petraeus: yup, mm-hm. yup.id: and he later stayed here during world war ii yes. and became a commander of a u.s. merchant marine ship. during the war he sailed with the u.s. merchant marine. long war. because they all signed on, i think it was in '39, when the nazis overran holland, they couldn't go-- their ship couldn't go back to rotterdam, so they came to the united states. so you grew up in new york city or...? no, about 50 miles north of here. about seven miles north of west point, in fact. i could actually run home from west point, to and from. david: so when you were growing up, you... what was your nickname growing up? petraeus: peaches. i-- an announcer at the little league game couldn't pronounce it. the first time i came to bat as a 9-year-old, i said: [stuttering] "peaches," and that sort of stuck. and that followed me for quite a-- all the way through my time at west point, in fact. there was a woman in-- or a girl at the laundry who had been a high school friend of mine doing that as a summer job,

petraeus: and i had a borrowed clunker. was a road biker, but the secret service will ditch you if you try to pass him. [audience laughing] but it was a-- i see. i guess, yeah. broke his thumb-- i mean, this was a full-contact sport when you ride with president bush. and you go from four-wide-- it's like nascar. --to single track, it's always sporty. but president obama, obviously, famously a great basketball player. and i don't think president bush had any illusions that he could take president obama one-on-one full-court. you're at the cia, and then because of a personal mistake you have conceded that you made, you stepped down and you voluntarily left the cia. mm-hm. would you ever go back in another administration? i wouldn't rule it out. again, i think it's an extraordinary privilege to serve one's country, and... so i think, again, for the right position with the right sort of context and so forth, in a sense, the right conditions, it's not something that i would rule out. would you consider running for president of t

flynn, mccrystal and petraeus recognize the new threat. >> mccrystal in special operations, petraeusor staff, and flynn in intelligence, these are guys who can talk about their strategy and then bring them right out into the field and practice these things. >> what major michael flynn is preparing for becomes apparent as the new century dawns, placing him at the center of them. >> it's the worst attack on america in american history. >> make no mistake, the united states will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts. >> coming up -- >> this really made him famous and rocketed him to the top of the list of people you think about when you think of intelligence officers. in the mi. hold on dad... liberty did what? yeah, liberty mutual 24-hour roadside assistance helped him to fix his flat so he could get home safely. my dad says our insurance doesn't have that. don't worry - i know what a lug wrench is, dad. is this a lug wrench? maybe? you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. your body was made f

cia director david petraeus noted that the regime's shia allies, iran and hezbollah, were rallying to assad's side. >> there seems to be a process by which iran is airlifting aid into damascus. (explosions) you see the growing involvement of lebanese hezbollah. and you see the revolutionary guards corps, quds force leaders making a very, very important contribution to shoring up the regime forces. >> smith: as the fighting intensified, political pressure was building. >> after a year of bloodshed, the crisis in syria has reached a decisive moment. it's estimated that more than 7,500 lives have been lost. >> smith: senator john mccain was calling for u.s. airstrikes in syria to create safe havens for syrian rebels. >> the united states should lead an international effort to protect key population centers in syria, especially in the north, through airstrikes on assad's forces. i told the president, i said, "bashar assad is slaughtering people. we are watching genocide take place. and it is going to eventually destabilize the entire region." >> smith: this president looks out at the land

go these billions and billions four billion in twenties the team that went to afghanistan general petraeus the disgraced former head of the cia saying we're going to use money like ammunition in afghanistan and that's what they did exactly like ammunition and sway didn't work. it cost more corruption they were throwing money in. indeed like ammunition through rapid rate. firing money firing guns but. into contracts and subconscious and subcontracts yes they did that very very much and that was the fundamental cause of.

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i remember when general petraeus was in iraq and he told the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff that he had discovered in a radian supplied cache of weapons and that there was a us a press conference set up in this part of iraq where they had been found ten days later. the press conference was canceled the chair of the joint chiefs of staff asked patrice what happened so would they turn out to be not a reunion made weapons so the way to success in washington and intel of eve of course is to bring in the arrhenius as violators of this that and the other thing haley said today that our western allies are going to have to rethink their approach to iran well she's in a dream world ok we'll leave it to believe that we'll leave it at the dream i suppose foma of a mcguffin thanks famous for your expertise and thoughts on this something that most welcome. clashes are continuing in the west bank over the contested status of jerusalem that story is after the break. legal. leg. to. live. on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight the battles they don't

