i think jim is not to be an amateur psychologist here, but somewhat internally conflicted. i would be very surprised if he doesn t speak out more explicitly about the president as the election draws nigh. interesting. so i capture put, you know, obviously a date and time, but i think we ll hear from more jim and i hope we do. interesting, because that, of course, is the date a lot of people are looking at right now. will he speak more before the election? i want to read one more passage from this article describing the meeting that led to mattis resigning, because we ve never really heard these details before. it reads, quote, mattis made his case for keeping troops in syria. trump rejected his arguments. 30 minutes into the conversation, mattis told the president, you re going to have to get the next secretary of defense to lose to isis. i m not going to do it. now, i should note jeffrey goldberg who wrote this piece said none of those details came from mattis himself, but sti
footprint? it s more than people were expecting but i don t think it s enough to thwart the efforts of the taliban to retake the country or from groups like al qaeda and others. former secretary of defense jim mattis out with a new book, he made his case for keeping troops in syria, president trump rejected his arguments 30 minutes into the conversation, he told the president you are going to have to get the next secretary of defense to lose to isis, he handed trump his resignation letter. a detailed piece in the atlantic is a former secretary has a book coming out. this president was elected for his dramatically different foreign policy. he made some promises that the war in afghanistan will end, he appears to be backtracking on that, that is a huge break with what he said. he also said he opposed our involvement in syria and he has
counterterror investigation, mailed explosives to 3 transportation jobs in london, and in heathrow airport, the waterloo station, igniting small fires when open. police determined stamps on the packages are from ireland, no one was injured. keeping troops in syria, lindsey graham praising the move. is right to reduce the commitment and right to have other people do more signing and pay more bills but having a small footprint behind, americans get more europeans, isis won t come back, turkey and the kurds won t go to war with each other and iran and russia won t benefit from a hasty withdrawal. this was a smart decision. shannon: the president faced backlash after announcing a
jon: is a public nature of this disagreement that has surprised i think so many observers. right and it certainly is not the first time that president trump and intelligence officials have appeared publicly to have some fairly different views on a number of issues whether iran or north korea. and of course also, in the earlier today he talked about keeping troops in iraq to keep watch on iran. even as he made the case for drawing back troops in places like syria. getting back to the wall issue, at the president wants the wall, and he thinks he was elected in large part because he promised a wall in congress will not give him one. what is he supposed to do? he has certainly hinted at mission that maybe he will declare a national emergency. certainly the idea that you may hear something about this during the state of the union. if not before. this has been a very challenging issue for him to actually be able to deliver on.
publicity stunt a p.r. move she reacted angry and said it was not. if it wasn t, what was it? what is her position on our continued presence in afghanistan. i think her mission was quite clear from what came from her staff. they were going to meet with nato officials in brussels and they were going to meet with our men and women in uniform and, look, it seems like this fight between godzilla and king kong is just going to go on for quite some time now. but i do think that it is a tit-for-tat and i think that this just exposes the president s lack of maturity when it comes to running our government. tucker: of course it was a tit-for-tat. obviously. right. tucker: it does raise, i think, a highly amusing one but it also raises a couple of real questions and i think it s worth talking about. what is the speaker s position on keeping trips in afghanistan? i don t know exactly what her mission is as far as keeping troops in afghanistan. tucker: isn t that a key question? that