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Details about that. no doubt, thats also something that will upset the president, however. the president not somebody who likes to be criticized, certainly not by his own staff and the suggestion that maybe his outgoing chief of staff has prevented some sort of calamity is probably not going to go over well with him at all. >> kevin, you also have the relationship that blew up between the president and general mattis. its also mattis last day. he sent a new letter to pentagon employees, not atyp...

Hans nichols is back with us from the white house. if you can, take us inside the pentagon. how much of an impact is mattiss departure having this morning and what are the priorities that patrick shanahan has ahead of him. >> the priorities will be the same. mattis is trying to ensure an orderly transition so people in the pentagon and down range fighting in places like syria, iraq, and afghanistan dont detect a difference at the top of the dod, at the top of the pentagon. what mattis is saying ...

Makes the case its the latter, not the former. josh is joining me now. great to see you. >> likewise. >> i want to read a graph from your piece for everyone, because it was really enlightening. several u.s. officials and people who have spoken directly to trump since his syria decision tell me, josh rogin, they believe that pauls frequent phone conversations with trump wholly outside the policy process, are having an outsized influence on the presidents recent foreign policy decisions. how did t...

On his basketball team. a friend that recommended a boeing executive who was at boeing as well. he ends up giving this shanahan reference. shanahan wasnt political. he was thought of as a technocrat. a very smart guy. he has an engineers approach to a lot of worlds problems. theres nothing wong with that. shanahan will tell you he hasnt spent a lot of time in his career thinking about global challenges. he spent a lot of time thinking about supply change and how you make deadlines but not how yo...

Many to choose from. plus as you said youve now got this whole overlay. jared kushner and his being off line. you have national security adviser who doesnt convene national security meetings. theres virtually no process in this administration. you have diplomacy by twitter. also look at 2018. we lost secretary of state, secretary of defense and national security guy. >> if youre wanting to work in dod and you look at how james mattis, who was going to, you know, play it out and do his best he co...

Fence for several days in wet, freezing weather. now, the funeral of gomez follows earlier this month of the 7-year-old jacklin who died in border patrol custody. both ice and border patrol say they have mandates to hold people that cross illegally but court orders to release them in a number of days whether there is shelter space or not. every child right now in c.b.p. custody will receive a medical checkup if theyre under 10 years old and the agency has asked for medical help from the coast gu...

Community is falling really short. >> all of this happening as the secretary of defense james mattis was informed just a few days ago hes going to be leaving earlier than a number of folks expected. shanahan taking over the dod. the transition at the pentagon, how is it being received inside the halls of pentagon? >> i think its mixed. on the one hand the people who made the international policy, they frankly speaking, felt that the secretary of defense and his team relied a lot on the uniformed...

Of the "washington post" and msnbc political analyst eugene robins robinson. lets bring into the conversation white house bureau chief at the "washington post" phillip rucker, cnbcs brian sullivan, we have former dod official and former executive director. graham talent wmd commission dr. evelyn marcus, she is also a senior resident fellow at the marshall fund, and also with us we have former democratic representative from california, now the director, president and ceo of the woodrow wilson int...

Saying they expect 1200 more people the next few days. they blamed inaction by congress while insisting they worked with agencies to help migrants before they are released. defense secretary jim mattis not taking the day off this christmas with just a week left on the job. a dod official said secretary mattis is working in his pentagon office today. meanwhile, new insight into mattiss sudden resignation last week. the widely respected several trump officials said he believed he should have resig...

Uncertain everywhere. nobody knows quite where this is all heading after two years. and the u.s. government itself is increasingly in shambles. i was struck today by a tweet that andrea mitchell of nbc put out, just to listen to this for a second, the number of departments and agencies that are now headed by acting secretaries or deputies, d.o.d. is going to have an acting secretary, defense department, justice department, the epa, environmental protection agency, and the white house all were go...