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>> the choice of when and where to do this was not a good one. it reflects the visions within the administration. pompeo more open to negotiations and diplomacy. john bolton is dead-set against any of this. and this is playing out on the public stage. most dramatic is the way the president has handled it. he's tweeting about it. he's talking about it in real-time. you can't do that with something this sensitive. it leaves a terrible after-taste. and the negotiations are in a dangerous state right now. >> what does it say about the process? just the foreign policy process from this administrati...

Any given day, any given moment, without the benefit of the input and wisdom of his national security team and the experts in the interagency and that is exceedingly dangerous. >> her comment when i was questioning the way john bolton is running the national security team where you've got people from the pentagon to the state department actually being shut out of the conversations before decisions are made. >> andrea, this is the craziest foreign policy process i've seen in my lifetime at the white house. you've got, you know, a national security adviser who is not working with the national se...

We are on a collision course. no one wants war, including mr. trump. the iranians will be devastated by a conflict in the gulf as will the saudis and gulf coast states. time for negotiations. >> the former secretary of defense made a big claim on msnbc earlier today. let me play that. >> this is the craziest foreign policy process i've seen in my lifetime at the white house. you've got national security adviser who is not working with the national security team. they are not presenting options to the president the way they should and the president is off tweeting whatever the hell he wants to ...

Four star general, jill colvin, in the trenches for the associated press these days. thank you both very much for coming on. general, just last night, you said of jim mattis he won't quit. you talked about his service to the marine corps. my question to you is how bad do you think it got to lead general mattis to leave? >> well, i don't think it was syria. i think the bottom line was we've had over the past two years of the trump administration an increasing sense that there is no national security foreign policy process. the branches of the u.s. military, soft power, military power, intelli...

Distinguished service cross, former battle field commander in the gulf war, retired u.s. army four star general, jill colvin, in the trenches for the associated press these days. thank you both very much for coming on. general, just last night, you said of jim mattis he won't quit. you talked about his service to the marine corps. my question to you is how bad do you think it got to lead general mattis to leave? >> well, i don't think it was syria. i think the bottom line was we've had over the past two years of the trump administration an increasing sense that there is no national security ...