tom cotton in the moment didn't seem to have a response to that. general mccaffrey, what's your response to what general milley said? >> i thought it was absolutely magnificent. i've sat in the chairman's office multipl times when 200 phone callsome in insisting that the chairman has to resign. some are comical over, why didn't we send the 101st airborne to invade panama? i think general milleyade a very strong point that basically there is full obedienceo the legal orders of the commander in chief. it's just not on the table. at the same time, what this hearing didn't focus on, and tomoow it probably will, is the end of the trump administration. we had a lawless rogue predent slashing around, threatening the constituti of the united states. in that case we need to debate do we actually want the president of the united states to have sole nuclear authority over the u.s. nuclear response capability? what do we think about the president's abity to use the armed forcesnder the insurrection act to take control of the streets of america? so there's furt

liz: he does have some defenders including tom cotton, an army veteran so standing by milley. >> this book raises serious concerns, some of the allegations seem far-fetched to me but they are going to be testifying in front of congress in a few days and will address the concerns, don't want to jump to conclusions yet but we will certainly affect them and see what happened. liz: yes, what happened? was a blatant violation of the law and what should happen next? let's meet tonight's panel, presidential writer in america majority ceo ryan, host of the part of the problem podcast always has a solution. democrat strategist radio host and fox news contributor, leslie marshall. next, i will start with you. usually not a good idea, an adversary which we do have conversations with adversaries u.s. foreign policy but about idea to telegraph when we are about to attack them. am i missing something? >> after the afghanistan debacle, you would have thought he would resign after total complete shape but here we are talking about this phone call which we hear reports today the acting secretary of de

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tell us about that controversy as well as -- here we go, it's interesting to hear about the tom cotton op-ed, in light of the french army letters published, and the context allowed if the cotton op-ed would not be. tell us about that and other areas as a journalist where you could not publish stuff in france but would be published in the u.s.. >> concerning the army letter, i think it's a bit early to really comment on the legal aspect of it because it could go to a complaint, it could be filed and i don't know what would happen frankly, in terms of that. i think some of the others were seeing their publications to the french army were cut off. so it's already a form of sanction. but -- and clearly also it wasn't published by the same kind of institution. it was first published i think by a blog and then it was discovered by an ultra conservative weekly and so it's not the same publication as where tom cotton's work appeared. and so it doesn't have the same kind of general appeal. so it's difficult to compare them because these things matter. the second question of -- the second aspect

kennedy: it really does have some defenders include arkansas republican senator tom cotton who was an army veteran. he still standing by millie watch this. >> this book raises some serious concerns as a sum of the allegations seem somewhat far-fetched to me. general millie and secretary are going to be testifying in front of congress in just a few days. we will address these concerns, we do not want to jump to conclusions yet. we will certainly vet them and see exactly what happened. >> was the whole thing above board or a blatant violation of the law and what should happen next question let's make tonight's party panel former george w. bush presidential writer and american majority and ned ryan is back. he is the host of the part of the problem podcast he always has a solution it is dave smith and course democrats manages radio host fox news contributor, she wears three hats, leslie marshall. welcome everyone. and ned i'll start with you. usually not a good idea to tell someone who is an adversary, we do have conversations with adversaries as part of u.s. foreign policy. it's usually

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so senator tom cotton joins us now. he's an afghan war veteran. he's a member of the armed services committee. good to have you with us today. let's deal with what the taliban is saying and what the taliban is doing. they have said everyone will love life under the taliban as long as you understand that everything will be done under sharia law. this is the greatest oxymoron of all. you can protest as long as we approve of what you're protesting, what you're saying. >> yeah, martha. we shouldn't be surprised even though joe biden and tony blinken have been saying for weeks this is new and improved and moderate and inclusive taliban, that it's the same gang of terrorist savages that we saw 25 years ago. the secretary of state said in europe this week that the taliban cabinet is not meeting the test of inclusivity. that is to put it mildly, martha. the biden administration seems to be more worried that the cabinet in afghanistan is full of men rather than it's full of terrorists. let's consider their histories. the supreme leader, the amir of the tal

