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Resignation letter, who takes that job next? who can be convinced to step in and play the role at the head of the pentagon? >> well, kimberly, thats an important question. u.s. military 2.1 million men and women, active guard and reserve, deployed globally during conflict situations not just in syria and afghanistan. theyre facing the chinese naval forces in the south china sea. you know, theyre all listening whos at the helm? we have nine combatant commanders. i was one of them in the latin ame...

Modern times to have a president that is this uneducated on the issues and who is so unwilling to listen to the professionals at state department, treasury, defense, cia, be educated and read their materials and take their complex briefings. its almost become a rogue operation. once kelly is gone, the chief of staff, which essentially his tenure is over, who is in charge? and the president of the united states can pick up the phone and call our nine combatant commanders and give orders to them a...

Believe would take this job knowing what it comes with and being in line with the president on all of these fronts, on the syria withdrawal, on the afghanistan partial drawdown? are you confident? >> im not, poppy. and good morning. first of all, what i would say is to echo what susan just said and what youre hearing is, secretary mattis was somewhat of a unique individual because he was universally admired in the military. people from the generals down to the privates. you normally dont get tha...

President understood, and some -- many presidents dont. but secretary mattis traveled around the world and addressed troops and was very forthright about the problems we were having in our politics here at home. who fills that vacuum? >> well, first of all, there is some good news here. 2.1 million men and women in the armed forces, active guard, disciplined, competent, 60,000 killed and wounded fighting to defend america. weve got civilian secretaries, service secretaries in the pentagon, the d...

Confronted our allies and the president has deferred to dictators like putin, erdogan, duterte in the fiphilippines an others and mattis at some point said, i dont want to be associated with this lack of american values. one other thing deserves to be said by the way. theres a huge disciplined u.s. armed forces, 2.1 million men and women, globally deployed. great service secretaries. the deputy secretary of defense shanahan is very admirable. mature technology guy. the president of the united st...

Very strong reaction nicolle to say dont hang us out to dry. we need to know we have the full backing, the full political backing of our government when we go out there and do the work you ask us to do. not only to diplomats. it applies to military officials, joint chiefs, combatant commanders, applies to intelligence officers. it applies to every single american who is doing the work on behalf of the american people all around the world. if the president of the united states doesnt have their b...

News conference. here is what he said about kim jong un. >> we have heard a lot of bad things about rocket man and suddenly you guys are good friends. >> we got along well. good chemistry. we really did have good chemistry. >> does that concern you at all the things that the president is saying about kim jong un are somewhat positive given his history? >> well, martha, the coast guard plays its role and support in the department of defense. on the daily basis across the seven continents we are s...

When mike pompeo and i took the reins at langley about 15 months ago we decided to concentrate on four initiatives, and one of those is partnership, and it involves two areas. first, our partnership with the other i.c. partners and even more broadly than that. there are many important partnerships for cia, and as you say, those partnerships are critical because its a complex world. . there is no more important partnership than the one between cia and dod. i have had the absolute honor and privil...

Reins at langley 15 months ago we decided to concentrate on four initiatives. one of those is partnerships and it involves two areas. first our partnerships with our other i.c. partners in the u.s. government but even more broadly than that. there are many important partnerships for c.i.a. and as you say, those partnerships are critical because its a complex world. there is no more important partnership than the one between c.i.a. and d.o.d. i have had the absolute honor and privilege to sit at ...

Ago, we decided to concentrate on four initiatives, and one of those is partnerships. and it involves two areas, first, our partnerships with our other ic partners in the u.s. government. but even more broadly than that. there are many important partnerships for cia. and, as you say, those partnerships are critical because its a complex world. there is no more important partnership than the one between cia and dod. i have had the absolute honor and privilege to sit at the table with secretary ma...