administration? >> i have to admit that i had the thought in the last few days, i thought about this. if hillary clinton had essentially misplaced a carrier group, deceived about it, essentially used it as a kind of bluffing threat in a game of brinksmanship with a nuclear power and it turned out it was the wrong place, this would be iconic. this would be dukakis in the tank. for decades we would be hearing about it. >> well, there's no doubt about it. i mean general mattis is a career military officer. one of the problems is he doesn't have any staff because they won't allow him to pick the people that he wants. general mcmaster is a career military officer. what was he doing? he's the president's national security adviser. he should be checking up. when is it going to get there? what kind of signal are we going to send? the president compounded this by talking about submarines. normally we don't know that. i mean it's supposed to be the carrier and, you know, four escorts. the idea that we got submarines, we're not supposed to be talking