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Your more liberal challengers running for president on the democratic side. i wonder how you feel about elizabeth warren, not to get into the medicare thing with you but among the savings she wants to extract to pay for it is cutting defense spending by $1 trillion over ten years, what do you think of cutting defense spending, $1 trillion? >> i do think we can have a much better military at less cost because our commander of the pacific has said as you know last year, china commenced the western pacific, the first loss of command of the seas by the united states navy since world war ii. the pr...

Capabilities that i need, from the u.s. and the coalition standpoint, to work with our afghan partners. at the same time, as a commander, i'm always trying to bring the footprint down, bring our force structure down. >> reporter: and the u.s. commander made it clear, he's a general, not a policy-maker, and says he'll follow his chain of command and the president. we're flying over kabul here in afghanistan, of course, america's longest war. and they'll tell you here that part of any end-game for u.s. forces here, making sure that the afghan forces are prepared to fight the insurgency. and that...

Taking over or someone else? >> well, again, i think mr. shanahan will have to do his old job as well, which is force structure in the pentagon. there is no question he will be an adult in the room, but the real question is is he in a position really to stand up to this sort of lineup that general mccaffrey just went through. i think chances are he's not. i think we're going to see a lot of john bolton, i think we are going to see a pentagon that's more in line with bolton's views and, frankly, you know, i think the whole problem has been that also really an audience of one. some people have f...

Republican foreign policy theory that isis loves a vacuum, that russia loves a vacuum. what does donald trump create? a vacuum. there can be some discussions about how he would take down our force structure in afghanistan, in syria. what would be the rules of engagement for strikes against isis targets. i think those are legitimate issues. but when you announce out of the clear blue sky without consulting, you say, we're out of here because i want one win every day to -- >> i want this bring up this reporting that we have that both pompeo and mattis and other members of the national security t...