Should Mattis News Today

Out right now. z z. >> geyerly? >> yes, entirely. ive never seen a decision like this where nothing is communicated in advance and all of a sudden this type of massive decision takes place. its obviously a political decision. >> corker told reporters that yesterday the white house canceled a long planned meeting with president trump while the senator was sitting in the waiting room for him. admiral, what should mattis, pompeo and others in the foreign policy community the do? >> lets start by --...

Are coming, but somehow we cant afford to have 2,000 troops doing arguably the most important counterterrorism mission we face. what they should be doing is saying to the president, look, mr. president, youre a businessman. lets look at leverage. this is only a few thousand troops, but you leverage the creation of allies, partners and friends. you get nato into this deeper, the french will do that. the brits are doing it. we can bring the rest of nato in. this is a very winnable proposition. we ...

Unchecked and isis. the rebooting of isis. so you wonder if james mattis cant take out the troops on the border. what is his purpose there? maybe he should just leave and tell us how dysfunctional this white house is. >> david certainly knows more, but mattiss relationship with the president has deteriorated, although mattis would like to stay. david, when you boil this all together, you have everybody with any knowledge, credibility, thoughtf thoughtfulness, opposed to it. you have the process ...

Place in the world, but put lives in danger because this seems like an incredibly snapped decision and weve seen this before from this president. >> they are concerned. so the question is -- >> what do you do? >> should pompeo continue at state. should mattis continue at the dod if this president will send 6,000 troops to the border to fight an imaginary enemy and take out 2,000 troops that are holding iran, syria, isis and russia in check. >> yeah. i mean thats a tough one to answer. i would be...

The military is that we could have a real ignition point in northeast syria. i mean, thats -- of hundreds of people who have depended on us in an area that became stable. what do we do then, mr. pt president, as people begin dieing in large numbers. >> david, what does general mattis do now? whats the purpose of staying around if one of the most important strategic decisions made is done without his advice? >> so i think this is agony for general mattis. he bears this kind of thing in silence. p...

The state department unless what was ordered ends up happening. i dont think thats the case here. its scary for people, i think, to imagine a strong person like secretary mattis leaving the pentagon, but if he has so little influence in the 11th hour to talk the president out of this mistake, you wonder whats the difference. but ive rarely incurred so much unified protest that in this instance everybody is against it. >> steve, you have general mattis in the pentagon, which weve applauded from d...