tom cotton, republican from arkansas. thank you for your time. >> sandra: we'll go to the president shortly. we'll bring in former education secretary bill bennett. good to have you here. your historical perspective in this moment. we're about to hear the president talk on jobs. as we know there are still stranded americans left in afghanistan. i know you've been thinking about this a lot and if you could just put it into context as we approach the 20 year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. >> sure. when my wife and i were in orange county our son was in pendelton in the marine corp supposed to come up for dinner and couldn't come because a pair of night vision goggles were lost. the entire battalion, 1,000 people were kept on the base until that pair of night vision goggles were found. that's how seriously they took it. 16,000 pair of those goggles are now in the possession of the taliban along with vastly more important equipment. that's just one piece of it. the other piece, of course, is our broken promise. the vast maj

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it is interesting to hear about the tom cotton op ed. under what context are those allowed if the could the only op ed would not be? tell us about that and other areas as a journalist where you could not publish stuff in france that would be published in the u.s. >> concerning the army letter, i think it is a bit early to -- the legal aspect of it. it might be, it could go, a complaint could be filed and i don't know what would happen, quite frankly. i think also that some of the authors have seen the relation to the french army were cut off. so it is already a form of sanction. but and clearly, wasn't published by the same institution. it was first published by a blog. then it was published by an ultra conservative weekly. so it's not as simple as where it appeared. it is not the same thing, it doesn't have the same kind of general appeal. it is difficult to compare them. these things matter. the second question of, aspect of your question, i think that it is important to understand that the culture around freedom of speech, even though

senator tom cotton republican from arkansas. welcome to the program. your top line thoughts about the speech yesterday with regard to how the world sees us now. >> good morning. good to be back on with you. i think a lot of the world sees joe biden and laughs at the statements he made yesterday. you just mentioned saying we don't seek a cold war. of course not. we would rather have peace with all nations. but when china is waging a cold war against the united states we don't have a choice whether we're in it or not. we have a choice to win or lose. he didn't mention china's name like he was scared to mention their name. i know the white house is doing damage control today saying it was by design. 2014 after russia invaded cry mia. barack obama used russia's name more than 10 times. beijing is laughing today at joe biden and it's a dangerous thing for china not to take the american president seriously. >> harris: i want to step in on afghanistan for a second. when the president started talking about over the horizon i immediately thought of what you sai

but it it asks that in light of your discussion of the tom cotton op-ed. what about the publication of french army letters. so tell us about that controversy as well as other here we go. it's interesting to hear about the tom cotton not bad in light of the french army letters published in the last month under what context for those allowed if the cotton op-ed would not be and tell us about that and other areas as a journalist where you could not publish stuff in france, that would be published in the us. concerning the od army letter. i think it's a bit early to really comment on the the the legal aspect of it because it might it could go to toilet complaint could be file and i don't know what would happen quite frankly in terms of i think also that some of the authors were seeing that they're relations to the french army were cut off, you know, so it's already a form of sanction, but and clearly also it wasn't published by the same kind of an institution. it was first published by i think a blog then it was got republished by and ultra conservative weekly

. >> arkansas senator tom cotton is blowing off fauci's predictions and once again accusing the doctor of covering up government support for a virology lab in wuhan, china. the senator tweeting, quote: i'm looking forward to tony fauci's next appearance in front of the united states senate. his following trip should be to the federal courthouse down the street. tomorrow the president may also be asked how he plans to protect kids after the american academy of pediatrics reported nearly 252,000 children tested positive last week. the surge in cases come as many school descricketsd struggle with the fall semester. near salt lake city, officials say they can't find workers. >> we're currently have about 45 positions open for classroom aids and 62 positions open for lunchroom workers. >> in saint paul, minnesota. officials are staggering school start times due to a bus driver shortage. >> a political watchdog group americans for public trust says it's obtained new emails that show close coordination between teachers unions and public health officials when it comes to mask guidance in schoo

