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Chance. its pretty shabby for the commander in chief to be attacking a marine general. >> it is. you know, i have a mixed opinion about jim. he wasnt a brilliant ev entrepreneur secretary of defense. he didnt do much for what the united states needed. they do not need more money, which is all the answer he had to congress. theyre falling apart right now. they cant recruit. they cant find people for the navy ships. they cant find people to fly the fighters in the air force. he did nothing about a...

Country. leland: significant and noteworthy analysis. always good to see you, merry christmas to you and yours if we dont talk before. >> yes, sir. merry christmas and have a great holiday. >> very good, roll tide. gillian turner is joining us live. does this burden implications? >> i am seeking to sources who work over estate and dod. they say planned and ready to move in february. maybe he is submitting early because he wants to make the point that he disagrees with the president on some iss...

Blame at the president because it was the president result 34589ly who drew the line in the sand. he did suggest he would accept a continuing resolution to get us through february 8th. reversed course and drew a line in the sand. here is senator schumer on who is to blame. >> the president will try to do his best to blame democrats but its flatly absurd. no democrat has called for shutting the government down. we are all working to avoid it. the president seems to relish it. he seems to feel it ...

Sufficient time for a successor to be nominated and confirmed, as well as to make sure the departments interests are properly articulated and protected at upcoming events to include congressional posture hearings and the nato defense ministerial meeting in february. further, that a full transition to a new secretary of defense occurs well in advance of the transition of chairman of the joint chiefs of staff in september in order to ensure stability within the department. i pledge my full effort ...

Should allow sufficient time for a successor to be nominated and confirmed as well as to make sure the departments interests are properly articulated and protected at upcoming events to include congressional posture hearings and the nato defense ministerial meeting in february. further, that a full transition to a new secretary of defense occurs well in advance of the transition of chairman of the joint chiefs of staff in september in order to ensure stability within the department. i pledge my ...

Voted in favor of in the past. asking them to do the same now. we will see what lets bring it back out to the couch as we watch the situation. morgan, i dont want tthat wheng about the generals and who was going to take over now at this point, you had a conversation with retired general last night. are you countable sharing that? >> morgan: we spoke this morning. he did say, i believe on fox news last night. but hes not going to take the job. there is still a lot of people that could be consider...

They were all the adults in the room to overuse that phrase. now this is complete free fall. when you have a major troop announcement like the president issued with syria, and you have the white house and the dod referring back to each other to try to answer questions because nobody knows what the hell anyone is doing, thats just a complete meltdown of the chief of staffs position, the foreign policy shop, thats a white house where nobody knows whats going on. during the waning days of watergate...

Obvious that there are no way out for members of trufrs family if they have committed crimes. or for members of donald trumps cabinet, which of course, is causing panic. tom nichols, i want to explain to everybody before i quote you here that you speak neither for the dod, for james mattis, or for surviving members of led zeppelin when i read this quote. you said yesterday the government of the the united states is now a total free fall the situation was orderly and professional compared to this...

Guns. for a military leader to think like that, talk like that, and to be able to back it up, its inspirational. theres a lot to learn from this man and weve got to think him -- thank him for his service. >> juan: general perino, what do you think? >> dana: i am no general at all. i cant hold a candle to him. general mattis was able to fulfill president trumps direction when he asked for troops to go to the border for support down there. he did that and pushback on media criticism or should say ...

Place in the world, but put lives in danger because this seems like an incredibly snapped decision and weve seen this before from this president. >> they are concerned. so the question is -- >> what do you do? >> should pompeo continue at state. should mattis continue at the dod if this president will send 6,000 troops to the border to fight an imaginary enemy and take out 2,000 troops that are holding iran, syria, isis and russia in check. >> yeah. i mean thats a tough one to answer. i would be...