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WGN Radio
"general miller" Discussed on WGN Radio
"I'm building Cunningham to great America has continued One of my favorite stories came out in Afghanistan was what happened to lieutenant colonel Stewart scheller who was the marine lieutenant colonel that put his rank on the table and said guess what Someone's got to pay for these military blunders And I can not implement a policy that I do not believe in He kind of anticipated and hoped that maybe general Miller general Mackenzie would act accordingly but not exactly They protect their own hindsight But when you have Joe Biden and The White House and Kamala Harris and they have Lloyd Austin When news breaks in Chicago or the world you'll hear it here and we'll talk about it here This is Chicago's very own 7 20 WGN 23° at 1130 good evening I'm Steve rexton The first lawsuit is about to land after a deadly tornado leveled in Amazon warehouse and down state Illinois last month WGN sports NFL playoff action Tampa Bay the Philadelphia Sanford Cisco over Dallas Kansas City beach Pittsburgh college basketball Minnesota OSU beat Penn State Illinois Illinois state the Bradley WWN traffic good news no major problems to report at this hour A lawsuit is expected to be filed against Amazon tomorrow It's reportedly on behalf of the family of a delivery driver who was killed last month when a tornado struck one of the companies facilities and down state edwardsville 26 year old Austin mcewen and independent Amazon contractor was one of 6 people who died on December 10th one a tornado hit the distribution center The suit alleges Amazon failed to adhere to osha preparedness plans chose to have people continue working with threatening weather coming and failed to have a facility that contained a basement shelter Attorneys four former Chicago alderman Eddie Verdun filed an emergency petition on Friday for an early release from prison The petition says the 84 year old Verdun convicted of tax evasion should be let go early due to his age medical conditions and the oma crown fueled COVID-19 surge The Australian openers started with ad 9 time champion Novak Djokovic Djokovic has landed in Dubai after losing a legal battle to have his Visa reinstated despite not being vaccinated for.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Biden Was Advised to Keep 2,500 Troops, Say Generals
"Here's general austin secretary. Rather austin along with general mackenzie and millie facing a Grilling from both republicans and democrats couple of democrats gave it to him as well. This is so bad it transcends party politics and the democrats know it but of course it's happening on their watch their democrat president. They're they're democrats in congress. Here was a secretary. Austin ba- train the lie. That biden told the american people that he didn't he no one told him to keep twenty five hundred troops in afghanistan. He just wasn't told. That here was secretary austin calling the president out. It's a simple question secretary austin. He said no senior military leader advised him leaves small troop presence behind. Is that true or not. Do these officer. General miller's recommendations get to the president personally their input was was received by the president considered by the president for sure In terms of what they specifically recommended center they just as i said they're not gonna provide What they recommended in confidence whatever that means but yeah. It was received by the
Mark Levin
Sen. Marsha Blackburn's Impression of Congressional Hearing With Military Generals
"Well listen I watched this hearing today most of it and you were really quite brilliant the way that you insisted on short answers so they wouldn't filibuster And he wanted some of the very very important topics Tell me what your takeaway is from this hearing My takeaway from death is that you had general McKinsey listening to general Miller who was there on the ground in Afghanistan General McKinsey is it sent Tom They passed the information up to Austin and mellie that you could not do a speedy withdrawal If you did it to Taliban was going to move in and take control that you had to take keep control of the embassy Bagram airfield and put some additional people at HKS airport in order to facilitate the exit Joe Biden didn't want to hear any of that And what is of is really frustrating I think to a lot of the men and women in uniform and a lot of our veterans is that you didn't have million Austin really forcing the issue of but mister president you can't do what you want to do and get people out of Afghanistan And keep the government system in the country And Joe Biden was focused on a date certain so that he could go out there and have his victory dance on September 11th and say hey look at me I'm the guy I ended this war And Mark it is like he missed the entire point of this We were Uh oh Did we lose the senator I guess we did the war on terror for a reason
Democracy Now! Audio
"general miller" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"Guantanamo and to try to kill anyone who from detained or You know his his freedom. Because i didn't want you went to some of the same old they had. I have made peace guatemala. I almost like every talk about guantanamo right so Gift on my brothers. They don't remember because it's like a trauma it's over and over again but for me. I took it and either way. The handle has some kind of panel diabetes. So i wouldn't use that strength to support those helpless evil and also to bring the truth about guantanamo. So i use my four one in my emails and my name's everywhere and i use the orange color all the time also to bring the awareness of the people the misuse of dollar polka us as zooms. Finally if you can talk about how you survive through groupon china mo what hope meant for you and was it. Hope that kept you going through the forced feedings through the hunger strikes through the beatings through the torture. What got you through me. Faith as muslims. I think we stick to our as muslims. Because where i worked before guantanamo bay was the was sitting islamic institute. Our mission to before brackish. So most of you know even the us government viewed as as tourists or the faith source of reasons not i. It's face ticked away. Parental lesson with knowing that everything can plus an americans has nothing to our. secondly we had each other. because we're updates. We had no books. Nothing distorted disconnected from the outside. So we had i wrote about it call wrote about it Piece called beautiful. Which is i guess. The old things and about how we serve have around fifty nationalities. twenty languages different background people who they were artists. Singers doctors nurses diverse mafia like predict. Its scholars Poets that they've diversity of culture acted with each other melted and formed. What we call guantanamo culture. What called the guantanamo imagine. I'm going to sing now. Tucson sleaze imagine we used to have celebrate once a week night in away penn off being in jail. Try to have some kind of like to take our minds being or sharm uses so. We had one night a week in a week. It was by in the leg so we start saying arabic english special or the darcy france or canada. Oh it's different languages. Stories people dance from yemen to start the arab yet to arrive to hold. Can't imagine you here in forty. The editing is you heard those beautiful songs in different languages. It was captivating the however are still as a challenge. We just drive to to survive. This was a way of surviving because we had to reach jabber. The things we brought with us at guantanamo with our faith our knowledge our emotions written ship who we are help us to buy. We had each jabber also. That was part of survival because they play play. Play rule that help. Some them held finding singing with us sometime. Also we had the art classes. I think about a time when texas two glasses we paint so those are the things he wants to survive place also hall because it was a matter of flight You know you have to keep hoping that plays what designed to take away so you can see about the only behold throw the togethers through americans just. It's not gonna happen in that way so we had supported each other tried to stay life. Also we lose some some brothers and the house very good brothers that place one of the you know a hard and sad this at guantanamo and Hamden nine survived to be honest with you because someone asked me last month. I had an interview with Relies on someone else can. How did you spend your twenties and thirties. No i didn't what what does it mean. Twenty thirty some now. A at malate of my thirties by ms for you. So imagine huge in teen years five years now and physically you know technically practically technically. I'm thirsty. I feel like i just in even you can send my behavior of the way the way. That's what i'm actually so. We have a huge. And when we release released different society languished community anyone get interact with the prestigious gated people. Stay away from us. So because the stigma of the guantanamo so basically. But i'm trying to make life if married. I can sing sing for you. You said you'd think you're the first one when when we like supporting because especially when General miller right. He tried to crush the first day he arrived. He searched all of us. Beatles got search dogs if c themes bury it like a message. I am here posters. I'm going to kick your so but at guantanamo we don't table withdrawn doesn't matter the only thing we have guards suspect respect missing people as that not all of us gophers. I'm sorry for these words. Carthage taking it. We are talking about so because what is the worst of us so when we when someone was go to answer gay over torture with threat to support you know and we will sing for him. Ro ro mass. Allies e that was raw raw mass saddam allies e. Aminov savon like around forty four blocks sometimes to relatively for like some carrying. And what does it mean. That mean you see Roth roadmaster go. Go go with peace mile. My unlike grant more peace and safety and when they come from appointment or interrogations or torture of people can arrive at guantanamo guantanamo new groper rapid guantanamo. We would say we would come them the songs. Imagine you just you right then. I'm like three blocks around. One hundred and fifty detainees song for you have the had been leased Been louisa have been leeza. Been leeza have been leeza leeza. Have it means. Welcome all come. They who come imagine when the brothers i arrived. he's single them will like there was surprise. I the detainees or the likely kind of A beasley was something weather brought to us. We thought that is guys live in some kind of Like lucky live and join your so that when they took the wong's cages nick smack voice at that like everyone is saying so we give them the first person that everything's okay mansour last two questions one. Is you talked about the art classes that you took. Can you describe what art meant for you. And what.
