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It's interesting to see how that would work out moving forward. as we are hearing, too, from our own reporting that the president may not be very happy with secretary mnuchin at this point, despite his efforts to smooth things over, as we saw, and that only helped to sphaobg took thes on monday. what is playing out at the white house, it's hard not to think about who is left, right? with secretary mattis leaving, and with every other vacancy we have seen, the people now in acting positions, and our reporting from jim scuitto about decisions just being made on a whim, what are you hearing from ...

The last voice of reason leaves the administration. in france a former diplomatic adviser said this is big bad. even china is acknowledging that while mattis was tough, chinese military tefelt assured dealing with this type of military man adding our concern is next. there's one kcountry that doesnt seem concerned, russia. one lawmaker says this is an interesting signal. a positive one. general clark, thank you for being with us. as a former commander of nato here, do you agree with our allies around the world about the concern now that secretary mattis will be gone? >> yes. i'm very concerned...

By my colleagues about his hopes for this meeting. here is what he said. >> are you hopeful about this white house meeting, sir? >> the republicans meeting with the president things have gotten worse. >> republicans are calling on him to negotiate. >> we have three offers on the table, one came from mcconnell, two came from pelosi. take one. >> should there be a negotiation, congressman? is there room to negotiate? same question to you. >> yes, plenty of room to negotiate. >> okay. but that's not what this is. >> what is it? >> this is a standoff, and that's what the president wants, a standof...

We have been speaking to sources and it seems as the decision to pull troops out of syria, which mattis disagreed with. that was something that mattis just couldn't abide by. he tried to convince the president otherwise. wasn't able to do it. then he issued that stunning resignation letter in which he said the president deserves to have a defense secretary who shares his views and is aligned with his views on these key policy points. it was a stunning rebuke because he broke with him not only on those issues but his broader outlook. how he has treated traditional u.s. allies. if you talk to re...

>> my family calls me that. >> back to the subject of mattis, i heard that ivanka trump left the white house and went home early yesterday, earlier than she normally does, but she was not there at the time that that news broke, and maybe it doesn't mean anything, but it fits with this idea that jared kushner and ivanka trump really wanted adults in the room, they wanted help supervising the president which sounds like a ridiculous thing to think about with the president of the united states, but we know that's true in this white house. they were in agreement on subjects sometimes where they di...