to war, congratulations. that part at least is back. joining us is retired u.s. army colonel jack jacobs. he s also a recipient of the melding of honor which is our nation s highest military honor. thanks for being here. let me ask you about the first question i raised about the president s speech tonight. what do you think the president means when he says we re going to participate in economic development to help defray the cost of this war to us? do you know what he s talking about? the first conclusion i m going to be facetious, but the first conclusion is we re going to harvest poppys. no, i think you re right. it sounds like we are going to be involved in extricating release mineral wealth, though i
engaged in the same thing altogether and everybody helped out. everybody was loaning each other their glasses and showing their contraptions. it was one of the sweetest new york moments i ve ever had in this city. everybody was a person with something in common in that moment. yeah, absolutely. thank you, my friend. thank you. thanks to you at home after are joining us for the second round of our show tonight. we re back with you tonight for a special coverage following the president s announcement of what he called a new afghan war strategy tonight. i think it has to be noted that it is a vague new afghan war strategy, if it is new at all. we ve got colonel jack jacobs with us here tonight. he s a recipient of the highest military honor that we have in this country, the medal of honor, he s also a military analyst. we ve also got live with us congresswoman barbara lee of california. she s famous for having dast lone vote in congress against the use of military force.
draft deferments during the vietnam war. the president also made headlines with controversial remarks about the purple heart john mccain and gold star family who criticized him. if you look at his wife, she was standing there, had nothing to say, maybe she wasn t allowed to have anything to say. he s not a war hero. he s a war hero. he s a war hero because he was captured. i like people that weren t captured. a man came up to me and he handed me his purple heart. i said, man, that s like big stuff. i always wanted to get the purple heart. corey lewandowski was right, greatest communicator of all time. first time in office awarded the highest military honor to a hero
of ten members of his company before collapsing, himself. despite his own wounds he refused a flight out and he stayed. he refused a direct order to stay back and ventured out in the open kill zone four separate times. he spent a year in vietnam and came home and became a high school teacher. he has retired for a decade and now this. for some context we had a medal of honor recipient in this room a few minutes ago. senator bob carry and we had one on friday night. those are two men out of only 72 men alive who have received their nation s highest military honor. now that list includes james mccloughan. they deserve the respect and thanks of a grateful nation.
mnuchin, secretary mattis, and members of the armed forces. thank you for joining us as we award our nation s highest military honor to specialist 5 james c. mclewin. today we pay tribute to a veteran who went above and beyond the call of duty to protect our comrades, our country and our freedom. joining jim today is his wife sharee, his brothers mike and tom, his sons jamie and matt, and many other members of his very large and beautiful family. we re also gratified to be joined by eight previous medal of honor recipients. now, jim s name will stand