doctors say the blood cancer can weaken the immune system, making him more vulnerable, even though he was fully vaccinated. he had been scheduled for the booster right when he came down with covid. powell s journey was an american journey. born to jamaican immigrants in harlem, powell grew up in the bronx, joining the army rotc in college, serving two combat tours in vietnam. powell once said when he first put on a uniform, he liked what he saw. powell would soon break through barriers, becoming a four-star general, serving under four presidents, republican and democrat. in 1991, overseeing the successful gulf war, when the u.s. ousted iraqi president saddam hussein from kuwait. his most controversial moment coming more than 20 years later. in 2003, as secretary of state, during a speech to the u.n., powell made the case for war,
the department of defense has never been lower. i can t find the time when an affirmative defense, the morale of the troops was lower. we had a shameful withdrawal from afghanistan due to the incompetence of the biden administration, secretary of defense, secretary of state, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, the national security adviser. this weighs heavily on our troops. i spent two combat tours in afghanistan, sustained combat for 20 years and when we left like the way we did it weighs heavily on our troops and there is no way to take that back at this point other than the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff resigning from his position. he should be held accountable for these types of things. laura: millie and others are
he still thinks that. it was a good thing, and i m not so sure. look at that. yeah, back from the. that s world war ii. is it? yep. multiple combat tours exacerbated issues that existed in our relationship and as a family. before, i would ve said we re a military family with a great deal of pride. now it s more tempered. this has affected us. it has changed who we are as individuals. it has changed who we are as a family unit as well. very, very different from before. and finally we take you to syria where displaced children have composed letters of peace.
bring you in here and talk about the president s view of defense policy. we must make clear to our audience that when you retired, you were the most decorated five-star general, having served four combat tours and having received three purple heart medals from battle. what struck you when you heard president biden reimagining national security policy as a matter of diplomacy and development with defense as a last resort? well, it s a welcome relief to hear rational, civil policy from president biden, comprehensive, well delivered. he sounds like aristotle compared to the embarrassment we suffered over the last four years. the ability to demonstrate anything in this biterly divided
this is colt. i believe in the right of self-defense but you don t need a an assault weapon or 1,000 rounds or piercing bullets to do that. my name is jason crow. i m the congress i represent many of the families of the aurora theater shooting. the columbine tragedy. i served overseas in three combat tours in iraq and afghanistan. there is a big reason why i didn t carry an assault weapons in the woods when i was deer hunting. it s also a really good reason why i didn t have any deer hunting rifle or duck hunting shotgun when i was in iraq and afghanistan. because the weapons i carried in afghanistan and iraq were weapons of war. they were designed toen flikt terrible damage on humans. and to take human lives and they