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>> and i think we've underestimated or some of us have, probably, just how many bad decisions were stopped by john kelly as chief of staff, jim mattis' defense secretary, by to some degree, mike pompeo, secretary of state, and hr mcmaster. mcmaster, kelly and mattis, were a powerful trio, able to contain this president. and some would say in the first two years, the good news is the institutions are whole and constraining him or his cabinet. sessions on the rule of law issues. think of it. they're all gone. all gone. sessions and mccann, the white house counsel. not perfect, but a serious guy,...

Forces in ditches when the u.s. pulled out of syria. the secretary made a last ditch effort to appeal to the president in the oval office to try to get him to reverse course. that was something that the president would not do and the defense secretary, jim mattis resigned on the spot. it was a culmination of all the various policy differences the two men had over mattis's tenure there. aides began to fear that it was when rex tillerso and hr mcmaster, it was at the time when they were ousted from their positions that aides felt mattis's relationship with the president was also going to be on t...

Brought with her two members of the white house staff that served under the bush family, george h. w. bush and barbara bush. and went to the funeral. in that moment shows you how much reverence and respect the people who worked for president george h. w. bush had for him. ebony: in a just a bit you have a panel. you're in california of course for the reagan defense form. you will be with secretary of defense, james mattis. can you give us insight on that conversation? reporter: it's a one-on-one conversation with the defense secretary. i was out here and spoke to the national security advisor,...

Any, in any direction. people are noticing for the first time you did not see that unequivocal support from president trump for secretary mattis. you are getting chatter about is this going to turn out the same way it did for former secretary of state, rex tillerson and national security adviser hr mcmaster. you saw the run up of less than support for them from the president. is this the beginning of that for secretary mattis? nobody really knows. mattis right now traveling to asia this week as long expected. sticking with his program. people here say there is no signs right here that he's lea...

>> the question is, did she tell her, by the way, i'm stepping down. i'm telling -- the president is going to announce it next week. we also know that dina powell is close with secretary of state mike pompeo. so there's questions about that, what that relationship would be. we did scenicy haley's status diminish since pompeo came on board as secretary of state, because when rex tillerson was secretary of state, he would go to her for advice. now pompeo has filled that void and with bolton as the national security adviser, it took away two people the president feuded with, rex tillerson and hr ...