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Military for the foreseeable future, if thats what the president is planning? >> well, if thats what hes planning, you know, thats what its going to be. shanahan is a long-time boeing executive. he has a lot of experience in large organizations and corporate matters, large budgets, acquisition, innovation, all the issues that hes been dealing with as deputy defense secretary. as he takes on acting secretary, what officials are saying is, he will have to rely more on the chairman of the joint chi...

The idea of a one-off quick punch so you can tweet about it. is the opposite of the way hes behaved. in a afghanistan, in iraq in every one of those command positions. i think youre right, joe, that these tweets make it hard for mattis to do his job in the way that hes supposed to as our secretary of defense. but what was striking to me in that clip is hes kind of ignoring the tweets. hes just going about his business, hes looking at the intelligence, hes talking with allies, hes thinking about ...

Hertling. general, i rely on you all the time for the right way to look at situations that regard the military. how do you see this? >> chris, theres a couple things to look at. first of all, what happened, how it happened and why it happened. first of all, in a matter of seconds, as soon as that tweet appeared yesterday morning, thousands of soldiers, sailors, airmen and marine were affected. im not just talking about getting the news. im talking about some who might be deployed, some who might...

Operation and other issues. now lets turn to the pentagon and listen to what was said there just moments ago. >> our guidance is very clear. well give up command position, as we had from the beginning, but give up the command positions and be participants, but not in command. then were going to continue to provide predominantly those capabilities that we have their unique that enable the operations, as well as additional capacity that the coalition may not have that we bring to the fight. an exa...