lightbulbs and jobs tied into them in the pentagon so you've got to get the pentagon like we talkedthe green room to adopt, willing to take this on. the pentagon, if they basically signal to the congress which i think is already declined in that direction on the bipartisan defense committees, they want to get more bang for the buck and you could work those things in a more cooperative way but it took us three or four years to pass over the objection of the pentagon and that was because you had really strong leaders. and you've got to have the cooperation of the pentagon on these, they are exceedingly complex. do more business with the department of defense than public companies about how large the organizations are so i think the will is there, it will just take the pentagon and congress, it will take us from the outside, the news media focusing people on the nature of the problem in getting people to be willing to show courage and backbone and bite the bullet. >> -- thank you. i think one of the things we should be careful about is not to overstate china's capabilities and brushles

the pentagon gets it. actually think that is one of the real good things in our congress right now. people are are not fighting the problem in terms of understanding the nature of what we've got to deal with when it comes to china. now, when you get into specifics, because of course there is a lot of business. our defense and aerospace companies have businesses over their. so, when you get into the -- it's tough. on the other hand, i think there is a general awareness that this is something we've got to pay a lot of attention to on a bipartisan basis. i'm encouraged there. but we've got to have an administration and pentagon, i'm not specifically pointing fingers at this one, that comes to congress as general jones says. there are things we need to do. there are things the administration supports. there's legislation we need in this era. again, it's not just the pentagon. were too dependent on the chinese supply chain for a lot of the issues. it was very troubling for somebody like me when covid hit and wh

the pentagon said that just 4 civilians were killed, but journalists found eternal pentagon reports that talk about many more killed, possibly, and even probably violations of the law of armed conflict. in other words, war crimes bag whose is where tens of thousands of isis families, refugees, and prisoners were staying in camps a few months after the bombing there. the islam state which was once the size of tennessee crumbled and the president at that time, donald trump announced its leader abaca alba dadi, was killed. so what do we know now and what are the implications not only about this case, but about how the pentagon does business and communicates? joining us today are the reporters who uncovered the pentagon. cover up dave phillips covers the military for the new york times and is the author of alpha, eddie gallagher and the war for the soul of the navy seals and eric schmidt, who covers terrorism and national security. and is a former pentagon correspondent for the new york times. he's the author of counter strike, the untold story of america's secret campaign against al qaeda.

and of course, the pentagon. now we'll have to answer some questions from other members, the media as well as the new york times and what steps they're taking, both at the military command level, but also the pentagon. again, this is a different administration. this all happened on the trumpet ministration. so the civilian officials are different, but they still need to be held accountable for the policies and practices that are carrying over from the last administration. david, i want to ask you a question, hoping get it outright, but sort of a chain of command question. you wrote about eddie gallagher and in for audience eddie gallagher. i'll let you tell his story briefly, but as a complex guy, and you know that the, the system of justice within i of the navy, was not allowed to carry out what they thought was the appropriate punishment for some of his alleged war crimes. i happen to be with former secretary of the navy, richard spencer the weekend. he was essentially fired and he had made a statement that a t

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a ah, breaking news here on our t a pentagon probe has found no misconduct or negligence in the botched us drones strike uncle earlier this year. the attack left 10 civilians dead including 7 killed. u. s. medicines watchdog backs pfizer despite a whistleblower report and the british medical journal, alleging serious flaws in the company's coven vaccine testing. and us democrats suffer a surprising defeat in a pivotal governor's election in virginia. it's widely considered to be a major test for biden's presidency pump. ah, broadcasting live from russia to the world's. this is our t international. my name's donald quarter. welcome to the program. first we go to our breaking news at u. s. defense department prob, has found no misconduct or negligence and the mistaken us drone strike on cable. earlier this year, the strike has left $610.00 civilians dead, including 7 children. the investigation found no violation of law including the law of war. did find execution errors confirmed by confir me or combined with confirmation bias and communication. greg, the breakdowns that regrettably led