this is senator tom cotton making the point after the generals had said they had recommended leaving 2,500 troops and after they made clear that that was their advice to the president of the united states. this exchange. listen. >> secretary austin, president biden last month in an interview with george stephanopoulos said that no military leader advised him to leave a small troop presence in afghanistan. is that true? >> senator cotton, i -- i believe that -- well, first of all, i know the president to be an honest and for right man. secondly -- it's a simple question, secretary austin. >> their input was -- was received by the president and considered by the president for sure. >> their input was received and considered by the president for sure. whether you were still the defense secretary or maybe the white house chief of staff and you had to have a conversation with the president and the press secretary before they spoke today, do they need to clean this up and answer a question about the president's cred snablt. >> i think it would be well if they cleared up the confusion that

now, republican senator tom cotton asked general mili if he would resign over this whole fiasco. and he was defiant and saying no, so drew, you know, talk about holding people accountable. the the marine now is, is being held accountable for disobeying orders. and he's in jail, reportedly. first of all, should millie and the others resign. should someone resign? no one's been held accountable and i don't think anybody's going to be held accountable. what's what, how could that happen? yeah, look this to me. whether it's him or you said somebody, somebody has got to be held accountable for this. there's got to be someone who goes down, and frankly, there's not going to be enough to do because remember, this is the biggest international blunder of our lifetime. it's not our life down at least a century. this was horribly done and could have been done. so definitely, and whether someone else would have done, it definitely doesn't matter. this was what was done. this was how it was done so many to be held accountable. and what we're doing, and we've seen over the last several years a

now, republican senator tom cotton asked general mili, he would resign over this whole fiasco and he was defiant and saying no. so drew, you know, talk about holding people accountable. the the marine now is, is being held accountable for disobeying orders. and he's in jail, reportedly, 1st of all, should milly and the others resign? should someone resign? no one's been held accountable and i don't think anybody's going to be held accountable. what's what, how did that happen? yeah, i look this to me. whether it's him or is you said somebody, somebody has got to be held accountable for this. there's got to be someone who goes down, and frankly, there's not going to be enough to do. because remember, this is the biggest international blunder of our lifetime is not our lifetime elisa century, this was horribly done and could have been done so differently. and whether someone else would have done it differently doesn't matter. this was what was done. this was how it was done so many to be held accountable. and what we're doing, and we've seen over the last several years as people in the

now, republican senator tom cotton asked general mili if he would resign over this whole fiasco and he was defiant and saying no. so drew, you know, talk about holding people accountable. the. the marine now is, is being held accountable for disobeying orders, and he's in jail, reportedly. first of all, should millie and the others resign. should someone resign? no one's been held accountable and i don't think anybody's going to be held accountable. what's what, how could that happen? yeah, i look this to me whether it's tammy or as you said, somebody, somebody has got to be held accountable for this. there's got to be someone who goes down, and frankly, there's not going to be enough to do because remember, this is the biggest international blunder of our lifetime. it's not our life down the least the century. this was horribly done and could have been done so differently. and whether someone else would have done it differently, doesn't matter, this was what was done. this was how it was done so many to be held accountable. and what we're doing, and we've seen over the last several ye

now, republican senator tom cotton asked general mili, he would resign over this whole fiasco and he was defiant. and saying no, so drew, you know, talk about holding people accountable. the the marine now is, is being held accountable for disobeying orders. and he's in jail, reportedly. first of all, should milly and the others resign. should someone resign? no one's been held accountable and i don't think anybody's going to be held accountable. what's what, how did that happen? yeah, i look this to me. whether it camera or as you said, somebody, somebody has got to be held accountable for this. there's got to be someone who goes down and frankly, there's not going to be enough to do because remember, this is the biggest international blunder of our lifetime is not our lifetime elisa century, this was horribly done and could have been done so differently. and whether someone else would have done it differently, doesn't matter, this was what was done. this was how it was done so many to be held accountable. and what we're doing, and we've seen over the last several years as people in

senator tom cotton a member of the armed services committee. senator, you have to be just flabbergasted by this. we're going to let you know if we're planning to attack you? we will tell you when and where so you can get ready? >> well, ainsley, this book raises some serious concerns. i would say some of the allegations seem somewhat farfetched to me. general milley and secretary austin are going to be testifying in front of congress in just a few days. we will address these concerns. we don't want to jump to conclusions yet but we will certainly vet them and see exactly what happened. brian: senator, he can't -- this is too big for this. we can't wait for him to testify. if this guy is selling us outside to to china going behind the president of the united states and he is still in power fresh of off of the catastrophe in afghanistan, he has got to address this. >> brian, i know he will address it. and we will ensure that he addresses it. but this is one of those claims, obviously, that seems a little farfetched the idea that an american milit