petraeus turns to a new york times reporter and says, tell me how this ends. think about that. got a guy commanding the division in the united states army, turns to newspaper reporter and says, tell me how this ends. if your politicians cannot tell you how this is, if your policy makers have not formulated a genuinely complete answer to that question, then i submit, you do not have any business putting soldiers there to try that mission. five decades later, that is my lesson out of vietnam. >> they have all said exactly what i think. slightly different terms. because of the insurgency center, in which i travel to italy and worked with an italian brigade, and to the u.k., and was constantly reading and writing and analyzing documents on counterinsurgency, it coalesced around the first principle of war, and objective. a clearly defined, decisive and obtainable goal. in 1952 kennedy wrote about freeing vietnam and getting the communists out. it was pretty clearly defined. but is it decisive, obtainable? when you talk obtainable, you are talking about ends, ways and means. ends is

go these billions and billions four billion in twenties the team that went to afghanistan general petraeus the disgraced former head of the cia saying we're going to use money like ammunition in afghanistan and that's what they did exactly like ammunition and sway didn't work. it cost more corruption they were throwing money in. indeed like ammunition through rapid rate. firing money firing guns but. into contracts and subconscious and subcontracts yes they did that very very much and that was the fundamental cause of. corrupting things like getting us that. they did turn the turn some people into millionaires overnight and then in another part of the country be bombed to be put into total extinction overnight saw that was the conflict because in a country where unicef this week said two hundred thousand children are malnourished yes. yes unfortunately and we don't really get this story obviously told in mainstream media how do you believe that only people like all broken clinton were trying to undermine democracy in afghanistan these are mainstream media you've seen the b.b.c. and c.n.n.

we can look back not too far to a case that i followed very closely with david petraeus for instance,file, substantial history like michael flynn. i was surprised with how lightly treated david petraeus was and i don't think you're in the same category of ordering someone to drop a case versus go easy on him. does it sound great? i don't think it does but i also don't think it sounds like obstruction of justice. >> jeff, does it sound like obstruction of justice to you? >> it sure does. remember, he's the boss of jim comey. and he knows -- >> and yet he didn't give an order. >> well, you know, when the president of the united states in a private dinner one-on-one says go easy on somebody, i think that's pretty close to an order. and when he doesn't go easy on him, what happens to jim comey? jim comey gets fired, which is an even more egregious example of obstruction of justice. so i don't think you can look at one isolated piece of evidence when you look at the fact that he asked comey to go easy on him, comey didn't go easy on him and then he fired comey, i think that sets out a very

in petraeus the a army. than the a in i was out of the hospital in 5-6 days.they did not want you to leave, so you did 50 push-ups to make sure they knew you were ok, is that right? >> it is the only time i have stopped at 50. [laughter] david: if someone wants to be the president of united states, is it hard work, intelligence, optimism, lock. what does it take for somebody who was to be president? >> humility. it is important to know which you don't know and listen to people who know what you don't know. >> you have to begin with the end in mind. you have to win the election, but why are you running? if you want to be president, realize it is about the people, not you, and when it is over, and that is what a lot of these people who are arrogant and office, they forget that time passes, and it passes more quickly than you know. you want to be able to say, people were better off, people had a better future, things were coming together. you don't want to say, look at meet, oreople you worked over. humble,portant to be listen, and realize everybody has a story.

i was surprised with hout how lightlily treat david petraeus was.he same category of ordering someone to drop a case versus go easy on him. does it sound great? i don't think it does. but i also don't think it sounds like obstruction of justice. >> yef, does it sound like obstruction of justice to you. >> well it sure does. i mean, remember, he is the base of jim -- of jim comey. and he knows. >> yet he didn't give an order. >> well, you know when the president of the united states in a private dinner one-on-one says go easy on somebody, i think that's pretty close to an order. when he doesn't go easy on him what happens to jim comey? jim comey gets fired. which is an even more egregious example of obstruction of justice. so i don't think you can look at one isolated piece of evidence. when you look at the fact that he asked comey to go easy on him. comey didn't. and then he fired comey. injury that sets out a very compelling case. >> kari, to you, are you. >> waits, wait if i could intersection. >> anderson, so. >> hold on kari. >> yes there is and

world, and from his window he can see all the top ranking us military commanders, to include general petraeus, when he visited that academy coming in and leaving. so it's extremely difficult to convince people that the biggest house in abbottabad nobody knew who lived in it. i think it's a big pill to swallow. - [narrator] pakistan's involvement in afghanistan may be driven by broader strategic concerns. - some pakistani strategists believe that they need a compliant government in afghanistan so that they can dominate afghanistan and have a rear area that they can use in the event of a war with india. - they argue that they are worried that india may use afghan soil against them, and they don't want to be sandwiched in between. - long time ago, pakistan decided that afghanistan is strategic territory, and afghanistan ultimately is a threat to pakistan on its own. because if afghanistan ever became a unified state under pashtun control, then it would basically try to carve out pakistan's pashtun region. - [narrator] al-qaeda is attempting to re-emerge in afghanistan, along with a handful of da

