and max boot who do have some for some reason the self influence of washington and he of ralph peter saying that vladimir putin is literally hitler and you have max boot saying that flattery putin is a left top five adversaries of the united states i wonder why these people still have platforms when they have a dia's from decades ago and and what's even worse that they never learn from their mistakes they keep wanting to have wars that never never succeed they want to have a gene changes that cause they create even more havoc in the middle east in the rest of the world so what i am pleased about those interviews where it was that approved how the washing still has a dr strangelove bad this is probably one of the most unpopular guys right now in the united states after that interview at least with tucker carlson oh he did make a mistake supporting the iraq war but he's not a policy maker is not a right he said any any say and public policy but mexico does and that's that's what's concerning to me you know you know michael after i saw that i thought you know well as long as there's stu

gentlemen saw his debate with ralph peters and max boot and i was very pleased to see that finally at a in a very large audience watching talking about ideas that all of us talk about on a regular basis i think it was new for a lot of their viewers and to how did you take that i mean because i thought it was an excellent display of one person i think in a on us in a smart person take on the entire establishment because i've never seen that really done on mainstream television in the u.s. go ahead. yes i was both pleasantly surprised because fox news what a dramatic shift for them where sort of promoting a war they're actually fighting against good pulling into another war at the same time i was also i was also terrified because you have the right likes of ralph peters and max boot who do have some for some reason the self influence of washington and he of ralph peter saying that vladimir putin is literally hitler and you have max boot saying that flattery putin is a left top five adversaries of the united states i wonder why these people still have platforms when they have a d.s. from

liz: lieutenant colonel ralph peters, we appreciate you being here.ching the situation quite closely. it is business as usual, as ralph peters says, but that doesn't look like business as usual when it comes to just normal events in the summit. in the meantime, we'll be right back with much more. the dow as we were talking was up 100. now up 98. stay tuned [vo] progress is seizing the moment. your summer moment awaits you now that the summer of audi sales event is here. audi will cover your first month's lease payment on select models during the summer of audi sales event. approaching medicare eligibility? you may think you can put off checking out your medicare options until you're sixty-five, but now is a good time to get the ball rolling. keep in mind, medicare only covers about eighty percent of part b medical costs. the rest is up to you. that's where aarp medicare supplement insurance plans insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company come in. like all standardized medicare supplement insurance plans, they could help pay some of what medicare d

petraeus approach, bring the dissidents out, draw them into the mix, they had a big debate between ralph peters and john nagl. we changed seven sentences in the manual. seven sentences. but that was good enough so when the manual came out in december, really peters called in the most -- ralph peters called in the most improved government resource -- [laughter] at the time it came out, he actually supported it. and the last one was the paradox. this was my idea to put in the manual which actually is a nato manual as it's continued through doctrine. the idea was to get people to realize this is a different kind of war, you've got to think about it different, and there are some possible dilemmas you've got to face in how you use force and how you conduct it. you know, the first one, sometimes less security maybe. you can't lock yourself in your forward operating base. you have got to get out and patrol. you've got to take some risks. you've got to provide the people security, and they've got to see you out there, you know? sometimes the more force is used, the less effective it is. it doesn't pay

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joining us lieutenant colonel ralph peters. aid we would know immediately if trump gave in to putin after that the meeting, well, did he? >> yes. putin pitched a no-hitter, and hit a trump with a bean ball. trump gave a great speech in warsaw. i felt like standing up cheering. correcting historical references. speechwriter put justified digs at russia. trump goes to hamburg. he folded. look at the takeaways, from the meeting. our president says, well, both sides admit this much, that he wants to put athe past behind him. in other words, russia get as free pass for interfering in our election. stuart, not about the legitimacy of the trump administration. trump won the election but about russians, putin, interfering with in the fundamental mechanism of our democracy, election system. they need to be punished. is being, much-vaunted deal of local cease-fire in syria primarily benefits iranians and third, not least, the absolutely hammering notion that we would team up with russia to form a cybersecurity unit to protect our election

