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Worded rebuke to the president where hes saying look, i believe in a world where, you know, our allies need to be our friends. we need to treat them with respect. our alliances are substantial and critical to american power in the world. and we cant sort of treat russia as a friend when russia and china want to reorient the world in a way that fits their autocratic aims. >> yeah. and noticeably absent, and george conway also pointed this out, theres nothing in there that says, you know, the para...

Troops recognize that everybody retires at some point from the job. i think what they are more concerned about is who will be the next secretary of defense. >> were talking about that in a bit. i really appreciate your perspective and analysis. resignation of jim mattis with the extraordinary rebuke to the president about his foreign policy. were talking about who might be next. why social securiits worrying allies and what, if anything, republicans in congress might do. that conversation is com...

♪ welcome back, everybody. im yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin and louis burgdorf. after two years serving the trump administration, defense secretary jim mattis is stepping down. the last of the senior military officials president trump brought into his administration. mattis resigned in a two-page letter that pointed to disagreements with trump about the use of military power and a rebuke of his treatment of american allies. nbcs kristen welker has the story. >> reporter: he wa...

Years to come. there wasnt a single word of praise for the president, but there was a rebuke of his policies, a rebuke of his world view. now you have this presidency that even before the mattis news yesterday was really, really on shaky ground. hes under fire from republicans on the hill, from conservatives on fox news. he has a very thin staff. he doesnt have his new chief of staff in place. so we really, in what has been an extremely volatile the presidency, this has been the most volatile mo...

>> reporter: and ann consulter in a scathing rebuke calling out the president for what she called vulgar narcissism and saying he was scamming voters all along. the sudden chaos over government spending comes one day after the president startled members of his open party when he declared he was pulling u.s. troops out of syria because isis was defeated. now the president is contradicting himself saying isis is still a fighting force, tweeting russia, iran, syria and many others are not happy abo...

Plan to stay through the entire administration. whether youre talking about in syria, across the middle east in general, other countries paying their fair share. and the whole america first agenda of this president. >> but in his letter, mattis lays out his views. and let me just briefly summarize some of those views. its a long letter he writes. he stands by treating allies with respect and being clear eyed about maligned actors and competitors. then he says because the president has a right to...

This is what i believe mr. cohen is referring to. as a reckless mentally unstable president of the united states who cozies up to putin and seems to be betraying the national interests. >> colonel jacobs, walk us through what it means when you lose two generals and chief of staff and now in defense secretary as i was reading and i have it here a letter that sounds like an ousting. you have a right to a secretary of defense whose views are better aligned and it is right for me to step down and a ...

Rebuke from the federal judge who was supposed to sentence michael flynn. the judge in this two-hour hearing, he twice raised the prospect of treason. he asked if flynns conduct rose to the level of treasonous activity at which point prosecutors responded that they never considered charging flynn with treason. the judge focused his real frustration and confusion on the circumstances surrounding flynns guilty plea, asking why flynns lawyers accuse the fbi of tricking flynn when they were question...

Feel its a good morning. he is being asked to surrender his passport. his sentencing has been postponed. this is not what he expected when he walked into the criminal court, and most thought he would get no jail time but instead he got a blistering rebuke from the judge and the white house got a rebuke from their false claims that flynn was somehow entrapped. still the white house press secretary stood by the made-up claim and we are hearing to hear from the president himself on this matter this...

Into a court to be sentenced for lying to the fbi during the transition. everybody thought he would get no jail time as part of his plea deal. what he got instead was a rebuke from the judge that said he could not contain his disgust, and the white house got rebuke from the made-up claims of the entrapment from the fbi, and it was not the judge but flynn and his lawyers, and the documents prove he was not trapped, still the white house press secretary stood by the made-up claim, and we are waiti...