mattis was overruled by the president on syria. mattis reportedly wanted congressional approval before those strikes over the weekend. a pentagon spokeswoman shooting that report down, but in light of the president s remarks on syria, withdrawing troops, installing john bolton there, the hawkish national security adviser, should we expect a growing rift between this president and his defense secretary? well, craig, you put your finger on it. this isn t the first time that the president and defense secretary mattis has been on the opposite sides of an issue. in the previous context, which included the iran deal, included the paris climate change decision, which included troop escalation in afghanistan. in those cases, secretary mattis had secretary tillerson and the white house then white house national security adviser h.r. mcmaster on his same side. and now he does not.
in cutter. and so our allies are looking to say do we still have an ally with america who are going to help us push back with russia. to that point, we talked about the putin meeting. but i want to lack back to andrea merkel. translator: the times in which we could completely depend on others are on the way out. i ve experienced that in the last few days. we europeans truly have to take our faith into our own hands. now, some of emotion there was a reaction of the climate change decision the president made, pulling out the paris climate accords. but you hear this more and more that they can t count they don t understand this administration. they get a very different message from the white house, so they re having a hard time trying to sort things out. it s such a different story
broadcasting corporation. i direct this primarily at the visiting secretaries. and somewhat broader than gardner s question. can you explain oreck cile to australian audiences the apparent contradiction in the administration. your business builds alliances and relationships. and there is attrition abroad of isolation expressed, some would argue through the climate change decision or even through decisions made by the executive nato gatherings. so secretary tillerson, do you acknowledge that there are in this region topics of doubt about u.s. consistency and what do you do to address them? and secretary mattis, do you think australian prime minister at least on matters relating to the south china sea made comments in singapore about finding new sources of
the president was apparently watching fox and friends this morning. the reference was made to the mayor of london who said that there s no reason to be alarmed addressing the people of his city because there will be an increased police presence in the seven days. the president tweeted seven dead, 48 wounded and the mayor says there s no reason to be alarmed. he s supposed to be the president. the mayor of london also said other things like we will never let these cowards win. i think a lot of the coverage after these attacks are fairly routine at this point. and i think we actually need to do a better job asking about next steps. and not just those political issues but what actually a number of countries are doing about counterterrorism because i don t think we re getting to the bottom of that at all. we ll come back to this. but let me turn now to the climate change decision, the president pulling out of the paris climate agreement, garnering publicity worldwide. here s just a bri
country, it s about the president being a denier and telling his decision in the world he s not interested in protecting the environment. which, by the way, we re not hearing a whole lot about the fact that he said. i would like to renegotiate this deal. i care about the environment. let s redo this. the next thing the president said, and it kind of got dismissed by the president as if he hadn t even said it because it was almost like everyone was geared up for yes or no or not going into katie, hours after the president s speech announcing this. msnbc and you know liberals care partiality about climate change, all they all led with russia. chris matthews, comey is going to testify in a week, 8:00 show, 9:00 show, 10:00 show, all about the russia investigation. well, the climate change issue on the scale of what msnbc think so is obviously a lower issue and russia has been aring their coverage for weeks. it has been working for them. their ratings are higher than they ve been i