we go to our military experts, retired army colonel ralph peters and rick grenell.>> absolutely, this is a major achievement, u.s. strategy worked. we supply intelligence, and support logistic air power, locals do the fighting. that worked out, it a major achieve. achievement. representing a turning of the tide against the caliphate. there is no doubt that the caliphate has been crushed it will be fully be o obliteratedded. trish: are talking about in iraq. >> yes. trish: in syria you have a thriving caliphate there? >> i think it on the way in syria too, it a little behind iraqa will fall -- raqqa will fall, the isis. trish: that what is the difference? why are we seeing the successes now versus i don't know a year and a half ago? >> really donald trump and secretary mattis have made this a priority. that is the truth. we do have a little ways to go yet. but the tide is turning. what that is going to do is really affect recruitment, nobody wants to be part of an organization that dying this organization is clearly now dying it not not dead, we need to finish it off

shipped >> tucker: we had a spirited discussion with ralph peters last night who suggested anyone whoisagrees with him on russia would probably be very much like a hitler sympathizer. here's how it went. >> vladimir putin hates us. he is malevolent. he is as close to pure evil as i can find. he's also brilliant. i don't understand why any american would want an alliance with russia. he is a killer. >> tucker: hard to see -- how many wars, and a homely peel can we be in opposition to it once? people who are bad people share interest. >> a sound like charles lindbergh in 1938 saying hitler hasn't attacked us. >> slow down, colonel. you cannot compare me to someone who would make apologies for hitler. and i don't think putin is comparable. >> he assassinates dissidents and journalists, he bombs women and children on purpose in syria. he is as bad as hitler, yet you want us to align with the russians, with iran, with a side. >> tucker: i wanted to act in america's interest. stop make shallow, sweeping moral claims about country should understand and hope everything will be fine. if a coun

i want to bring in fox news strategic analyst lieutenant colonel ralph peters, quite the voice on this. how do we handle north korea? how do we stop this situation from escalating? >> well, at this point, cheryl, it is almost impossible to stop it from escalating. indeed it may be impossible. but the first thing we must do is to stop deluding ourselves, stop lying to ourselves. we've seen president clinton, president bush, president obama, initially president trump believing the myth that china can be cajoled or strong of had armed help us with north korea. china will never do anything to destablize the north korean regime. it will not do anything significant beyond token gestures to stop the nuclear or missile program in north korea. why? because china does not see north korea as a grave problem. it sees it as an asset, a valuable ally in peacetime and wartime. in peacetime, north korea keeps us obsessed and focused on that, while china does pretty much what it wants elsewhere. in wartime, north korea would he tie down initially an enormous slice of our military assets in the pacific

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just on friday, lieutenant colonel ralph peters told us why we're stuck with the agreement.u react. >> we can't just tear it up. and i think trump's hands are tied. mattis doesn't like this but he recommends going forward and certifying it. because were we to unilaterally withdraw the deal, we could be the -- would be the bad guys. liz: what do we do about this, richard? they're funding militants, funding hamas and threat israel. what do we do about that? we sit there and recertify? >> we recertify because the deal is narrow nuclear deal but we have the rest of the foreign national security tool kit. there is nothing in the deal precludes helping our friends and putting pressure on what iran is doing in syria, lebanon, anywhere else, adding sanctions we just did. the deal is not symbolic of a good relations with iran. it carves out this one area, that that is all. liz: south korea is getting antsy and concerned because tension ramped up past couple weeks now that south korea is interested in having talks with north korea. also china and north korea want the u.s. to remove it

fox news military analyst colonel ralph peters joins me now.bviously, colonel peters, this would be very, very good news. explain why this guy is so important to the isis organization, terrorist organization? >> he was the magnetic, charismatic figure who brought it all together, the man with the vision, the drive, the ability to literally enchant people with his speeches, with his doctrines. it is very important because we declared himself caliph. that is the allah's representative on earth. he is the pope and king combined. the fact allah did not protect him that he is dead, is good news on practical and is bombic level that -- symbolic levels and symbols are did. i would caution viewers that al-baghdadi was dead. think time is true. the russians claimed to kill him. it turned out to be false. this one feels good. even now we have to be careful because isis could be trying to throw us off the scent while al-baghdadi escapes from syria or iraq. let's hope it is true. great news if it is true but keep up the fight. trish: indeed, that is what w

charles: next one for you, governor, president trump arriving at hamburg, colonel ralph peter said it'sch since reagan tear down this wall speech, your take from all of the events this morning? >> i think it was significant that colonel peters said that because i love ralph peters but he's not been a big fan of donald trump and for him to say that is significant more so for those of us who have been more supportive of the president. i agree with him. it was a powerful speech because he touched on not just the issues of military power but rather moral power, this is where i believe america's strength really has always come from and it's also where poland's strength has come from and these are resilient people, the polls are extraordinary to what they have been through and how they overcome it. donald trump did an amazing job of touching to the hearts of polish people and really expressing an appreciation and solidarity with their quest for freedom and their quest for a moral basis for culture and society. charles: speaking of the moral power, it also feel like you can certainly connect t

