taliban gain ground, that al qaeda will be able to move back in. you ve just been listening to the first comments we ve heard from general milley since all of these accounts have come out in different books about what happened during his time when former president trump was still in office, saying very clearly he s not going to comment except to say he has always provided the best military advice to any secretary of defense, president, the national security administration or joint chiefs under any administration. i want to bring in our pentagon correspondent oren liebermann. i notice he also made a point to say that he took an oath, he took an oath to the constitution of the united states. the defense secretary jumping in there at the end as well to back him up, saying there isn t a political bone in his body. that was an important point and one where defense secretary lloyd austin showed very publicly that he is very much behind general mark milley when
of the president s spokesperson said earlier today. i was with the president for quite some time this afternoon talking about the speech, listening to him talk about the themes that he wants to address. and there s not a political bone in the entire speech. now that could be true, there isn t a political bone in the that could be true it s not a political bone in the speech, but that doesn t mean the president sg isnisn t going to off-script. often what s in the teleprompter isn t what he says. he feeds off the energy of the crowd. people are starting to show up here, security s allowing peoply in. you also see down there the balloon. we re going to call that a likeness of mr. trump. it can get quite windy here. we ll see in that actually goes up. normally people are flying kites and looking at the flag there s a slight breeze i m going to say