This is his war Department, obviously with the Congress, needless to say. But you can rest assured, sir, that we are in tight alignment with President. I have a real concern about that. When Two days after the President said there'd be no significant changes in US Force posture, you announced that you were taking a brigade out of there. But now I would just stress, sir, that the Department of War and I would once again stress that I'm not in the chain of command. (06:50–06:57)
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Asserts that a brigade was removed two days after the President stated no significant changes would occur.
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