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Out right now. z z. >> geyerly? >> yes, entirely. i've never seen a decision like this where nothing is communicated in advance and all of a sudden this type of massive decision takes place. it's obviously a political decision. >> corker told reporters that yesterday the white house canceled a long planned meeting with president trump while the senator was sitting in the waiting room for him. admiral, what should mattis, pompeo and others in the foreign policy community the do? >> let's start by -- you've got steve ratner there. let's start by doing the numbers for a minute here. you heard lin...

Are coming, but somehow we can't afford to have 2,000 troops doing arguably the most important counterterrorism mission we face. what they should be doing is saying to the president, look, mr. president, you're a businessman. let's look at leverage. this is only a few thousand troops, but you leverage the creation of allies, partners and friends. you get nato into this deeper, the french will do that. the brits are doing it. we can bring the rest of nato in. this is a very winnable proposition. we ought to be using the argument of leverage with this president and hopefully we can turn this aro...

Unchecked and isis. the rebooting of isis. so you wonder if james mattis can't take out the troops on the border. what is his purpose there? maybe he should just leave and tell us how dysfunctional this white house is. >> david certainly knows more, but mattis's relationship with the president has deteriorated, although mattis would like to stay. david, when you boil this all together, you have everybody with any knowledge, credibility, thoughtf thoughtfulness, opposed to it. you have the process nonexistent, that the president walked out and decided on tuesday night he was going to do this th...

Place in the world, but put lives in danger because this seems like an incredibly snapped decision and we've seen this before from this president. >> they are concerned. so the question is -- >> what do you do? >> should pompeo continue at state. should mattis continue at the dod if this president will send 6,000 troops to the border to fight an imaginary enemy and take out 2,000 troops that are holding iran, syria, isis and russia in check. >> yeah. i mean that's a tough one to answer. i would be concerned especially if i'm sitting in the administration and i wasn't asked about it or my opini...

The military is that we could have a real ignition point in northeast syria. i mean, that's -- of hundreds of people who have depended on us in an area that became stable. what do we do then, mr. pt president, as people begin dieing in large numbers. >> david, what does general mattis do now? what's the purpose of staying around if one of the most important strategic decisions made is done without his advice? >> so i think this is agony for general mattis. he bears this kind of thing in silence. people were pointing out to me last night, look, often it's the case that the president thunders an...