Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181223:17:07:00
When it comes to mattis have respect for allies and alliances and that he thinks that china and russia are bad actors. what was your reaction to it all? >> look, i'm saddened. we've been working with allies for some 60 coalition groups working with us, the sdf, made up of kurds and arabs, have been doing the fighting for us. we've been helping them do what they're doing, but they're the ones doing the fighting. we're in the final stages. isis is now concentrated in the euphrates river valley. we're a few months away from finishing something that we started where we would annihilate a large num...