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Notification officer, a casualty assistance officer, you have to break this news on a very personal level. my mother-in-law, when she received notification, it's something you can't ever redo. and so you pray that it's done with a level of dignity and respect and with graciousness and immense amount of understanding. there's no empathy, we can't talk about empathy because have you not been there, you just simply have never been there. and so it needs to be done and approached in a way as described by john kelly. i can't belief he was able to describe that linear sequence of events as objective...

>> general marks, you know general kelly, i want you to take a listen as a part of his remarks today that were really i guess aimed at educating the public, he talks a lot about, he's not wrong for doing so, i think he's right. 1% of the dharnt sacrifices and serves in the military in the 99% of us that often take it for granted, and he took it -- the opportunity at the top of his remarks to educate people about how fallen soldiers, fallen heroes, come home. let's listen to that. >> most americans don't know what happens when we lose one of our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, coast guardsm...

Secretary mattis to kim jong-un that if he threatens, if he attacks the u.s. would have the capability for a massive response. poppy? >> he made that very clear with those remarks yesterday. barbara starr at the pentagon. thank you very much. joining now to discuss, james "spider" marks. and former national security director for china and south korea under president obama, foreign policy adviser for hillary clinton's campaign. general marks, let me join with you. the supposed h-bomb test that was carried out -- that's what north korea says it was. according to "the new york times," the power t...

The words the president uses in terms of the message it gets to pyongyang is much different than the message that gets to our allies. i agree, that concerns me. we need a tight, cohesive alliance. frankly it's never been stronger in terms of our regional focus in that part of the world. this is as strong as it's ever been. >> general marks, thank you. laura rosenberger, thank you very much. >> global threat reaction coming fast and furious around the world to north korea's hydrogen bomb test. >> and the president said to scrap protections for so-called dreamers, or ending the daca program amid...

Trump selling to the american people that my plan is going to be smarter and cheaper. >> general marks, you know a thing or two. you've commanded troops in war zones before. let's be honest about these numbers here though. if it is true that we're talking about 4,000 troops or so, 8400 there right now, i'm going to remind the american public there was a time when there was more than 100,000 coalition troops in afghanistan. when president obama came into office, his afghan surge and had that time line was in the order of tens of thousands of additional u.s. troops. are 4,000 additional soldiers...