based on this reporting. we know that rod rosenstein has said that reportedly, we ll be leaving as soon as attorney general, the nominee bar is confirmed and he wants his own deputy. we saw mattis after he wrote that resignation and wanted to stay until february. the president had him out december 21st. andrew mccabe a day away from getting his benefits, he was fired within hours of getting those dollars. do you think rosenstein makes it until bar senior a choice for deputy or is she out sooner than that? he is probably in there longer than he thinks. it s not as much because the president may try to get rid of him. because barr made some statements specifically about the investigation and the russian investigation that may cause him trouble during the confirmation process. he questioned whether or not there is legitimacy or whether or not you can indict the president that will cause heartburn. nothing is happening in a vacuum. you take on all that s happening
of them according to the state department. so we have a new national security advisoadvisor. a new secretary not necessarily in tune. no secretary of state. a conformation hearing. others saying tonight s strike was reckless because there was no authorization for military force. there is opposition at least from some leading democratss. because this goes beyond, they say the authorized action against isis, against terrorer that was authorized in 2002. i m really struck also by a
the chairman, mattis show strategic restraint and i m wondering at this hour what is motivating that and i m wondering if they the president who s been distracted this week. he s shown he s impulsive. he s been irattic in his rhetoric. he has taken a long time to kind of set this up and yet at the end the actual operational activity was very limited and at the end of the day i think they questioned being prepared to do the hard work of really taking on the assad regime. that is the wider question because if you want to go after command and control as no one needs to remind you, then you re
broader engagement with iran, with russia. the president had strong words tonight for russia. some oof the strongest words weevl are heard him make towards russia. so that was significant can as well. russia said they would shoot u.s. missiles out of the air. the president was very clear he would be undeterred in that. and the sustained attack. of course defense secretary mattis really countering that saying that this was a one-time shot. i think they re going to assess the situation. but what will cross the thresh hold of another attack. thalts are at s still under dis. i ve e ebeen saying all even
to a lot of our experts. former chief of staff and house intel. and an msnbc national security analyst. so jeremy, what is the light in which you are viewing the size and scope of tonight s strike? what it was and wasn t. it was great that we worked with our allies. great that it was proportionate. but i m struck by how narrow ethe target set was. it was three targets, a one-time shot to use mattis s ling oe. we could use this to not waste a crisis and really degrade his ability to wage war on his own people. and again you saw doneferred,