compliment. virtually nobody resigns without saying something nice. he didn't say that. he gave a lesson in what america's leadership in the world needed to look like. >> it was beautiful. he said all the right things. it's not what i would have said. >> what would you have said? >> if i were him, i would have looked straight into the camera and said, i'm not leaving. i can't leave. i serve the american people. the purpose of my job is actually not to create war, but peace. the purpose of my job is to make sure that our young men and women who are volunteered to be in the military, which means all the rest of us don't have to go. they volunteered to go in place of us. they've offered to die, if necessary, so that you and i don't have to die. what greater gift could anybody give? >> uh-huh. >> so this volunteer army, this volunteer army is now going to have to be told to do what he wants them to do. and if i were mattis, i would