cotton, what he finally asked general was all of this happened on your watch essentially, why don't you just resign x general miley gave one of the most disingenuous answers to a u.s. senator i've heard in an exceptionally long time. he said look, it would be an incredible act of political defiance and would make a huge political statement if i resigned over this and the answer is, yeah, that's the whole part. let's remember, general maddox, secretary of defense donald trump resigned and he said something along the lines of look, the president deserves a secretary of defense more lines with him and i was over a policy decision in syria so here's the question, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, if you strongly disagree with the policy that you know where thousands of meghan citizens will be left to the hands of terrorists, don't you think it's worth resigning over? at the question i'd like an answer to. kennedy: even if there are, let's take him at his word and say secretary austin is telling the truth and there are only about 100 americans left in the country trying to get o

and senator tom cotton and rand paul will join us to hold the biden administration accountable. the taliban wants more free money from us. we gave them everything else. new reports exposing facebook, the toxic impact instagram has on teen girls. colin kaepernick's returned to the spotlight in a new netflix series. they are different people. parents across the country express concern about indoctrination in their kids education hear from a school where they are putting politics aside and the longest tees ever. i'm going to get myself a prize, to a full screen. . . >> somebody in the white house has authority to press the button and stop the president, cut off the president's speaking ability. who is that person? >> i think anyone who knows the president, including members of this committee, knows that he speaks very clearly and very deliberately for himself. todd: republicans demanding answers after the white house cuts off the president mid sentence during a news briefing. jillian: here to sound off is governor mike huckabee. good to see you this morning and thank you for waking

tom cotton was skeptical of the whole thing this morning saying it was far-fetched and said milley needs to testify. you have questions and i'm sure congress does, as well. thank you for hanging on, appreciate it. john. >> john: sandra, thanks. 1000 afghans are trying to escape the country. trey yingst has the latest. trey. >> trey: john, good afternoon. today we visited a prison that used to hold thousands of taliban fighters and talked to the group about their view of security in afghanistan. we are entering the prison with the taliban when the group entered the afghan capital, they came into the facility and freed thousands of fellow fighters from the provence and said it was 15-year struggle to take over afghanistan and they are happy they control the country and say they are bringing security to the afghan people. we walked through the prison and meet niaz mohammed halim, a top official. when asked about americans stuck in afghanistan, he responded by saying everyone is safe and denied new reports about in-fighting between senior taliban leadership. >> everyone obeys the rule, there

and that's the angle >> joining me now is arkansas senator tom cotton. senator, this un speech running from reporters, today was another disastrous day for biden on the world stage. but does that translate into any humility at home? >> certainly not from joe biden and the democrats. but, you're right, laura, that this speech was a disgrace at the united nations. joe biden walked into the united nations with a giant kick me sign on uncle sam's back in particular how it relates to china, he bent over backwards to apiece the chinese communist party p saying we don't want a cold war. they've been waging a cold war on our military and people for decades. the question is not whether we seek one the question is whether we will fight back in it. yet joe biden wouldn't even say the word china. he's apparently even too scared to mention china's name in a speech addressed to the world's leaders. what kind of signal does that send to them? what kind of signal does it send to the loaders of beijing. i can tell you what they're doing right now, they are laughing at jo

publican senator tom cotton who did tours in the army in iraq and afghanistan, he is not having it, tom. >> i understand the administration wants to turn the page. they want us out of the news, they want to focus on that reckless three and half trillion dollar spending bill. but there's a lot of members of congress were not going to rest until every american every legal permanent resident in afghanistan can get out of afghanistan. kennedy: 's of the president cannot turn the story around, our democrats sunk releasing trouble in 2022 and 2024. join me too discuss real clear politics cofounder tom bevan is back. tom, afghanistan is not going anywhere. the problems are going to compound unfortunately. the president is not even tackling some of the issues from ida. he is blaming it all on climate change which is a fairly new play out of the democrat playbook. >> right. he has got a number of things, crises happening, afghanistan, ida, that resurgence of the delta variant of covid that he promised to squash the bite virus and that does not seem to be happening. the next three weeks in washin

