Medal of Honor recipient condemns jailing of Marine who criticized Afghan withdrawal

[Music] for the last 30 days our son has spoke his truth and he is a very proud american a very proud marine a very principled man and he stood his ground and that's what the marines have taught him he only spoke because what he saw happening in kabul was he couldn't take it he had to speak out he had to stand his ground and he did there you have an emotional response from the parents of a former marine lieutenant colonel stuart sheller who was jailed he's been thrown into the brig for criticizing the military's withdrawal from afghanistan this comes as top generals are set to testify again today this time before house lawmakers on what went wrong over there here to react fox news contributor and marine veteran and medal of honor recipient dakota meyer dakota good morning good morning so they threw that lieutenant colonel in the brig the marines did because uh they couldn't they couldn't stop him from tweeting out why is this why is the military super supervisors uh why are they not being held accountable for what went wrong yeah i mean look it's you know look first off the military is a little bit different place to uh to to work and to be able freedom of speech in the military has always been uh something that's back and forth of what that exactly means right uh i i i don't understand what grounds that the the military has has put him in in the brig for but i mean you know this is what the military does what it tells me though is that either that that they're worried about what this guy's gonna say i just don't think that i just don't think that this is the right way to handle this i mean i think that look if this man wants answers this man came out and literally asked the same questions that all of us are asking and i just think it this is a terrible move i don't i just don't understand what we don't know yet of of what regards did they think that this was going to be a smart move to to put this man behind bars as you've seen in administration are you seeing someone try to do with look at eddie gallagher they tried to put him behind bars you know they tried to shut him up multiple times all these things and that did not work out in their favor at all so i just don't understand i just don't understand how they thought this was wrong to me in my opinion it just shows me that that our military leadership has gotten so political and that with the left they feel so empowered that they feel they can do whatever they they want and they're not going to be held accountable in it which is what we're seeing with the top generals right now so why would they think any different but i i don't think this is a smart move for them and i think this is really going to come back and get them they just wanted to censor him and so they threw him in the brig and that's where he's sitting on this wednesday morning you mentioned the top generals they were all on capitol hill yesterday talking to the senate they're going to be back today talking to the house but yesterday dakota was very clear their story is much different than joe biden's joe biden said on tv 40 days ago yeah i can't recall anybody telling me to leave 2500 people on the ground in afghanistan yesterday they all said yeah we told them ultimately we're not going to tell you a lot about what we told him but we told him that well this is this is joe biden's first real job where he's had to have accountability you know joe biden has been able to for his entire career kind of kind of walk around and skirt the uh the one thing of responsibility and accountability in any of his jobs right you know he was vice president he could walk around and smile and shake you know wave his hand and president obama would have to take the the blame you know look there's nobody who doesn't want to be president any more than joe biden right now with all the heat he's taken uh so i think that that's part of it you know he just thinks well i don't remember you know i got a lot going on you know i don't remember saying this which i think is such a cop-out answer and there's no way that that's true but they believe they can lie to the american people so much and that the american people will take it and if they keep saying it over and over and over again that the american people will then believe it and that is where we have a huge issue with this i mean you've got a general you've got the the joint chief of staff i mean he's just an advisor he's not even in charge of anybody he's he's the adviser to the president of the united states he has no power so of course the administration doesn't have to take his advice um but i i think that what you know one of the big issues we have is that the joint chief admitted to uh to treason to to collusion with the chinese government uh without having the president's authority under the trump administration and i don't understand how he's not in prison not in the brig and you've got lieutenant colonel sheller in the in the brig it doesn't make sense and uh general millie said yeah i talked to bob woodward and i didn't do anything to matter so anyway he's got they're gonna all be back in the hot seat today we'll have it here on fox dakota thank you very much thank you

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Length: 5min 10sec (310 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 29 2021