some of the testimony was combative. this is on the senate side on day two. what stood out most to you in terms of significance? the secretary reiterated what he said yet in terms of the defense of the biden administration and their decision to withdraw from afghanistan. as you heard him saying staying longer wouldn t have made the situation saying the processing for the siv process was sped up when senators asked why, he said it increased to 1,000 visas a week. he also discussed the fact that the situation on the ground, the u.s. is still in contact with those americans who are still there. about 100 of them. he said there are thousands of legal permanent residents still in afghanistan. that the united states is also in contact with. but this became a very partisan
does anybody really believe the california recall election isn t rigged? millions and millions of mail-in ballots will make this just another giant election scam. no different but less blatant than the 2020 presidential election scam. our panel is back with us. this is now a staple, i guess, of trump republican politics. just claim it s rigged. which the i yield the floor. donald trump s top three domestic legacy achievements. a generation of conservative j jurists on courts at every level. and the argument wrong that republicans cannot legitimately lose an election in america at this point in our history. it s really important. this is one of the big legty sis you hear at every level. even prominent republicans who came out and said he bore some responsibility. he was not telling the truth. those voices have for the most
he is the commander in chief. but there was clearly a lot of grappling behind the scenes with know his state of mind behind the scenes. in case he did something the top member of congress thought were beyond the pale and dangerous. the value of great reporting, you connected the dots. this is not just people, speaker pelosi, predisposed to think those bad things about him. they were picking up signals the chinese had indications things were happening. and god forbid there s a miscalculation as an american surveillance flight is flying somebody. a miscalculation in a situation like that can lead to horrible events. absolutely. he had had two phone calls with his counterpart in china, and it was clear from those conversations and the intelligence they were picking up that china was on the edge.
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dynamics out there before. you re getting brand new details. i want to come back. we were talking about the revelation about general milley, america s top general saying i need to get the commanders together. i m worried. he was worried that trump was going to try to do another rount and issue an order for military strikes in iran. if you get calls, he told them in a top secret pentagon meeting, no matter who they re from, there s a process here. there s a procedure. no matter what you re told, you do the process and procedure. i m part of that procedure. the significance there, there will be trump supporters who say deep state. the general is taking the president s power away. if you read what was said there, quite different. there is a procedure for launching nuclear weapons and that procedure has been honed over decades of the cold war. the president s the only person in the united states who can order a nuclear strike. the procedure calls for them to