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Officials on twitter, made destabilizing foreign policy announcement on twitter, has even potentially obstructed justice on twitter, but with his 56 million twitter followers, 40,000 tweets and counting it seems the creature cannot be stopped. >> mer yes wriry christmas, far zakaria starts right now. this is "gps," the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria. today on the show a bombshell from the pentagon, defense secretary james mattis announces his resignation, just a day after we learned president trump intends to pull all...

Fighting the democrats over the idea of getting more border security and a wall, and making it perhaps the center piece of his state of the union. he agreed to that plan, and then went back on the agreement. on mattis -- so, you've got allies worried on capitol hill. now mattis, allies worried around the world because you've got the secretary of defense leaving and a willingness of the president to go against what's in the best interest of our allies with the kurds and israelis on his decision on syria. so right now i am concerned for the president because he has a lot of allies out there and ...

Died. his parents spoke to us very briefly. their grief is such that they were unable to really give us much beyond how absolutely heartbroken they are. >> thank you for being on this story and for bringing it to us as we learn more. let's talk about what the u.s. is doing about this and the investigation that has begun at the pentagon. barbara starr with more. the u.s./saudi relationship is central in all of this. right? the arms deal between the uk, u.s. and saudi arabia now mattis says they are sending investigators over and this was a saudi coalition strike. what happens now? >> poppy, wha...

Americans. i doesn't know mattis but others who know him well, he was clear he came into the administration out of loyalty to the country. he felt by being in the point gon -- pentagon, he could do the best job for the pentagon. patience is wearing thin for general. patience is wearing thin. >> with all due respect, i think it's a stretch to say there was some coordination thought out by the white house. when you look at what mattis said about the troops, when you look at what mattis said about the transgender ban -- >> he's doing clanean-up. >> he's going to go his way and he's not going to g...

In central command. as a joint force commander, secretary mattis commanded u.s. joint forces command nato supreme allied command for transformation and u.s. central command. at u.s. central command he directed military operations for more than 200,000 soldiers, sailors, airman, cost guardsmen and allies forced across the middle east. and now, mr. secretary, your president has called you to lead all of the armed forces of the united states. he and i have the highest faith in your judgment, your courage, and your dedication to this nation. and so on behalf of president trump, it is my great priv...