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Quote, i know thats a question many of you are asking. why didnt anyone leave? god knows it would have been easy. we all have draft resignation letters in our desks or on our laptops. thats the half teasing half true advice you get on day one in the trump administration or immediately following senate confirmation. be sure to write your resignation letter. you may need it at a moments notice or less. some of us did consider resigning on the spot in the aftermath of the charlottesville, virginia,...

Quote, i know thats a question many of you are asking. why didnt anyone leave? god knows it would have been easy. we all have draft resignation letters in our desks or on our laptops. thats the half teasing half true advice you get on day one in the trump administration or immediately following senate confirmation. be sure to write your resignation letter. you may need it at a moments notice or less. some of us did consider resigning on the spot in the aftermath of the charlottesville, virginia,...

Lawmakers once afraid of crossing this president are now openly critical. now, much of that criticism comes in the wake of decisions by the president to pull u.s. forces out of syria and to reduce troop strength in afghanistan. choices that ultimately led to the protest resignation of defense secretary jim mattis. as this n"new york times" headline suggests, the department of mattis is causing cracks. one might say here, danielle, that these fissures, these cracks were always there, but this is ...

Follows that of interior secretary ryan zinke, who left in disgrace just last week, and before that, attorney general jeff sessions firing in november. but the secretary of defenses protest resignation left zero ambiguity as to why he was leaving. it was precipitated by the presidents decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria and afghanistan, a move that put trump at odds not only with secretary mattis but with all of his foreign policy advisers, another of whom, brett mcgurk, resigned last ni...

With me now is paul kruk shank, editor and chief at ctc sentinel and a cnn terrorism analyst. good to see you, paul. so how stunning is this to hear now, yet another resignation, which really is a protest resignation to president trumps policy of bringing u.s. troops home from syria. >> well, the concern here is this u.s. pullout could lead to a resurgence in isis. it could lead to isis rebuilding their international attack capability. we perhaps saw this videotape play out before in 2010, 2011 ...

Its just not true. when the general sees all those things together im sure he had to ask himself what good am i doing being here especially with john bolton installed as national security advisor. it just seemed mattis ability to reign in the president just sort of withered away. the president was bought into this decision and that was pretty much it. >> evelyn, if we get a letter of resignation like this from the congress secretary, the hud secretary, none would be that worried about it. there ...

Protest resignation, and the letter, how is that going to impact the shutdown negotiations? is it really going to put separate, like drive a wedge between senate republicans and the president? >> reporter: wedge may not be the right word. its certainly demoralizing. other than mitch mcconnell whos married to a secretary cabinet, every republican, every democratic senators favorite cabinet secretary. it was one person who was uniformly trusted and respected here across the board and his loss comi...

National security advisor. it just seemed mattis ability to reign in the president just sort of withered away. the president was bought into this decision and that was pretty much it. >> evelyn, if we get a letter of resignation like this from the congress secretary, the hud secretary, none would be that worried about it. there are people who are are worried, who have used the expression its a national security concern or even a crisis. tell me as somebody who has spent time in the department of...

Werent investigating him. congressman gowdy who fought for the memos to be released to lawmakers argues the writings are also evidence of a double-standard by comey. >> when he was upset with president trump, he leaked memos to spur special counsel. when he was up with loretta lynch, nobody knew a word about it. nobody knew that he didnt have confidence in loretta lynch. we just knew he appropriated the decision away from himself. >> the inspector general is investigating comeys handling of the ...