profiting from slavery. pete: absolutely they are. you know, david, is it that the elites don t understand the nature of the enemy or too in bed with them to stand up to them. i remember you taught me, frankly, what you earned the medal of honor for in fallujah, you described a cocktail of islamists that you faced and nature of that enemy. you understood who they were. do our elites just not understand or can they just not bring themselves to confront it? hey, when we re watching a holiday movie where matt damon is stranded on mars and seemed to have gone to mashz with american rockets but he can t get home unless he gets chinese rockets, we know exactly who we re bowed down to serve here. this is about money. and as long as you have leadership in washington, pete, there were plenty of businesses that wanted to get close to the imperial japanese before pearl harbor. they had leadership across the board that said these are not our friends. and as long as you allow the chinese govern
was in fallujah. we had a sea between us. so we would work combat operations together along that border to get after the enemy in places they didn t think we d get after them. he s very meticulous. very disciplined. he s got a great sense of humor. i found him fun to work with because he s commonsense and pragmatic. i was listening to your half hour engagement with the rest of the panel. i think john s going to get in there and he will not put up with some of the bs that s been going on in the white house. so he will exude a management style. he will help the president, i believe, get some things under control that we all know have been completely out of control since the president took office and he ll put a lot of discipline into the operation. he won t take the crap from some of the people that have been dishing it out. i see a picture of him and
job as secretary of homeland security. incredible. one of our real stars. truly one of our stars. john kelly is one of our great stars. that was before it was announced priebus was out. he s a four-star retired marine general. you reported on the pentagon for years, have a lot of experience with general kelly. explain his background and experience. four star marine, anderson. very close to defense secretary james mattis. and the current chairman of the joint chief of staffs, also currently serving four-star marine. so he knows national security, even before he went to homeland security. this is a guy who knows how to run a large organization. he served in iraq in combat in western iraq in umbar, in fallujah. so he s seen very tough times. donald trump likes his generals.
they moved quickly. this chemical weapons happened tuesday. by thursday night 59 cruise missiles were fired from two war ships in the eastern mediterranean. there you go. taking out the air field where the weapons were launched. decisive use of american power. i hate to say it but it s like what russia did when it intervened in september 2015. it shows that power can be used quickly and decisively. general mattis, secretary of defense, is of all the four stars in the pentagon the person who was most consistently recommending do it, sir. do it. move with enough troops. get it done. he said that in tora bora, in fallujah and now said it in dealing with this problem. let s bring in secretary of defense william cohen. was this the right move and how would you advise the president on what to expect next? it certainly was the right move. the question is, it s good that xi jinping is in florida with
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