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Release, todays supreme court ruling suggests that is not likely to happen. >> shannon: democrats claiming president trump dug in on the border wall due to pressure from conservative talk radio but is the same holding true for a decision on syria now that his defense secretary is calling it quits over policy differences? will conservative talk radio also reverse his decision? >> in 1967 when he was talking about support for the vietnam war, president lyndon johnson said ive lost cronkite, ive lo...

Barrier, which is totally effective, while at the same time beautiful. before he can build it, he need this money from congress, which is why president trump has delayed his planned a trip to florida for the holidays. he was supposed to leave for mar-a-lago tonight, shannon, but now he has delayed that trip until tomorrow at the earliest. shannon. >> shannon: everyone changing their plans tonight get all right, kristin, we will check back with you at the white house. thank you very much. democra...

Release, todays supreme court ruling suggests that is not likely to happen. >> shannon: democrats claiming president trump dug in on the border wall due to pressure from conservative talk radio but is the same holding true for a decision on syria now that his defense secretary is calling it quits over policy differences? will conservative talk radio also reverse his decision? >> in 1967 when he was talking about support for the vietnam war, president lyndon johnson said ive lost cronkite, ive lo...

The supreme court ruling suggests that. >> democrats claim donald trump, due to pressure from conservative talk radio but is the same holding true for a decision on syria? now that his esteemed secretary over policy differences. conservative talk radio convinced the president to reduce the decision and trace is on the case. >> in 1967 when talking about support for the vietnam war, lyndon johnson famously said, quote, if i lost cronkite and lost middle america. walter cronkites first influence. ...

Politics for the last 40 years. >> michael, has the secretary of defense over quit over policy differences before? >> not even close. and, chris, the two big resignations and protests in this country over the last, lets say the last little bit more than a century would be first was william jennings bryant, a name on everyones tongue im sure today. >> because he opposed world war one. >> opposed world war i. he said i will support you for reelection and thee eeother was cyrus vance when he disagr...

Turkish forces as a result of this u.s. withdrawal. and so what the defense secretary did was he went to the oval office for one last time yesterday afternoon to try to convince the president to cancel his plans to withdraw u.s. troops from syria, but when he was unsuccessful in this very brief meeting, the defense secretary did what he had left to do, which was to pull out this two-page resignation letter and offer it over to the president. but this had been a long time coming, as you mentioned...

Forces in ditches when the u.s. pulled out of syria. the secretary made a last ditch effort to appeal to the president in the oval office to try to get him to reverse course. that was something that the president would not do and the defense secretary, jim mattis resigned on the spot. it was a culmination of all the various policy differences the two men had over mattiss tenure there. aides began to fear that it was when rex tillerso and hr mcmaster, it was at the time when they were ousted from...

Afghanistan. if the president is abrupt and flawed in his decision-making in afghanistan as he seems to have been about syria, not consulting our allies, not consulting senior leaders in congress, i think the consequences for our alliances as well as our security would be significant. i urge everybody watching to read secretary of mattiss resignation better. i had a lump in my throat reading it last night. this is a chilling moment. i think it will be difficult for president trump to secure the ...

Wheels may becoming off. trump is too distracted to see he got railroaded. he goes on to say this is profoundly short sided that is one reaction to two big breaking stories this evening, the departure of the defense secretary james mattis, the last of the so-called adults in the room and the latest of so many members of this administration to leave. and a stinging letter came from the secretary he was quitting in protest and in that letter, not one single word of praise for the commander in chie...

Washington to the core as it looks like a government shutdown. and jim mattis, one of donald trumps most respected advisors announcing his departure over policy differences. the defense secretary agrees with his america first strategy but has the chops to leave the pentagon. welcome to fox news at night. on one top issue the president heard a message from his base loud and clear, now says he will veto any bill that doesnt contain funding for the border wall but holding firm on pulling out of syr...