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Mattis f critical national security issues, making snap decisions that have left mattis scrambling to keep up. the defense secretary has been out of the loop on decisions, including the creation of a sixth military branch for operations in space, and the withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal, although mattis saw that one coming. joining me now is robert costa, moderator of "washington week," and carol lee, political reporter who reported this story. carol, we've seen this coming, and it has something to do with the configuration of the national security cabinet. but it's telling given south ko...

Meeting, though, is that the president's making snap decisions. the president isn't taking a lot of time listening to his advisers. we know that simply because of the timeline. he was in there with the north korean delegate, the envoy delivering that letter, shortly after that meeting concluded. you saw the president go out to the cameras and say, look, i think their intentions are clean, they are pure, there's enough for us to continue to talk. so this isn't -- there's not a whole lot of negotiations, excuse me, consultation on the u.s. side, before the president is making a dezigs. >> -- dec...

Teller's head. one thing that must be going through her mind is, am i going to be shot in the head? am i going to be tragically injured in this scenario? like you see there, it's clearly fingers within the trigger guard. everybody's making snap decisions, and sometimes they make the wrong decisions and, obviously, these decisions last a lifetime. >> while detective watka looks at security camera footage, the crime scene is examined by illinois state police crime scene investigators. crime scene services finds two pieces of physical evidence that may help track the thieves. >> there were some z...

>> this is one frame we could see where the gun is pointed at the victim teller's head. one thing that must be going through her mind is i'm going to be shot in the head, am i going to be tragically injured in the scenario? fingers win the trigger guard. everybody's making snap decisions, and sometimes they make the wrong decisions and, obviously, these decisions last a lifetime. >> while detective watka looks at security camera footage, the crime scene is examined by illinois state police crime scene investigators. crime scene services finds two pieces of physical evidence that may help track...

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