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Gentlemen, welcome. this guy, replacing james mattis, major general, he's got no government experience. no policy experience. and he is not a veteran. what is your take on? >> well, first of all, happy new year, katie, hi, jack, good to see you. look, the traditional role of a deputy secretary of defense going back, oh, 20 years, has been mr. inside. and the secretary's been mr. outside. and most, in fact, some of the most successful senior administrators in the dod have been budgeteers. one comes to mind as bob work who left the job about two years ago. so in terms of the function that fits t...

July 1 was the date. then they asked for a delay. so the pentagon had been trying to work through all this. they wanted to make it work. you heard a lot from people here on just the imperative of implementing this social policy, making sure the pentagon did this correctly, and that's why they asked for that delay. it looks like now, though, from president trump this has all been short circuited. stephanie. >> were we anticipating this in any way? at least here this wasn't on our radar. was this something the president or his team had been reviewing? >> well, we don't know the discussions that ...

July 27th. >> bret: 136 days ago. thank you. getting word in from the pentagon. jennifer griffin saying the trump administration has asked the trump transition team has asked bob work to stay on as deputy secretary of defense. according to two well-placed sources, work would stay on, continuing the government -- the pentagon not commentating. that would be the deputy secretary of defense. the president-elect met with mitch mcconnell today head of the start of those confirmation hearings. mcconnell's challenging democratic complaints that the process is going too fast. chief congressional corre...

July 27th. >> bret: 136 days ago. thank you. getting word in from the pentagon. jennifer griffin saying the trump administration has asked the trump transition team has asked bob work to stay on as deputy secretary of defense. according to two well-placed sources, work would stay on, continuing the government -- the pentagon not commentating. that would be the deputy secretary of defense. the president-elect met with mitch mcconnell today head of the start of those confirmation hearings. mcconnell's challenging democratic complaints that the process is going too fast. chief congressional corre...

For targets in space? >> firing lasers in space. >> potentially. >> yeah. it's remarkable. >> when you get into this, you get into all sorts of classification levels that i'm not cleared into. >> this would require a major strategic shift for the u.s. deploying weapons for use in space. and so, many took notice when, in april this year, deputy defense secretary bob work vowed that the u.s. will strike back if attacked in space. strike back, he added, and knock them out. >> from the very beginning, if someone starts going after our space constellation, we're going to go after the capabilities t...