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Fmr. Navy Commander on Trump’s Purge of the Pentagon

Season 2025 Episode 7173 | 18m 13s

The Pentagon is reeling from the recent firings of top military leaders and lawyers. The dismissals included Navy Admiral Lisa Franchetti and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General CQ Brown Jr. Theodore R. Johnson is a retired naval officer who served for two decades, and he says that this was "strictly a political move." Johnson speaks to Michel Martin about the potential impacts.

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Ben Wallace; Gregg Nunziata; Theodore R. Johnson
Andrew McCabe; Comfort Ero; Bill Browder
Bill Browder discusses the impact of Donald Trump's new strategy on Russia.
Nick Paton Walsh; Andrey Kurkov; Constanze Stelzenmüller and David Broder; Kenneth Roth
M. Gessen; Kaja Kallas and Ayman Safadi; Rep. Jahana Hayes
Boris Bondarev; Sen. Elissa Slotkin; Bernadette Atuahene
Fmr. federal prosecutor Brendan Ballou discusses the dismissed charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams.
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Ben Wallace; Gregg Nunziata; Theodore R. Johnson
Andrew McCabe; Comfort Ero; Bill Browder
Nick Paton Walsh; Andrey Kurkov; Constanze Stelzenmüller and David Broder; Kenneth Roth
M. Gessen; Kaja Kallas and Ayman Safadi; Rep. Jahana Hayes
Boris Bondarev; Sen. Elissa Slotkin; Bernadette Atuahene
Wendy Sherman; Ruth Margalit; Brendan Ballou
Nick Paton Walsh; Andrea Kendall Taylor; Mohammad Mustafa; Loretta Ross
Volodymyr Zelensky; Sen. Chris Coons; Mark Rutte; Bill Gates
Vali Nasr and Elliot Abrams; Fernanda Torres and Walter Salles; Dr. Dhruv Khullar
Thandiwe Mhlambi; James Kunder; Robert Lighthizer; Joe Wright