joining me tom cotton at the first politician to raise the lab leak theory months ago. senator, your take on these new documents. >> laura, i have said for a month at 20 pouching should be fired. and he should be investigated across the mic and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. for 18 months, he has been saddling up his high horse and clucking his tongue at college kids to celebrate the outdoor stadium on a nice day. the parents with kids in with gartner gardeners to wear masks and telling you you have to wear a mask when all along, he is been lying not just to congress but the american people about his role in funding very reckless research at a chinese communist lab that unleashed this pandemic on the world. it is a disgrace and it's time for tony fauci to be held accountable. >> laura: if you had to rate this as a scandal, what would you rate it as, senator? >> one of the biggest scandals and watching to modern times it funded a laboratory and in all likelihood the source of this once sentry pandemic that has offended so many of our lives. hundreds of thou

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senator tom cotton knows differently. listen. >> let me commend corey mills and so many other veterans over the last three weeks who have worked tirelessly, who have sacrificed their time and their money and in many case there's are real heros of this tragedy. it's not surprisingly the state department higher ups have come rushing in anytime they see a good news story and try to take credit for it since its really been nothing but bad news for joe biden and tony blinken's state department, and it continues to be the case that we have perhaps hundreds of americans effectively held hostage by the taliban inside of afghanistan. steve: so we learned about that family, because they reached out to their congressman, congressman ronny jackson. he was the president's doctor for a very long time. he reached out to corey, put him on contact, regarding the state department taking the credit dr. ronny jackson said this. the only thing the biden administration seems to be good at is patting itself on the back for a job horribly done.

. >> dana: brand-new reaction from senator tom cotton in a moment. let's go to mark meredith live at the white house. the white house knew this was going to get a lot of reaction and they were i guess prepared for it. >> the president seemed to indicate he knew there would be a lot of criticism. but the president says the country has to be more aggressive in battling the pandemic. under his plan laid out yesterday several new steps including osha will set out a rule requiring companies over 100 employees have mandate vaccines or testing. expanding vaccine requirements for federal agencies and contractors. healthcare workers will be required to be vaccinated and wants large entertainment venues to require proof of vaccination and he is also asking the tsa to double the minimum fine for people that violate the mask policy. >> we need to do more. this is not about freedom or personal choice. it's about protecting yourself and those around you. >> in his remarks the president criticized the lawmakers who may question the government's latest efforts. repo

. >> yeah, look, i think senator tom cotton was on this in january of 2020, very early. he laid out for hypothesis and scientists normally would follow those hypothesis. instead you saw a coordinated effort i think led by dr. fauci to try to obfuscate this and it was sadly almost an accomplice over whatever china has ties to. all the effort to make china open of up in a trans paint way as close to the discovery as possible came off with the coordinated effort that fauci organized. todd: is it fair to say the early dismissal of the lab leak theory of cost lives? >> i don't see how it couldn't have cost lives. even though this day, the coordinated effort to shape information instead of study it with intellectual curiosity and scientific reason, how do you keep these people in in place like dr. fauci and you'll see people who are leaving cdc and the fda because the culture is toxic. i think we have to reduce the toxic environment. jillian: when you look at the details of the investigation, revealing of the 27 scientists that we mentioned, 26 of them have some kind of ties,

tom cotton telling fox news i think it is embarrassment. power panel now rachel campos-duffy "fox & friends" weekend co-host and host of moms on fox nation and kevin walling former biden campaign surrogate. rachel, i will start with you and get your top line thoughts. >> you keyed the segment saying the world is falling apart. i think joe biden is falling apart. being the leader of the free world is the most demanding job in the whole world and he simply doesn't have the mental or physical stamina to do this job and his handlers and wife who increasingly looked more like visiting angels have to schedule in these senior breaks for him so he can take naps and go for bike rides because he can't con sten trait on the job the way he should. just compare it to president donald trump who worked these long, long hours and had impromptu hour-long pressers with the media. president biden even in bob woodward's book reported that his handlers are creating a cocoon around him. they've done it since campaign days and continuing to do this because he can

