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We need help tonight figuring out what is going on with a lot of the different stories that are evolving. what is going on with the shutdown, which frankly is now imminent. what just happened with the defense secretary resigning in protest given the stated reasons for his resignation, given what appears to be the immediate precipitating event which appears to be president trump's abrupt unilateral twitter announcement that all u.s. troops will immediately leave syria. one of the things we need expert help on tonight with regard to that story is whether secretary mattis resigning and resigning ...

Evolving. what is a.m. goi what's going on with the shutdown which is imminent? what's happening with the defense secretary resigning in protest, giving the stated reasons for his resignation, given what appears to be the immediate precipitating event here, which appears to have been president trump's unilateral twitter announcement that all u.s. troops will immediately leave syria? one of the things we're going to need expert help on tonight with regard to that story is whether secretary mattis resignsing -- and resigning in this way, might be expected to cause a greater standoff of some kind...

February 28, 2019." history will record that this happened one day after the announcement of the syria withdrawal, that the pentagon was largely caught off guard by. it happened on the same day of "the wall street journal" reported and we confirmed that there is a plan to have a significant drawdown of troops in afghanistan. yes, the president campaign on that and had talked about up with the timing of it will obviously be questioned. about whether this was precipitating factor for secretary mattis leaving. >> juan: bret, the intriguing point here is that you have lots of trump supporters who ...

Political analyst and senior editor for "the laatlantic" and "washington post" columnist josh rogan. clearly something set the president off. what do you think it is? . >> i think the reporting that he noted is the logical precipitating cause here. look, this is part of a continuing effort to influence in effect the jury pool which will be congressional republicans. if bob mueller comes back with any recommendation that the president -- that the house needs to consider impeachment on the various areas he is vugting this is about creating more pressure on republicans to avoid that. i would poin...

Great national experiment, which is this. can a president this incompetent, this ignorant surrounded by people who are profoundly corrupt, equally ignorant, and inexperienced, can we have that for a period of time, years, without consequence? and so when we look at the stock market, we look at the looming trade war. there's two ways to learn about trade wars. you can learn about it by reading a history book. you can read about smoot-hawley tariffs and how it contributed to the great depression. or maybe the country needs to have an experimential learning. we'll see. the downside consequences f...