the defense secretary. there s a couple of interesting things about mattis. on the one hand, mattis faces a higher bar because he does need the waiver because he is has recently been a general in order to serve as secretary, and so democrats if they wanted to would have a little bit more power to potentially keep him out if they wanted to. on the other hand, mattis has a lot of democratic friends. he is one of the better liked nominees on the entire slate of people that trump has nominated among democrats. he has add viedsed policy makers and is seen as a potential stabilizing force within the trurp administration. i totally agree with you. if you look at the eight nominees that senator schumer, the democratic leader put out that they were going to potentially slow walk mattis was not on that list, and that was not an accident. the fact of the matter is for