnam, if there was any perspective that really, that you got from people that helped clarify that for you. >> yeah, that's a good question, michael. you know, i found that most vietnamese civilians in south vietnam, anyway, were trapped. they had a violent independence communist movement on one side that would take retribution against those who joined up or served or accepted the saigon government, the american-backed government and most of these, especially people living in the countryside, people with no education, they just wanted to be left alone to live their lives and they would have ultimately viet cong cadres would come into their villages and they would be people who would be executed or young men who would be taken to serve with them, or there would be arvn south vietna

. >> this truck was not blown up in vietnam but was ambushed in 1968 by north korean communists in a flagrant daylight raid. ♪ >> the soldiers of the second the u.s. infantry division and one soldier murdered and this violation were on it their way to lunch. sometime later on in august, as 78th began to line up for summer, their mess take was hit by heavy machine gunfire. ♪ two u.s. soldiers, one killed, 28 other people wounded including 2 korean laundry women. . this is where a barracks building stood at campbell wally was demolished by a planted timebomb. . two soldiers were killed in their sleep. these are just a few variations. seoul, ales north of joint military meets to discuss violations, the north korean the closed the line even in face of evidence and threw up a smokescreen. in the first nine months of 1967, there were seven times as many communist violations as in the entire year of 1966. all have been explored or denied -- ignored or denied. they provide the spectacle of communist fantasy but in the united nations, guards, the free world is a reality and committed to stayi

that the north vietnamese army were not capable of launching any significant offenses in any of the urban areas in south vietnam. the enemy strength was in the mountains and the rice patties. and as why he failed to anticipate the attacks that took place hundred different cities and even further north during the offenses. i think frankly that is somewhat forgivable. nobody in command can be expected to know and everything. the enemy is smart also and sometimes they do things that you don't anticipate and i could happen to anyone. but the real feeling came when the offensive occurred when the city was taken general westmoreland and a lot of those on the staff when the ignored the reports from the marines doing the fighting in the city and have actually a wonderful and very active cia report that was done on the day that he was taken. they refused to believe that the enemy was there in significant numbers. the number of those who descended on that dissented on that was about 10,000. on january 3021, 1968. he reported to the white house into the joy -- joint chiefs that there is about 500 in the city. as a consequ