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Mad anthony wayne, was george washingtons favorite general, had an amazing spectacular career, and was a great american. so general mattis successfully led a division of marines into baghdad. he was the head of central command for a few years, very qualified eminent military thinker. im not going to trash all of the selections, but i would appeal to president-elect trump to repeal some of the selections he has made. >> it surely will be a heated nomination process for some of them. thank you ver...

Of central command for two or three years while president obama was in office. he is somebody who served his country with distinction. >> all right. so earnest went on to say hes really not passing judge on this. we know donald trump revealed he has calls with president obama and there are certain names that float back and forth and president obama says, yeah or yea or nay. what do we know about capitol hill and its reaction to mattis? >> look at what theyre saying on capitol hill. i think thats...

The sense the pentagon shut him down, they didnt want him to speak to the press. general mattis was famous for tough otes but those are from way back when he was a commander on the ground in iraq back in those days. when he got to central command, he was pretty quiet with the press corps. he succeeded general petraeus, changed that office, and was this lawyer diplomat to the region. general kelly more recently was familiar with the press corps. he will come out and say things as they are. when t...

Celebrating his election victory. president obama meanwhile has just finished what will likely be his final major speech on terror. he used it not only to defend his legacy but also issue a veiled warning to donald trump. our white house correspondent is in tampa, florida, where the president spoke at the u.s. military central command headquarters. despite a warning of progress, the terror threat will endure. >> yeah. this was not the fiery president from the campaign trail. this was again lawye...

Im just not going to be doing that. >> so the house speaker not commenting on the daily tweets but saying he thinks everything is fine regarding that phone call. president obama is making what is expected to be his final speech on fighting terror groups abroad. it could be his last chance to help encourage the incoming trump administration to keep some of his policies in place. our athena jones is following all of it from the white house and joins me now. the place where hes going to make this...

Plans. and tonight we have learned a key american military battery may also have been targeted. tonight kim jong uns hackers accused of a major breach of military secrets. the south korean defense ministry says north korea hacked its militarys secure computer network. its part of south koreas new cyber command. >> that was sort of the back-bone of the south korean military, and they probably got access to a lot of sensitive information. maybe including some of the information on the missile defe...

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When i was, had a chance to meet with our gulf states, aal l all and strategic partners they mentioned iran first on their list. iran through its proxies are involved in so many places through the middle east. theyre funding terrorist operations that affect the security of israel. iran is a country of major interest. yes, we have a game plan in regards to their nuclear ambitions but we dont have a game plan thats been effective in preventing their use of supporting terrorists. their proliferatio...

But they should respect what we say and general mattis says what he means and i think will back it up. >> hes former head of the u.s. military central command, spent a lot of time in the middle east, south asia, north africa, so he knows that region obviously very well. so assuming he is confirmed, and you have to pass special legislation to even get him to that confirmation since he hasnt been off active duty for seven year, you will have the general as a defense secretary, general as the presi...

Said general mats was a warrior monk, general petraeus is a soldier scholar. he knows a lot about the world. as central command commander where he served for almost two years. he was dealing with all the nations in the middle east in a diplomatic role. he was also the cia director. he had all kinds of contacts with government and understands the policies and the divisiveness of washington. but when he was my commander in iraq, he was also consolidating allies from over 35 different countries in ...