in the united states still conduct these type of rates without boots on the ground in syria? i think absolutely. one of the things this operation proved is america is never going to forget our enemies, no matter where they hide. no matter where they think they can go, we will be there to stop them. the men and women behind the special operations units, they are never going to let up until the terrorists are put in handcuffs or put in the dirt. it s important because it takes frankly one of the greatest counterterrorism units ever assembled to do these type of operations. an organization i have the pleasure of serving with for quite some time when i was in the army, which is designed to be as mobile as the enemy and move as fast as the enemy does. it s what it s going to take essentially going forward. we are the only country in the world that has the ability to hit the enemy wherever we want at the time of our choosing. that s an incredible thing i ve got to tell you that whoever the
you. what do you make of the detailed information the president shared today on this al-baghdadi mission? well, it s very interesting to hear the play by play as it were from the president. it s pretty accurate. those are the kinds of things that, you know, would happen in a situation like this. all of the reports that have come out of this these types of missions generally focus on the kinds of tactics that are used in these cases while the president didn t go into very great detail, he did kind of give the color of the color commentary to the situation and it generally showed how effective our forces are and the forces from delta team were, you know, from the other special operations units that may have been involved, clearly have learned a lot over the past few years dealing with these kinds of targets. and the president talked rather graphically about
taliban must be saying to themselves, if we release these people, it s not going to do us any good. so now it was going to be a matter of either you try to bribe them out in some way or go in militarily and you get them out. jsoc is known as the joint special operations command which is an accumulation of the top special operations units. when 9/11 happened, guys wanted at it so badly, they were dreaming it before they even know what the dream was about. all they wanted to do was go right the wrong. and one of the first missions that came down was one that was referred to as angry talon, which was to get into afghanistan in the heart of the taliban country and rescue eight hostages and bring them home. after 9/11, i was the
maguire, the dni did deny threatening to resign. the wall street journal is reporting in terms of joseph maguire s background, quote, maguire was viewed as a steady hand by democrats and republicans alike when he was named by mr. trump. the political winds in washington and the glare of congressional hearings are a long way from mr. maguire s roots, which lie in the secretive work of special operations units that conduct dangerous missions to battle terrorists and retrieve hostages. he spent 36 years as a navy s.e.a.l. andrew, jackie was getting into this, but in terms of the very peculiar situation that maguire finds himself in here, you ve got this whistle-blower s complaint. it reached the inspector general. it said this needs to go to congress. then you had maguire saying no. what can you expect from him tomorrow? i think the question that
where are the mexican pesos that the american people were promised would pay for this wall? there are no pesos. in fact, we learned this week the trump administration is taking 3.6 billion with a b dollars away from the pentagon to pay for the wall. in all, 127 military projects will suffer, both here in the u.s. and at military bases around the world. the list as you can see is long. you can find it on the web. it includes scrapping plans to spend money on firefighting stations, hazardous waste facilities, basic infrastructure. new york times highlights this example. quote, for almost two decades families at fort campbell, the sprawling army base along the kentucky/tennessee border have born the brunt of the country s war efforts as a steady clip of troops with the 101st air force division and special operations units deployed to afghanistan and iraq. this week the families