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President s war with his generals. clearly the president is peeved over mattis departure and how it all went down with that resignation letter. they were not able to see eye to eye on syria or afghanistan for that matter. but what do you make of the president s criticism? it s startling because go back two years, jim mattis, a retired four star, secretary of defense, john kelly was four star, secretary of homeland security and chief of staff, mike flynn, retired lieutenant general was national security security adviser when he left, mcmaster also a three-star general, hired as national security adviser. the place was rife with the kind of leading military figures of the generation. now president trump has really attacked mattis personal lly in his press conference, saying he fired him, which sun true. he essentially got rid of john kelly, and getting rid of james ....
Resign in the middle of it was that it was very easy to incorporate into an account of a year in which president trump has made it very, very clear that he will not be constrained, that he is firmly in control of his national security team, and he is trump unbound. i think that s the story of 2018. unbound. general hertling, to you, when you take a step back and look at this from the perspective of, you have conservatives like mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, saying he is, in his words, distressed over mattis. saying having to leave this way. marco rubio, go on down the list, lindsey graham. but then you have russia, top lawmaker in russia who calls mattis resignation rather positive. i mean, this is like through the looking glass territory when it comes to who sees this as positive and who sees this as negative. who will replace mattis? i mean, what general do you ....