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Has nominated mark esper. >> its tragic its taken six months for the president to put this name forward. we were all bewildered as to why it took so long to put shanahans name forth. esper has much more practical experience. yes, he does come from the defense structure and ill be willing to take a look at his nomination. im glad the congress put it in perspective. his twitter feed exposed to the entire world how absolutely out of control the decision-making process is inside the white house. fra...

Obligations, there were inspectors there to make sure they were doing that. we pull out, sanction them, isolate ourselves. what we see is a completely incoherent approach to farm policy. trump wants the feeling that hes confronting iran, yet he doesnt want a war. everything he has been doing since we pulled out of the nuclear deal makes it more and more likely. at the same time, we have no secretary of defense. not only do we have the potential kind of chaos of a military operation literally und...

Lives would be at stake. you once signed an open letter before trump took office saying that he was unfit to be president because of his lack of national security experience. i wonder when youre looking, does this change your mind at all or to you is this demonstrative of your point? >> yeah, no, i think the way that this as unfolded over the last 24 to 48 hours in terms of when the drone was shot down by the iranians to when we have the president tweeting about his national security decision-ma...

Our adversaries what our forces are, what they are prepared to do. why we are in given areas. we dont broadcast what our military plans are specifically but the briefing of supporters. they are not surprised. >> you say the u.s. shouldnt broadcast what its about to do but it seems the president in that tweet this morning hes telling a lot about his decision making process. he was close and decided to change his mind. >> if i were kim jong-un, i would look at this example and say, the president i...

More likely. at the same time, we have no secretary of defense. not only do we have the potential kind of chaos of a military operation literally under way being pulled back, we dont even have a secretary of defense, nor have we had one for six months. a confirmed secretary of defense. we dont have a clear decision making process in the national security council. thats been widely reported. we have said for a long time, donald trump has not been tested by a crisis. we are seeing before our own e...

Exercise a disciplined process to make sound, reasonable judgments to introduce armed forces? or does he do it willy-nilly like he demonstrated last night? again, glad that they didnt strike and glad we didnt take out 150 iranians, civilian or military, that gives one a little bit of comfort. the larger picture is that the larger command authority, the decision making process is broken. >> congressman anthony brown, appreciate your time, thank you. >> thank you. stay with us. much more to come...

>> i can tell you from my experience at the pentagon, when ever theres a call for providing military action, very detailed assessment of what type of missile or vehicle will be used, wheres the target, how many people are likely to be killed, whats the collateral damage, most of that is done well in advance. it calls into question the decision making process in the united states and that is the downside of what the president has done. the up side is, he didnt take military action. the down side ...

Youve done the targeting process and the decisionmaking process, and youre going after something and you know the enemy is there and you going to kill them and the risk is small, then you execute that target. if for some reason at the last minute suddenly you see civilians in the area or the enemy ducks into a mosque, church, or hospital, then you will stop the mission or stop from targeting that structure or that particular target. that happens. but it seems to me, im a little skeptical based o...

Of state, john bolton, et cetera? >> oats not clear ultimately what the president decided and why this was called off but its clear for much of the afternoon yesterday they were in a decision making process trying to deliberate over what the options were and how the president should move forward. there were a couple of data points we were getting throughout the afternoon. around 6:00 p.m. shortly after that you started to hear from the presidents allies on capitol hill using very specific langua...

You? >> i think theres going to be a lot of scrutiny rightfully so -- many people have observed so far president trump has been lucky and hasnt had a major external crisis. some people would argue this is crisis of his one making. one way or another a lot of people are looking at the apparently haphazard nature of the decision making process, the lack of transparency, the fact the president has not had a confirmed secretary of defense for longer than any president in the history of this positio...