MSNBCW MSNBC Live With Velshi And Ruhle December 24, 2018
The political peril an extended shutdown would bring him. In about a week or so, defense secretary mattis will leave the building for the last time as defense secretary, and will be replaced, at least in the interim, by Patrick Shanahan. Mattis learned of his revised end date yesterday in a phone call from secretary of state mike pompeo, rather than from President Trump himself. I think the mattis resignation is a watershed moment for every republican in congress. Syria was the trigger, but this was jim mattis repudiating Donald Trumps entire world view. When the going gets tough, for whatever...