ainsley: he can t recall. brian: was that the last thing he said earlier no one told him that. ainsley: three other things came out of milley defended calls to china my loyalty to the nation is people and constitution. general mckenzie took responsibility for drone strike that killed the 10 civilians including seven children. in addition to that tom cotton was pressing them on why didn t milley, why aren t you resigning? he stead its would an incredible act of political defiance for a commissioned officer to resign because my advice is not taken from the president. brian: or shows integrity. obviously the president doesn t like my advice. why am i giving it? why don t we get somebody in here that he does respect in the wall street journal said the scandal isn t that the president ignored the military. he is a decision maker. it s his refusal to own his decision. he wants political credit for any american involvement in afghanistan not willing to take the political risk of admitting h
was demanding accountability from his supervisors. the same thing he would require of his men and for that, for that principled stand it, cost him his pension. hundreds of thousands of dollars. ainsley: he said i m just asking the questions that all of my fellow soldiers are asking, too. he served for 17 years. five deployments. brian: i do not believe secretary of defense austin when he said he had no idea about this. i credit senator tom cotton for bringing it up. i guarantee you michael waltz will bring it up today. here it is, i understand the negativity and downside to speaking up against your command. but when your command is responsible for leaving thousands of americans behind in a terrorist regime, when your command is responsible for killing 10 civilians in the last days there when your command is responsible for leaving up to $85 billion worth of military hardware and they sit there cool, calm and collected from 9:00 to 2:00 in the afternoon and go back to their woke trainin
idol ? brian: a farm girl in overall s working the land and next thing you know she is the number one female singer in the can you think tri. ainsley: that show gave some people their dreams. steve: however happened, it worked out for so many people. right down the street from broadway where that auditorium was we saw a moment ago is pete hegseth at the redneck rivera. and let s see, it s not even it s just after 5:00. pete is outside the building and look at that. i see your coffee over on the window ledge. so you are ready for broadcasting. ainsley: i am. you know, a couple years ago, guys, i would have rolled out of the redneck rivera at 3:00 and got on tv. not now, i got a good solid 8 hours of sleep, feeling good. you get old. john rich s spot. come out all morning come out if you are in nashville. special guest, plenty to talk about and then some folks we are
ainsley: let s check in with janice dean for fox weather forecast, i notice you are wearing your coat. fall is here. janice: it s a little chilly but i love it 50 s into the 60 s. cold front moved through the area last night. take a look at the temperatures. we have more of that cold air moving from the west next couple of days. 56 in new york. a little chilly, if you like the fall weather it is mere high friend. past 24 hours you see showers and thunderstorms along the gulf coast as well as long acold front moving in from the west. we actually have the potential for some snow in the forecast in the higher elevations and then get the potential for heavy rainfall, maybe flash flooding over the next couple of days as that front stalls out. warmer temperatures across the central u.s. cold air moves in drop temperatures as far as south as the southern plains. here in new york we are going to enjoy a beautiful stretch of weather. there is hurricane sam cat 4.
not saying who that person is. ainsley: has anyone asked her why? why would he make this decision? peter: he has explained it many times. he thinks it was time to get out and he decided that it needed to be based on a date on a calendar that he picked months in advance. remember, initially he wanted it to be 9/11 and these generals were asked about it and they didn t want to exactly go there but there was no military reason for 9/11 or for august 31st or the 25th when they got out. ainsley: this was his decision this was on him. brian: we think although he deflected. peter peter he is the commander-in-chief. he gets the final say. ainsley: that s right. steve: exactly right. peter, thank you very much. joe biden said the generals unanimously supported the august general milley said that advice was actually given on august 25th, 10 days after the taliban had already taken control of kabul. and one other disturbing bit of new york city you know how that drone strike killed 10 people incl