the pentagon correspondent of the "new york times." she covered the work in the department of defense. under the trump administration. maybe we can star with the figure of es per. in any country that is experiencing essentially democratic backsliding. or problems with the transition to peaceful power. like the military is going to be a key player. however they come out and one of the things that is clear from the reporting. i'd like to hear your perspective. people in the former president's orbit ask pentagon both saw the writing on the wall about the inevidentability of the pentagon attempting to be roped into this kind of thing. >> thanks for having me. that was definitely a big worry. at the pentagon in the last year of the trump administration. in sort of the last six to seven months of the trump administration. starting as you suggest with the black lives matter protest. the moment that president trump sort of got mark es per the defense secretary at the time and general mark milly chl the chairman of the joint chief of staff. to

every single person that survived the pentagon was pulled from the pentagon and the first 30 minutes. and so, but for sort of the work of the military officers sort of rushing right into that building, the death toll that day would have been much higher. and this becomes sort of a story, again, that you would see played out in lots of different ways. a quadriplegic working on the 64th floor of the north tower with the port authority, 12 of his colleagues that day -- not all of whom he actually knew -- came up to carry him down all 64 floors to escape the tower, and he survives that day because they did it because they made clear to him that he wasn't going to be left behind. and of course they didn't fully understand at that point that they were rescuing their own lives, because not everyone really believed, most people didn't understand that the towers could actually collapse. we had been through this in 1993 with the first bombing and people sort of thought this was going to be the same thing. it would involved in evacuation and the firefighters thought it might even take a couple d

whole breaking news on all t a pentagon probe has found no misconduct or negligence in the botched us drones strike on cobble earlier this year. the attack lab 10 civilians dead including 7 children. the details on reaction in one minute. also had the u. s. medicines watchdog backs pfizer despite a whistleblower report of the british medical journal, alleging serious flaws and the company's cobit vaccine testing. and us democrats suffer a surprising defeat and a pivotal governance election in virginia widely considered a major test for biden's presidency. ah, hello, good, happy with us. it's midnight here in moscow now. thursday, the 4th of november. my name is colleen bry. welcome to you. well, news. first breaking developments, then that a u. s. defense department probe has found no misconduct or negligence in the mistake and us drone strike on cobble earlier this year. the strike left 10 civilians dead, including 7 children. the investigation that found no violation of law including the law of war, did find execution errors confirmed by confir may or a combined with confirmation bi

the pentagon went on red alert, if you may.both general milley and mark esper were pushing back very much against the presidents efforts to invoke the insurrection clause. to upset the military against these black lives matters protesters. and that will set the stage for president trump to end up firing mark esper, the defense secretary, as soon as the election day had passed. during the months, a so we're going back and thinking about this -- that's all of these guys were talking about. top generals and a lot of the officials at the pentagon was about keeping the military out of the election process. you get on the phone with them and they'd constantly were saying we're going to stay out of it, this is not our role. there is no role for the military. what they meant like that, the translation is, they were afraid that the president was going to try to use the military to sink on civil rights protesters. he would try to invoke the military in some sort of way around the election protests. which is why this ended up leading to t

was there no report by the pentagon? nothing. oh sure. there was 2 months after the $29.00 to massacre, the task force completed, a civilian casualty report that claimed that only 4 civilians were killed. it also determined that the strike was lawfully conducted in self defense, health defense you do, you can't, you can argue self defense when, when, when your a fighter jet was just google bombs. and there are a bunch of people, including children in a building that's on top of the furthermore, the military club for 4 people died. i think your pilots need to work on their numbers. you can't get dues for and 70 unless you've been inhaling. mercury, that your idiot uncle told you was super power juice. i don't really want to talk about it. he ended up shaving his head and losing all his money in a hot air balloons camp point is. he's the only person i know who can do for and 70. lieutenant colonel payne course sack wrote that a unit had intentionally entered a false strike log entries. clearly seeking to cover up the incidents, calling the