Democracy Now! Audio
"general miller" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"Guantanamo and to try to kill anyone who from detained or You know his his freedom. Because i didn't want to. You went to some of the same old they had. I have made peace guatemala. I almost like every talk about guantanamo right so Gift on my brothers. They don't remember because it's like a trauma it's over and over again but for me. I took it and either way. The handle has some kind of panel diabetes. So i wouldn't use that strength to support those helpless evil and also to bring the truth about guantanamo. So i use my four one in my emails and my name's everywhere and i use the orange color all the time also to bring the awareness of the people the misuse of dollar polka damage us as zooms. Finally if you can talk about how you survive through groupon china mo what hope meant for you and was it. Hope that kept you going through the forced feedings through the hunger strikes through the beatings through the torture. What got you through me. Faith as muslims. I think we stick to our as muslims. Because where i worked before guantanamo bay was the was sitting islamic institute. Our mission to before brackish. So most of you know even the us government viewed as as tourists or the faith source of reasons not i. It's face ticked away. Parental lesson panel with knowing that everything can plus an americans has nothing to secondly we had each other. because we're updates. We had no books. Nothing distorted disconnected from the outside. So we had we. I wrote about it call. Wrote about it Piece called beautiful guantanamo. Which is i guess. The old things and about how we serve around fifty nationalities twenty languages. Different background people who they were artists. Singers doctors nurses diverse mafia like predict its scholars Poets that the diversity of culture interacted with each other melted and formed. What we call guantanamo culture. What called the guantanamo imagine. I'm going to sing now to it. Magin we used to have celebrate once a week. Night in away penn p. of being in jail try to have some kind of like to take our minds being or sharm uses so we had one night a week in a week. It was by in the leg so we start saying arabic english special or the darcy france or canada. Oh it's different languages stories. People dance from yemen to start the arab yet to arrive to hold. Can't imagine you here in forty. The editing is you heard those beautiful songs in different languages. It was captivating the however gets are still as a challenge. We just drive to to survive. This was a way of surviving because we had to reach jabber. The things we brought with us at guantanamo with our faith our knowledge our emotions written ship who we are help us to buy. We had each jabber also. That was part of survival because they play play. Play rule that help. Some them held finding singing with us sometime. Also we had the art classes. I think about a time when texas two glasses we paint so those are the things he wants to survive place also hall because it was a matter of flight You know you have to keep hoping that plays what designed to take away so you can see about the only behold throw the togethers through americans just not gonna happen in that way so we had supported each other. Tried to stay life. Also we lose some some brothers and the house very good brothers. that place. one of the you know a hard and sad this at guantanamo and Hamden nine survived to be honest with you because someone asked me last month. I had an interview with Relies on someone else can. How did you spend your twenties and thirties. No i didn't what what does it mean. Twenty thirty some now. A at malate of my thirties by ms for you. So imagine have a huge in our life teen years. Five years now and physically. You know technically practically technically like i'm thirsty. I feel like i just in. Even you can see my behavior of the way the way. That's what i'm actually so. We have a huge gap. And when we release released different society languished community anyone get interact with the prestigious gated. Stay away from us. So because the stigma of the guantanamo so basically. But i'm trying to make life if married. I can sing sing for you. You said you'd think you're the first one when when we like supporting because especially when General miller right. He tried to crush the first day. He arrived each All of us beatles got search dogs themes chris bury it like a message. I'm here posters. I'm going to kick your so but at guantanamo we don't table withdrawn doesn't matter the only thing we have guards suspect respect missing. Is that not all of us. Gophers i'm sorry for these words. Carthage taking it. We are talking about so because what is the worst of us so when we when someone was go to answer gay over torture with threat to support you know and we will sing for him. Ro ro mass. Allies e that was raw raw mass saddam allies e. Aminov savon like around forty four blocks sometimes to relatively like give some carrying. And what does it mean. That mean you see Roadmaster go go go with peace mile. My unlike grant more peace and safety and when they come from appointment or interrogations or torture. Old people can arrive at guantanamo new groper rapid guantanamo. We would say we would come them the songs. Imagine you just you right then. I'm like three.
Democracy Now! Audio
"general miller" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"Guantanamo and to try to kill anyone who from detained or You know his his freedom. Because i didn't want to. You went to some of the same old they had. I have made peace guatemala. I almost like every talk about guantanamo right so Gift views my brothers. They don't remember because it's like a trauma it's over and over again but for me. I took it and either way. The handle has some kind of panel diabetes. So i wouldn't use that strength to support those helpless evil and also to bring the truth about guantanamo. So i use my four one in my emails and my name's everywhere and i use the orange color all the time also to bring the awareness of the people the misuse of dollar polka us as zooms. Finally if you can talk about how you survive through groupon china mo what hope meant for you and was it. Hope that kept you going through the forced feedings through the hunger strikes through the beatings through the torture. What got you through me. Faith as muslims. I think we stick to our as muslims. Because where i worked before guantanamo bay was the was sitting islamic institute. Our mission to before brackish. So most of you know even the us government viewed as as tourists or the faith source of reasons not i. It's face ticked away. Parental lesson with knowing that everything can plus. An americans has nothing to secondly. We had each other. Because we're updates. We had no books. Nothing distorted disconnected from the outside. So we had i wrote about it co wrote about it Piece called beautiful guantanamo. Which is i guess. The old things and about how we serve around fifty nationalities twenty languages. Different background people who they were artists. Singers doctors nurses diverse mafia like predict its scholars Poets that they've diversity of culture interacted with each other melted and formed. What we call guantanamo culture. What called the guantanamo imagine. I'm going to sing now. Tucson sleaze imagine we used to have celebrate once a week. Night in away penn p. being in jail try to have some kind of like to take our minds being cages or sharm uses so we had one night a week in a week. It was by in the in the leg so we start saying arabic english special or the pharisee france or canada. It's different languages stories. People dance from yemen to start the arab yet to arrive to hold. Can't imagine you here in forty. The editing is you heard those beautiful songs in different languages. It was captivating the however gets are still as a challenge. We just drive to to survive. This was a way of surviving because we had to reach jabber. The things we brought with us at guantanamo with our faith our knowledge our emotions written ship who we are help us to buy. We had each jabber also. That was part of survival because they play play. Play rule that help. Some them held pines singing with us sometime. Also we had the art classes. I think about a time when texas two glasses we paint so those are the things he wants to survive place. also hobby is a matter of flight You know you have to keep hoping that plays what designed to take away so you can see about the only behold throw the togethers through americans just not gonna have in that way so we had supported each other. Tried to stay life. Also we lose some some brothers and the house very good brothers. that place. one of the you know a hard and sad this at guantanamo and Hamden nine survived to be honest with you because someone asked me last month. I had an interview with Relies on someone else can. How did you spend your twenties and thirties. No i didn't what what does it mean. Twenty thirty some now. A at malate of my thirties by ms for you. So imagine have a huge in our life teen years. Five years now and physically. You know technically practically technically like i'm thirsty. I feel i didn't even you can send my behavior of the way the way. That's what i'm actually so. We have a huge gap. And when we release released different society languished community anyone get interact with the prestigious gated people. Stay away from us. So because the stigma of the guantanamo so basically. But i'm trying to make life if married. I can sing sing for you. You said you'd think you're the first one when when we like supporting because especially when General miller right. He tried to crush the first day he arrived. He searched all of us. Beatles got search dogs themes crispy like a message. I'm here posters. I'm going to kick your so but at guantanamo we don't table withdrawn doesn't matter the only thing we have guards suspect respect missing people as that not all of us gophers. I'm sorry for these words. Carthage taking it. We are talking about guantanamo. So because what is the worst of us so when we when someone was go to answer gay over torture with threat to support you know and we will sing for him. Ro ro mass. Allies e that an was raw raw mass saddam allies e. Aminov savon like around forty four blocks sometimes to relatively for like some carrying. And what does it mean that. Mean you see Roth roadmaster go. Go go with peace mile. My unlike grant more peace and safety and when they come from appointment or interrogations or torture. Old people can arrive at guantanamo guantanamo new groper rapid guantanamo. We would say we would come them the songs. Imagine you just you right then. I'm like three.