this morning, tom cotton, republican senator from arkansas, came on "fox & friends" to talk about mark milley. here's part of that conversation. >> this book raises some serious concerns, i have to say some of the allegations seam somewhat far-fetched to me, but general milley and secretary austin will be testifying and we will address these concerns, do not want to jump to conclusions. he will address it, but this is one of the claims that seems a little far-fetched that an american military general is going to warn an adversary if an attack is coming. as you say, when donald trump was never even thinking about a military path against china. the whole thing is pretty far-fetched. >> tucker: oh, we don't want to jump to conclusions yet. really? what conclusions? at the time that interview took place, this morning, it had already been conclusively established that mark milley was pushing open racism on the united states military, that he had bragged to fellow officers about resisting the american president "with guns," and that he had told military officials that he, not the president,

ben sasse, a number of governors, i think tom cotton might be someone who could step forward, and say what needs to be said to a nation that is weary of being wary. remember, when the democratic convention a 1964 receded as a mississippi delegate. i'm tired of being second tired. i think someone is going to come forward and say americans, deep breath now, as lincoln said in his first inaugural, we are not enemies. we must not be enemies. people disagreements, big deal. if you don't like arguing, you pick the wrong country. we are in argumentative people. but someone is going to come forward and say we've had enough of data, mr. trump has worked one petal on the organ long enough. relax, and the country is going to sigh in gratitude, i am sure of it, brian. >> all right, i'm going to hold you to that and that's why we have you back again the new book is american happiness and discontents, the unruly torrent. the thousand 80,020. it is available right now. george will has been our special guest tonight, and it's always a treat and. pleasure thank you for coming. on have a good weekend,

john, senator tom cotton noting that the removal of the iron dome funding from the spending bill happened on the same day he proposed a bill to label the taliban a terrorist organization. congressman lauren bober pointing out after we gave tens of billions of dollars of weaponry to the taliban. >> is there a certain word we describe to use people who aid in the destruction of jewish people. there is a certain word that comes to mind all right. on top of that, we armed the taliban with american weapons. it seems like the taliban and everybody that hates israel that the biden administration is the best thing that ever happened to them. it is absolutely disgusting to see what's going on. they need to replenish those rockets. had they not had enough rockets when those pictures you just showed were happening. if knows rockets ever sit the ground because of lack of defensive missiles, are you going to let those israelis pile up on our border and let them in and escape what's going on in their country like you are letting everybody else do it. >>> support for israel used to be bipartisan. it is

critics like senator tom cotton suggesting this is part of a broader p.r. campaign to shift focus away from afghanistan and those americans we left behind. >> i understand the administration wants to turn the page. they want this out of the news. they want to focus on their reckless 3 1/2 trillion dollar spending bill. there are a lot of members of congress who won't rest until every american and every legal permanent resident in afghanistan can get out of afghanistan. >> harris: "the washington examiner" is noting this. the commander-in-chief promises to pivot away from afghanistan and the "new york post" with this headline. his media guards are ready to help him change the subject. mark meredith has more from the white house. mark. >> good to see you. the white house says the president's national security team remain focused of afghanistan and a shift in the public scheduled for issues closer to home. just yesterday the president was up in new york and new jersey taking a look at the damage left behind from hurricane ida. he went to louisiana the week pri

yeah, it will be interesting to watch this but in the meantime senator tom cotton known to be tough on crime said this in a tweet "senate democrats to give stimulus checks to criminals in prison have not lost their job. they are not worried about paying rent or groceries but another example of unrelated spending and the partisan fund coming back in march he predicted this would be an issue. >> shannon, this is a classic example of where morality intersects with legality. what i mean by that come if you look at this missouri law strictly from a moral standpoint, then it passes mustard and it should be active. why? the covid relief act was not designed with criminals in mind who are incarcerated but designed for those people standing in food lines trying to get food during covid and who are desperate to survive, who lost their jobs, not for inmates. now if you look at this from strictly a legal lens, then the law does pass muster and it should be enacted. and by that, i mean the irs designated inmates as qualifying for benefits as sarah said. it is within the irs code. also there was a f

