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To provide oversight. it's only been 4 hours. let's see if they can reach a compromise. >> martha: thank you very much. i recommend that everybody read your piece on mitt romney. >> thank you. >> martha: thank you very much. happy new year. the president's new defense secretary just days into his job. is he eyeing a permanent replacement to take over at the pentagon. general jack keen next. >> we have a wonderful man in there now as you know. he is a good man and he's done a great job. after walking six miles at an amusement park,

He's the one saying it out loud, major general. but there are others who it's reported will say that pretty privately. >> yes. well, general jack keen, my good friend, old friend, we used to be vice chief of staff of the army, also turned it down. just a couple of weeks ago. petraeus said no i think pretty forcefully. after you get beyond those two guys if you look for people with policy experience, perhaps combat experience, pham mifamil with the military, the list gets pretty thin. i haven't heard legitimate names thrown out as potential secretaries of defense, you know, at all. a few politi...

Approach, which they did. or whether they might use more weapons and take out more of the syrian infrastructure as general jack keen and others have urged. but i think you have to pat them on the back. what they did worked. it worked with no losses of american or allied troops or pilots. and they -- i think should get credit for having -- executed an extremely complex military operation and our armed forces did it well. >> in your view, won't the efficacy of it be measured whether another chemical weapon attack happens or not? >> well, better efficacy is always better, but they brought this of...

Talk about that. general jack keen, thank you. >> have a nice holiday weekend. >> dana: jeff sessions says he will not appoint a special counsel to investigate alleged misconduct by the justice department and fbi. the attorney general writing a letter to top republicans saying he takes the concerns seriously and the u.s. for utah, john huber, will look into the allegations. doug mckell way is live in washington. what down? >> they say if you're receiving fire from both sides you might be doing something right. sessions is hearing criticism from both right and left. perhaps he's steering the ri...

A short period of time before fired by the chief of staff john kelly once he came into the west wing and we are learning that we have seen anthony scaramucci go on cable news channels and bashing john kelly. saying he needs to apologize how he handled the fallout from the porter scandal. and referring to him as general jack ass. the president has given scaramucci his blessing to continue trashing the chief of staff which is stunning in and of itself and the reason anthony scaramucci is doing this is because john kelly fired him and limited his access to the white house. while the president is ...