in the positions of power on the senate side those critics are gone and the discrepancy between two chambers will be extraordinary come that first week of january. i wonder, garrett, any chances that they may become, in their new positions, feel the need to become critical at times over mattis departure, over america s retreat from the fight against isis and russia. beal see. inhofe will get pushed. he said publicly he doesn t see his role as much as an oversight, he sees it as giving the military the tools they need. there will be people underneath him who are very upset. confirmation hearings for those who replace james mattis will be intense and you ll have pressure from hawks who are still over there like lindsey graham, marco
are coming off, there is a lot of evidence for that today. there was a time where we thought john kelly was the adult in the room. he has left. jim mattis has left with regards to he has now left. it seems as if maybe the adults aren t in the room anymore especially with regards to foreign policy. should we be worried? yeah. i think we should be worried. the president the one institution that seemed to kind of hold this presidency up was the military. we had so many military officers in this administration, you almost could have called it that is all changing very quickly. in the meantime, as the president said himself yesterday he didn t know the name of the chief civilian dealing with the syrian coalition. so again we have a president who seems to rely more on sort of television news and occasional telephone calls than he does on a sort of broad concept of how
trump likes to say he s for a strong military and that he has military families backing him. there is no symbol of the military that s more powerful these days than general mattis. he looks like he was born a marine, born in that green marine uniform, and people watched him suffer this president and finally snapped, do something that was very unmattis like. mattis usually unflappable. he grits his teeth and gets on with it. he didn t this week, he resigned. i found that in conditioning among the diplomatic core, among recognizes who had been silent until last week, people were suddenly speaking out, people who tried to kind of keep their counsel, keep options open for president trump, former secretary bob gates who preceded
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