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Here comes the president directing, ordering the secretary of defense to pull out of syria, possibly to take down our troop levels in afghanistan, to destroy the alliance structure that has kept us strong since world war ii. and, in essence, to see a lot of territory and game to iran and russia in the middle east, that was enough for jim mattis. he's gone. he's been pushed out and president trump has jumped a key guardrail. brian, tonight i think he is driving american foreign policy into uncharted territory. and i think what is of concern tonight is that when adversaries see the united states...

Chief of staff jeremy beis. thank you for joining us. this isn't normal. there's something abrupt and perhaps unseemly about the defense chief. if we heard about this in any other country we'd say, what's wrong over there? >> that's right. >> there's something wrong when the top guy defending your country drops a letter on the table of the commander in chief and walks. >> that's right. mattis told people in recent weeks that he would not quit, he would not quit out of fatigue nor would he quit out of frustration. he would stand his ground and he would only leave his post, leave his assignment ...

This is, as you delineated, it is a clear break from the president on two major issues. one is he rights in his letter he does not agree with the way the president has treated allies and treated the whole concept of the alliance structure, which is a foundation of american security and strength since world war ii and he doesn't believe the president has been resolute and unambiguous in our approach to russia and china as well. so here you have secretary mattis saying the two pillars of american defense standing up to our adversaries and standing with friends, i don't think we're in alignment o...

That america stands alone and that our alliance structure is not, is not fundamental to his american foreign policy vision at this time. >> christopher, one more question about the backdrop there. there you are of course in front of the arc de triomphe. talk about the staging, the framing of the event this weekend, how important it was to the french, to the brits, to the germans. how important it was where you are. we saw how it was treated from our end. >> well, you know, i think the people in the united states don't really have a sense of how massive what they call the great war really was. ...

Here, was that a huge part of the american population, maybe not a majority, but a very big part still supports donald trump. and he may be reelected in 2020. as a result, they're trying to find ways to either convince him to change or to find alternatives to american leadership. >> jeremy bash, ignorant and dangerous. and add to that a kind of sadness that a lot of us watched with this weekend. >> yeah, brian, what a missed opportunity not only to honor our nation's fallen heroes, those who have sacrificed so much for all of us, and to transmit those values onto those who are currently servin...