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later we'll have general stanley mcchrystal with us. we'll talk more about that. throughout the show, mika, we'll obviously be talking about yesterday what happened, the information coming out that robert mueller's investigation looking now at president trump. yet a series of tweets, three or four tweets yesterday attacking that investigation. newt gingrich inexplicably said things that he knows better about. it was stunning. yesterday was a day that you had a lot of smoke building up around the investigation. and then last night, a very interesting statement from rod rosenstein. >> shortly after 9:00, the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein released this statement, quote, americans should exercise caution before accepting atrue any stories fro anonymous officials, particularly when they don't identify the country let alone the branch. americans should be skeptical about anonymous allegations. the department of justice has a long established policy to neither confirm or deny such allegations. >> mark, you're laugh iing. >> nothing controversial in that statemen

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general stanley mcchrystal, he said of his time in iraq, when you become the torturer, something happensason waterboarding was not done more than it was was because the interrogators did not want to do it. we agreed to do it to these people to stop catastrophic attacks. once we had enough information that we did not need to use it, we were not interested in it anymore. waterboarding is not the first or best choice. we went out of our way to avoid doing that. and so i think if you... you know? it is one thing to put people in cages and nail people to trees and crucify children and bury people and throw rocks at them. it is difficult to come back from that. was it for you? no. here's why — i relied on the department ofjustice. i am convinced that we did things in a way that did not produce permanent harm, mentally or physically. that is my obligation when i do get. i don't have any control over how people do it. you said you wondered about whether you should actually carry out these things that it would change your life as you knew it. do you regret going down that path? well, the only thi

seven or thereabouts i was in new york talk radio convention talkers conference and general stanley mcchrystal was there is giving a speech and we talked for a while in the hall and i said you know what are we going to do or do we go with this and he said well we can't kill our way out of this or words to that effect that was ten years ago i mean you know and this was the guy in charge of afghanistan as i recall the time and. why has you know why has that message not. filtered through why why is what what break down is happening here in the united states that we're that we're trying to behave like the british empire in the nineteenth century but i think there are several things one is that as a country we often think we can solve every problem in other parts of the world and the reality is we can't this is not something where the u.s. just goes in and makes everything good i think the second problem is we're not really willing to deal with the external actors that are having an influence on this conflict right now it's fashionable in washington and to attack one part of the one country or iran

and this closer look at capitol police being hailed as heroes, and retired four star general stanley mcchrystalolm blackwell will be in studio 57 together all that plus eye opener your world in 90 seconds. see you at 7:00 with the latest. >> big fan, thanks, we will be watching, thank you. >>> well, stranded for nearly five days coastguard rescued a a hike inner southern oregon. he was last heard from just before he set out for a 45- mile hike last friday. officials say he ran into trouble whole he encounter a swollen river. >>> basketball hall of famer dennis rodman is continuing his basketball diplomacy in north cover re. >>> he returned to north korea bearing gifts he gave the north korean sports minister a copy of the president trump's book the art of the deal. mr. trump was rodman's boss for two seasons of celebrity pren is reality tv show. >>> we will be right back. with three to go. >>> an orangutan with a fidget spinner, so many questions, we will have the answer and video when we come right back. [ ominous music playing ]] ah! ah! ah! [ children laughing ] wooo! yea! have a despicably

then find ourselves in a prolonged insurgency campaign and around this time we have general stanley mcchrystal coming in as the jsoc commander. pass 4714 is the task force he sets up in iraq and at the time he was not particularly active. there were still a lot of people that thought elite forces should not be in daily operations. they should be focusing on the big target to mcchrystal decides we can do that and saddam has shown that's not going to work so he looks for ways to ramp up their operations and does so very effectively. there were only 10 operations when he comes in 2004. think you was up to 300 and 2006. this is made possible by advances in communications technology and iraqi's are using cell phones and computers without a lot of thought given to the fact that they are being intercepted. a lot of people think at this scale we can in fact restore the insurgency. we also have on the white soft side which is another term that people sometimes get confused about that white soft or basically operators who are not part of jsoc so it's mainly special forces and navy s.e.a.l.s at this time

general stanley mcchrystal is former commander of all u.s.orces in afghanistan and a senior fellow with yale university. chris russell is here, former navy s.e.a.l. officer who served alongside general mcchrystal as managing partner. and author of "one mission: how leaders build a team of teams" and general mcchrystal was kind enough to write the forward. i was not invited to write the forward. thank you so much for coming in. i want to get to the book in just one second. on the news of the day, on the claims from russia that they say they may have taken out al baghdadi, there's clearly a lot of skepticism, general. do you believe the russians on this? >> well, i don't know if it's true. it almost doesn't matter. it's important to take out a leader like al baghdadi, but it's not sufficient. it won't change isis demonstrably. isis is an idea that's franchised itself, and so it's a little bit self-deception for any of us to suddenly celebrate and say, okay, now the problem will go away. >> but still a significant symbolic victory, chris? >> i b

around this time we have general stanley mcchrystal coming in as a commander and the task force 714 that he sets up in iraq and at the time it was not particularly active and there were still a lot of people that fought the forces should not be giving the daily operations. they should focus on only the big targets. they decided that we cannot do that and it's not going to work so he looks for ways to ramp up operation and does so very effectively and we can see from here it was up to 300 in 2006 and this is made possible by the advances in communications technology. they are using cell phones and computers without a lot of thought as to the fact that they are getting intercepted. so quite impressive and a lot of people think that it is at this scale we cannot affect the insurgency. we also have another term people sometimes get confused about, but it's basically the operators that are not a part so it is mainly the special forces and navy seals at this time. they also decide that they want to do this and go out and hold down bad guys in the middle of the night and this is a move away fro