using ai and using other advanced technologies, there has been on the defensive side a pentagon probe has found no misconduct or negligence in the botched us drones strike on kabul earlier this year. the attack left 10 civilians dead including 7 children u. s. medicines watchdog backs and pfizer, despite a whistleblower report and the british medical journal, alleging serious flaws in the company's coven vaccine testing. and us democrats suffer a surprising defeat and a pivotal governor's election in virginia. it's widely considered to be a major task for biden's presidency. ah, broadcasting live from russia to the world. this is r t international. my name is donald quarter. welcome to the program. b, u. s. defense department, pro pass found no, misconduct or negligence, and the mistaken us drones strike on kabul earlier this year. the strike left 10 civilians dead including 7 children. the investigation found no violation of law including the law of war. did find execution errors confirmed by confirmation or a combined with confirmation bias and communication break. the breakdowns to

they say. nevertheless, the pentagon says that this investigation was independent. and that they questioned 20 non people who are related to this matter. 2922 of them directly related in the strewn stripe. and which at the time the pentagon called a righteous strike and we withdrew, which we would later learn in the weeks following was booth and tragedy and lost flu. busy busy busy ah. busy the pentagon also concluded that all evolved, all the people who questioned and all who are responsible for the stone trial, that they acted in good faith, that they legitimately believed that they were preventing an imminent terror attack against the the airport and u. s. troops stationed at campbell international airport. more than that, they say they claim that they track this man for this aid work, who worked for a u. s. aid company at that they tracked him for many hours before the and that at that point they legitimately believed he was trafficking exclusives. that is, that is the important thing that they say both triggered the drum track and allowed this. this mess to hap

a pentagon probe has found no misconduct or negligence in the porch to us drone strike on cobble early this year. the attack left 10 civilians dead including 7 children. the u. s. medicines watchdog backs pfizer despite a whistleblower report in the british medical journal, alleging serious flaws and the company's cobit vaccine testing. us democrats suffer a surprising defeat and a pivotal governance election in virginia widely considered a major test for biden's presidency. ah, hello, they live am worldwide. this is an international from moscow on colin bray with the world news this. our 1st are breaking developments. the u. s. defense department prob has found no misconduct or negligence in the mistaken us drone strike on cobble earlier this year. the strike left 10 civilians dead including 7 children. the investigation found no violation of law including the law of war. did find execution errors confirmed by confir may or combined with confirmation bias and communication. greg, the breakdowns that regrettably lead to a civilian casualties. law senior correspondent morale, gusty of w

what are some of the main points of this pentagon report?we obviously know by the military budgets that china is most definitely modernizing its military. again, the assessment of the nuclear capabilities, this assessment is coming from the pentagon in its annual report to congress. they are saying the nuclear arsenal allegedly is growing at a much faster pace than previously believed. the pentagon is now saying china could have as many or at least 1000 nuclear warheads by 2030. that is a festive face -- faster pace than previously reported unit states has more than 3700. what you are seeing here is the 21 d. they are not necessarily nuclear capable but these missiles are known to the pentagon as the carrier killers. china is definitely modernizing. they also say it cites the construction, there were two construction of at least three missile silo fields capable of containing hundreds of new icbms . as you mentioned, this new report by the pentagon comes on the heels of those reports china over the summer conducted hypersonic weapons systems

earlier we did hear from the pentagon who refused the uranium came. i've seen the iranian claims, they are absolutely totally false and untrue. there was no such effort by us naval assets to seize anything with this refers to is back on the 24th of october and i would add that iran's actions, the ones that are true of them illegally boarding and seizing a merchant vessel, constitute a blatant violation of international law, these events are not the 1st time that we see the united states intercepting vessels that are carrying iranian oil. ever since the former american president, donald trump withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal that will, how was signed with iran grant has been facing crippling sanctions. and that is part of the constraints that are being put on a rand. 2 limits is nikia ambitions. any country that is seen to purchase iranian oil also pays to sanction. the timing of this particular incident is significant to be people of events. 1000, take us to cease to celebrate government, denies demonstrations and celebration. camino 18. 1979. the

