And a good wednesday morning to you all. We begin with president elect Donald Trumps formal introduction of his choice for defense secretary. Were talking about general james, ad dog as hes called, mattis joining trump last night in fayetteville, north carolina. It is the second stop of his thank you tour and now mr. Trump touched on several of his Campaign Themes at that event. Last nights rally came after trump set off a firestorm after new air force one planes. Abcs Karen Travers in washington. Karen, good morning. Reporter good morning, diane and kendis. It seemed a bit surprising that out of nowhere donald trump went after one of americas biggest companies, but after some digging yesterday, that tweet and his Public Comments about aircraft giant boeing seemed to be a response to the companys ceo. Joining donald trump on his victory lap, his choice to lead the pentagon, retired marine general james mattis. The American People are character and integrity will now be the civilian lea
And a good wednesday morning. We begin with president elect Donald Trumps formal introduction of his choice for defense secretary. Talking about general James Mad Dog Mattis joining trump in north carolina. The second stop of his thank you tour and now mr. Touched on several of his themes. It came after trump set off a firestorm after new air force one planes. For the details Karen Travers in washington. Reporter good morning. It seemed a bit surprising that out of nowhere donald trump went after one of americas biggest companies, but after some digging yesterday, that tweet and his Public Comments about aircraft giant boeing seemed to be a response to the companys ceo. Joining donald trump on his victory lap, his choice to lead the pentagon, retired marine general james mattis. The American People are fortunate a man of this be the civilian leader atop the department of defense. Reporter earlier tuesday trump blasted boeing, first on twitter, boeing is building a brandnew 747 air forc
And a good wednesday morning. We begin with president elect Donald Trumps formal introduction of his choice for defense secretary. Talking about general James Mad Dog Mattis joining trump in north carolina. The second stop of his thank you tour and now mr. Touched on several of his themes. It came after trump set off a firestorm after new air force one planes. For the details Karen Travers in washington. Karen, good morning. Reporter good morning. It seemed a bit surprising that out of nowhere donald trump went after one of americas biggest companies, but after some digging yesterday, that tweet and his Public Comments about aircraft giant boeing seemed to be a response to the companys ceo. Joining donald trump on his victory lap, his choice to lead the pentagon, retired marine general james mattis. The American People are fortunate a man of this character and integrity will now be the civilian leader atop the department of defense. Reporter earlier tuesday trump blasted boeing, first
Good evening and welcome to mtp daily, im chuck todd on a very rainy and cold washington. President obama just wrapped up what is being billed as his last Major National security speech of his presidency. The Closing Argument for the obama Foreign Policy doctrine and a rebuttal of critics who argue for a course change come january. He also provided a Strong Defense of what he calls america values on the National Security values, a not so veiled attack on some of the rhetoric president elect trump ran on. Donald trump himself is set to speak in North Carolina, alongside retired general james mattis, his pick for secretary of defense. Speaking at Mcdill Air Force base in tampa, president obama listed off some of his accomplishments in the eight years he spent as commander in chief. Today by any measure, core al qaeda, the organization that hit us on 9 11, is a shadow of its former self. Plots directed from within afghanistan and pakistan have been consistently disrupted. Its leadership h
Sunlen, good evening to you. Trump was joined by his choice for defense secretary onstage. What did he say . Reporter this is something donald trump casually dropped at his rally last week. Certainly tonight it was a little bit of showmanship on the part of the president elect, formally making the announcement. Certainly donald trump likes to drop his nickname as he did many times tonight from the podium, mad dog mattis. Certainly the crowd responded to that. At one point mattis did come out onstage and spoke from the podium. Here is what he had to say. Thank you, president elect, for the confidence that you have shown in me. Thank you for the opportunity. Im grateful for the opportunity to return to our troops, their families, the civilians at the department of defense, because i know how committed they are and devoted they are to the defense of our country, the defense of our constitution, and with our allies strengthened, with our country strengthened, i look forward to being a civi