with tom cotton or i mean senator. move on to something else. a bit of a surprise. it looks as though joe biden's pick for secretary of defense will be four star general lloyd austin. four star army general i should say lloyd austin. now, obviously for somebody to get this high is going to be historic. first african-american to be secretary of defense. and to get this far in your career have you got to be an extraordinary intellect and war fighter. however, there are things in his past that are going to come up. for example, in 2016, in the atlantic. he was quoted as saying early in 2014 obama's intelligence advisers told him isis was of marginal importance. according to officials. that person was general lloyd you a austin in 2016 general austin also testified that out of all the syrian fighters that were strained for millions of dollars, only four or five were there -- were ready to fight and willing to fight against assad's