what we re going to have here is what we had in the first bush administration where you had rumsfeld that would run over nsa director in condy rice. trump is going to listen to mattis. it s obvious that mattis has his ear. general mattis is if not, one of the most respected military men living in the country today. so he s got general flynn s respect. that s for sure. when you talk to people in national security community they say mattis is great on his own merits but he s also a great counterbalance to general flynn. he can keep him in check. that s something maybe trump considers. flynn will be the first to say mattis is smarter than him. he outranks him. he defers to him. one of the keys you just mentioned is rank. rank is important in the military whether you re retired or whether you re enrolled in the military right now today. general mattis is a four-star general. general flynn is a three star. one extra star counts for a lot. and they know it. you ll be headed to a
miller confirmed that flynn jr. is no longer involved in transition efforts. no longer involved. miller said the younger flynn had only been helping his father with some administrative and scheduling duties but the new york times reports that flynn jr. was fired for pushing a number of fake news stories including so-called pizza gate. the conspiracy theory that was the reported motive behind a man firing an ar-15 assault rifle in a washington, d.c. restaurant on sunday. the move to fire flynn jr. came after vice president-elect mike pence said on our show yesterday that he was not involved in the transition team. what s the level of concern within your national security apparatus about general flynn s son? general flynn s son has no involvement in the transition. he has a transition e-mail. no involvement in the transition whatsoever.
our infrastructure. rebuild our bridges. rebuild our airports. rebuild our, you know, have a transportation system that actually works. again, to your point about the pentagon budget and the report that you alluded to that was basically tucked away and hidden from view for over a year, the pentagon within the report they retain and pay more than 1 million contractors. more than 1 million. almost one for every soldier. unbelievable. the swamp inside the swamp. i think something happened in the past 24 hours since we first started talking about this and then, mike, you did what did you with pence. donald trump s transition team is loong to distance itself from flynn jr. after he spread fake news regarding former secretary of state hillary clinton. in a conference call yesterday, communications director jason
i think as he was coming over, i think that message was probably sent. i know we were talking about it at the top of the show. it was absolutely outrageous. what time was that interview? 7:30. so has. he might have been telling the truth. they may have fired him at 7:02. bigger picture, doesn t flynn himself have some issues with this or is it just his son? he, too, general flynn has also forwarded, retweeted stuff that have to do with ludicrous conspiracy theories and gets to his position in the white house. i can t think of a more critical component of the presidency right now given the fact that donald trump has very little experience in foreign affairs, military affairs, fighting in a war, than the national security advisers position whose job it is to assemble various points of