do these men do it, how do we find such people? you know, the lead-in talked an awful lot about donald trump. but as i told you, i absolutely loved your last book. mika can attest to that. he s obsessed with that. i would wake her up and say listen to this, listen to this. i want to read one part and have you expand a little bit on it. this book would have been relevant 200 years before donald trump, it will be relevant 200 years after donald trump. it s more a character study. we both wanted to be seals so badly, nothing in the water was going to stop us. if we had to fight off sharks, we would do so. our job was honorable, gave us courage and courage is a remarkable story. withoutor at the mercy of life s
being back in the allow for chow, being back in the line for whatever perks are out there. so what are people who have read make your bed, what are they going to see in sea stories ? sea stories is a bit of a memoir. it s 18 stories about my time in special operations, a little bit about before i joined the sales. and you know, there s the story on the bin laden raid, there s the story of the rescue of captain phillips and the story of the capture of saddam hussein. but i really hope what people take away from the book is, again, the great men and women i had the opportunity to work with, both the senior focus, so president bush and president obama and leon panetta and the great folks after 9/11. some of the great folks that i served with prior to 9/11. and then, of course, the remarkable soldier, sailors, airmen, and marines that i was privileged to work we ever day. admiral, we were joking a minute ago, there s an entire generation of kids who curse you because they have t
talk about in the book and in the new book sea stares are a lot about what referendum and i was fortunate in my career to be around some remarkable men and women who shaped the operations that i talk about in the book after 9/11 and who i was just honored to serve with. and so you re right, you can t teach courage, but i think you can watch courageous men and women in action and learn from that. let s talk about another part of your biography that i found fascinating. we have a lot of business leaders that watch, a lot of people in politics and a lot of americans watching that can learn from your story. it wasn t always easy for you. of course you had a terrible
ultimate definition of public service. yeah. i think you nailed it. it is the ultimate definition of public service. and i mentioned in the book, but i ve said it before publicly as well, i had the great honor of working for bush 43 on the national security council staff and of course i served under president obama as one of his commanders. and while i didn t agree with every man on every decision they made, the fact of the matter was, i always felt confident that they were doing right by the country, that they were men of integrity and honor, and in my time in the service, again, you know, when you look up the chain of command and you see men and women that you work for and they re going to make mistakes, they re human. but if you think they re doing it for the right reasons and think they re men and women of character, it is easy to follow them. and we re fortunate to have a lot of great men and women of character in the military, and i think in government service writ large. adm
process, the uniform code of military justice has to go through the process, has to present his findings. now, after the trial or after the findings are presented and then it comes to you as a commander, then you re allowed to weigh in. but you re not allowed to influence it before the process is complete. so my caution to the president is, by signalling the fact that he might pardon whoever that might be, i m concerned that is unduly influencing those commanders that have to make the decision on that particular individual that is either going to trial or is being investigated. the book is sea stories: my life in special operations retired admiral william mccraven, thank you very much for being on the show this morning. thank you. you bet. still ahead, member of the foreign affairs committee, adam kinzinger will address the escalating tensions with iran. plus, more from my one-on-one interview with house speaker nancy pelosi. what he s saying about the impeachment remarks by