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Replacement. remember, we saw this with his former chief of staff, reince priebus then, you know, john kelly started telling him things he needed to do that he didnt want to do so he called reince priebus. its kind of a familiar pattern but one that certainly was unexpected. >> carol, youve also got some reporting and theres sort of something in the water about the coverage of the scuttled meeting with the taliban, what donald trump expected was for everyone to fall in line, that the vice presid...

Hes well on the record with all of them. whether its on iran or north korea and he never benlt on any o f that. even as the president moved in different directions. before afghanistan, it was iran. i was at the g7 at the presidents press conference and he stood there and talk ed abou wanting to have sit-down with the president of iran without any preconditions. and that is something that given all that john bolton has said b about iran, what his positions are, was hard to imagine how him being n...

Position that can carry out his agenda. that became no longer tenable so the president made a change. thanks. >> hogan -- >> there is -- >> why [ inaudible ]. >> there is no one issue, right. but there is no one issue here. you guys understand and we have now said, they just didnt align on many issues. thats where -- thats why we are where we are and moving forward. charlie cupperman is in that position. you guys will hear more about this and other issues from the briefing room in just a moment....

Says, if that were the case the vice president, vice president biden wouldnt be getting vote of field, most democrats are moderate slightly left to center, not progressive as progressive candidates are, not that far to the left, thats number one, but number two, there are policy differences between every democrat and president trump and real policy difference on climate change that make huge difference to peoples lives, we saw that with recent hurricane and people are going to react to those pol...

Business or theyre running a school district in their hometown. first spend time deciding on what the problem is. it takes a while. einstein was asked how would you save the world if you had one hour. id spend 55 minutes defining the problem and save the world in five minutes. i think we spend too little time, even in this town agreeing on what is the problem, trying to solve it. when you come up with solutions, nobody agrees. >> arent you creating a new problem when you spend billions of dollar...

I was fighting in afghanistan within a few months. and we were joined there by canadian forces, united kingdom forces, norwegian and german jordanian and turkish and australia i cant believe and new zealand and eventually 48 other countries. they were there not because they were attacked. they were there for one reason, thats because we were attacked and they stood with us. so in order to deal with this ambient threat, were going to need all the allies we can get. and thats just reality. >> mart...

>> i dont think it will be combat combative, but i think it will be a real authentic debate about policy differences. look -- >> sparks will fly. >> certainly there are because elizabeth warren in almost every pole keeps gaining on joe biden. there will be, i think, a debate about the issues but joe biden does represent the more establishment moderate wing of the party. he wants to protect obama care, he doesnt support it. i think you will see a genuine policy debate on the issues. but im lookin...

Over clear policy differences, you need to give the people who are still there as much opportunity to defend the country. okay. the one i think is more telling is this next one. >> i like that one, but go ahead. >> we will take it to the poll in a minute. next, you dont endanger the country by attacking the commander in chief. i may not like a commander in chief one freaking bit, but our system puts the commander in chief there and to further weaken him up against real threats, we could be at wa...

President trump. he said if you leave an administration, you owe some silence. when you leave over a fear of policy differences, you need to give the people who are still there as much opportunity to defend the country. what are we reading in this interview now? there seems to be this public struggle on how far he should go on criticizing the president. >> i think this is something that jim mattis has been thinking about forever. this is what four star generals think about when they are on activ...

Former defense secretary general retired general james mattis is breaking his silence about his resignation last december. in his first interview since leaving office he talks to jeffrey goldberg of the atlantic saying he had no choice but to leave. mattis has been careful not to speak out since, telling goldberg, quote, if you leave an administration you owe some silence. when you leave a silence over clear policy differences, you need to give the people who are still there as much opportunity ...