Appointment. Gloria borger joins me now. Who saw this coming . This was coming for several days. What shanahans personal situation is, is very sensitive, it involves his family, his children. He had been in an extremely contentious divorce years ago, there had been allegations of Domestic Abuse, police had been called to his house. When they arrived pat shanahan had shown signs he had been struck and abused by his now exwife. There were situations with all three children. Hes given interviews. He said in a Statement Last night, i never laid a hand on my then wife. It looks by the initial statement shanahan had been a victim of Domestic Abuse, there were also signs the wife had had some issues and problems. These statements say with alcohol and Substance Abuse. All of that said, what has happened in the last several weeks, the fbi clearance process for shanahan to become secretary of defense had taken a considerable amount of time as all of these allegations, all of these instances of a Domestic Abuse situation in his marriage were being looked at yet again. When we came to work today, very senior aids in the pentagon said that shanahan was in a very bad space. He was getting inning creasingly concerned that his three children would be again in the public eye during any confirmation employee ses if this Domestic Abuse situation became public. And so earlier today, by all accounts, he decided to pull out of the confirmation process. He has withdrawn his name to be confirmed. He has resigned as deputy secretary of defense. And his last day here at the pentagon will be friday. The new acting secretary of defense will be mark esper. Currently the secretary of the army, this is the civilian head of the army, he and the other civilian heads of the services will meet with shanahan later today, according to ryan brown. They will discuss a transition ahead. This comes at a busy time. Not only do we have the iran tensions heating up, shanahan was expected to go overseas in the coming days. In a few weeks, he was expected to travel again to asia, which has been a priority of his. This now will have to be worked out, staffed, there will be significant changes i suspect on the secretarys steenier staff, these are all people shanahan brought in. The pentagon will move on, the u. S. Military will move on. The u. S. Military is expert at one thing. Military come and go. People have a job, they move on, they leave, they get promoted. They retire. So the military will absolutely move on. Policy and operations will be uninterrupted. But we are now six months plus without a permanent secretary of defense for the United States. Thats really such a good point, barbara, were seeing this, it speaks to a lot of the issues the Trump Administration has had. Yes the military will move on. Theres Something Different that happens here the vetting that isnt done. This isnt the only acting secretary. Probably one of the most important ones, theres a lot of acting. Epa administrator, u. N. Ambassador. Department of Homeland Security. This is an administration thats had a 65 turnover rate among senior level advisers, not just cabinet people. Senior level advisers, thats an extraordinary rate, at one point the president said, you know, i believe it was last january, i kind of like acting, it gives me more flexibility. As barbara points out, mattis left six months ago, and so hes had an acting since then. The president then i think what he was saying was, i dont have to go through confirmation. If someone is acting and i dont like them, i can get rid of them and they dont have to go through the confirmation process. What was happening, it was looking very 34esc messy, it ha postponed. The administration did not want a messy confirmation right now, and i doubt shan harn wanted it either. What does it mean when youre looking at a position like this, or the department of Homeland Security or other departments where theres an acting, and there is not that continuity of leadership. I think thats a problem. I think what you would like is for people inside an agency to have a lot of faith and knowledge about the person who is leading them. I think ironically, by having this kind of revolving door, what you do is exactly what the president doesnt want to do. You give the so called deep state or the career people a lot more power and a lot more authority, because there isnt anybody at the helm to lead them. What you also have is a lot more people leaving government, retiring, feeling like, why would i work here any more, when i dont know in which direction the ship is headed. I think thats a real problem. Particularly as barbara inpots o points out, there are so many things going on in the world right now. I want to go back to barbara at the pentagon. As we follow this news now of shanahans departure, what are you making for instance of what were hearing coming out of iran and the fact that theres going to be shifting leadership that with mark esper leaving, what is it going so mean. It seems like so much of this policy is driven out of the white house. Its an interesting thing, we have to see where the National Security adviser john bolton falls in all of this. Hes been very quiet in recent days. Theres a significant additional transition coming in september, which is really just weeks away. The current chairman of the joint chiefs, which is the president s principle military adviser, he will have a scheduled