stove back in february. i can tell you that this president's word when it comes to these young people who are in desperate situations because he eliminated daca, the president's word didn't stand up. when we basically got down to real bargaining. the day will come soon when the court protection of the young people and their families is going to end. we'll have to face the reality of either abandoning them or working together to find a solution. >> let me turn to secretary mattis. you sent a series of tweets after the news of his resignation broke. and you called him the last adult in the room, i believe at one point. do you think secretary mattis should have stayed regardless of his views? because he was supposedly the last guardrail or one of the few guardrails that some thought were in the administration? >> chuck, there was something very interesting about this. i was one of many senators who privately sat down with general mattis and said, please stay. stay as long as you possibly can.