cotton who pressed them, those military leaders, on whether they wanted to keep troops in afghanistan, and several of them said it was their personal preference to keep about 2,500 troops there, if not more. i was struck, andrea, by something defense secretary lloyd austin said, i made some notes here, if i'm looking down that's the reason, he talked about uncomfortable truths regarding the war, it was remarkable the way he discussed some of the failures, i'm quoting here, he said we helped build a state but we could not forge a nation, unquote. he talked about the depth of corruption and the poor leadership of the afghan forces. this is the united states department of defense admitting an extraordinary set of failures on the part of the u.s. throughout this war, and to the other side of the equation you saw democrats asking kind of a different set of questions, several of them trying to zoom out, take a more -- take the long view, argue that -- you know, talking about the last several months of the withdrawal without talking about the last 20 years is missing the forest for the trees

cotton, he's gotting hot, he might be running in 2024, we would be talking about impeachment. every liberal would be for that. but that's not what happened here. i listened to andy mccarthy this morning. he said i don't see anything wrong with this call between biden and ghani here. >> it's so -- >> it's not abuse of the office. >> the call itself is keeply troubling given the fact that biden has lied over and over again to the american people about what went down blaming everybody but himself for literally the death of 13 american troops, service members. that's what is so appalling is. there's a need, whether it's true or not, there's a need to project a different picture, what is he is still doing even after the fact. >> it gets to will's point. we know if this was the previous administration, people would be outraged. everybody should be outraged and rightly are that we lost 13 people that are braves and service to this country. the reaction would be obviously different from the mainstream media and how it was handled. the american people don't like to be played for sucker

this is tom cotton pressing secretary of defense austin. >> secretary austin, president biden last month in an interview with george stephanopoulos said no military leader advised him to leave a smallroop presenc in afghanistan. ishat true? >> senator cott, i believe that, well, first of all i know the president to be an honest d forthright m. >> it is a simple question, secretary austin. he said no senior military adviser advised him to leave a small troop prence behind. is that true, did these recommendations get to the president personally? >> their inp was received by the president and considered by the psident for sure. >> rick, your thoughts about what we witnessed today? >> well, it was remarkable i'll tell you why. it was a civics lesson, how a small republican government conducts itself. you would never seen in a million years generals testifying in china or russia about advice they gave the commander in chief, the fact that the commander in chief didn't take it, the fact that they made judgments in error, the fact that they were strategic failures in their mission. i thought it

senator tom cotton went after the white house over its response to the taliban. watch this. >> it's the same gang of terror savages we saw 20 to 25 years ago. the biden administration seems to be more worried that the cabinet in afghanistan is full of men rather than that it's full of terrorists. >> harris: wow. diversity is always the thing i guess. but wouldn't survival be better? >> look, these are the same people -- on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 the president of the united states is kowtowing to the people who attacked us on september 11, 2001. remember the bush doctrine. if you harbor a terrorist you are as guilty as the terrorist and the enemy of the united states of america. the people in charge in the cabinet now are the people who harbored the terrorists of 9/11. the prime minister, taliban prime minister was the deputy prime minister on 9/11. intelligence chief who is a gitmo detainee according to his file utilized his office to support al qaeda, arranged for al qaeda personnel to train taliban intelligence staff and methods. the information minister,

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 training of the next generation of war fighters, i could say that's a little beyond the pale. and think about this. if you lost your life or you know somebody that did, or you lost your limb or you have invisible wounds and you say what was it for because these commanders just threw everything we did in the street and you have one lieutenant colonel speak up and say that, and say i'm willing to resign because of that, your biggest problem is not a marine colonel for puttin

. >> reporter: republican senator tom cotton went after defense secretary lloyd austin on this point. >> it's a simple question, secretary austin. he said no senior military leader advised him to leave a small troop presence behind. is that true or not? did she's officer and general miller's recommendations get to the president personally? >> their input was received by the president and considered by the president for sure. >> reporter: lawmakers grilled top military leaders on the rapid collapse of the afghan military and the failure of the u.s. to see it coming after pulling u.s. advisers three years ago. >> when you pulled the advisers out of the units you can never -- you no longer can assess leadership and will. we can count all the planes, trucks, automobiles and we can count those from space but you can't measure the human heart with a machine. you have to be there. >> reporter: joint chiefs chairman mark milley said it was an open question whether an evacuation to move 124,000 people should have begun earlier, but ultimately, it was a state department call. >> you and i have

