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Debate on the house bill. but unless someone blinks, 800,000 government workers will go without paychecks during this christmas. let's begin with barbara star. you have interesting reporting about what happened behind the scenes with general mattis. >> reporter: the mattis decision to resign is reverberating across world capitals. there is no way around it. the secretary of defense for the strongest most powerful military of the world has said he can no longer support the commander in chief. james mattis went to the white house yesterday at 3:00 to meet with president trump, an official direct...

Part of the national security leadership of this administration, and as barbara was just saying a few moments ago, and i think you were echoing this as well, wolf, this comes, secretary mattis leaving the administration comes, or this announcement that he's leaving the administration comes, right in the middle of this very fierce debate over what should happen to u.s. troops in syria. lindsey graham was just saying earlier today, and we just played it in our piece a little while ago, that according to lindsey graham, members of the president is's own national security team were advocating agai...

February 28th, 2019, a date that should allow sufficient time for a successor to be nominated and confirmed as well as to make sure the department's interests are properly articulate and protected at upcoming events to include congressional hearings, et cetera. he goes on to say further that a full trance toys a new secretary of defense occurs well in advance of the transition of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff in september to ensure stability. he goes on and pledges that he will continue to work in the job until the very end. so let's unpack this a bit, wolf. the secretary of defens...

Pentagon, and that might have been the first sign that he was thinking about what was happening here, and in the last several hours, what has happened is piled on top of the decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria by the president, exactly what you said, we're seeing the emergence of potentially an imminent decision by the president to pull some u.s. troops out of afghanistan, and this makes it all very difficult for mattis to even think about staying on the job, because what you're talking about is a u.s. secretary of defense that then has to turn his face to the world, to the allies, to na...

Pick to do the job well and be a good leader at the pentagon like we desperately need. >> you know, it's very -- the president now saying -- and when we invited you to come on the show, we wanted to talk about potential imminent government shutdown at midnight tomorrow night, and i want to get your thoughts on that in a second, but it looks like all of a sudden this development has caused all of us clearly here in the news media at least for now to report news, the breaking news, that the defense secretary is the leaving. do you think the president is trying to change the subject right now a b...