WMAL 630AM
"general miller" Discussed on WMAL 630AM
"For talking, General Miller. And you heard the White House staff shouting down the press. Thank you Get time to go. Thank you. Get out! Get out talking over them. And it's amazing that Biden heard it. He must have his miracle ear in today, and he said he has the utmost confidence. He's got nothing but confidence in general, thoroughly Modern Millie, where his friends in China, But you've got to keep in mind that the Biden family has business interests in China with the investment arrangement that Hunter Biden picked up. When he flew in their on Air Force two where there's then vice president, father and then I remember Hunter. Biden lied about having any business meetings there. Then later, we learned that he did have business meetings there. But that's okay. And then the emails revealed that Joe Biden gets a 10% cut because he's big guy, and all of this was just swept under the rug. Just you know, like the sands through an hourglass. So are the corruption scandals of the Biden family, jen per sake. AK Colonel Cleber. She was at the podium at the White House yesterday. Asked about general thoroughly modern, the president has worked side by side with Chairman Millie for almost eight months. Almost 10 of the joint Chiefs has experienced with him has been that he is a patriot. He is somebody who is is has fidelity to the Constitution, and he has confidence in his leadership. Fidelity High fidelity to the Constitution, which is why he went behind the back of the president of United States, the commander in chief, and then the Pentagon said, Really all of this is no big deal. This is just fine. It's this that we do this all the time. Of that shoe. We should level the Pentagon with bulldozers and reconstituted new military because that's not your role, and that's not fidelity to the Constitution, and we've worked together for almost eight months. That reminds me on the phone call that you know the partial transcript that make Millie look good, according to the news media in the Woodward book, he tells generally, he says, Well, you know, we've known each other for five years like that's uh, you know, and I love Biden for almost eight months they've done you know, if you like. We're dating somebody in high school for almost eight months. That's a long time. But to be president and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. I'm not impressed. We've known each other for almost eight months. And he's an American hero, Senator John Kennedy disagrees. I know President Biden has said he will stand behind and stands behind general. Nobody and maybe that's true for the short term, But I'm going to give you even odds that eventually The White House throws him under the bus because the White House desperately needs someone besides President Biden on which the blame the stunning and competence in Afghanistan. Yeah, well, I don't know if that's going to be general mill. It'll be somebody else that hasn't demonstrated his fealty to the Democrat Party. Kabul. Kirby over at the Pentagon was asked a couple of questions about this about, you know, he really can't address any of it because none of it really has something to do with the Pentagon can't speak to the validity, but I see nothing in what I've read. That would, uh, that would cause any concern. Yeah, Nothing good. Just coordinating behind the president's back with China and usurping the president's authority over nuclear weapons and conspiring with the speaker of the house against the president, knighted states. Why would that be a problem? Couple? Kirby, it is Not only, uh, common. It's expected that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, uh, would continue to have counterpart conversations. I mean, he is basically the chief of defence for the United States. We don't call him that, but he has chief of Defence counterparts around the world. Um, having worked for a chairman myself quite a bit. I can tell you frequent communication with two countries like Russia and China is not a typical at all. For chairman of the joint You're going to war and those communications are Their routine. Their routine staffed coordinated communist China and they're transparent, transparent as they can be. We'll give you a heads up. Hey, if the president is going to do anything, just know that I'm not on his side. I'm on your side. And I'm going to give you a heads up so you can launch nuclear weapons on us. Not that there was actually any reason to believe, because there's not a shred, not a scintilla. Not a grain of sand that has been offered up by any of these people to suggest that President Trump was even contemplating anything of the kind other than that complete fabrication. This this just out of whole cloth as my mother used to say, what is whole cloth? Hey, When's the last time you looked at your credit card bill looked at the interest rate lately..
The Rush Limbaugh Show
"general miller" Discussed on The Rush Limbaugh Show
"That that's not true. I know that very first hand information. I know that general miller made those stark warnings to jake sullivan and said do not closed bob. Graham and biography was closed. Our troops were removed. We left ten percent of the americans. Behind the joe biden doctrine the biden doctrine for the rest of history will be ninety percent. Good enough and i think that that's shameful in the american people should not feel safer when they have a president of the united states willing to take ten percent of us and leave us know clay. He's obviously talking about his version. There the former deny cornell saying what he views the biden doctrine as there was a piece of new york times news analysis. Not even editorial over the weekend on the biden doctrine and it's amazing to watch them. Try the clean up on aisle five here of. Oh it's biding his trying to balance strategic priorities with the biden doctrine is. You're screwing up stop. Stop screwing up. There's actually no framework here. There's there's no way to look at this other than to say. This guy biden has been wrong for a long time on a lot of things when it comes to foreign policy. And here's what that's the biden doctrine. I just keep looking at joe biden. Every time speaks book whether it's on afghanistan which a disaster whether it's on the border whether it's on the murder rate whether it's on his new three point five trillion dollar budget. Bill which i know. We haven't really talked about a great deal. I think we'll probably touch on some this week in more substance. But obviously that's struggling because you've had joe manchin of west virginia and kirsten cinema of arizona. Come out and say even as democrats are not going to be willing to support it. I don't we've been asking. How covert innsbruck. I don i genuinely afraid of how. This biden administration ends because every single week and every single month. It seems to me that joe biden is further in the grips of deteriorating mental condition. I think they think they're past this already clay. I i think that they believe that. This is the thing. Yeah there's no big deal. The american some will get out. Some won't yeah. There's some delays but they got the media in their back pocket. Do you think there's still. Yeah they're worried about his poll numbers. No question and i think you're talking about his mental faculties whole whole other thing but on afghanistan. I think they're all. They're already rolling out. The narrative of joe biden got it done sure it was messy but it was always going to be messy and they're rewriting the history of the last thirty days in process. I think i think that's their hope. I think their hope is just that americans have the memories of goldfish and that whatever occurs next is going to make people forget the problem that i think the biden administration has year is when every story ends with you. Being incompetent and fell your. There's a pretty good theme. That's going on so to me. Afghanistan sticks in the mind of the american public because it further confirms the failure of the biden administration and what they need. Bach is something that is significant of story enough. That takes away the attention from all the things that they're failing on. I don't know what that is. And i'm sure they're sitting down right now. Is they enter into the fall trying to scramble because think about it. But if you weren't trying to make an argument pretend that you are the advocate for joe biden cova. You've totally failed on. I think we need to keep hammering this. There are twice as many people in the hospital right now with covert as we're in the hospital last labor day okay. He's failed on kobe. He's failed on the border. He's failed on crime all over this country. He has failed on afghanistan. He's failed on everything that he is touched. I think they're going to try to argue infrastructure and. I think they're going to try to argue the budget. I'm not sure either of those get through. And then we're going to be into twenty twenty two so i just to me. This is a white house without ideas and without the functional ability to advocate an effective way on behalf of the american public. I think it's gonna keep getting your your report card. Though is all rooted in reality and in results. And what's actually happened. You know how the democrats are how they get. Joe biden elected. I mean there are a lot of things. I wouldn't do it. Changing the laws in states breaking the certain states cova was obviously a huge part of it but they they told us this lie. That one joe biden was a guy who would bring together the country and he wouldn't be just some part of the left but also beyond that that they they never thought that he was competent. Clay the people that really pay attention to politics and know. Joe biden understood that he was deteriorating understood that it was obvious that it was reckless to put this guy in the commander in chief role but it was in their minds fully. The lies they told are still fully justified in their minds. Because