the likely contenders that we know of from, you know, mike pence, ted cruz, tom cotton, all the nikki haley -- she has actually said herself she would drop out and not run for president if trump is running in 2024. i think you're likely to see that from a number of other republicans as well some of he kind of has the 2024 field frozen in place, just waiting for him to make a move, and at this point, there's nothing stopping him from running. i mean he really doesn't have anything else to do, and he's also incredibly aggrieved, thinking that -- believing, you know -- the delusion he's been denied a second term because of voter fraud, and this is something that even though it's demonstrably false, he actually thinks happened to him. you have the combination of the former president is in retirement with really nothing else much to do and nursing a grievance. i think that's a powerful combination that if the election were tomorrow, it sounds to me, according to the people i've spoken with, that he is running. >> jeremy, we were talking about the recall race in california, the gubernatoria

cotton, and hen -- then the 13 dead soldiers, that was outray you because he's a political appointee. what no one call him on was his father was an enlisted navy corpsman on iwo jima. my father was on okinawa. he didn't have the option of resigning. the dead from four weeks ago, they didn't have the option of resigning. unlike milley, i took the oath of enlistment, then i took the oath of commissioning. i couldn't raise my hand and say, frankly -- [inaudible] kuwait. that wasn't an option. and that wasn't his dad's option on iwo jima. so hiding behind his dad, this is the guy who is the chairman of the joint chiefs? please resign. or never do that again and apologize. but this is a absolute -- and, by the way, him acting like he's not political, well, i can't resign because that'd be political. what's talking to bob woodward? kennedy: yeah, i was going to say, what's the point of being the source for articles and books setting the record straight? that is a political act when you are shaping the narrative in order the for people to see things a certain way base on their politics. tha

this morning, tom cotton, republican senator from arkansas, came on ""fox & friends"" to talk about mark milley. here's part of that conversation. >> this book raises some serious concerns come i have to say somf the allegations see somewhat far-fetched to me, but general milley and secretary austin will be testifying and we will address these concerns, do not want to jump to conclusions. he will address it, but this is one of the claims that seems a little far-fetched that an american military general is going to warn an adversary if an attack is coming. as you say, when donald trump was never even thinking about a military path against china. the whole thing is pretty far-fetched. >> tucker: oh oh, we don't want to jump to conclusions yet. really? what conclusions? at the time that interview took place, this morning, it had already been conclusively established that mark milley was pushing open racism on the united states military, that he had bragged to fellow officers about resisting the american president "with guns" and that he had told military officials that he, not the president

i'm surprised tom cotton made such an suggestion. they shouldn't be thinking if they should resign or not if they agree or disagree with the policy of the president of the united states. i'm so glad general milley was able to explain exactly to not just senator cotton but the american people responsibilities of leadership within the military, which is to carry out the authorized and lawful orders of the commander in chief. if a commander in chief was going to do something that was reckless or unethical or illegal, that's when the military officers stand up and say no, i'm not going to do that but in this case, i think general milley and others made their views clear about whether or not we should leave afghanistan or once president biden who had to take all factors into consideration, not just the military ones, but the american people's sentiments and other factors, once that decision was made, general milley and others did what u.s. military has done for decades and centuries, which is to sole lewd and carry out the order to the be

cotton says is so far-fetched and even trump said he was not when you do that. what would you want to ask general milley. >> there needs to be a full investigation and i wish the general milley will come forward ahead of this testimony i don't know why he's keeping quiet and if these allegations are true then he should be in lead of his command or resign. i'm frankly more concerned about how they have handled this horrific withdraw from afghanistan that is left our national security and a real shamble there is no quote over the horizon security there or knowing what's going to come next, we just buried in st. louis lance corporal jared smit one of the 13 minute women who were killed and murdered because we outsourced this government, our u.s. government outsourced their security to the taliban into terrorists. elizabeth: we are so sorry for the pain that those families of the 13 troops murdered and we send our condolences and were so upset for them congressman ann wagner, thank you for joining us good to have you want, up next rob wittman a strong supporter of l