Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170228:14:22:00
State department cuts. what are they saying specifically. >> reporter: it is reality. america needs this. conflicts in afghanistan, in iraq. to me, the military does it and treaties. we have what could be a nonaggression act between the desense department and state department. when you look at the telegraphing from both sides, we see an emerging alliance between secretary mattis and secretary tillerson at the state department. sometimes there's tension, institutional tension between the state department and the pentagon. it doesn't look like that will be the case this time. there's a recogniti...