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Author of new book suicide of the west. charles lane of the washington post, fox news national security correspondent jennifer griffin doing double duty today and former press secretary to vice president pence mark latter. ambassador haley and the new national security adviser bolton wanted a tougher more aggressive response that defense secretary mattis wanted, quote, a show of strike and prevailed with the president, is that true? was there a difference in terms of how they should respond on friday night? >> i think there's a natural tension between pentagon officials, mattis being in the le...

Goldberg of national review and author of new book suicide of the west. charles lane of the washington post, fox news national security correspondent jennifer griffin doing double duty today and former press secretary to vice president pence mark latter. ambassador haley and the new national security adviser bolton wanted a tougher more aggressive response that defense secretary mattis wanted, quote, a show of strike and prevailed with the president, is that true? was there a difference in terms of how they should respond on friday night? >> i think there's a natural tension between pentagon o...

Goldberg of national review and author of new book suicide of the west. charles lane of the washington post, fox news national security correspondent jennifer griffin doing double duty today and former press secretary to vice president pence mark latter. ambassador haley and the new national security adviser bolton wanted a tougher more aggressive response that defense secretary mattis wanted, quote, a show of strike and prevailed with the president, is that true? was there a difference in terms of how they should respond on friday night? >> i think there's a natural tension between pentagon o...

The president informed jim mattis of what he was going to do, there's no policy, there's no implementation right now, this is really a bolt from the white house, and now everybody has to figure out what happens next. >> you know, john kirby, the defense secretary, general mattis, he's a retired general, he said give me six months to come up with a strategy, this is only a month into that, why do you think the president all of a sudden decided to do this? >> i think this came as a surprise to everybody at the pentagon. i don't think anybody really understands what's behind this. and the extra r...

Strategy from the white house. that's a stark contrast that the president and general mattis wanted. joining me is the deputy commanding general of the u.s. forces in afghanistan and author of "besieged." and robert farley, a professor in international security at the university of kentucky. professor, welcome to you. sdwren, you know this part of the country and general nicholson who signed off on this moab bomb was your subordinate. is it unusual to drop this mother of all bombs? >> brooke, great to be with you again. and, no, it's not unusual at all. what we're really talking about is comma...