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Fact, he really is, mideast a marines marine, a trained war fighter, he's a gentleman, i have met him one of the kindest guy that is you'll meet. he will do very well today. he's going to have tough questions. the democrats are going to see if there's -- they are going to try to look and exploit the light between him and the president elect on russia and see what kind of tact he takes with the russians, they're going to want to see what his ideas are about actually combating isis and how that would be different than the obama administration and they are going to want to know his views on socia...

Grudges like other brethren. >> like barnicle. >> ian, what are your thoughts -- let's talk about the national security team and start with general mattis at defense. what are your thoughts about the message that's being projected towards europe and nato and what's donald trump's greatest challenge as he confronts europe and nato. >> good morning, joe. good morning, mika. nice to be back. >> exactly. >> on general mattis, that's a fantastic pick. a seasoned war fighter. a military historian that understands the battle and cost of battle. this is great and reassuring pick. if you had to ask me ...

James mattis' nickname is "mad dog," his military call sign is chaos. here is mattis in his own words. >> you must keep improving. if you make that decision that you must improve, if you look at every week in the marine corps as your last week of peace and you must be beneficiary at the end of this week as a war fighter, you will push yourself on the three mile run and accept no skulls excuses. you'll push yourself on 21 pushups. you'll push yourself to read the commandant as reading list. you'll push yourself you keep your spirit um when things are going tough. >> those who know him described

>> if we lost all our gps satellites, it would be a bad day, for sure. >> most people know of gps technology for its mapping capability. and today, the u.s. military depends on that tool. every aircraft, ship, submarine, guided munition, drone, and war-fighter on the ground. >> over half of the munitions we're dropping against isis today in centcom are gps-enabled munitions. what that means is we're able to strike things more efficiently, more accurately with less civilian casualties or other casualties in the area. >> but gps satellites also provide precision timing to the civilian world. spa...

Positioning system or gps constellation. >> you're good to execute 52. >> copy that. >> now approaching their 38th anniversary of the launch of its first satellite -- >> 3180 continues to perform well. >> the gps constellation is the biggest and arguably the most important network of satellites in space today. >> and we have indication of spacecraft separation. >> if we lost all our gps satellites, it would be a bad day, for sure. >> most people know of gps technology for its mapping capability. and today, the u.s. military depends on that tool. every aircraft, ship, submarine, guided munition...