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Administration has been considering new efforts since before the election to shore up parts of the iran nuclear deal. bob, could mattis potentially oversee the undoing of this deal? and what are the potential dangers in doing so? >> well, general mattis, i agree. he's a good choice. in fact, he's a great choice. i want to see a four-star general in there who has combat experience, understands the middle east. he's not going to go into a confrontation lightly with iran. he knows what he's up against. he's been in iraq. he's seen their involvement in that war. he is no-nonsense. if we change tha...

Spyder marks and former cia operative. thank you for coming on. general marks, first to you. i think there's a lot of curiosity about what he would do as secretary of fence. what's his appetite for war? will he be in favor of more troops in syria? what can you tell us? >> i would say he brings to the table a deep understanding of the sacrifices of what the young men and women in uniform looks like. i think he would be cautious about the commitment of the military but he's not bashful about when you are committed, you're committed to, quote, win the fight. and you have to define what winning lo...

Fundamental islamic beliefs. on top of that, we need to look at the technology they're using, which is online technology in order to recruit. not only are they able to spread the message to all these different places you just aimed but they're also able to recruit fighters back to the middle east to get training, and then they can go back home. so online is something that has to be stopped. the recruitment and the discussion that's going on online to recruit these people not only as lone wolves but also where they're bringing them back to the middle east to become fighters. >> one last questio...

Of jihadi fighters that could easily obtain weapons and turn on any city because the police cannot beat this. i think the whole immigration thing is going to be in the next couple weeks will be absolutely huge. and again, guy back to the fact the availability of weapons and the fact that these people can communicate and bypass intercept capabilities, make this a very dangerous threat. the only thing you can really do is control your borders, and these syrians and iraqis and afghanis coming in, you cannot verify their identification. you don't know what's going on inside their head. and the isl...

Realistic at this point or is that just something that a minority of folks are calling for? >> you know i don't think it's realistic. general marks can comment on this but putting our troops on the front without a full-scale commitment i don't see that. the military is not going to want to do it. they can't completely trust the iraqi units and certainly can't trust the shia militias and why put our troops out there. we can't do it at this point. the fact is iraq is in the middle of a civil war, most vicious civil war i've ever seen in the middle east and it's not going to die down. the islamic...