the money go these billions and billions four billion in twenty that went to afghanistan general petraeus the disgraced former head of saying we're going to. work. it cost more corruption they were throwing money and. indeed like ammunition. firing money firing guns but. into contracts and subconscious and subcontracts yes they did that very very much and that was the fundamental cause of. corrupting things like ghana's that. they did turn the turn some people into millionaires overnight and then in another part of the country the bombed people into total extinction overnight saw that was the conflict because in a country where unicef this week said two hundred thousand children are malnourished yes. yes unfortunately and we don't really get this story obviously told in mainstream media how do you believe that only people like all broken clinton were trying to undermine democracy in afghanistan these are mainstream media you've seen the b.b.c. and c.n.n. i want to be fair to secretary clinton hillary hillary clinton. she was among the the more. dignified u.s. officials. i could talk to ha

it went over the "a" in petraeus rather than the "a" in army.n a helicopter and fun down to the vanderbilt medical center. i was out of the hospital in 5-6 days. in the hospital they did not want you to leave, so you did 50 push-ups to make sure they knew you were ok, is that right? >> the only time i have ever stopped at 50, david. [laughter] david: ok. [laughter] david: if someone wants to be the president of united states, is the quality that is most important hard work, intelligence, optimism, luck? what do you think it takes for somebody who says i want to be president? i want to be like you? i want to be like you? >> humility. it is important to know which you don't know and listen to people who know what you don't know. >> i also think that you have to begin with the end in mind. that is you have to say, yeah, you have to win the election, but why in the heck are you running? if you want to be president, realize it is about the people, not about you, and when it is over, and that is what a lot of these people who are arrogant and office f

and then particularly david petraeus. it's an honor to be in the same room. [ applause ] great american. and i want to also thank the churchill family who do so much to keep winston's flame alive. and of course randolph. we owe you so much for all the work that you do and make our joy of winston so much fun. and we heard so many votes of thanks today from michael bishop and lawrence gal hew, who thanks to everybody but one thing they haven't thanked is themselves. and we eowe them a huge debt of thanks. mikel and lawrence. [ applause ] for having made our society and our love of winston, not only so much fun but incredibly successful and i cannot tell you how -- these things don't happen by accident. they happen through a great deal of work and michael, lawrence, it's largely been your work. so thank you very much indeed for that. you were talking earlier about lawrence, about who's going to say no to churchill and i was delighted to know you haven't said no to a churchill and you and jenny are actually going to be a prop

officer i knew him first and the only time i met him was in kabul when he was working for david petraeus as his intelligence chief and he was an excellent briefer and right on the point he later then morphed into the head of the defense intelligence agency where he ran afoul of the obama administration mainly because of quite wild views on middle east problems which they were not prepared to accept and he was fired he then went into some kinds of private business enterprises attached himself to the trump campaign got engaged as you said with argentina and moscow said mr president putin excepted some money from the turks maybe from some other people failed to put that down on his disclosure forms for his clearance lied to the f.b.i. otherwise a perfectly splendid person ok let's throw that point to bruce fein i mean just picking up an idea that he was a bit wild when he was in afghanistan when he was in the middle east his p.r. people that were on the p.r. people one remembers as well the reports saying that they had a problem with him because he was a bit of a wild card and he would he w

obama administration with you know lois lerner's surveillance the tea party and prosecutions general petraeus international says i'm not saying that they both pleaded guilty or must and they do anything wrong i'm saying they were singled out for political reasons there's a lot of that so i have no confidence that while the government collecting the data ostensibly for national security purposes all it takes is somebody like obama and valerie jarrett to target you and then all of a sudden that's a whole different world so that's troubling to me the other thing i think we're people can resort so felt this stuff is addictive and that's you know it's just very basic biochemistry so you know why are people there to her long as it feels good well that's you know endorphins and things well those indoor friends are triggered by a lot of things other than drugs and there are sex addicts their alcohol addicts are gambling addicts there are many many kinds of behavior that are all addictive that same biochemistry or it's pretty clear at this point that the whole thing the thing in your hand so i've star

and the washington post reported that it was hacked and various american officials like general petraeus came through and said look we want to do how to host the taliban and have so forth president trump change his mind the whole idea of closing our network al jazeera of course became a point of scandal for saudi arabia united arab emirates somebody because everyone in the world was basically opposed to it and then went to the third stage where basically everyone understood that this needs to be solved diplomatically that the three besieging countries had no reason to do what they did but we are still in the mode of crisis even though european the russian and the american were surveyed over now you think the worst of the worst of it is over because of this meeting today and because any other solution other than diplomatic solution had has been discounted and because of the europeans the russians the americans as well of course as the turks the iranians everyone now understands that there is no solution for this thing except through some mediation of some sort and bridging the differences

