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Truthfully. but in this case, i'd like to have as many informed and mature individuals around mr. trump as he can get possibly seated at the table because of his lack of understanding of foreign affairs and military affairs. so, in this case, i think it's actually a very good thing. general mattis brings a mature approach to matters and war fighting. he knows the pentagon. when you throw any civilian official as the secretary of defense who has not been to the pentagon before, that is a staggering business. unless you know the cultures and how things are done, not only in war fighting, but giv...

Of this subsession of the maddog, this character that people would present. >> that was given to him by other marines. he didn't invent it himself. and it was a perception that he is focussed exclusively on war fighting. one of the very few people at high levels in the military establishment who lives and breathes war fighting. that's what he's always done. he loves to spend time with marines and soldiers as close to the battle as he possibly can and always has. he is not the kind of guy who will sit around and think about how to operate a large scale r bureaucra bureaucracy. which is what you...

By former top brass? >> well, it's certainly better than having people with no experience. alice makes a good point. famously during the campaign, donald trump said i know more about isis than the generals do. the super pacs ran that clip thousands of times, people showed people were troubleed by that. thought it was nuts that a reality tv star thought he knew more about war fighting than the generals. a very good thing that donald trump is looking at generals. the particular concern about general petraeus is, i guess you could do anything when the president-elect, but he excoriated hillary cl...

>> of course. of course that's why they -- the united states always applies the international standards for war fighting but these are additional conditions on top of the military that goes way beyond what the norms for war are. it shows this lack of intent to create a strategy to destroy isis. this is more of a policy of containment. and so -- and it's why this incremental effort is not going to work. >> you say you listen to your military advisers but of course, do you have many foreign policy advisers on your team. many of them served in your brother's administration or your father administ...

Participating in certain combat roles. the military's ban on having women in combat roles was rebealed a few years ago. it hasn't gone into effect yet. it's time to fully lift the ban. if you look at other countries women have been fighting in direct combat roles with great success for decades. several european nations allow women to fight in combat according to the "washington post." in israel where preparedness and war fighting are absolutely critical, women are required to serve in the military, as are all men. well over half the soldiers in the israeli defense forces are female as of 2014....