sentences in the manual. 7 sentences but that was good enough so when manual came the in december ralph peters called it most improved publication in the last decade. [laughter] but at the time the manual came out he actually supported it. in the last one was the paradox this was my idea to put the manual which is actually -- now a nato manual continued through doctrine to get peel to realized this is a different kind of war you have to think about a different and there are some -- dilemma you have to fix and how you use force and conduct it. first one sometimes in order to protect your force you can't lock yourself in a base you can't be a ffabit you have to patrol an take some risk. you have to provide people security and they have to see you out there. you know, sometimes the more force you where use is used less effective it is it doesn't pay to five to backlash and createses 50 more you have to be careful how you do that. sometimes doing nothing is the best reaction. some of the best weapons for coin do not shoot and ballot and dollars are more effective than bullets and bombs and if tact

ashley: changing gears just a little bit, stuart, yesterday weed had lieutenant colonel ralph petersow who was very, very complimentty of the -- complimentary of the speech in poland. i don't think you can make that point strongly enough. and, of course, he pointed out that poland is actually contributing 2.5% of its gdp which is half a percent more than it has to to nato. but his point was, you know what? the e. u., more better or worse, they are our allies, and he should stop bashing them over this and that he's already made his point. what say you? >> well, i think he's having an effect, and you've already are seen european defense ministries scrambling to try to figure out how they can work with their legislatures to provide more financial support to nato. that said, he did reiterate article v which was, of course, missing from the nato speech earlier. and i think that it's a question of putting it in context. and in this speech he gave, there was a lot of, i think, very substantive articulation of why the united states and europe share these values, what is under threat here. an

ralph peters joins us. a fox strategic analyst.se hope to expect china will lean on north korea? >> it's not just false hope. it's a grand illusion. it's an illusion that's captivated the american establishment in washington, the think tanks, the institutions. we've seen president after president, clinton, burks obama, and at least president trump signing on for this idea if only we press the right buttons. if only we pressure china, they will help us solve the north korean problem. the fact is, china has never helped us. they must make a choice between the u.s., our goodwill and north korea's current regime. beijing will always choose north korea. we think china must see north korea as a problem, too. they don't. china sees north korea as a very valuable ally in peace and war. in peace time, they keep the u.s. focused on the korean peninsula so china can make mischief elsewhere. but in war time north korea would tie down an enormous slice of military assets. so we make bigger with our allies, beijing doesn't. we will never see bei

and here is tucker carlson doing that thing, talking to lieutenant colonel ralph peters, a fox news commentatorange. take a listen. >> i'm not vouching for putin's character, strong man for sure, wouldn't want to live there. >> he is a killer. >> hard to see why he is a threat. how many wars can we fight at once, how many can we be in opposition to. why not accept people that are bad people share our interests. >> you sound like charles limbburg saying hitler hasn't attacked. >> you can't compare me to someone making apologies for hitler. >> i think putin is. >> that's a grotesque overstatement. >> putin -- >> that's insane. >> you can think it is insane. >> you compared me to a nazi apoll gist because i asked a simple question, slow down, which is why doesn't it contra convenient american interest and cause with a group trying to kill isis. >> herb, he went on to say we made common cause with stalin to fight hitler and implied america didn't have a problem. the cold war came after that. do you find it extraordinary. we had him describing how violent the putin regime is. it doesn't mean us any

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joining us now, colonel ralph peters.you think any kind of military action vis-a-vis north korea from america, south korea, japan, any kind of military action is imminent? >> it's not imminent, but it may be inevitable. there's not another good solution. and, you know, president trump is right. china is not helping us, hasn't helped, and it won't help. it's, you know, i really think to put it in human terms, stuart, in this relationship we're the beleaguered, battered wife, and the beijing husband is having a long-running affair for decades with this north korean femme fatale. and we keep telling ourselves that, oh, in this time, this time he's going to see reason, he's going to come back to me. beijing will never abandon or betray north korea. because north korea, contrary to our utter misconception, north korea is an invaluable ally for beijing. in peacetime, it keeps us focused on the korean peninsula and keeps china and the china safe for beijing. in wartime it would tie down an enormous amount of u.s. assets in the e