two years weird i think it s easy because the prez mr. secretary of state and secretary of defense. despite what people think the white house is not grand central station. molly: pentagon sources tell fox news to expect more in continuous resignations in response to president trump s decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria. molly: gillian turner on the political fallout. leland: new pictures and ferment in asia after a deadly tsunami strikes overnight. we will have the new information on the search and rescue effort. maria ramirez?
molly. molly: sylhet, we speak with representative matt gaetz and a member of the house freedom caucus about the conservative leaders lunch with the president yesterday. president trump s decision to pull out of serious. i ll said the press washington, what the pullout means for american youths in the middle east. we are sending a message to isis that somehow they can come back. they can be raised only and did they can at some point come back and attack us and how was vulnerable to another 9/11 attack. that s what s possible. once i started looking for it was a no-brainer. i switched to geico and saved hundreds. that s a win. but it s not the only reason i switched. the geico app makes it easy to manage my policy.
leland: senate minority leader chuck schumer blaming president trump and you heard talk radio host for delaying a partial shutdown in negotiations. republican senator bob corker issued this statement as all calling far right radio a tyranny. so let s talk about it but the talk radio host on the left. appropriately on the right-hand side of your screen. were you gone chuck schumer didn t call you up, too? you know, i get lumped in there with everybody. they ve always hated talk radio host does represent a unique medium where it s a constant conversation with the american people and frankly we re a megaphone for the american people in a message the american people are spending as we don t want american borders and even if that means the partial government shutdown. bob corker merry christmas to you all too. appreciate that. you always have unique perspective on this even as a democrat that the demagogy not
can you imagine secretary mattis representing the president. he s truly a lame-duck right now. very sad he s going. he s been a great leader, well-respected voice that the american public needs to realize everyday for 30 years secretary mattis has woke up and said how do we destroy isis. president trump wakes up every morning and says that we defeated isis and how do we get our troops home. i m excited about a commander-in-chief that will push us in that direction. molly: as you point out he s got a lot of a lot of bipartisanship praise from both sides of the political aisle. as patrick shanahan have to have shoes to fill in this coming week or month or however long it takes to bring in whoever the eventual secretary will be? absolutely. one of my mentors, an orthopedic surgeon once told me none of us are in expendable and not to be hung up on a person double find someone else better to replace him. secretary mattis a great job,
the ball is now in the court of the senate. we need them to do their job and negotiate faithfully that the president. once nancy pelosi dustup in the power as people are expected to, did the democrats then take ownership. is that how one goes on there for the democrats are and where is the winner and loser once things pass in a january? democrats have to take responsibility right now because they could solve this problem and negotiate good faith and all the more so with nancy pelosi and controlled the house as well. if anyone is when they come to the compromise the offramp is a good place to get to. let s talk about the development in that patrick shanahan will be filling the shoes as acting secretary. what he think about madison s early departure? anyone from the business world knows president trump is doing exactly what we do in the business world. we would never accept a letter of resignation from the senior person and stay on board for a month or two.