the trump pentagon appointee, cohen-watnick, quote had enormous respect for flynn. and the retired general had given him one of the most important jobs on the national security council when he was just 30 years old. but as flynn ranted on the phone about the election fight, cohen what nick felt his old boss sounded manic. shortly after flynn called him, cohen-watnick received another call from sydney powell. flynn's former lawyer who was now advising president trump, and like flynn promoted some of the craziest theories about the election. sydney powell called it cohen-watnick with a bizarre request, the request was specific, arrange urgent, and highly percent it if. it was also completely insane. cia director gina haspel has been hurt and taken into custody in germany, she told cohen-watnick. you need to launch a special operations missions to get her. that's where cohen-watnick have never been for spoken to colin powell, and she was shocked that she called him out his direct phone line in his office. it was a phone that only rang with the recalls from the pentagon

now we have asked for a response from the pentagon. we'll let you know. as soon as they reply, dar corresponded more, i guess day of is across all this forest. more at this drone strike. it was the last violent act in a largely failed 20 years. but it's nobody's fault. so what did this investigation say? well, essentially, and apparently because we haven't seen it ourselves yet. the pentagon says it claims that it isn't guilty, that it was all down to execution. there is a communication breakdown for which no one in particular is guilty these a general errors that, that happened at the time and because of circumstances because of what was happening on the ground in cobble at the time. again, the full report is allegedly classified for security reasons, but the parts have been made available, apparently for journalists. and that they, they say here that they need to be put on people 22 of whom were, were directly involved in the stone strike, which at the time, by the way, mock miley the head, the pentagon, called a righteous strike. and eventually we real

what essentially the pentagon is saying that their own investigation has found them not guilty. what they have said is that as we heard execution error as well as communication breakdowns and other big things of what a, what are to blame and all of this. so they can get away with, without pinning the blame on anyone. in particular, the full reports, ease, ease, redacted and classified for security reasons, they say, nevertheless, the pentagon says that this would investigation was independence. and that they questioned 20 non people who are related to this matter. 2922 of them directly related in the strewn stripe and which appetite the pentagon called a righteous strike. and we would do which we would later learn in the weeks following was booth a tragedy and disaster flew . busy busy ah, the pentagon also concluded that all involved all the people that questioned and all who are responsible for the strong trial that they acted in good faith, that they legitimately believed that they were preventing an imminent terror attack against the the airport and u. s. troops stationed at

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i think it's a good thing with the pentagon did. but like i said to little too late, the 1000 to help the pentagon is still stuck in afghanistan, will tell you about the pace of the evacuation. it does feel like it's far too slow . it sure is a look. we still got americans there. we used to have this a free being proud to say no merican left behind, but i've got to tell you it was the bite administration really mess this thing up. is created a problem with our allies. a problem with people that may not necessarily be el eyes of the united states, but at the same time they usually respect us. we lost a lot as a result of joe biden, but i have confidence that at one point, we'll get it back. it's going to take time, but we got to get back the trust of the american people. ready for the u. s. government before anything else at the us, keep changing its official data on this, this time it's about the number of citizens still stuck in afghanistan. figure does this raise questions more of either the efficiency of the evacuation or the tra

i had been covering the pentagon before i joined the investigative desk. i was very interested in what this interview with general flynn had been about. he was interviewed in length about the war in afghanistan. this interview was with a not very well known government agency called the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction. that is a mouthful but the inspector general's job was to attract fraud, waste and abuse in the war zone and start out if money were being misspent or people stealing it. i was curious why they interviewed general flynn but i thought i want to copy of what he said, i want to transcript in this interview. he was known for being a blunt forthright spoken person about how things are going in the war. i thought this is a relatively supple request. i called the special inspector general's office of afghanistan inside your people conducted an interview with general flynn. i hear it's an unclassified interview. he had been retired at that point. i would like to see what he said. can i have a copy? at first they said sure, th

