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His decision coming the day after president trump moved to withdraw all 2,000 u.s. troops from syria. mattis telling the president and his resignation letter, "because you have the right to have a secretary of defense whose views are better aligned with your views on other subjects. etiquettes right for me to step down for my position." jennifer griffin is live with more from the pentagon. >> is the first time in 40 years a cabinet official has resigned over a policy difference from the presiden...

Announcing he will retire at the end of february. now were hearing more resignations could be on the way at the pentagon. welcome to a brand-new hour of "americas newsroom." im jon scott. >> julie: im julie banderas. the mattis announcement coming shortly after president trump ordered the drawdown of u.s. troops from syria. >> jon: jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon with more. >> make no mistake. this is not a retirement. he is resigning in protest over the presidents national security pol...

Field. i think he is probably dismayed with what were seeing inside the media. now, regarding policy difference -- >> wait a second. what about coming from people in the foreign policy, national security world who have serious concerns as well as republican lawmakers. do you think he would be shoving those away too? >> what i say to all of those people is i know you have policy differences but if were pulling out from syria, are you prepared to send your sons and daughters in there to take mare ...

But ive got to ask you this. as you sit here now, you said that youre aware of the weight of history. you didnt have to be a person of color working in the white house and a scandal free -- i know people want to gin up and make up things. scandal-free administration for eight years. policy difference is fine. but anything that is scandal related is made up. there was no scandal when it comes to this administration. personal scandals im talking about. >> no drama obama. >> when you see every sing...

You didnt have to be a person of color working in the white house and a scandal free, i know people want to gin up things and scandal free administration for eight years. policy difference is fine. but anything that is scandal related is made up. there was no scandal when it comes to this administration. personal scandals im talking about. >> no drama obama. >> you see every single day the things ha come out of this white house and the administration, do you just sit back and go what the -- what...

Strong policy difference, and this is the box the democrats will find themselves in. until they can find a way out of it, they are also going to have a very difficult time in 2020. this is -- while its a good situation to have the house democrats, a whole set of problems. >> ed: we appreciate you coming out tonight, giving us your insight. give our thoughts to john kasich. we have a lot of races, montana senate, arizona senate, well be getting to those of our panel. i also want to bring the pane...

Of jewish grandchildren and his daughter is a jewish citizen and his son-in-law a decent end of holocaust survivors. tomorrow he will grieve with the pittsburgh community. with that i will take your questions. >> sarah, the president said over the weekend that he could tone up his rhetoric. what does he mean by that. does he have any concern that his words could inspire or provoke troubled team to do awful things? >> certainly. the president wants in moments where our country is hurting like we ...

Anything. when we disagree, i pick up the phone and call him and tell him. so if there was a policy difference here, what a classy lady that she did near those differences in any way but the public and told the president to his face. >> ed mentioned the possibility of money, and obviously we do see people love public service. we want to kind of fill up the coffers especially if she does has presidential ambition which i think a lot of people believe she should have. >> i also think there are a c...

Reputation with parts of the republican party that agrees with me and not trump. >> let me press you on this policy difference because it hasnt received enough attention but mike allen, a former national security official from the bush 43 white house, and someone familiar with sort of this policy difference between, perhaps, what nikki haley thought on the issues you raised and the more hardline views of john bolton and mike pompeo made this point this morning that on a policy level, she probabl...

Resisting abuse of presidential authority is not a policy difference, its about a hero to the rule of law." lets bring in a panel for my constitution project, the project on government oversight, sarah to prevail and former republican congressman from utan chaffetz, author of the brand-new book "the deep state." thank you both for joining us today. >> thank you. >> shannon: lets talk about this. lindsey graham said to this on fox news sunday yesterday about rosenstein role or not role. >> i dont...