him for 37 years of service that included jumping out of a lot of perfectly good airplanes and being involved in the capture of hussein, the rescue of captain phillips and the raid to get bin laden. he retired with four stars. military acronym fans please note he ran jsoc as part of socom. all that means the secret and spooky stuff that we civilians aren t supposed know about. he s here tonight as the author of sea stories, my life in special operations which went on sale just today. we re awfully happy to have you here in our studios. good to be here. as a man with your experience, when you hear people right now talking almost cavalierly about stand by plans for up to but perhaps more than
chlorine attacks because it was said to be a red line for the trump administration. dana: more on this is william mccraven former commander of the u.s. jointed special operations command. also author of sea stories:my life in special operations. what a life so far it has been. if we could talk about this news that came out reported today. should we be doing more? he s getting away with everything. again, you have to get back to as investigator jeffrey said, we have to be able to prove it. much like the april attack we had using ships off the coast of syria, if in fact he s been using chemical weapons, i m sure the military will think of what is the appropriate measured response and recommend that to the president. the president was decisive in 2017. if this proves to be the case, i hope he s decisive again. dana: does it get complicated because of russian and iran and our pull back? of course it gets complicated. but at the end of the day, if you re going to hold assad
know that life is not fair and that you will fail often. if you take some risks, step up when the times are the toughest, face down the bullies, never, ever give up. if you do these things, the next generation and the generations that follow will live in a world far better than the one we have today. what started here will indeed have changed the world for the better. retired navy admiral william mccraven remains with us. his new book is sea stories, my life in special operations. to find that much scrambled eggs you d have to go to a waffle house. when you see yourself in your dressed whites now that you ve enjoyed civilian life for years, how do you see that? now i have to worry about what color tie i m going to wear. i just decided that blue will be my color. i ll wear it every morning. it works for most of us. i want to read the most quoted
everyone at home. admiral william mcraven. thank you again. it is called sea stories: my life in special operations. great pleasure. thanks very much, brian. pleasure to be here. thank you very much. coming up, the major figure who years ago predicted that we americans would indeed be witnessing a president under investigation as we indeed are right now.
played a key role in thousands of dangerous missions including the raid that killed osama bin laden, but he warns now that the greatest threat to democracy is not from a rogue regime or terror group, but instead president trump s rhetoric. joining us now is retired four star navy admiral william mcraven. his new would think sea stories: my life in special operations is out now. i could not put this book down to be honest. we will get to this in just a moment. you ve been in the news for years. this last year has been interesting for you as someone who was never involved in politics, all of a sudden people are using things you have said and it s part of the political debate. you have chosen to be part of the discussion in this way. one of the things you wrote and this was last august and it had to do with the suspension of security clearances for john brennan and others and things that the president has said about the press. through your actions you have embarrassed us in the eyes of