it's not trump for four years and we haven't even talked about so you're right. I mean i obviously agree. We talk about the failures all over the place but you know in the next year. The narrative is going to shift to racism the insurrection the war on women. All these distractions and the media apparatus you know only a small percentage of the country's gonna be the difference in the midterms really when you look at it. The media apparatus is still ninety ninety five percent in the tank for the democrats. We have a lot to overcome even with your report card of reality that reflects poorly as it does on the actual by administration policies. I think the challenge for them is even with all that in the tank when you control the entire government. It's hard to argue that somebody else is responsible for your failures. Now here's what i think they'll do in response that you own the house you own. The senate yonne. The president is a kind of own. The senate right like jaded. They're going to try to shift the attention to the supreme court. That's what i think they're pivot is going to be. I think if you look forward. They're going to argue that. The supreme court is blocking is blocking the full fruition of the biden white house and the by the in the house for nancy pelosi and everything else. And they're going to make the supreme court the foil in twenty twenty two and probably in two thousand twenty four. There's also that there's the biden in court packing commission they call it They call it. You know judicial fairness investigate. Whatever it's it's the biden court packing commission. And that's look that's you're right. That's going to be a part of the narrative especially with this war on women abortion thing. That's you know. The state of texas has this really interesting law and the way that they've instituted. I think you're going to see other states. Go along with his two one thing that i don't think it's got enough attention with all that klay as well. We can come back into this without we. we never. we never have enough time clinton. We can do a six hour. Show literally regan our show every day. We're not going to but we could say our show What it is. I think it is. It is a statement. Almost a fact. I mean you could say. It's an assessment but i think it's an assessment for which it's very hard to find a strong counterargument that as we see this plan right now in texas and heading the supreme court over the abortion issue donald trump's election win in two thousand sixteen and donald trump as a president was the most pro-life most consequential pro-life president since roe v wade was adopted. Donald trump will have done more for the cause of life as president based on just. The supreme court picks that he's made than anyone who came before him. That's pretty remarkable. Especially when i'm sure you see at trump world they're saying he smells weakness with biden. It's looking more and more like he may do it. But i would be stunned at this point. If he doesn't run and he almost was at two weeks ago that we had him on the last everything runs together. I can't get him to do it. We're going to do it. Nnounced on our show we're gonna go to mar-a-lago and given three hours to hang out with us at some point in your future in the meantime if we've learned anything since twenty twenty nothing quite as important as powerful immune system over twenty years ago dr dennis plaque of texas he invented texas superfood. It is the original superfood. We met dr black years ago when we got to begin to take texassuperfood and we learned about the fifty. 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Make money from the iheart podcast network back in clay travis buck sexton show appreciate all of you hanging out with us on this tuesday. Good to be back with my main block. I was out. Friday block was out monday. We're back together now. After a nice labor day break. And i was just playing during the commercial break for you buck. The crowds college football. We heard earlier. Dr fao g saying that he didn't like the fact that all these masked millions of people were willing to go to college football games in stadiums that were packed all over the country. But you are hearing. And i heard it in person so many college kids out there with anti joe biden chance. That are breaking out inside of stadiums. I've never seen anything like are they yelling. F- ouchi joe biden. Because it's something there's an f. Word in front of joe biden and i. I've been going to college football games. My entire life and i have never heard a group of college. Kids chanting anti american president. Chance like this. When joe biden's got a forty three percent approval rating npr. Polls buck when the new york times is writing articles on their editorial page. why is joe biden so unpopular. We were just talking in the last segment. If i i always liked to think about politics from the perspective of okay. Let's try to figure out what both sides can do to maximize their Their perspective as we come into the fall. I think it's fair to say that. Joe biden has had one of the most disastrous opening years in modern american history as the president. I think that's fair to say whether you're a democrat or republican in terms of approval rating in terms of actual substantive accomplishments in terms of being able to point to anything that is that is impressive. Accomplished okay so what did they do now. So what's fascinating is that. If they had a vice president that they really believed in. Yes i you would see at think. It'd be much more likely that there would be right now. A ground swell among democrats for not that joe. Biden's knocking to resign. He's not going to step down. That's never going to happen okay. That's actually not going to happen. But there's there would be a groundswell for and he said this himself people forget this now one term only passed the torture the vp. And you would start to hear that realistically after the midterms. You still could see something like that. There may still be some democrats. Say that were a year out. We'll have to see. But in the meantime what's very clear is that even democrats recognize kamla is not gonna get it done kamla running he. They can't hand the presidency to kabul a harris. She would have to shoot. After ron joe biden down. She'd run as the. I guess is as the incumbent And well it depends on how they did it but anyway the point being she would have to actually become the head of the democrat party and clay. I think that even democrats recognize that. That's not gonna work so then maybe you get you. They run joe biden. You always said the weekend at bernie's breast get joe biden in iran. Maybe he wins. And then he steps down in the beginning of term to as as dastardly as that scheme may seem what you put it behind you put it beyond democrats. They're about to lie about covert stuff in a year and how it's too dangerous to be in line to vote so they can try to win more elections the midterms. I think. here's what i wish. I wish the presidential election was next year. Because i think if trump ran he would absolutely obliterate whoever is running in. Whoever's going to be running for the democrats if the election were in twenty twenty two there are so many things that can happen between now and twenty twenty four that. It's hard to forge. We'll we'll be. We'll be who's gonna run i mean. Would you have foreseen if we were sitting here in twenty thirteen and one of us had come on the air and said hey you know. I think twenty sixteen. It's going to be between hillary clinton. And i think donald trump's gonna run and i think he's going to beat. Hillary clinton would have been a pretty crazy prediction. I remember team. I was in. I was in conservative media at the time. Clay and i was over at cnn and there were all these different. I was the on on air conservative when they still allow. They don't even allow that anymore. I used to have. They'd have like they bring you on. It's a right wing lunatic buck sexton walker. Everybody's attack you with the whole thing but but even at that stage they let's never forget. They put trump on air at cnn. In two thousand fifteen going to the two thousand sixteen election they put him on air because they thought it was funny. I thought it was amusing. Good ray how dumb these republicans are. They're going with this guy and of course we got the last laugh which is why also they never would forgive trump because the thing that he did it was even more than about the supreme court picks. And how there's now a real threat to row. Thank god and all these real real policy changes that came from trump the the unforgivable sin of donald trump as far as the media is concerned was that he was a threat to the vanity of the journo elites they would that was too far too much calling them fake news all of it twenty five percent we should mention the study that came out twenty five percent of trump Sorry a biden. Voters now regret their vote. And so i don't think there's any way they can weekend at bernie style to try to drag him across the finish line i just. I'm not even sure what they pivot to. I think abortion and the supreme court will be one of the things they tried to distract people with. I mean i think that's where they feel. Maybe they can energize some supporters who are energized in any way by joe biden. I'm curious to see what happens with the budget. Because i think that's a big part of this too i if roe if roe is struck down though as we've talked about here clay and this'll be a big issue from now until june. It just goes back to the states and then what will happen is people will see okay. We'll state legislatures will pass laws about this and some. Have you know a six week or a ten week. Or whatever restriction. Others will be abortion at any time for any reason. And when people see that it's not actually the handmaid's tale dystopia. Oh that the so. I mean it's it's a great. It may not even be the issue. They think it is basically everything is racist. I.