norah. >> o'donnell: david martin at the pentagon. thank you. well, there is big news tonight in the n.f.l. michael packard 83, aaron rodgers is benched after testing positive for covid, and there are new questions about whether here's cbs' vlir rogerirod proc. >> repter: accoing o multiple reports, the n.f.l. has considered the reining m.v.p. unvaccinated since the start of the season, but back in august, when asked by reporters about his vaccination status, roger says this: >> yeah, i'm immunized. you know, there's guys on the teams that haven't been vaccinated. i think it's a personal decision. i'm not going to judge those guys. >> reporter: was that misleading? >> certainly seems like it was. i feel misled. >> reporter: bill reiter is a cbs sports analyst. >> 7% of n.f.l. players are not vaccinated. that just means they followed different protocols, but the rules apply differently. this is the reality when you're a star. >> reporter: rogers has conducted weekly and postgame news conferences in person and without wearing a mask, while packers

so the pentagon truly wanted to make sure that the troops can afford to feed their families. we would cut back the government contractors that are using it not using the system and we use it to actually pay the service members that are wearing the uniform. the problem is that's really not affect the topic that people want to talk about, which is also one of the reasons i'm also running for congress is because this is the type of ways that we need to address. and it's time that us that didn't serve in the military start discussing that type of ways that's going on. it's a real problem. well, and i appreciate that and there's a lot acts i'm very impressed by the number of both says yeah, all right now, and i think everybody can agree that you know, spitting 700 dollars for a hammer in a budget or you look at where all of the military equipment that we just left over and i guess in the billions of dollars left over there, there is a lot of pork, a lot of wasted money and yet we continuously do it year after year. but what really concerns me is the fact the secretary of defense i

there are people walking around the pentagon and space force uniforms? is there a distilled mission? well, i think that you're going to be seen some change in the uniform for the space force . however, it is a very real issue. and what we're seeing ultimately is that with the, with the threats that we're, that are coming from space. ultimately we're going to have to get into, into a mindset of actually establishing platforms in space that can ultimately meet the threats. such as with hypersonic, hypersonic, even though it might orbit is maneuverable, unlike a ballistic missile. and this makes it even more dangerous, more and more unpredictable. and if you're going to hit something before it hits land, knowing all of these variables, it's gotta be a platform that can launch from space. we're talking about the old as the sure. yeah. base defense initiative at the time when it was raised under between reagan and gorbachev. it was a bluff chain of work. we didn't have the technology is there today, different story. and we're even seeing the need for such a p

don't tell the enemies with united states, the pentagon might not be prepared to defend the country. await the secretary of defense and just did that. we're going to tell you why the highest brass at the pentagon says the us has a readiness issue and how they believe it should be fixed. and on the night of july 28th 1999 paul howl pulled into his parents house with his daughters and his sister and was murdered while stepping out of the permit. the goal was to take it, he beat, but instead it 20 years later, the man who was found guilty for his murder and deny parole, julius jones was expected to be executed. this is the state of mississippi, carried out the 1st execution in 9 years of a man who told his wife infection. they thought that his step daughter, we will bring you both stories as well as the public reaction. and a 3rd, a separate sample is collected from mars, making scientists even more convinced. we are not alone on sky now here, and we're going to give you the 360 view of these issues as well as the latest from the a coll weren't in house case. and the events on the groun

i had been covering the pentagon before i joined the investigative desk. i was very interested in what this interview with general flynn had been about. he was interviewed in length about the war in afghanistan. this interview was with a not very well known government agency called the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction. that is a mouthful but the inspector general's job was to attract fraud, waste and abuse in the war zone and start out if money were being misspent or people stealing it. i was curious why they interviewed general flynn but i thought i want to copy of what he said, i want to transcript in this interview. he was known for being a blunt forthright spoken person about how things are going in the war. i thought this is a relatively supple request. i called the special inspector general's office of afghanistan inside your people conducted an interview with general flynn. i hear it's an unclassified interview. he had been retired at that point. i would like to see what he said. can i have a copy? at first they said sure, th

