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Of otto warmbeer. the judge holding the country liable for warmbeer's death. he was detained in north korea in 2016 and tried and imprisoned for allegedly trying to steal a propaganda poster. he was flown back to the united states 17 months later but was in a coma and died soon after. president trump pushing defense secretary mattis out earlier announcing his temporary placement will begin on january 1st. the president's decision to pull out of syria facing backlash from both sides of the aisle. >> the question the president has to decide is whether he upholding his oath of office as president...

Slack. >> can you name an adviser that the president has recommended he he to pull out the troops. >> at the end of the day, we all serve in the position of advising the president. it is up to the president to make the final decision. >> with mattis out, we nopat nopat -- know patrick shanahan is stepping in. john bolton and mike pompeo will face far less resistance as they offer more hawkish advise oconee ya a oconee -- on north korea and iran. >> thank you, i want to bring in our john hudson, national security reporter for the post.

Since the president could et blow up any kind of ongoing negotiation or situation at will with the tweet. so i think this is really dangerous territory. >> and dangerous territory. daniel, you commented last night that one of the president's challenges has been -- and he just since the midterms especially hasn't been able to cope with it, everywhere he turns in this democracy he faces institutional constraints. and it's something that this man completely ignorant of government, completely ignorant of the constitution, ignorant of american history never understood. >> that's correct. i think it...

Where everyone is raising trump. mattis sits there stoically and does his thing. >> it can be hard when the president says you're a democrat and might be leaving. or as the president says i know a lot more about this guy, about everything. >> is it true, general mattis said to you, the reason for nato and the reason for all these alliances is to prevent world war iii? >> no, it's not true. frankly, i like general mattis. i think i know more about it than he does, and i know more about it from the standpoint of fairness. that i can tell you. >> he knows more about it? >> i think if anything dri...

In order to seek conflict but in order to avoid conflict. we want to be strong. in short, we seek peace through strength. this destructive cycle of intervention and chaos must finally, folks, come to an end. finally a commitment to only engage the use of military forces whe it's in the vital national security interest of the united states. we don't want to have a depleted military because we're all over the place fighting in areas that just we shouldn't be fighting in. >> we shouldn't be there. i think they're giving a sense of exactly what -- he actually brought general mattis out. he is layi...