sending money and equipment to known in this room should be surprised, general petraeus openly said that the u.s. should support isis but the twin towers were brought down by al qaeda and not isis. fortunately, that bizarre support has ceased. your new administration is trying to speak about the need to not pick and choose the known in this room should be islamic troops to fight but to destroy all extremists who share the same perverted ideology and desire to bring death upon others. including the muslim brotherhood whose sinister modus operandi has been ignored for so long. the u.s. now has a simple strategy, to unite forces with other global powers in the red fight against islamic state. trump's administration has also benefited from president obama's the structure to the pentagon in almost his final act of the white house to target readers of the syrian authority of al qaeda. i like so many of you which obama well and so i will give him the benefit of the doubt here and agree that late was better than never. although the middle east is a distant prospect, at least we have prioritized

taken," a staunch conservative, he advised john mccain during h200 presidential campaign and david petraeusthe surge in iraq. but it was a personal essay that he wrote recently that inspired me to ask him to come on "gps" again and talk about it. so, max, i listed your very impressive credentials. >> thanks for the nice buildup. >> and your very american-sounding name. >> yes. >> because you began that essay by saying people who know you professionally and know your books, know your writing, know your appearances, they think of you as a regular all-american guy. but, in fact, you came to america when you were 6 years old as a russian immigrant who couldn't speak a word of english. >> correct. and i thought i had done a reasonably good job of assimilating. i don't have an accent. there's no obvious tip-off that i wasn't born around these parts. but the essay that i wrote was really about the fact that donald trump is making me feel like a foreigner for the first time in my life. and what i have always thought of as my very own country. but he's making me feel like an outsider, a russian, a j

when petraeus and mcchrystal asked for forces needed in afghanistan, he cut their request by 25%. that was staggering. when it came to what needed to be done in iraq and syria, the commanders knew we needed more capability and resources let's get after these guys as quickly as possible. he took a minimal approach. what is wrong with that, also, trish, isis as a result of becoming an iconic brand, they were able to spread worldwide into 30 countries, develop the worldwide following. trish, they attacked nato in the last three years 40 times, nato countries. we could have shut a lot of that down early on if we used the military force that our commanders wanted very sighs civilly. trish: a shame we didn't but we're doing it now, general. >> yeah. we're absolutely on the right path. here's what, here's what we have prevented. remember isis, they looked at iraq and syria as beginning. they wanted to extend the caliphate to jordan, to saudi arabia, down the arabian peninsula. that is all gone. that is over. that is not going to happen. isis is back now as terrorist organization operatin

operations which, again, is not the same obviously as counterterrorism, but when the -- when general petraeuscame in and had the manual rewritten, one of the big things he emphasized was governance that, you know, again, it's not just about providing security, you really have to work on the governance piece. but the first time that the manual was written -- field manual. that's right. i forget the number. but when the field manual was written, the whole discussion of providing assistance on the governance side was very apolitical and it sort of assumed is that you had a host country partner that shared the same goals that you had, that had completely clean hands, that wasn't, you know, engaging in any activity that was counterproductive to the needs of its citizens, that it wasn't engaged in any kind of enriching of itself, and, frankly, that's not really the case in most cases, and i think that's one of the big challenges is whether we think about whether it's counterterrorism or counterinsurgency or trying to work to strengthen fragile states, the assistance on the governance side can't be

general petraeus openly suggested the u.s. should support groups to fight isis, but the twin towers were brought down by al qaeda, not isis. your new administration frankly speaks about the need to destroy all extremists who share the same perverted ideology and single desire to bring death upon others, including the muslim brotherhood, whose sinister modus operandi has been tolerated and ignored for so long. the u.s. now has a simple strategy, to unite forces with other global powers in the greater fight against the islamic state and every other group that shares its dogma. trumps administration has also benefited from president obama's instructions to the pentagon in almost his final act in the white house to target leaders of the syrian affiliate of al qaeda. i, like so many of you, wish obama well, so i will give him the benefit of the doubt here and agree that late was certainly better than never. although the middle east is still an inferno and peace is a distant prospect, at least we have now prioritized our enemies. as

that's what david petraeus did with his mistress. the second is espionage.most addled viewer doesn't think she did that. >> tucker: i'm not charging her with espionage or mass murder, either. i'm seeing that general flynn just pled to a felony. his name is tarnished for life. hillary clinton got a special deal where she was not speaking under oath. who gets that deal? i know a lot of people who have been interviewed by the fbi, some have gone to jail after thoseso conversations. and not one of them got that deal. how did she get that? let's be honest, that is unusual.s. you wouldn't get it, i wouldn't get it. she got it. >> when you're talking to a federal agent, whether you can under oath or not, it's still a triable offense, if you like. that's the standard from a legal standpoint. i understand you're trying to make something out of, my respect, nothing, but the fact that she was not put under oath is frankly not relevant. just like strzok is not relevant. her emails were out there, just like loretta lynch is not relevant, because she did not make the deci