military, who got released, if you will, through an ability that many in resource think was totally bogus. some call him a draft dodger. i would agree. he s going to say these 4,000 americans are not up to the job. it is outrageous. and how did he check with his generals and his military advisers when department of defense secretary is on vacation and the pentagon is saying they were not spoken to. and beyond that, this money argument is the ultimate of bogus. let me jump in. the defense secretary is mattis, who did recently essentially saying he was his statement was i want to get this right. last month, delay enactment of the plan, wanted to evaluate the impact on readiness. that s what the sec def has said. this happened this morning. the pentagon was blind sided.
that. if you do that so what people close to trump who want to keep trump on a level playing field, they actually say you ve got it backwards. everybody has it backwards on this guy. if that s the case. we all hope that s the case. general flynn needs to show us that. i do say there needs to be something like 60 minutes. we have a show right here. one-on-one. let s do it. thank you, sam. by the way, this is 60 minutes now. stop bowing at that alter. this is 180 minutes. 180 minutes. we have more minutes. you know, this explains why i think the congressional waiver that general mattis is going to need to sail through in a new
wrote yesterday. 12 stars to 11 stars. dennis blair, jim jones, the general who ran nsa and then you had general shinseki who ran the va. i think the difference that people are pointing to is mattis had dod. it s the same number of generals. still ahead this morning you talk about resume rights abusers in china much could be said about russia as well. baloney. where do you come from? i come from the former soviet union. that s where i came from. i came here as a political refugee. that s where i came from. what country did you say? the former soviet union. that s good. then the audience knows you re bias. i m bias? i still can t get over that. you re bias because your family came over as political
president. what are you saying that for? you know what? we re going to bring the nation together. we re going to bring the nation together. all right. top of the hour on this friday, december 9th. joining the table, associate editor of the washington post and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson. how s godzilla doing? well, i don t know how he s doing right now. is he getting more powerful? he s going to be the president. these cabinet picks are kind of all over the map like everybody else i would say mattis is a really good choice. like everybody else i would say flynn is not such a good choice. i had that conversation with general mccaffrey back when he
flynn and some of the others. looking at flynn and mattis you are looking at two different things in a different way. he s been nicknamed mad dog but i know him as well. sober minded guy. thoughtful guy. historian. will have, i think, and hope a moderating influence on some of the dialogue. do you feel better knowing that if he is the dominant voice in that administration, which all indications are he is going to be the dominant voice, should americans feel a bit of relief knowing that? yes. i feel that personally. what do you know about him that should make us feel better? he is a hard liner on iran and on certain issues. and it s going to be very different approach to certain countries that you would have under him. on the other hand, he believes that having a tough posture is a deterrent in itself and that countries will look at him. that s part of the mad dog image is that i m not going to