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Military for the foreseeable future, if that's what the president is planning? >> well, if that's what he's planning, you know, that's what it's going to be. shanahan is a long-time boeing executive. he has a lot of experience in large organizations and corporate matters, large budgets, acquisition, innovation, all the issues that he's been dealing with as deputy defense secretary. as he takes on acting secretary, what officials are saying is, he will have to rely more on the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general joe dunford, paul selva. he will have to rely on military advice as he f...

The idea of a one-off quick punch so you can tweet about it. is the opposite of the way he's behaved. in a afghanistan, in iraq in every one of those command positions. i think you're right, joe, that these tweets make it hard for mattis to do his job in the way that he's supposed to as our secretary of defense. but what was striking to me in that clip is he's kind of ignoring the tweets. he's just going about his business, he's looking at the intelligence, he's talking with allies, he's thinking about what the right options are. he also, i want to underline this, there are continual conversat...

Hertling. general, i rely on you all the time for the right way to look at situations that regard the military. how do you see this? >> chris, there's a couple things to look at. first of all, what happened, how it happened and why it happened. first of all, in a matter of seconds, as soon as that tweet appeared yesterday morning, thousands of soldiers, sailors, airmen and marine were affected. i'm not just talking about getting the news. i'm talking about some who might be deployed, some who might be in hospitals after being injured. some serving in command positions, and they all woke up see...

Operation and other issues. now let's turn to the pentagon and listen to what was said there just moments ago. >> our guidance is very clear. we'll give up command position, as we had from the beginning, but give up the command positions and be participants, but not in command. then we're going to continue to provide predominantly those capabilities that we have their unique that enable the operations, as well as additional capacity that the coalition may not have that we bring to the fight. an example would be tankers, some of our isr platforms. i would anticipate some of the interdiction str...