pushed for a really large troop surge in afghanistan, siding with the generals with obama debated the troop surge. her instincts are hawkish, but she's a very strong believer in diplomacy. that's one reason i think a lot of these republicans are comfortable with saying, at least right now, they're open to voting for clinton. a lot of them aren't quite at a point of saying they would support her. but i don't think the clinton campaign worries they'll suffer severe damage among their base. i think they feel that donald trump is doing them the favor of locking down the base and the priority now is to peel away republican voters. and again, to send that signal that even the elder statesmen of the republican party are saying, you can't trust this guy, donald trump, with the presidency. >> michael crowley, senior affairs correspondent with politico. thanks for the time. >> thank you, steve. >> we'll be right back. say hello to a powerful tool that gives you options to fit your budget. ♪ oh, i'm tied to this chair! ♪ dun-dun-daaaa! i don't know that an insurance-themed comic book is what

pushed for a really large troop surge in afghanistan, siding with the generals with obama debated the troop surge. her instincts are hawkish, but she's a very strong believer in diplomacy. that's one reason i think a lot of these republicans are comfortable with saying, at least right now, they're open to voting for clinton. a lot of them aren't quite at a point of saying they would support her. but i don't think the clinton campaign worries they'll suffer severe damage among their base. i think they feel that donald trump is doing them the favor of locking down the base and the priority now is to peel away republican voters. war in 2002. helped to convince president obama to intervene in libya in 2011. pushed for a really large troop surge in afghanistan, siding with the generals with obama debated the troop surge. her instincts are hawkish, but she's a very strong believer in diplomacy. that's one reason i think a lot of these republicans are comfortable with saying, at least right now, they're open to voting for clinton. a lot of them aren't quite at a point of saying they would su

, it was operations in iraq and afghanistan. obviously it was iraq in 2004 that was the politically contentious issue. anyway the bush campaign puts that ad up when john kerry becomes george w. bush's gem election opponent. john kerry plays a little defense on it. >> that is his attempt to take the issue out of play, maybe a decent argue, he was saying democrats favored shared sacrifice, that was his message. he said i fought for a war funding bill that would have made the wealthy share this burden of the bill. that was the message john kerry was taking there that's what-said if you take the whole thing in full. unfortunate unfortunately, all the people was going to hear was this. >> i actually did vote for the $87 billion before i voted against it. >> amgd that is the kind of killer devastating sound by the political ad makers live for. somebody in the bush campaign was watching john kerry at the town hall that day, heard that line, isolated it and knew they had an ad. that was an ad that echoed through that entire campaign, mo

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in 2007, lithuanian special forces were deployed to afghanistan. they were frustrated that their soldiers in armored vehicles kept getting ambushed by taliban fighters on motorcycles. the taliban guys on the motorcycles could outrun them, they were faster, nimbler, couldn't catch them when they tried to go after them after these attacks. so lithuanian special forces traded in their armored trucks for their own motorcycles. they put their special operators on dirt bikes. it became their signature thing. they wrod motocross bikes, set up a training area, taught themselves to ride like armed motocross bandits, how to maneuver these light, nimble, totally unprotected bikes, in rough terrain, offroad, while chasing down the enemy. and the lightness of those bikes, ended up being a key adaptication for that particular fight. the taliban would regularly set pretty stiff springs on the pressure plates that they used as triggers for their hidden ieds. they're planting bombs in the road, but they set the pressure plates to be pretty stiff. the idea was that

and paul rik of, founder of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. he's here next. paul has not really weighed in on tv yet, since this huge fire storm emerged between the republican presidential nominee and this gold star family, who lost their son in iraq. the founder of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america is here tonight next. big show tonight. stay with us. >>> in april, 2004, a u.s. army specialist named casey sheehan was killed in iraq, in baghdad. he and his unit had only been in iraq about two weeks. his unit got into a battle with a shi'ite militia in baghdad, and he was killed by a rocket propelled grenade. in august 2005, a specialist's grieving mother set up camp outside the texas ranch of republican president george w. bush, directly across the road from the president's home in texas, cindy sheehan made her impassioned case against the war in which her son had died, and her impassioned case against the president who started that war. she held nothing back. she said president bush lied to the nation. he took out ads against him, accuse president bus

and went with us to afghanistan to fight, to put their national treasure, their national lives on the line for what happened to the united states of america. so these alliances, these partnerships, are not a construction transaction. they're not transactions. they're alliances. they're the very fabric. since truman, republicans and democrats alike. i'm out here at the aspen strategy group, which is really the most bipartisan, most non-partisan collection of national security professionals, and people here think very hard about what we need to do to keep america safe. and i have heard from across the spectrum of policy analysts, of diplomats, of generals and military and mike morel, who is a superb intelligence professional, great fear about donald trump having his hand on the nuclear codes. >> i wanted to ask you about that, because we played that ad from hillary clinton. you had charlesrauthammer and max boot, conservative writer, both invoking that, the nuclear codes. is that your feeling, that this country with donald trump as president would be unsafe with him having the nuclear c

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