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With these and better subjects, i believe it is right for me to step down from my position. cnn learned late this evening once again this president will double down on a controversial decision. the military has been ordered to withdraw half the troops in afghanistan. if your head's not spinning, you're not listening. i want to bring in wesley clark and phil mud. we need to steady the ship, give me a sense of the proportion of what's going on in our government right now? >> i think the -- this is a really dangerous time for the u.s. government, it's christmas holidays. you have a lot of snap de...

Past agreements with the north korean regime have failed. in the meantime, the secretary of state mike pompeo is stram bling to bring his south korean counterparts up to speed especially on the president's snap decisions to halt what he calls provocative war games also known as joint military exercises with south korea's military. let's go to joe joins at the wh quite a statement from the president this morning. >> reporter: several statements i would say, also,poppy. the white house message machine right now a little disjointed trying to sell what the president wants, the president's aspirati...

President is driving this -- administration. that's one thing we hear at the pentagon. this is a president that makes snap decisions. the foreign policy whether it's pompeo, the president ultimately makes these decisions. >> as long as there are big maces it will be okay, hans. hurry up, summit, it's apparently happening, it's on. what has to happen in the white house now? this is not a low jgistical question, but a substantive question. what has to happen in ernest? what has to take place in terms of donald trump's preparation, in terms of the state department's preparation, everybody who is ...

We didn't do all of our research or homework and now we've got to reset? >> yeah, and that's why we should be concerned. listen, the relationship is fragile. it always has been. that is why it's incumbent upon president trump not to play games with this. the people that lead him and advise him to make sure that we are doing the right thing and not making snap decisions and not pulling back and pulling back in. there are some people in the international community that are really concerned about this on again, off again. this is real business, the business of peace. the business of diplomacy. al...

Member of the armed forces. what qualifies him to run a troubled and large agency. where does he stand on privatizing health care for veterans. >> it does seem, michelle, in some ways this is consistent with what we know about trump and his style. in other ways putting it somebody like jackson forward seems like the sole qualification we've seen is what he did on television. >> trump also wanted to hire his pilot to head the faa. this is somebody who has kind of contempt for governing experience, makes snap decisions and really could care less about qualifications. i think one of the stories s...