And also served as National Security adviser to president george w. Bush. David admiral, great to see you again. We are two days after veterans day and that was the occasion for this event. There are plenty of public issues right now that i want to ask you about, but i want to defer that for a moment and talk to you about service itself. And i want to start by talking about how you came by service, because you came by it naturally. You grew up in a family of service. Tell me about your dad, who was quite an interesting person. Adm. Mcraven first, thank you for the invitation to join you here today. This is terrific. I certainly enjoy spending time with you and the students of the iop. You are right, i kind of came by it naturally. My father was a world war ii fighter pilot. Flew spitfires, actually, which was a british airplane, because, at the time, when we entered the war, americans did not have planes to take on the german messersmith, so the british loaned us spitfires. But my gran
Forces, or if the taliban is cooperating with isis or ok, there is no evidence that started on is doing any of that. But nonetheless, the military is ignoring the president and the same thing is happening in syria where we learned the other day from jim jeffrey, who was the trumpet ministration point man on syria. That basically has been lying to the president. He has been misleading the president as to the actual troop numbers in syria. And although were going to get about 200 forces there, i dont doubt that if you know its at least 900 maybe even more. And what is so shocking about all of this is that he was very proud of having misled the president and the media were clapping and cheering. Oh, this is wonderful. That theres the deep state who all the National Security state is simply misleading. The elected commander in chief, so it is very troubling, as you know, given in just there are, you know, and when george just said there me and theres no consequences for obstruct the your,
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Ive told me a lot of well its good to have you with us covered 19 on the road to recovery thats the focus of a special session of the u. N. General assembly almost 100. 00 World Leaders are taking part in the 2 day summit coincides with the release of a u. N. Study that shows that more than 1000000000 people could be living in extreme poverty by 2030 due to the long term effects of the corona virus now the german chancellor Angela Merkel addressed the assembly via video link and she stressed the need for Global Cooperation to ensure equal access to vaccines around the world through 200. 00 need we must never forget the pandemic can only be truly beaten in the long 10 when everyone in the world has fat access to effective vaccines. Oh the coming the pandemic in the long term also means doing everything we can to a much stronger with regards to future challenges and crises to this and we need to close the International Cooperation above all with strong the International Organizations the
Possibly also from syria. And its, i find it quite odd that we keep hearing from the liberal media that trump may resort to a coup to stay in power. Well, looks to me that the pentagon, the National Security state, is committing a coup against trump in the last months of his residency by not obeying direct orders from the commander in chief, this is serious business. Go ahead, george. It is straight. Is serious because he is the commander in chief and he has a right to duty to implement his policy. And what were getting is that the pentagon is explicitly just ignoring the instructions from the commander in chief. So we get in afghanistan, in which the United States has actually signed an agreement with it, committing itself to withdrawing by early next year. And the pentagon decide whether or not that im not going to implement this policy. Theyre going to condition it on what the military regards as the situation on the ground. Even though theres nothing in the agreement with the talib