out or all in, i should say, in what may be a stalemate? given the difficulties that you describe? . no that s the last thing on my mind. and, you know, when the president turns to you in the oval office and asks you as the president and as your commander in chief to take on a task there is only one response. it s not yes but it s yes. geraldo: bill o reilly and i argue over this point continually but i ask you flat out, is the president and his policies, are they popular with the troops or, in o reilly s view, not so much? well, i don t think it s something for a senior military commander to vote on the president s policies. our job is to contribute to the development of policies, to provide our forth right military advice. try to do it quietly by the way. and then to support the president s decision. and we do that. and that is our constitutional duty. now, i happen to think that i
out or all in, i should say, in what may be a stalemate? given the difficulties that you describe? . no that s the last thing on my mind. and, you know, when the president turns to you in the oval office and asks you as the president and as your commander in chief to take on a task there is only one response. it s not yes but it s yes. geraldo: bill o reilly and i argue over this point continually but i ask you flat out, is the president and his policies, are they popular with the troops or, in o reilly s view, not so much? well, i don t think it s something for a senior military commander to vote on the president s policies. our job is to contribute to the development of policies, to provide our forth right military advice. try to do it quietly by the way. and then to support the president s decision. and we do that. and that is our constitutional duty. now, i happen to think that i
out or all in, i should say, in what may be a stalemate? given the difficulties that you describe? . no that s the last thing on my mind. and, you know, when the president turns to you in the oval office and asks you as the president and as your commander in chief to take on a task there is only one response. it s not yes but it s yes. geraldo: bill o reilly and i argue over this point continually but i ask you flat out, is the president and his policies, are they popular with the troops or, in o reilly s view, not so much? well, i don t think it s something for a senior military commander to vote on the president s policies. our job is to contribute to the development of policies, to provide our forth right military advice. try to do it quietly by the way. and then to support the president s decision. and we do that. and that is our constitutional duty. now, i happen to think that i
thought that juan tried to put it in the right context, but i wish that juan would have an opportunity to explain it, and we might hear more about what was really behind the firing. but you see, i think he explained it in the context of the interview, and he said to o reilly, you have to tamp down the rhetoric and you can t think that every muslim is a terrorist and so on which is a misrepresentation of o reilly s view, but he was trying to be moderating influence and the context of the of the person s remarks matter. but you have to be sensitive, because for many years, people see blacks and they got nervous thinking that they would rob them, and there is a sensitivity and it should not be wrapped in political correctness. and are you part of the group that thinks that the small percentage of funds that npr gets indirectly through the grants from the federal government should be cut off? oh, i have always thought so. this is a very dangerous
and go home to a victory parade. this will be, presumably more like the situation in iraq where winning is making progress. we do now think we are starting to make progress. there are clearly are areas that we have got to do a good bit more. again without question, the gains that have been achieved aren t solidified. this is not just about the conduct of anti-counter-terrorist force operations if you will, kill other capture bad guys. it is also about population centric operations. reporter: bill o reilly and i argue over this point continually but, i ll ask you flat-out, is the president and his policies, are they popular with the troops or in o reilly s view, not so much? well i don t think it is something for a senior military commander to vote on the president s policies. our job is to contribute to the development of policies, to provide our forthright