Hawley: Milley needs to be fired if he won't resign

even before the general milli revelations my next guest pledged to stop all pentagon and state department nominations until secretaries austin ann blanken and national security adviser sullivan resign and today in his senate testimony lincoln still refused to take any responsibility for afghanistan when president biden took office in january he inherited an agreement that his predecessor had reached with the taliban had he not followed through on his predecessor's commitment attacks on our forces and those of our allies would have resumed and the taliban's nationwide assault on afghanistan's major cities would have commenced joining me now missouri senator josh hawley senator uh the lies the stonewalling the misrepresentation of trump sheer incompetence and now the leaked millie um chats is is there anyone trustworthy among biden's military or diplomatic leadership his cabinet at this point you know it really makes you wonder if anybody in this administration laura is willing or able to tell the truth and that's a dangerous spot to be in and as the united states of america is the people of this country i mean listen what blinken was saying today just isn't true he knows that that's not true this administration materially altered the conditions of withdrawal and they they are the ones who are responsible joe biden is responsible for the withdrawal that resulted in 13 service members dead that resulted in hundreds of american civilians left behind and until there is some accountability here i'm not going to rubber stamp these nominees i'm not going to let them just sail through the senate there needs to be accountability for the humiliation that this country has suffered at the hands of joe biden and can i just say this to laura for joe biden to call this humiliation an extraordinary success as he did to say that the death of these these marines and service members that these civilians left behind the enemy that's a success that's not a success it's a disgrace well it's more than blanken refusing to take responsibility here it's putting america's national security in jeopardy for everything this says to the rest of the world most notably what it says to our chinese uh adversaries and to that point senator the washington post's uh josh rogan got some additional context about millie's actions from a senior trump national security official and that official said that millie was making these phone calls with china at a time when the u.s government was in the middle of very complicated discussions with and actions against the prc for him to take this sort of action without any interagency coordination is astonishing official goes on to say the risk is that milly could have caused the chinese to miscalculate and take some sort of diplomatic economic or military action with far-ranging consequences because he was giving the wrong signal having no understanding of the context in which he was making the call general that does open eyes does it not no that does i mean how does millie not at this point be forced to resign and then be brought up on charges but before a military tribunal at the very least well i i was just going to say i mean what he is doing here if this were if these reports are accurate laura what he has done general milley is go outside the chain of command he's broken the chain of command he has threatened the constitutional principle of civilian control of the military he doesn't have the right he doesn't have the authority to contact our opponents in beijing and tell them that he will inform them about any action we might take before we take it i mean i can't believe i'm reading this i hope these reports are inaccurate but he does need to resign he needs to resign and if he won't resign he needs to be fired i mean he has broken the trust of the american people the republicans hold the key to funding any increases in the us military budget correct i mean if the republicans say we're not doing this that's right that military budget's not being increased they're not getting their new weapon systems or any of the things that the generals always say they need so it's incumbent upon the gop and you're stepping up to say whoa whoa whoa whoa this this military has got to be reformed and then move on to the diplomatic corps with blinkens embarrassment you know i i think what we're seeing here these reports that we're seeing laura i can't underscore enough how dangerous this is how dangerous it is for a general especially the chairman of the joint chiefs to take into his own hands the conduct of american foreign policy to undermine elected representatives including most importantly the president of the united states the elected president i mean this is this is dangerous dangerous territory that we're in and we're going to have to get to the bottom of it there needs to be a full congressional inquiry and i'm again i'm sorry to say but it is it is vital now that general miller he needs to resign if he doesn't resign he needs to be fired this is dangerous territory that we're in and there's got to be accountability senator great to see you tonight thank you hey sean hannity here hey click here to subscribe to fox news youtube page and catch our hottest interviews and most compelling analysis you will not get it anywhere else

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Length: 5min 23sec (323 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 15 2021