Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180909:21:38:00
Wanted to assassinate syria's president after the 2017 april chemical weapons attack. he writes, let's expletive kill him. let's go in, let's kill the lot of them. yes, mattis said. he would get right on it. he hung up the phone. we're not going to do any of that. we're going to be much more measured than that. that is according to bob woodward recounting that exchange. what does that tell you about this trump white house? >> well, it tells you that mattis is trying to restrain these impulsive decisions by trump. trump thinks that he is some kind of god, that he can just declare things and the...