anchor: what have pentagon officials being talking about mark -- been talking about? reporter: they are saying it is all a bunch of lies. they say it's not true, one of those situations where you look at the video and have to decide for yourself what you have to believe. this is not unedited footage, iranians have released it. heavily edited, music. some visual narration on screen. the american say that what the iranians claim happened did not happen. here is what the pentagon spokesperson had to say a little bit earlier. >> i have seen the claims, they are false. at no time where u.s. forces attempting to engage in the situation. it's a bogus claim. reporter: dubious, no such efforts. no attempts to say this was a misunderstanding. you have to look at the timing of the release of this video. the iranians have released their version of accounts when they are giving as a date back to the negotiating table. this is a way of some saying we are a military nation, we are not scared of the americans and they are coming to the negotiating table from that position. anchor: th

the pentagon has confirmed it's bringing in almost 2 decades of military presence in iraq. however, this statement leaves open the option of keeping so called consultants that an undefined roll movements had made during the july 2021 us iraq strategic dialogue, including that there will be no us forces with a combat role by the end of the year. the white house also pleasure to keep helping the iraqi army and government. however many fare repeat the recent afghans barco. when the u. s. abruptly abandoned, the country will not stay involved in that canister. militarily. our diplomatic and military work will continue, will continue to support the government that can stand. we will keep providing assistance to the african national defences and security forces who's of us invaded iraq in 2003 on the pretext of finding weapons of mass destruction. however, none have ever been found. 11 years later than president obama sent more troops to fight iso around 2 and a half thousands pentagon soldiers are still thought to be in the country. the pentagon, withdrawing at a time of particu

in fact the $770 billion is 25 billion more than even the pentagon requested. this happens all the time where this is free money for districts and lawmakers love to bring home the bacon. the defense bill is an easy way to do it it's a noncontroversial way to do it and it will happen but. >> less than ten minutes left with my quills this morning is claudia white mills pennsylvania, republican good morning. >> good morning. how are you doing? >> doing well what is your question or comment? >> my question is, i am a republican living in amo democratic state. i watch so much of the politics going on on you know, the news. they never focus enough on those living with fixed income. they're talking about tax credits with people with children. how do they expect the seniors to you know, survive in this country? when are they going to start helping to take care of the seniors? sue and mike wells and provisions and build back better that may focus on those issues or don't? >> there are several in their. they do not go as far some would have liked it. the biggest fight th

during trump's lame duck period, trump went out of his way to stuff the top echelons of the pentagon with trump loyal appointees that had no kind of experience that would qualify them for those kinds of senior jobs. these people were above all, and in some cases, exclusively known as trump loyalists. they had worked for mike flynn who had worked for the fringiest and weirdest trump warriors in congress. people who worked for like congressman devin nunes. what did trump want with those guys all that time, that he spent all that time during the lame duck period stuffing the pentagon with them. what did he think they were going to do there? in jonathan karl's book, he explains how one of those trump appointees who we spent a long time trying to figure out what he was doing at the pentagon, one of the things he was doing in his last days at the pentagon, he was fielding mike flynn's phone calls after the election. he was telling mike flynn that he needed to use his senior seat at pentagon to overturn the election. he said, we need you, flynn told him. he said there was going to be an epi

it's a $778 billion bill to fund the pentagon. passed the house in september with overwhelming support. and charles schumer, the senate majority leader, supports it, wants to bring it to the floor. but because it will take up some time. there will be amendments, all the process that goes on in the senate, he doesn't want to occupy this huge chunk of floor time if build back better is going to come over, if he's got to do government funding, if he's got to do debt ceiling. so now he's vowing this week to try to do the pentagon spending bill while he waits for the house to pass build back better. so he has a little bit of a window of time and he's going to try to do pentagon spending this week, whether they can do it by the end of the week i guess remains to be seen. host: just a couple of things for our congressional reporter to cover, right? guest: right. host: republican, good morning. caller: good morning. mike, you answered my question earlier how they were going to pass it through the senate. because i don't think mcconnell is