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He also is must be having trouble filling the defense position. you would have thought by now they would have had some outstanding person with a wonderful record we could find as reliable as mattis was. he was the glue that held this place together on national security front. they need another mattis in there to run foreign policy well. what the president has done here and what he's doing is launching his own disinformation campaign on issue after issue. he comes out with his version of information and particularly sensitive to the country when that happens on intelligence. intelligence, what ...

When ghehe gets his presidentia brief, does he listen? does he absorb it? i think for trump, everything is about loyalty. if you disagree with him, whether it's on policy or whether it's on whether he should tweet or whatever it is, it's all the same. he sees disagreement, particularly in public, as disloyal. not the fact there are under oath and these people have to answer questions honestly. >> the president has gone through a lot of top officials. most recently and very appropriate important to this topic the defense secretary jim matt i mattis. he quit. trump said he have pulling troops ou...

$5 billion for border security in exchange for the passage of the bridge act. to protect dreamers for three years. president trump taking a few parting shots at his former defense secretary james mattis. the president claiming he fired his pentagon chief when mattis resigned in protest. here is the president taking on mattis' detparture it. >> what has he done for me? not too good. i'm not happy with what he has done in afghanistan. i shouldn't be ephappy. he was thankful when i got him $700 billion. i wish him well. as you know, president obama fired him and essentially so did i. >> mattis ...

Mattis is saying on his way out the door. without invoking the president directly, he's telling the people who worked alongside and for him at the pentagon and deployed overseas that their goal is larger and in many ways to mattis's mind more important than who occupies the white house. it's their oath to the constitution, and he is saying that in no small measure because of the criticism heaped on himself, but he's not -- you know, there's no pity party happening there. i think to answer your question more pointedly, mattis's departure leaves no one in the president's immediate circle and hig...

Broken. it's impulsive. it's erratic. it comes up with bad decisions. you can clearly make a decent argument for getting out of syria and afghanistan because we don't have a strategy that's working. you can't make an argument for this kind of bizarre individual behavior by the president. >> so in sticking with this theme of people speaking out against the president, a real tipping point, it seems, for defense secretary jim mattis's departure was the president's plan to withdraw troops from syria. in his farewell message to the pentagon he wrote, our department has proourch to be at its best wh...