1A
"general miller" Discussed on 1A
"You know. It was like as current state of the the torture started win. General miller arrived at guantanamo bay turned facility into his the first one who started what's called enhanced interrogation technique. What we call it enhanced torture technique so they started developed that technique at guantanamo experimenting. On us at that place so they brought newmont. It's one of the one of the month. It's was the noise using really loud fans like it's like a helicopter spitting sorts of confinement and the in the open cages. They brought this vacuum was. Because you know we thought the beginning they would to thin our cages because what grow did from the humidity and the The the water but we had one might a week where we celebrated like saying dunes and tried to skid feeling being jail then i they brought those vacuum start bless him in the black then turn them on why we knew it was going to have been you know than it just lasted for for for almost like two years it was. It was a way of punishment. Away off stubbing bill from talking from and between the block that was also loud generators because they said we are planning to do we are planning jihad against state because sometime we went through like hunger strike and there was taken that it's like we brought. We tried to head to guantanamo to bring down the united states. That would they used to tell us so. The effect of the vacuum. I mean we couldn't sleep on. We started like losing. concentration Really in our in our head week visit in specific inserted confinement like some sometimes. They intentionally make the vacuum touch the wall. The steel wool was everything vibrate. So i mean like extent sometime. We couldn't like we wouldn't be with us we. We couldn't process when people when someone talked us like. Okay can you please repeat. And i'm going to repeat over and over win. We like we like when we want to talk. We have some some Problems in gathering our thoughts so there was many many Problems to those methods will like the profession and so on. I wanna turn to the campaign trail in two thousand eight Former president obama promised he would close guantanamo bay and he continued to push that goal throughout his presidency. I have said repeatedly that. I intend to close blonde and i will follow through on that rather than keeping us safer. The prisoner guantanamo has weakened american national security today. The department is submitting to congress. Our plan for finally closing the facility at guantanamo once and for all with respect to the guantanamo. It is true that i have not been able to close the darn thing. You know one of the things you discover about being is That they're all these rules and norms and laws. And you got to pay attention to karen. Why was it so hard for president. Obama to make good on his promise to close guantanamo. He miscalculated the political opposition. He made a big statement on his second day office about how it was going to close it in a year. Thank you for playing all those and reminding us and and a couple of years into his presidency. Congress passed a law which said that detainees could come to the united states for any purpose whatsoever. Not medical care not trial. not detention. Not incarceration after trial and so his hands were tied in many ways in terms of what it would mean to close it because he couldn't bring anyone here and he made a he. His administration made a mad dash effort in the last eighteen months to get out as many as possible. They got out a little under two hundred but it wasn't enough among sore. Despite your circumstances you manage to form friendships with other detainees. Describe with the community was like and how it helped you. Get through your time at guantanamo. Let me love earth because this is to stake for this question. First of all. When he arrived at guantanamo we had no briefest shared with each other as detainees. When you have arrived there it's like everything was new thing was different when when when the first time they took hold of my head like. I thought i might help. I did so everything was taken from us old. Everything was but they tried to take our names which taken with come numbers we had you know if what makes us as a human being like what who are. It is your own in your memory as your value. You knowledge your ethics your faith. This mix person as a person for us guantanamo. They tried to take all of that data to to turn us something. We weren't so at that list. We had really each other. We totally disconnected from the from the world. We i mean we didn't where where or was going to happen to us. We want us to talk lot stand. We're not allowed to pray. Wouldn't allow to do anything like they tried to control every single thinking i would live of course as a tribal man i like for me. It doesn't make any sense. This is so wrong. I started like this. Obey the guards. We managed to do our first protests an hunger strike and we managed. We need to have to gain some. Some basic rights talked down to pray and at least to stop the guy from waking up to for hours from sleep. we started. At that time the hardship guantanamo formed. It's kind of like brotherhood and friendship. Whatever mission one small detail. Not just the detainees were victims of guantanamo also. Those guards and qassam confess where victims of the machinery of guantanamo. So at that time we started how we friend from the of the friendship and brotherhood we started well like become part of his life. When you when you live with someone five. Ten years we become part of your life with barth part of each other life. We we pill we build build memories relationship and so on so we start sharing what we have the knowledge we have we start ditch about cokes about marriage classes about Multicolor because at once there was all kinds of people. Teachers doctors journalist diverse mafias scholars. So that knowledge going to help us to survive. We'll continue our conversation about the guantanamo bay detention camp and men sewer a day fees memoir. Don't forget us here. Lost and found at guantanamo. In just a moment this message comes from. Npr sponsor basf north american chairman and ceo..
This Week with George Stephanopoulos
"general miller" Discussed on This Week with George Stephanopoulos
"Once i'd be moved out to the country then onwards to another location where they will be housed. Look after while they're trying process and eventually hopefully get into the united states. Thanks so much. Ian panel for your extraordinary reporting the biden administration has come under heavy criticism for its evacuation. Planning as those chaotic scenes outside the kabul airport highlight the desperation of thousands attempting to flee the taliban and on friday the president firmly pledged to bring home all americans and our afghan allies. I sat down exclusively with defense secretary. Lloyd austin at the pentagon to see how that can be done and began by asking if all will be evacuated by the august thirty first deadline. We're gonna try our very best to get everybody every american citizen. Who wants to get out out. And we're we continue to look at different ways to to In creative ways to to reach out and contact american citizens and and help them get into Into the deerfield you said american citizens. What about those afghans. What about those interpreters. What about the people who are desperately. Call absolutely the the The people that are in the Special immigrant visa program are are very very important to us. And these would be the The interpreters and many of the the the staff that supported our embassy In and other embassies by the way we want to evacuate them as well. We asked the president to extend the deadline. They're not we're gonna continue to assess The situation and Again work as hard as we can to get as many people out as possible and as we approach that deadline We'll we'll we'll make a recommendation to the president. Why aren't american troops able to go out into kabul and help. Those americans help those afghans. Who helped americans get to the airport. We have been out we. You saw an Evidence of an operation the other day where we flew a couple of over to that was a very short distance thousand yards but but Certainly it helped hundred. Sixty-nine American citizens get get into the into the gate without Without issues you've got tens of thousands of people out there desperate to get to the airport surrounded by the taliban. So why can't the us in convoys out there if you have an american passport and if you have the right credentials. The taliban has been allowing people to to to pass safely through not now cases. There's no such thing as an absolute in this kind of environment as you would imagine Martha there there. There have been incidents of people You know having some some tough encounters with with taliban as we learn about those incidents we certainly go back and engaged taliban leadership and and And press home to them that our expectation is that they allow You are people with the with the appropriate credentials to get through the through the checkpoints further out into kabul. There are people desperate to get in there with the most capable military in the world. We we are and and that most capable military in the world's going to make sure that our that airfield remains secure and safe and we're going to defend that airfield. We're going to look at every everyone every means possible to get To get american citizens third-country nationals special immigrant visa applicants Into the airfield. What is the threat level now at the airport. I won't get into any specific intelligence assessments but But you know that environment well enough. You've been there many many times. That is there's a mix of threats in the environment. We saw those first days of people clinging to airplanes falling to their death. Absolute utter chaos. And that's still going on outside the airport. How did this happen very disturbing images Indeed martha as we Moved into the airfield and began to secure the ear. Feel there are a number of So they got onto the airfield before we get completely sealed off And that was caused by the panic that was created because the government simply dissolved and the security forces evaporated. The president told our george stephanopoulos that he doesn't think this exit could have been handled any better way. That chaos would ensue. No matter what do you agree with that. I agree that If if the government collapses to the degree that it did at the security forces evaporate at the speed that they did You clearly have chaos. And that's that's what we saw. Let's go back to the planning. We closed. I was over there with with general miller and there were concerns about closing barroom. There were concerns about afghan interpreters at the point. Who whose job was it to worry about those interpreters. Those afghans risk our goal is to keep the embassy open and also provide a security element In around kabul international To protect the embassy and and and protect our interest in any immediate immediate area in terms of whose job it is whose job was To address the Special immigrant visa applicants. It's all of our job. It's an inter inter agency process. That's really you or led by the By the state department But but but it's all of our responsibility. Are you get them all out of there. I know all your people here working hard but there's no real way to get this done right now i'm sure that if if people you know five days ago looked at where we were They would say you probably can't get very much done at all If you look at what we're doing now and taking evacuating thousands of people every day. It really has had a tremendous piece of work in terms of what will be able accomplish going forward. I might you can't We can't Place a you know a specific figure on On on exactly what will be able to do. But i'll just tell you that we're going to try to exceed expectations and do as much as we can and take care of as many people as we can for as long as we can. I know the president has said that the intelligence absolutely did not show that anybody that the taliban could take over in eleven days. What what's the earliest. You were aware that that could happen. Assessments that ranged initially from one to two years to talk to you know several months But it was a wide range of Assessments and as as the taliban Began to make gains and then we saw that In a number of cases is there was less fighting and And more Surrendering and more forces just kind of evaporating. It was very difficult to predict with. Accuracy is all occurred in a in a span of about eleven days. Nobody predicted that the government would fall in eleven days when you look at the planning. I mean joe biden has said he wanted to get out of there for years and years so it was probably pretty certain that he would say that. Do you believe as you look at it now. And the military loves to plan for the worst case that the planning was acceptable and appropriate. I do based upon You know the the What we were looking at in the inputs to the plant. But i think you have to go back and look at what What the administration inherited. I mean we came in and we were faced with a may one deadline to To have all forces out of the country this this deal had been struck with the talent and so he had two very rampantly go through A detailed assessment and look at all options in terms of what What what he could do. And and none of those options were good options. They went through a very rigorous process very detailed process. He listened to To the input that was provided by all of the The stakeholders in the In the interagency agency process and and and so at the end of the day. The president made his decision but again He was faced with A situation where there were no good options. All were very tough. Did you wanna see a small force remained in afghanistan martha and you know. I'm not gonna tell you what What my recommendation to our to our president was I would just tell you that That like Everyone else The president Listen to our our input Again he conducted a very rigorous and thoughtful process. And he made a decision and i support that decision. What do you think the final outcome will be there. I've gotten out of the the The business of making predictions long long ago but I think that's That's a chapter that she had to be written. Obviously it is indeed our thanks to secretary austin. Now let's get a response from republican. Senator joni ernst member of the armed services committee and the first female combat veteran elected to the senate. Good morning to you senator. You heard secretary austin. Say they're looking at every possible way.
