rorschach,. there might be tension between the president and a different cabinet member these days talking about defense secretary james mattis. nbc news reports that the president has kept the defense secretary sort of out of the loop on key issues of global importance, key issues that relate directly to the defense department, including whether to stay in the iran nuclear deal. ultimately the president decided to get out of that deal. want to bring in national security analyst, former director of national intelligence, james clapper, also the author of "facts and fears, hard truths, my life of intelligence." there are a number of issues where, at a minimum, it seemed like there was a disconnect between james mattis and the president. we talked about the iron nuclear deal but it started way back with the issue of transgender troops, canceling military exercises with south korea as well, national guard, putting national guard at the border and then this creation of a space force, an entire sixth branch of the military where the defense secretary didn't seem completely read in there. what does that tell you?