retirement and a new chairman is coming in that is currently the chief of staff of the army. General milli will step in as chairman of the joint chiefs and doesnt know what secretary of defense hell be working for. Give me a minute and let me step back. We now have a statement from Patrick Shanahan about his resignation and about what has happened here today. Sometimes maybe its worth remembering that its not all politics in washington, there are families involved, there are children involved, and we talked a minute ago about the Domestic Abuse and Substance Abuse situation in the shanahan family. I want to read some of what Patrick Shanahan wants to tell the world before he leaves office. He says, its unfortunate that a painful and deeply personal family situation from long ago is being dredged up and painted in an incomplete and misleading way in the course of this process, he goes on and says, he would welcome the opportunity to be secretary of defense, but he says after significant reflection, i have asked to be withdrawn from consideration for secretary of defense, and will resign my position as deputy secretary. He says that he doesnt want to do this at the expense of being a good father. He has three children. He is concerned about their welfare if their family situation becomes public in a significant way. Two of the children did issue statements last night in detail with their names attached about what they had faced in the shanahan family and what their views were about the Domestic Abuse situation between their parents. But the bottom line is, despite this personal family trauma, which is quite significant the fbi has been looking into it, and every week going by, for some arent fbi could not complete the paperwork at this point. And shanahan had given some interviews. He talked about it, issued this Statement Last night, apparently when he came in today, he decided that he just wanted to step out of the public limelight and thats what hes done. Again, for the troops, things will go on. Policies will be set, decisions will be made, but its no small thing not to have a secretary of defense in the United States. And one can only assume the white house sees the urgency of getting the situation resolved. Indeed, barbara, thank you so much. Gloria, thank you for your insight. The news of shanahans depart sure coming as mike pompeo is in Central Command. Saying the president does not want war with iran. Outgoing defense secretary Patrick Shanahan saying the troops will be in the region for defensive purposes to address air, naval and ground based threats. This is coming after that attack on two containers. Hillary manlevert is an expert. Why america must accept the Islamic Republic of iran. Thanks for joining us. Thank you. Can we read anything more into the fact that pompeo was at Central Command today . I think we can, and i think the new appointment of mark esper is important in the trump dynamics related to iran. The acting secretary was seen as someone very close to john bolton whose id yo logically militaristic, wants to overthrow the iranian government, and shanahan was working closely with him. Pompeo, secretary of state pompeo on the other hand has had a more new answered approach. Hes left the door open for negotiations and he seems to pivot quite easily to wherever President Trump wants to go on iran. The appointment of mark esper is important in this regard. He was in the same west point graduating class as pompeo. Theyre really from the same ilk. They went to west point at the same time, they left west pint and pursued Higher Education at ivy league institutions. Theyre very much of the same ilk. Esper like pompeo is conservative, he was at the Heritage Foundation here in washington, d. C. Hes much more open to a new answered approach, this gives secretary pompeo an ally potentially in a pivot with iran away from a purely militaristic overthrow the government approach that john bolton holds at the white house. And useful for pompeo. Were learning the president has been skeptical about that approach add well. Going to war with iran. He was in a meeting with his National Security team. And in an interview, the president called the tanker attacks very minor and he said this about going to war against iran to protect International Oil supplies. I would go over Nuclear Weapons and i would keep the other a question mark. So hes saying this as theres 1,000 more troops and you have resources heading to the region. Is there a disconnect between the president and other members of his administration. Is he trying to make it clear that there is . I think john bolton serves as the National Security adviser, serves a useful purpose for President Trump. John bolton gives credibility to trumps position that hes willing to take the most militaristic position on iran. President trump is open to negotiating with iran to have a bigger, better deal as President Trump terms it than president obama got with iran over the nuclear issue. I dont see as much of a discontent as a lot of the commentators do. I think bolton serves a useful purpose for trump, but trump needs advisers that he can go to when he wants to, and as he wants to pivot toward a more negotiating stance with iran. Pompeo has served that purpose with the north koreans. He was trumps personal channel when he was director of the cia to north korea. 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