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To be the ones that lead the force into raqqah. they have -- they're supporting the free syrian army, which is a sunni-based organization, and they believe that's the right organization to move in and take raqqah. whereas, the united states is supporting a syrian democratic front which is heavily kurdish. they're much closer to raqqah and in a much better position to make the move. it will be a political discussion. right now we're very sensitive to what the turks want. i don't know what the new administration is going to do with that. >> while i've got you here, i might as well ask, what do y...

The concerns of its neighbors, both south china sea, east china sea. it has thrown its weight around. that does now have consequences in that the other countries are pushing back. >> this opens a whole new bag of questions. what does the policy look like under the new president trump. jamie metzl, gerrit van der wees, thank you very much. i will speak to a freelance journalist that has visited and seen this deadly fire and knows some of the people right now who are missing. stay with us. also, his nickname is mad dog and warrior monk. what else do we know about the man donald trump is tappin...

The incoming president, care about this one company and am going to do what i can to get them to stay. will donald trump spend four years phoning every single company that threatens to move its business to mexico? that's pretty hard to do on a large scale. >> he says he has people that will do that. that's what he said at his rally last night. we'll see. thank you both for being with me. still to come, they call him mad dog and warrior monk. up next, we talk to someone who served side by side with trump's pick for secretary of defense, general james mattis. ys are on ! switch your family of ...

Said general mats was a warrior monk, general petraeus is a soldier scholar. he knows a lot about the world. as central command commander where he served for almost two years. he was dealing with all the nations in the middle east in a diplomatic role. he was also the cia director. he had all kinds of contacts with government and understands the policies and the divisiveness of washington. but when he was my commander in iraq, he was also consolidating allies from over 35 different countries in support of the war there and they did the same thing in afghanistan. this is an individual who not o...

Announcing that retired marine corps general james "mad dog" mattis is his pick for secretary of defense. >> i asked one of the generals, i love the generals, how do you compare to mad dog? sir, he's better than i am. >> nbc's pentagon correspondent hans nichols joins me from the white house. tell us about james "mad dog" mattis and where he got that name from. >> there's the persona of mad dog mattis and the policy. on the persona, he prefers warrior monk. he travels with a volume, a library of some 6,000 volumes. he served in iraq and afghanistan. doesn't really like the mad dog moniker. on ...