have yet to pinpoint the source of the leak, i am jon scott, now lack to -- back to "life, liberty and levin." levin. mark: ♪ ♪ welcome back, gordontablished it is overwhelmingly likely that xi, head of china, knew this the phone calls, and our commander in chief president trump did not. purposely. so you have to assume milley knew that his counterpart would run it up the flag, yet he, perhaps secretaries of defense kept it from our president of united states if that is not undermining the chain of command, i don't know what is. if that is not a military individual going rogue. i don't know what. is my question is, given what has taken place in afghanistan, including leaving of american citizens in enemy territory and patriotic afghan allies, are being picked off, brutalized and murdered. given when took place, how is communist china digesting this. >> this the debacle in afghanistan reinforce notion the u.s. is finished as a great power, we see this from their propaganda. they said, mark you know u.s. could not deal with rag tag insurgents of taliban how could they hope to counter magnificent china. and -- they were telling taipe