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Place at the department of defense through the 28th of february to participate at a nato meeting. but i know you spend a lot of time in the u.s., in europe. what is the sentiment among our allies about the upheaval in this administration, especially when it comes to a position like the department of defense? >> reporter: there's an incredible amount of nervousinize wh nervousness. they saw what he believed in. nato has held the world together for seven decades. general mattis talks about nato being a check on russia specifically and then you have president trump and his friendship with russia....

Sanctions on the north koreans to force them to the negotiating table. this is the maximum pressure campaign that secretary mattis talks about. what my colleagues have discovered, there's a top secret report coming out of pay com, that is the naval basically, the operations for the entire endo pacific. that's the region where they're trying to prevent these ship to ship transfers of oil as the north koreans try to evade sanctions. what this report is finding is that it's clearly happening. the north koreans are trying to circumvent it, and they're changing their tactics. just to give you a lit...

And it would make general mattis even more powerful than he already is. >> especially nicole if you're of the belief and it's a dark fear really that this president will be challenged, tested within the first 90 day zplps right. and that's what don rumsfeld would call a known, unknown. wenow that the president is in a bit of a crisis in that there are two investigations under way. i mean, we know that there are some in our agency investigating or looking into people in his inner circle and they're alleged contacts with russian assets. and so, he is starting with the kind of national security c...