are watching the continued impact off in the southeast. not just these terrible moment that we re at in terms of covid and restrain our country, and its hospitals particular in the southeast. but today is the end of the u.s. war in afghanistan, and as someone who served in the united states navy for two decades, who rose to high-level in the united states navy, and in fact wasn t a command position for very long time, i just have to ask your reflection on this moment, both this work that you re doing, and what it means today to end this longest war? rachel, i reflect back on myself on 9/11. it was actually a time when i was potentially coming to the end of my service commitment. being commissioned as an officer. when i saw those tragic attacks on our homeland, on the united states and the twin towers and our aircraft carriers, it was a moment where i knew that i
former president. it also happens at a time when we ve got these incredibly historic and harrowing other developments in the world, not just hurricane ida which we re watching the continuing impact of in the southeast, not just this terrible moment we re at in terms of covid and the strain on our country and its hospitals particularly in the southeast. but today is the end of the u.s. war in afghanistan, and as someone who served in the united states navy for two decades, who rose to high levels in the united states navy, in fact, who was in a command position for a very long time, i have to ask your reflection on this moment, both this work that you re doing and what it means today to end this longest war. rachel, you know, i reflect back, i was in uniform myself on 9/11. it was actually a time when i was potentially coming to the end of my service. i had finished my service
the commander in chief in the white house. but if you look at the picture more carefully you ll see everyone around the president has their heads down and bowed and pelosi looks in a command position of strengths and the democrats walked out of the meeting soon thereafter. reportedly the president s comments about jim mattis and you can think back a couple of years ago, obviously brought him into his cabinet trump did. trump used to celebrate him at public events, talk about him as mad dog, he seemed to love that nickname. from that reverence to what he s saying today, what do you make of it? well, first of all it s going to be a really long year, isn t it? look, this president has been petty and petulant before but you really got the sense as jonathan described he was rattled by this. this doesn t seem to be the performance of a confident man but also his willingness to insult men like general mattis, i think it carries some risk for him. because one of his strongest constituencie
aircraft. a database maintained by the federal government reveals several concerns here. one of them, quote, the flight manual is inadequate and almost criminally insufficient. still, the faa is standing by its decision to keep the jets in the air in the u.s., as is boeing, as is a number of airlines that use these jets. look at this. this is the live radar tracker for this specific type of jet, showing all of them over north and central america. pretty striking there. cnn aviation analyst justin green is the former president of the international air and transportation safety bar association and les avim is a retired pilot for american airlines where he worked for 34 years. les, because you re our pilot here, i want to start to get your reaction to some of these complaints. one captain writing, quote, an a auto pilot anomaly that led to a nose down situation. another captain writing in a report, the auto throttles failed to move to the command position during takeoff and climb. we hear
president trump is reevaluating his plan to withdrawal all u.s. troops from syria this according to republican senator, lindsay graham, and it comes on the day james mattis will leave the pentagon, and that happens at midnight tonight. barbara starr is at the pentagon with more this morning. good morning, barbara. good morning, erica. this is james mattis last day on the job, and at midnight tonight, there will be mr. mattis on the line and shanahan, the deputy secretary who will become the acting secretary of defense at midnight, and there will be that transfer of power because the secretary of defense is a command position, and it s a mark of respect and a little bit of a ceremony but it s necessary. they will then notify the white house at midnight that mr. shanahan has all the authorities of the achieve the goals of the president. senator graham seeming to suggest the president is rethinking a rapid withdrawal of 2,000 forces from syria, and it s really not clear what will hap