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Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus said President-elect Trump demonstrated a "great grasp" of foreign affairs following a meeting with him Monday in Trump Tower. "I was with him for about an hour. He basically walked us around the world. Showed a great grasp of a variety of the challenges that are out there and some of the opportunities as well," Petraeus told reporters as he left the Manhattan skyscraper Monday afternoon. The former CIA director is a rumored contender for secretary of state. Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani are also in contention for the coveted position, although Trump's inner circle...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Bernie Sanders, he leads Hillary Clinton 60 to 33% in New Hampshire in a WMUR poll, and the New York Times has a story on how a bunch of young feminists (exactly what we predicted on this program) are beginning to abandon Hillary as they learn about the "bimbo eruptions" and all of that. The New York Times has the story... The picture is with Lena Dunham, you know, supposedly the icon of modern-era feminism. (sigh) Another reason, folks, I'm glad I am older and am the age I am. If that's the... count me out. Nowhere...

More than 400 veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will be storming Capitol Hill on Tuesday in support of the military operations in Iraq. Vets for Freedom, a nonpartisan, not-for-profit Washington organization composed of combat veterans, set up more than 300 meetings with House and Senate lawmakers. The group supports keeping U.S. troops in Iraq. The visits coincide with much-awaited testimony from Gen. David Petraeus on the situation in Iraq, and will be jump-started by way of a press conference Tuesday with presumptive GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the ranking Republican on the Armed Services panel....

The backlash over MoveOn.org's vile advertisement this week attacking Gen. David Petraeus has the jackals of the left sniffing around for a way out. The brainiacs at MoveOn.org probably giggled like school boys with forbidden magazines when they paid the reduced price for the New York Times' advertisement that had bold letters under a picture of Petraeus spelling out, "General Petraeus or General Betray Us?" It should be no surprise that the Times published the anti-American ad. Executive Editor Bill Keller has allowed reporters to publish national security secrets repeatedly in his rag when we are engaged in a hot...

Democrats who had hoped to use Monday’s congressional testimony as an indictment of the war in Iraq found themselves on the defensive over an ad impugning a respected American general. MoveOn.org, a liberal advocacy group that has become increasingly influential within the Democratic Party, ran a full-page ad in Monday’s New York Times that pre-emptively dismissed testimony delivered later in the day by Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq. “General Petraeus is likely to become General Betray Us,” said the ad, which accused him of “cooking the books for the White House.” Petraeus insisted he wrote his...

NEW YORK (AP) - The top U.S. commander in Iraq said in an interview released Monday that it's "indisputable" Iran is training and arming militants to fight against U.S.-led troops in Iraq. Gen. David Petraeus also told ABC News that suicide bombers are streaming across Iraq's border from Syria and making their way into the country's volatile western Anbar province. His comments follow a harsh exchange of words over the weekend between the U.S. and Iran at a conference in Baghdad on Iraq's security. The U.S. envoy to the talks, David Satterfield, said he had evidence that Iran was arming...