This Week with George Stephanopoulos
"general miller" Discussed on This Week with George Stephanopoulos
"Once i'd be moved out to the country then onwards to another location where they will be housed. Look after while they're trying process and eventually hopefully get into the united states. Thanks so much. Ian panel for your extraordinary reporting the biden administration has come under heavy criticism for its evacuation. Planning as those chaotic scenes outside the kabul airport highlight the desperation of thousands attempting to flee the taliban and on friday the president firmly pledged to bring home all americans and our afghan allies. I sat down exclusively with defense secretary. Lloyd austin at the pentagon to see how that can be done and began by asking if all will be evacuated by the august thirty first deadline. We're gonna try our very best to get everybody every american citizen. Who wants to get out out. And we're we continue to look at different ways to to In creative ways to to reach out and contact american citizens and and help them get into Into the deerfield you said american citizens. What about those afghans. What about those interpreters. What about the people who are desperately. Call absolutely the the The people that are in the Special immigrant visa program are are very very important to us. And these would be the The interpreters and many of the the the staff that supported our embassy In and other embassies by the way we want to evacuate them as well. We asked the president to extend the deadline. They're not we're gonna continue to assess The situation and Again work as hard as we can to get as many people out as possible and as we approach that deadline We'll we'll we'll make a recommendation to the president. Why aren't american troops able to go out into kabul and help. Those americans help those afghans. Who helped americans get to the airport. We have been out we. You saw an Evidence of an operation the other day where we flew a couple of over to that was a very short distance yards but but Certainly it helped hundred. Sixty-nine American citizens get get into the into the gate without Without issues you've got tens of thousands of people out there desperate to get to the airport surrounded by the taliban. So why can't the us in convoys out there if you have an american passport and if you have the right credentials. The taliban has been allowing people to to to pass safely through not now cases. There's no such thing as an absolute in this kind of environment as you would imagine Martha there there. There have been incidents of people You know having some some tough encounters with with taliban as we learn about those incidents we certainly go back and engaged taliban leadership and and And press home to them that our expectation is that they allow You are people with the with the appropriate credentials to get through the through the checkpoints further out into kabul. There are people desperate to get in there with the most capable military in the world. We we are and and that most capable military in the world's going to make sure that our that airfield remains secure and safe and we're going to defend that airfield. We're going to look at every everyone every means possible to get to get american citizens third-country nationals Special immigrant visa applicants Into the airfield. What is the threat level now at the airport. I won't get into any specific intelligence assessments but But you know that environment well enough. You've been there many many times. That is there's a mix of threats in the environment. We saw those first days of people clinging to airplanes falling to their death. Absolute utter chaos. And that's still going on outside the airport. How did this happen very disturbing images Indeed martha as we Moved into the airfield and began to secure the ear. Feel there are a number of So they got onto the airfield before we get completely sealed off And that was caused by the panic that was created because the government simply dissolved and the security forces evaporated. The president told our george stephanopoulos that he doesn't think this exit could have been handled any better way. That chaos would ensue. No matter what do you agree with that. I agree that If if the government collapses to the degree that it did at the security forces evaporate at the speed that they did You clearly have chaos. And that's that's what we saw. Let's go back to the planning. We closed. I was over there with with general miller and there were concerns about closing barroom. There were concerns about afghan interpreters at the point. Who whose job was it to worry about. Those interpreters those afghans at risk our goal is to keep the embassy open and also Provide a security element In around kabul international To protect the embassy and and and protect our interest in any immediate immediate area in terms of whose job it is whose job was To address the Special immigrant visa applicants. It's all of our job. It's an inter inter agency process. That's really you or led by the By the state department But but it's all of our responsibility. Are you get them all out of there. I know all your people here working hard but there's no real way to get this done right now. I'm sure that if If people you know five days ago looked at where we were They would say you probably can't get very much done at all If you look at what we're doing now and taking evacuating thousands of people every day. It really has had a tremendous piece of work in terms of what will be able accomplish going forward. I might you can't We can't Place a you know a specific figure on On on exactly what will be able to do. But i'll just tell you that we're going to try to exceed expectations and do as much as we can and take care of as many people as we can for as long as we can. I know the president has said that the intelligence absolutely did not show that anybody that the taliban could take over in eleven days. What what's the earliest. You were aware that that could happen. There are assessments that ranged initially from one to two years to to you know several months but it was a wide range of Assessments and as as the taliban Began to make gains and then we saw that In a number of cases is there was less fighting and And more Surrendering and more forces just kind of evaporating. It was very difficult to predict with. Accuracy is all occurred in a in a span of about eleven days. Nobody predicted that the government would fall in eleven days when you look at the planning. I mean joe biden has said he wanted to get out of there for years and years so it was probably pretty certain that he would say that. Do you believe as you look at it now. And the military loves to plan for the worst case that the planning was acceptable and appropriate. I do based upon You know the the What we were looking at in the inputs to the plant. But i think you have to go back and look at what What the administration inherited. I mean we came in and we were faced with a may one deadline to To have all forces out of the country this this deal had been struck with the talent and so he had two very rampantly go through A detailed assessment and look at all options in terms of what What what he could do. And and none of those options were good options. They went through a very rigorous process very detailed process. He listened to To the input that was provided by all of the The stakeholders in the In the interagency agency process and and and so at the end of the day. The president made his decision but again He was faced with A situation where there there were no good options. All were very tough. Did you wanna see a small force remained in afghanistan martha and you know. I'm not gonna tell you what What my recommendation to our to our president was I would just tell you that That like Everyone else The president Listen to our our input Again he conducted a very rigorous and thoughtful process. And he made a decision and i support that decision. What do you think the final outcome will be there. I've gotten out of the the The business of making predictions long long ago but I think that's That's a chapter that she had to be written. Obviously it is indeed our thanks to secretary austin. Now let's get a response from republican. Senator joni ernst member of the armed services committee and the first female combat veteran elected to the senate..
The Economist: The Intelligence
"general miller" Discussed on The Economist: The Intelligence
"Over the weekend. The last american troops departed from the from army base. The nerve center of american operations in afghanistan. We're on track exactly the where we expect it to be. It's the notional end of america's longest war twenty years after an american invasion and an insurgency by taliban militants that just never stopped as america and allied nato forces head for the exit. A resurgence taliban continues to make gains particularly across the country's north as government forces. Fled this weekend. videos emerged. Taliban soldiers standing over piles of captured weapons. A taliban spokesperson told the bbc. The all american troops must leave by america's september eleventh deadline. They agreed while you were shaking. The doha agreement that all their forces. It's chillingly reminiscent of another foreign power. Withdrawal that of the soviets in the late nineteen eighty s the fear now the increasing reality now is a return to widespread taliban control with all that that entails shadow governments enforcing sharia law and scattered civilian militias battling to keep the peace. The feeling in kabul at the moment is really quite anxious. There's wave after wave of bad news. Coming from the district's ben. Farmer covers afghanistan and pakistan for the economist and has been reporting in kabul. The taliban has been involved. Seeing almost unchecked through large parts of the country particularly through the north is really sparking. A sense of deepening dread among ordinary afghans.
News Radio 1190 KEX
"general miller" Discussed on News Radio 1190 KEX
"General Miller will be able to say he's completed the mission. Bringing US troops home. ABC is Martha Attitudes Been in Afghanistan joins me now to talk about it. What are hope and morale like in Afghanistan among the people right now, with the U. S troops leaving, I think people are genuinely And realistically, very concerned about what happens next and the Afghan forces to and what General Miller's talking about. There is what's happened over the past few months, the Taliban is sweeping through. Big massive parts of Afghanistan and as these Afghan forces either are forced to surrender or are massacred. The morale and the psychological effect of that is very, very powerful for those forces. And then, of course, that spreads out to the people themselves. When you're talking about Bagram air Base, This is a huge place and it's Pretty much abandoned. Now, What does that make you feel like when you spent yourself so much time there and the troops as well. And the people of Afghanistan. It really was quite emotional. I have walked around that base so many, many times I took off in an F 15 combat flight in the back seat of an F 15. About 10 years ago. So there are so many memories. We basically waged war from that air base. It is a pretty powerful reminder of how much has happened in that country and what has not happened and remembering that I was also in the last convoy out of Iraq and we were back years later, because Isis that also is very vibrant in my memory as well. I believe that General Miller and others are concerned about that. I've I think interviewed almost every one of the I think nine commanders who've been over there and they all said the Afghan troops are better with the U. S. But they also said Look, we can train them. We can train them. I don't think you're seeing the results of that training that guarantees a good outcome here, and it's something that I think everybody has to keep their eye on. Thoughts also turned to Donald Rumsfeld. What did you have to say about his passing? And what kind of a person he was? Defense Secretary Rumsfeld was a huge personality. He loved being the center of attention in those press briefings, but he was behind the invasion in Afghanistan. Certainly after 9 11 And Iraq. He was a complicated person. You know, I've read a lot of obituaries and thoughts about him. And people either loved him or not. He was difficult to cover. Frankly, he really was. But his place in history as fully associated with these two wars, ABC is Martha.
