2013. he led cent com. because he is only three years uniform he needs a congressional waiver to serve as defense secretary. he isn t the only general who president-elect trump is surrounding himself these days. he already named mike flynn to be his national security adviser and retired general david petraeus is in the running apparently for secretary of state. so is retired general john kelly. trump said in the campaign he knows more about isis than the generals he seems to be leaning on a lot of them during this transition. the question ask is there a point of too many generals as far as congress is concerned? my next guest from the washington post david ignatius who understand why we have these laws. let s go into that. what makes our democracy different from others where we allow the military to be in our governing system and where we