you and they want to destroy your country as we know it. dave and michelle? >> okay. thank you, caitlyn. acting defense secretary patrick shanahan withdrawing now for consideration for the permanent job. his decision comes after new reporting from the washington post about a violent family incident when shanahan's son attacked his own mother with a baseball bat. shanahan strongly defended his 17-year-old son arguing in a memo two weeks later that the teen was defending himself. shanahan told the post that he later regretted that memo and that the self-defense kwlams false. >> shanahan was fully vetted and the white house was aware of the claim. shanahan's withdrawal raises key questions about pentagon leadership and comes just as tensions are escalating with