This Week with George Stephanopoulos
"general miller" Discussed on This Week with George Stephanopoulos
"On that one but very much on his mind what happened when all. Us troops pulled out of iraq and then isis moved in. I wanted just go back to the iraq. D think about iraq when we're leaving here and what happened in iraq when we left. Oh absolutely i mean. That's that's that's on everybody's mind again. These are judgements that we have to make balance our national interest. Whatever happens here in the future. Says the general does not take away from the accomplishments of those who served but says there are lessons. that should be learned. How do you think this war will be remembered. Would like us not. Just turn our backs on us. I think there there are tremendous lessons and You know they're not all positives. And there's victories as well so we can celebrate those But good organizations Really learn from those things that didn't go as well as they want to an honest self reflection that that's going to be important going forward indeed it is for more now on us troop withdrawal. Let's bring in someone who has spent fifteen years reporting on afghanistan especially the plight of women there gaels amok lemond a junked senior fellow at the council on foreign relations and author of the dressmaker of car. Khanna good to see you gail. I have heard general after general as you have say. Just give us a little more time. Politicians say it as well and yet you cannot call this a successful effort given what's going on with the taliban so when you look at it why isn't biden right just pulling out those troops. Afghanistan has always been a story of dark clouds in green shoots. And they've lived right alongside each other and what you saw depended on where you said and i think the moment now is not about the military piece the moment now is about. What is the political future. What's going to happen in terms of economic development in eight. And how do you keep people safe who have supported the united states for the past nineteen years. General miller told me he didn't think the taliban change we're negotiating with the taliban right now but he doesn't think they've really changed from nineteen ninety to twenty twenty one. So how do you negotiate with them. When they're taking over the country so afghanistan twenty twenty one is not afghanistan. Nine hundred ninety six. When the toll bunch swept kabul and kabul is a very different place in rapidly urbanizing country. Think about this. Two-thirds of the country is twenty five and under. They don't even remember the last time around and the question is how do you protect the gains made by young people who have fought every single day for a brighter future. And i know you've been in communication with afghan women often are. What are you hearing. Senator jeanne shaheen says she wants some sort of law helping women over there. Can we really do that. How much influence do we really have at this point. Yeah i mean the. Us has leveraged first of all the united states there is diplomatic leverage. There has to be a push. There has to be a push we've gone and there has to be a push for a conversation that includes the discussion of what happens with women right. That aid going forward in the future has to have some relevance to that. Secondly think about what's happened. You know herat. University is fifty one percent female right. They most of the people applying for her university or women. You have this whole generation that it looks very different. Has the tobon changed. Most people living under tobon rules say no. It hasn't but there's no question that it understands. The environment is coming back into is very different than one left when it left power and while it might have technicals and technical vehicles it doesn't have technocrats and it knows it needs engineers doctors and all of that to govern so yes the us has leverage. Well we hope they have a bright future but very concerned still always great to talk to you. Great to.
KOMO
"general miller" Discussed on KOMO
"Invested. They have to hold. The Afghan security forces have to hold any thoughts as you leave this space as you leave them. You wonder if this is the last time you're going to see this base? Will you be back in the future? And in a few weeks time, General Miller will be able to say he's completed the mission of bringing US troops home. ABC's Martha Raddatz, who's been in Afghanistan joins me now to talk about it. What are hope and morale like in Afghanistan among the people right now, with the U. S troops, leaving I think people are genuinely and realistically very concerned about what happens next and the Afghan forces to and what General Miller is talking about. There is what's happened over the past few months the Taliban is sweeping through. Big massive parts of Afghanistan and as these Afghan forces either are forced to surrender or are massacred. The morale and the psychological effect of that is very, very powerful for those forces. And then, of course, that spreads out to the people themselves. When you're talking about Bagram air Base, This is a huge place and it's pretty much abandoned. Now. What does that make you feel like when you spent yourself so much time there and the troops as well? And the people of Afghanistan? It really was quite emotional. I have walked around that day. So many, many times I took off in an F 15 combat flight in the back seat of an F 15 about 10 years ago. So there are so many memories. We basically waged war from that air base. It is a pretty powerful reminder of how much has happened in that country. And what has not happened and remembering that I was also in the last convoy out of Iraq and we were back years later, because Isis that also is very vibrant in my memory as well. I believe that General Miller and others are concerned about that. I've think interviewed almost every one of the I think nine commanders who've been over there and they all said the Afghan troops are better with the U. S. But they also said Look, we can train them. We can train him. I don't think you're seeing the results of that training that guarantees a good outcome here, and it's something that I think everybody has to keep their eye on. Thoughts also turned to Donald Rumsfeld. What did you have to say about his passing? And what kind of a person he was? Defense Secretary Rumsfeld was a huge personality. He loved being the center of attention in those press briefings, but he was behind the invasion in Afghanistan. Certainly after 9 11 And Iraq. He was a complicated person. You know, I've read a lot of obituaries and thoughts about him. And people either loved him or not. He was difficult to cover. Frankly, he really was. But his place in history as fully associated with these two wars, ABC is Martha Raddatz. Thank you again and appreciate.
KTAR 92.3FM
"general miller" Discussed on KTAR 92.3FM
"Future, and in a few weeks time, General Miller will be able to say he's completed the mission. Bringing US troops home. ABC's Martha Attitudes Been in Afghanistan joins me now to talk about it. What are hope and morale like in Afghanistan among the people right now, with the U. S troops leaving, I think people are genuinely And realistically, very concerned about what happens next and the Afghan forces to and what General Miller's talking about. There is what's happened over the past few months, the Taliban is sweeping through. Big massive parts of Afghanistan and as these Afghan forces either are forced to surrender or are massacred. The morale and the psychological effect of that is very, very powerful for those forces. And then, of course, that spreads out to the people themselves. When you're talking about Bagram air Base, This is a huge place and it's pretty much abandoned. Now. What does that make you feel like when you spent yourself so much time there and the troops as well? And the people of Afghanistan? It really was quite emotional. I have walked around that base so many, many times I took off in an F 15 combat flight in the back seat of an F 15 about 10 years ago. So there are so many memories. We basically waged war from that air base. It is a pretty powerful reminder of how much has happened in that country. And what has not happened and remembering that I was also in the last convoy out of Iraq and we were back years later, because Isis that also is very vibrant in my memory as well. I believe that General Miller and others are concerned about that. I've think interviewed almost every one of the I think nine commanders who've been over there and they all said the Afghan troops are better with the U. S. But they also said, Look, we can train them. We can train them. I don't think you're seeing the results of that training that guarantees a good outcome here, and it's something that I think everybody has to keep their eye on. Thoughts also turned to Donald Rumsfeld. What did you have to say about his passing? And what kind of a person he was Defense Secretary Rumsfeld was a huge personality. He loved being the center of attention in those press briefings, but he was behind the invasion in Afghanistan. Certainly after 9 11 And Iraq. He was a complicated person. You know, I've read a lot of obituaries and thoughts about him. And people either loved him or not. He was difficult to cover. Frankly, he really was. But his place in history is fully associated with these two wars. ABC is Martha Raddatz. Thank.
