next week we will get to it, maybe get some solid answers from him on it. i kind of doubt it because unlike bob gates and certainly anthony scaramucci, jim mattis is different. when you re an officer in the united states marine corps or any branch of the services, an officer takes an oath. the oath is to support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic. and that s an oath of office that general mattis, general dunford, still the chairman, joint chiefs of staff, mark malley, who s going to be the joint chief, they take that oath quite seriously. and jeffrey raised the critical point in terms of this discussion of this topic, joe, when he said jim mattis probably has it on his mind that donald trump is or isn t unfit to be president, he would know firsthand. but what happens if he goes on this program or any program and is asked the question is donald
general dunford, he said we re not going to he didn t want to use the withdraw word. we re not going to withdraw, we currently have 14,000 troops, meaning some number of troops will still be there, and this is a president who promised to get us out in the last campaign and to keep us out of endless wars. so this is not a situation i think where the president s campaign promises ever going to be kept. bret: molly? exactly, this has been a war that s been going on for decades. if our war as stated here is to make sure this doesn t become a haven for terrorists, that was pretty much our goal at the outset one wanted to go after the people who had attacked her country and make sure people understood the hot countries should not harbor terrorists. i m not sure if the twenty-year friendly occupation is the best way to send that message and if it couldn t have been handled better. but really, this is a war that was won pretty early on and we have continued to stay there and president tr
with the taliban. central to those discussions is a possible withdrawal of u.s. troops from the region in exchange for a promise from the taliban that afghanistan will never again become a safe haven for terrorists, the president s close confidante in the senate lindsey graham warning this. mr. president, learn from president obama s mistakes, he writes. a bad agreement puts the radical islamist movement all over the world on steroids. be smart, take your time, and listen to your national security team says senator graham, joining me now congressman michael waltz a member of the house armed services committee and former green beret commander who knows all of this very intimately. good to see you tonight, congressman. thank you so much for being here. thank you, martha. yeah. martha: this meeting concluded a short time ago in new jersey. it included vice president pence, mike pompeo and esper and also general dunford was there, john bolton and
and you say george washington s farewell address was in the washington post and we ll get to that later in the show. i ll go to the general on this, as well. this was a holiday and many had time off and pulled in late and general dunford as all of this unfolded. the therein lie, a lot of people were put in an uncomfortable position. i don t want to give them too much credit, but they ve been managing up to this. he went to paris and he said i want one of my own. they said it s going to crack the streets and there s too heavy. there s been a lot of that, on the flipside. he is using them in props. i would like to think they re uncomfortable to that. whether or not general dunn fornd would have made it a point of celebrating elsewhere rather than there, i don t know. it seems from reporting that a lot of generals didn t know what
strongly. even in the l.a. area, we ll have reports of feeling it. any take aways from this quak quake? here is the definition of the change in a news cycle. you re still asking us what was the magnitude. we can give an accurate magnitude very quickly. it not been an hour since the earthquake. one comment i would make, we had a lot of after shocks. those in general are not being felt down here in the l.a. basin, up in the owens valley area, i m sure they are feeling a lot of after shocks. i haven t had a chance to keep track, but we ve had dozens, i think about three at this.. we will continue to have a lot of after shocks. this area is also characterist ically have low frequency.