Assert themselves. Well, and here we are. Guys, i dont even know where to begin. That is all we have for mtp daily tonight. In the midst of the Breaking News, the house is voting right now on the key vote that will apparently tell us more about whether there is a shut down coming and we have this National Security imploegsion. And our Breaking News continues with ari melber. I dont know if i dont know if Breaking News is enough to describe everything that is happening right now, but the Trump White House might be unraveling. I heard you say nightmare and unraveling. We have the language here, bry let you go, of general mattis say you have the right to have a Secretary Of Defense that whose views are better aligned with yours. Where do we go from here . And if you believe jeremy bash who said the president that secretary matt is was never going to resign and the president would have to fire him. So it is some form of resignation or protest or firing, but either way, major and one of the
go overseas. then you have the situation where the kurdish forces might see the only future they have, they re being attacked by turkey, is to ally themselves with the assad regime. in the past they ve had a relationship with assad s father so it s not ahistoric that they would cut a deal for their survival with assad. the russians and iranians are deeply committed to assad. this situation is becoming worse and worse and worse. and the israelis recognize that. and it s their neighborhood that is going to be severely impacted immediately. again, the other factor too is, we have to recognize that the president has basically the national security apparatus of the united states. he is firing people from the nsc, doing so many things like that. in the interim between the mattis departure and this, there
places. the issue now is will the president bend to that? will he slow down some of has to plans or will he keep going despite their objections. it is interesting the times when the republicans decide to speak out gbs the president. it has been rare in the past. certainly after we saw james mattis lead. it also seems the timing of the president aesz ill-fated move on the shutdown could not have been worse. if in fact robert mueller is winding down himself investigation and republicans are going to have to speak out against it, he probably didn t pick a good time to drive his poll numbers into the mid 30s. ia, i don t think he would say that. i do think that you mentioned the mattis departure. that is a line of demarcation
he feels for every service member in our forces, and he does so in a public way like that, we ought to stop and say, okay. why did he do it? we ought to ask what kind of commander in chief he had that jim mattis, the good marine, felt he had to walk away. bill kristol, i think on any number of occasions we can go back and look at the president who has gotten into disputes with whether it s a general or the family, a gold star family. i mean, we can go on and on and on. but does this feel maybe a little bit different to you? do you think that sort of the mattis departure and the letter he wrote, his own personal stature has changed the equation a little bit? jim mattis, secretary of defense under donald trump, he was not still a general, though trump likes to call them all my generals. and how inappropriate is that? my generals? this is not a junta or dictatorship. we all think it s amazing.
i m not sure there s a lot of love lost with the woe is me comment. i know there s a great deal of concern with what s going on over seas and mattis s departure. but listening to people like marco rubio and this is back to the mattis departure and his reasons for leaving really going forward marco rubio has said you can expect to see oversight hearings if isis does someh rekaurngs aught to in that area. it s unclear if isis really is defeated and that was one of the key issues republicans pounds, pounded barack obama for leaving iraq too early and allowing isis to constitute in the first place. that s going to be a key issue going into the next congress. and see what turkey does and if they get involve would troops in syria.