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Pentagon: US Troops to Leave Afghanistan by End of August
"Confirmed Friday. They expect all US troops except for a few 100 will be out of Afghanistan by the end of August, weeks ahead of their September 11th goal. Military members who are there are concerned even with some 650 troops remaining to protect the embassy and Kabul airport. General Miller worries about civil war and worse, he said. Al Qaeda is still in Afghanistan and the threat to the US remains A B
World News This Week
"general miller" Discussed on World News This Week
"Airfield once home to thirty thousand. Us troops now nearly abandoned the jets gone. Nearly everything gone. This is what packing up. Twenty years of war in afghanistan looks like the. us had a mission when they invaded afghanistan. Right after nine. Eleven to denial kaieda a base of operations and deter attacks on the us homeland from taliban safe haven but two decades later the taliban remains and the biden administration is drawing this mission to a close four star. General austin scott miller is overseeing the withdrawal. He has spent nearly nine of the last. Twenty years on deployments and is now the longest serving general in afghanistan at three years. Paramount is is safety and security of the troops. You've gotten a ton out already. How do you assure that they're safe. Clear objective is not only safe but an orderly withdrawal. If there are attacks we certainly have the ability to respond to those. But as american troops depart fear that large swamps of afghanistan are falling back into the hands of the taliban despaired of attacks dramatically increasing. I've been in kabul here several days. Talk to a lot of afghans. They're very concerned that the taliban will move into coppell. How likely is that. I understand that concern. It goes back to Trying to understand the security situation Across the country if you go back to what the taliban's objectives are they want to take over and so some point. There's a you know that implies at some point they are in kabul throughout two decades the us lost nearly twenty four hundred servicemembers and poured over two trillion dollars into this war. What happens next in afghanistan. General miller tells us left up to the afghan people. This is their country. There's been a you know a lot. Invested as you mentioned at the outset and With that investment it's You know how to describe it. They have to hold. The afghan security forces have to hold the same year. that america is getting out of afghanistan. The man who helped launched the war former defense secretary donald rumsfeld died presidents ford and george w bush both made donald rumsfeld their defense secretary. He helped lead the fight in afghanistan and iraq. President bush eventually fired him after the rising number of us casualties from iraqi insurgents long after the us declared victory rumsfeld began his political career as a republican illinois congressman before moving into white house positions. Rumsfeld's family saying he died of multiple myeloma at eighty eight. Abc's andy field in washington. On sunday president biden ordered airstrikes on iranian-backed militia's white house press secretary. Jen psaki says. The strikes are in response to attacks on american personnel in the region. The president's view is that It was necessary appropriate and deliberate Action These strikes designed to limit the risk of escalation We will take and he believes we will should and we'll take necessary. Inappropriate measures defend. Us personnel partners and allies in the region. The second time president biden ordered airstrikes in the region on wednesday. The house voted mostly along party lines to create a new special committee to investigate the deadly january six siege on the us capitol house speaker. Nancy pelosi points. Gop representative liz. Cheney to the select committee to investigate the january sixth right. We're very honored and proud that she has agreed to serve on the committee representative. Cheney has been an outspoken critic of former president trump and says she's honored to be named the committee house minority leader. Kevin mccarthy says he was shocked to learn of the appointment and questioned. Cheney's place in the republican party. Mccarthy is allowed to appoint five republicans with pelosi having ultimate say. The select committee will have subpoena power. I jaji abc news washington on tuesday. The house passed a bill to remove from the us capital statues and busts of those who either served in or supported the confederacy house minority leader. Kevin mccarthy supported the measure but stressed that the statues came from democrats. What's interesting the statues that need to be removed were sent to the capital by states that were majority controlled by democrats sent to a house that had a majority controlled by democrats accepting of these statues majority whip james clyburn rebuffed mccarthy in nineteen sixty four when democrats came together and decided that they were going to pass the civil rights act of nineteen sixty. Four strom thurmond. The democrat left. The democratic party became a republican and took all of those segregationists with him into the south carolina. Republican party south carolina. Republican party built itself on the confederate battle flag to bill now faces an uphill battle in the senate one of the final opinions released by the us supreme court. This term affects how state voting rules can be challenged under federal civil rights law in a six to three opinion the. Us supreme court upheld two arizona election restrictions and said they do not violate the voting rights act of nineteen sixty five. The restrictions toss out ballots cast out of precinct and band community. Groups are campaigns from collecting ballots. Democrats in arizona said the ballot collection restriction was enacted with a discriminatory purpose but the supreme court disagreed writing for the majority justice alito said plaintiffs. Were unable to show the extent to which the measure disproportionately burdens minorities aaron katersky. Abc news new york. This is the most conservative supreme court in a generation but abc news. Washington correspondent devon dwyer says looking back at the cases decided this term. There was astonishing consensus thirty four opinions. In cases they were argued this year. Where nine to nothing. Or with just one justice descending that sixty one percent a sign that chief justice roberts is still wielded some influence here trying to bring this court out of the political fray but every term is different. Abc's dwyer on monday. A federal judge throughout the federal trade commissions claims that facebook is a social media monopoly. What the judge was was was basically suggesting that you need to do a better job. About more narrowly defining what this market should look like. We'll reinhart is a senior fellow at utah state center for growth and opportunity going forward. I think much easier cases to bring something against facebook or google or amazon in their advertising space particularly google and facebook. The ftc has thirty days to refile the complaint. Most of the western part of the country is in the grips of a severe drought or worse and several states are facing the prospects of what could be another deadly and devastating summer fire season. President biden met virtually with several governors to talk about responsive for its and the realities of climate change. President biden is asking governors from western states. What the federal government can do to help with the threat of drought heat and wildfires choosers. Were playing catch up. This is an area that has been under-resourced but that's gonna change the biden administration announced. It will raise wages a federal firefighters to fifteen dollars an hour. Plus get a ten percent bonus to those on the front lines. We can't cut corners when it comes to managing wildfires are supporting our firefighters officials. The abc news washington worries over wildfires. Come as a record. breaking heat. Wave settled over the pacific northwest. This week the death toll is still rising from triple digit temperatures. Abc news chief meteorologist. Ginger zee explains why this unprecedented heat is so deadly. It's not that places in the pacific northwest. Have never been hot. But they've never been this hot and they haven't been hot like this for days on end region searching for any sort of relief with the historic heat dome hovering over the pacific northwest one other really big factor. That.
World News This Week
"general miller" Discussed on World News This Week
"Us military has left barham airfield in afghanistan as part of the troop withdrawal abc news. Chief global affairs correspondent. Martha raddatz visited afghanistan and spoke with the general overseeing the pullout we are flying over bog rem airfield once home to thirty thousand. Us troops now nearly abandoned the jets gone. Nearly everything gone. This is what packing up. Twenty years of war in afghanistan looks like the. us had a mission when they invaded afghanistan. Right after nine. Eleven to denial kaieda a base of operations and deter attacks on the us homeland from taliban safe haven but two decades later the taliban remains and the biden administration is drawing this mission to a close four star. General austin scott miller is overseeing the withdrawal. He has spent nearly nine of the last. Twenty years on deployments and is now the longest serving general in afghanistan at three years. Paramount is is safety and security of the troops. You've gotten a ton out already. How do you assure that they're safe. Clear objective is not only safe but an orderly withdrawal. If there are attacks we certainly have the ability to respond to those. But as american troops depart fear that large swamps of afghanistan are falling back into the hands of the taliban despaired of attacks dramatically increasing. I've been in kabul here several days. Talk to a lot of afghans. They're very concerned that the taliban will move into coppell. How likely is that. I understand that concern. It goes back to Trying to understand the security situation Across the country if you go back to what the taliban's objectives are they want to take over and so some point. There's a you know that implies at some point they are in kabul
WBSM 1420
"general miller" Discussed on WBSM 1420
"Global warming. Not a joke. You got me laughing cause he starts with the KKK. White supremacy is the biggest threat we've got. And then he goes on to global warming. I think even his friends that her lives his friends in the progressive movement is saying Joe Sir. We stopped using the term global warming a long time ago. We go with climate change now so we can if the weather changes at all. We blame it on that. Hello, but he didn't get the point. No. Instead. Joel Bob also, Biden says, You know what? That was the intelligence community. Then he says no. That's according to the The second one. Hold on, Don't go anywhere. That's according to the military. The joint chiefs now He has this meeting. With an actual general and the general says in a hearing yesterday. We do have a number one threat. And here's what it is. Listen to this. I think China is the number one military threat as we go forward, But I also acknowledge that Russia is a considerable great power competitor. General Mark Milley. All right, So we remember General Milley and he says now whether we like General Miller or not, he said, general, and he's a general. That's not saying the biggest enemy of the United States are the biggest threat that we face comes from climate change or comes from White supremacy. I mean, it's just a setback to think that any of the stuff is actually coming out of the mouth of the leader of the Free world. The president the United States, Joe and bubble, so Biden, but This is why we make fun of him because he gives us so much material to work with. I want you to listen to this real that Mr Producer put together. Check this out. We all these truths to be self revenue. All men and women created by go, you know that. You know.