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defense that every post-world war ii secretary of defense has tried to implement. and that s astounding. there have been 26 of them. this is the first time a secretary defense has ever said to the world that we have a president who doesn t understand allies. the former editor of the new york times said he believes mattis letter as he s leaving is going to go down in the history books. do you agree? it s one of the great state documents of the united states and it s a challenge to national security, members of congress. republicans or democrats. they have a chance starting in january to use subpoena power, to ask questions of the trump national security team. what is your strategy? where are you going? okay, pull out of syria. what happens when iran takes control? okay, pull out of afghanistan, what happens when the taliban starts to assist islamists again? there have to be these questions. there has to be a use of subpoenas. there has to be a willingness to step up and say even
i don t know why it didn t happen. i just don t know why they can t make a deal. they can t they can t do it. they can t get together. you have both sides pulling each other apart. and mike, you know, in this case, this first year, it is a penny on the dollar. it s $42 billion out of $3.553 billion. the bad news is that it s the stupidest way to cut. don t go to discretionary domestic spending. that s the last place you want to cut. that s investments. they still haven t touch eed entitlements, with all of the cuts that we ve seen over the past couple of years. and they now have a chance starting in march for the appropriators to get in there. you almost feel like telling barack obama and john boehner, you guys go to france for a couple of weeks, and let the appropriators that haven t worked in regular order for the past three years, let the appropriators in the senate and the house, republicans and democrats alike, to reorder