generals and i know what a tragedy it is that some of our greatest military minds whether it's stan mcchrystalor jack keane or mike flynn or general petraeus basically were shoved aside and their advice has been ignored much to the peril of this nation. >> most certainly and recently we have seen pretty strong criticism by president obama of the republican presidential candidate for their response to taking in these refugees, calling them unamerican. what's your message to president obama? >> president obama is -- he knows only one thing, politics. all he knows is a political campaign. so i guess he is like hillary clinton in thinking that republicans are the enemy. actually, republicans are not the enemy. isis is the enemy. russia actually is an adversary. iran is the enemy. this president continues to pacify our enemies. is he delusional about the strengths of iran and the strength of isis. it's an easy shot to talk about republicans. but, in fact, the house with many democrat votes has done absolutely the right thing here in saying this is insanity that we would let in syrian refugees if we

certainly lessons to be learned organizationally in how jsoc, a, reorganized itself largely under stan mcchrystalnd then continued by bill mcraven from an -- i mean, a large parking lot of the book really is -- a large part of the book is telling the story of how it went from an organization that was fairly small and designed for episodic operations and then, you know, became an organization, had to turn itself into an organization that was capable of yearlong in a multi-yearlong campaign 24/7 in multiple parts of the world simultaneously. so there are certainly organizational lessons there. how it, how it engaged with the u.s. government are another set of sort of lessons learned. but i think going back to what i said earlier from the policymakers' point of view, the lesson is, you know, it's very important for a country like the united states that has the interest united states has to have an organization like jsoc that can do what it can do, and we should be very grateful that we have that. however, it's probably a mistake to rely on that organization to do everything for you absent a more coh

largely under stan mcchrystal and then continued by bill mcraven, from an organization -- a large part of the book is really telling the story how it went from organization that was fairly small and designed for epsoddic operations and, and, then, you know became an organization, had to turn itself into an organization that was capable of year-long, multiyear long campaigns, 24/7 in multiple parts of the year simultaneously, so there is certainly organizational lessons there. how it, how it engaged with the u.s. government and, or another set of, sort of lessons learned. but i think going back to what i said earlier, from the policymakers point of view, the lesson is, you know, it's very important, for a country, like the united states, that has the interests of the united states to have an organization, like jsoc that can do what it can do. we should be very grateful we have that. however, it is probably a mistake to rely on that organization to do everything for you, absent more coherent strategy to solve your problems. >> host: thank you, sean naylor. congratulations again. >> guest