Mike Rogers: “President Trump stated two days before the decision was made…”

“General Cavoli, in fact, last year, when he testified before us in the posture hearing, left absolutely no doubt during that hearing that it was his best military advice that we keep that fifth Brigade in Europe. Then we had President Trump stated two days before the decision was made that there would be no significant changes to US Force posture in Europe. And then also we had Secretary Rubio told his Romanian counterpoint two weeks, the very same thing. When I was in your office, I told you there was overwhelming bipartisan support in Congress for keeping our posture in Europe at five brigades.” (00:47–00:57)

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