how he sort of brings people along to about objective. what else do we know about him? brianna, i became an immediate fan of jim mattis when he and i sat down for thanksgiving dinner in advance of our liberation of iraq. so in november of 2002, before we went to war, jim mattis and i had a great opportunity to have dinner together. along with a number of his marines. i was invited to his table. this is an airudiet thoughtful and by the way, hi marines loved him. not somebody who walked in the room and assumed control or command of the room. he was somebody that would blend into the room and every marine in his presence truly respected and honored the type of person, the leader and knew they were in good hands. they knew they were at risk. they wanted to be there with him during this period of crisis that we were moving into. it s unusual for the secdef
people, i m assuming they look at that and feel that is something that could be pretty nars sich narcissistic, talking about people who have died? you re right. the point is have audience members watch and what he says and behaves and come to their own conclusions. i certainly made a film that s? ing a lot of questions. not necessarily answering them for you. the idea of the film is that you can watch james and you can hear what he has to say, and come to that decision yourself. he does talk about the experience of the sweat lodge and also the experience of going to prison as something that he s learned from. i mean, exactly what you said. so he is using those experiences in his in his talks which you ll watch throughout the film as way to try to connect with his audience. and i certainly do appreciate that this is something that you ve sort of asked the questions and are letting people judge for themselves. when he reflects back on what
education and combat experience, and the military has done this on purpose. they want world thinkers. thought the way, rethought the way pe fight war. right? you have a whole host of challenges you didn t have before and different kinds of adversaries. he is certainly in that category. the guy is extremely well-read but also mad dog. right? he was the guy in charge during the bloodiest battle of the iraq war in fallujah, and it s really i mean, in a way almost a perfect combination. wouldn t you say? i do, but i think, knowing jim mattis, he s probably not going to shy away from that but wouldn t advertise that. the fact he s got this moniker. that s not what he s about. he is about accomplishing a task. it s more about us, never about me. that s what i love about jim mattis. you served with him during a time of war specifically 2003. tell us about that and if you have any specific memories or examples that you can discuss with us about just his leadership style? you talked abo
her up. meantime, clinton aides and trump aides at each others throats. take the time machine back to act, no. this is happening one month after donald trump was elected president. discuss now with mike shields, president of the congressional leadership fund and the rnc s former chief of staff and also with us, cnn political commentator symone sanders a democratic strategist, served as national press secretary for bernie sanders campaign. okay. so 4r5 so, last night donald trump s campaign manager, final one, kellyanne conway and jennifer palmieri, hillary clinton s campaign director talking about the election. things got really raw. let s listen. if providing a plaid form for white supremists makes me a brilliant brilliant tactician, i am glad i would rather lose than win the way you did. do you think i ran a platform white supremacist had a
time. he s intraspective, focused the way i described jim mattis, the guy to take you to the objective, desired end state and walk back from that and everybody s going to figure how to lyn rhe lyn r linearly get there. and you don t often hear a description of blunt or jim sciutto, of course. but so straight-talking. yeah. but very thoughtful and not going to mince words. right? the thing about generals today, spdr marks in that category. you go out in the field or in the pentagon, today s generals are the most educated people i know. i ll tell you. more masters degrees than anybody i know. i mean, when you go through the military, and i love the folks they re not armchair generals. right? two ongoing wars and all have served in combat. they have a combination of