a number of those markers are places where you wrote that mattis ignored in order for mattis slow rolled not normal. to be fair, having spent a lot of my career in the pentagon, the pentagon is very good at snowballing and thhaving a lot antibodies, not all for bad reasons. as a lot of people like me, i was career but i came back as political, who have great ideas ribut sometimes those ideas nee to be slow rolled. it's not all for bad reasons but that level of ignored, refused, slow rolled, is not common. i think one of your other reviewers who wrote a fabulous review, derek chalets, and want washington post commit asked the question is how do you feel about that? and as a precedent. we might all feel like this precedent is a little scary it's okay but the access of adult slowed him down. what about the next president? if it's someone we feel more comfortable if we get the same. >> i think that's a great question. if elizabeth warren instructs somebody Ãbthe book is ultimately about civil military relations which sounds really important. it's obviously there's kind of a paradox into nd i

on - - general mattis refused. that is not normal. use of my career at the pentagon and the pentagon is very good and is not all for bad reasons. and then to come back as a political risk? so it's not all for bad reasons but that level is not common and there was a fabulous review from the washington post that the biggest question is how do you feel about that. and as president. you may feel but what about the next president that we feel more confident about quick. >> that's a great question. so the group on - - the book is ultimately about the military relations and it is paradox it is baked into all of this that the generals have to give the best military advice. and then they can do whatever they want but if president trump says everybody has to dress as big bear today they have to do it. >> there are all kinds of regulations. [laughter] [laughter] just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should. look at the policies of the special operation guys and mostar veterans and with trump as commander in

mattis refused to provide military options. house began to realize the pentagon was slow rolling, which the pentagon does with all sorts of things. in this case, it was clear. tis was concerned about getting into a war with iran and the middle east. even though he had been an iran skeptic, he thought the iran nuclear deal should stay in place not only because it was working but because we negotiated with her allies. the french and the germans, we should keep our word as united states. similarly with north korea, it is a fact that wars can happen inadvertently. a small incident can spiral into something much bigger and he did not want to take the risk. host: on iran, the planes were leaving when the president called off the mission. the president tweeting 10 minutes before a strike, i stopped it. brinkpulling off from the of conflict okayed by john bolton. guest: i think this is where jim mattis might have misunderstood the president. we were close to using force against iran. iran is not iraq. the population is three times larg

>> well, sadly, secretary of defense jim mattis -- i quote him directly in the book.e said, you know, we have to make sure that reason trump's impulse. jim mattis was very concerned about this, but in president trump's defense, i think trump has proven less impulsive than certainly his rhetoric would allow us to believe. he's actually proven to be somewhat reluctant to use american military power, pulling down in afghanistan as we speak, you know, going back and forth about having troops in syria, calling back a military operation against iran, and dialing back the rhetoric on north korea. now, the one thing that he's also been kind of lucky unlike every president since fdr, he hasn't had a major foreign policy crisis on his watch to react to. the interesting question is how would he react in a major foreign policy crisis? we haven't had one. he hasn't had a 9/11 or a global financial crisis or a saddam invading kuwait or the kinds of crises other modern presidents have had. and he's only got another year left on the clock or potentially another five years. by the law

the intent on the mattis side is to say this is how the world works.d basically says, you know, our allies are ripping us off. chinese trade deficits matter, we're not winning any wars and basically makes it clear six months into his presidency that really going to follow the america first nationalist kind of approach that he campaigned on and that he was going to govern on that, and i think this meeting really was kind of one of the key meetings of his presidency. >> peter bergen is the author, the book is "trump and his generals: the cost of chaos." great pleasure having you on, peter. thank you very much. >> thank you very much, sir. >>> coming up, americans by choice. we hear words of gratitude and sacrifice from career public servants who made serving the united states their mission in life after the united states offered them a place to call home. >>> this confirmation process has become a national disgrace. the constitution gives the senate an important role in the confirmation process, but you have replaced advice and consent with search and de

i'm glad you played that quote from general mattis.etween mattis and president trump. mattis resigned in part because he didn't share trump's vision of being an isolationist. by the way -- >> we'll pick it up. david, i got to go. that is the story on wednesday, january 8th, 2020. tucker's up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the war has been postponed, it turns out. a day after the islamic republic of iran fired a salvo of cruise missiles into u.s. bases in iraq. the president's announced iran's missiles had landed harmlessly. turned out to be a purely symbolic bombing designed to stop rather than start a larger war. as the president explained, at least for now, the hostilities are over. >> our great american forces are prepared for anything.

but this is when you see the rise of a few early lgbtq groups, social groups, such as the mattis sheen society and daughters of alightus. when people are meeting in secret in their homes to talk about what it's like to be a gay man, a lesbian woman, to social lice, dance, have fun. out of these groups rose movements for social justice where instead of seeking tolerance, they decided they wanted more than that, they wanted acceptance. here you see some artifacts from the mattis shooen society, a matchbook which would be passed on to people who they thought were like-minded people. a secret way to say, are you gay? i am too. let's talk about it. here is a legal book that was published for gay people arrested, gave them advice about their rights. over here you see some early pioneering lgbtq publications such as the mattis sheen review, the ladder, which was put out by the daughters of alightus, and won a famous first amendment case in the stream court when the post office was refusing to distribute it. the supreme court decided they had the right to publish. next, the main gallery of thi

general mattis was here he talked about leadership i'm going to talk about character. leadership is what we do to influence others and to be out there influencing millions of people as a nato commander but that door swings on a very small hinge of human character you cannot unless it allows that to swing. i set out to write a book about character we are a wash of a lot of books about leadership i want to know about how we lead ourselves with character write about what you know about and using a framework of admirals so we will set back in history 2500 years and pull it up to the present to talk about ten dynamic admirals there has to be a great american 2500 years ago athens faces a existential threat by the persian empire the persians are the iranians of today they are about to conquer athens the city state with the power of persuasion and convinces his captains to fight a battle in which they are outnumbered ten / one with the captains of that day here's the advantage they had all of the rowers were free men that persian fleet was five times the size was run by slave

but it's also very telling about mattis. and people keep waiting for him to be the hero. for him to come forward and tell us, you know, some deep, dark secret. but i don't think these people are ever gonna do it. and i think the lesson here is that we need to pick presidents not because we think that they'll have smart people around him. but that we pick smart presidents because they get rid of the smart people around him or they ignore him. >> you know, you paraphrased that section of the book well. i want to read it because i think it deserves being read to our audience. tillerson in particular was stunned by trump's diatribe. for too many minutes, others in the room noticed he had been staring straight, dumb founded at mattis, who was speechless. his head bowed down toward the table. tillerson thought to himself, gosh darn it, jim, say something. why aren't you saying something? but as he would later tell close aides, tillerson realized in that moment that mattis but genetically a marine, unable to talk back to his commander in chief, no matter what nonsense came out o

mattis, mcmaster, john bolton is gone as well.hat do we make of the lack of boundaries or pushback? >> mattis in particular we're seeing as guardrails for the president. people who took a lot of care to c convince the president away from his impulses and restrain him. the president has not only brought in people much more enabling of his wishes, but the president himself has become more confident about his own instingi instingtss and desires, especially in the realm of national security. you're seeing mike pompeo play an out sized role in helping guide the president. he's much more trying to bring the president to a yes and find ways to do what the president wants done, than resisting him or trying to stop him the way mattis would have. >> it creates a difficult bind, right? you can go along and goet along with the president. it does pose a real challenge for the way we address these issues of national security. >> and i think there's something else going on behind the scenes. he spoke to the president's implsz we have seen those

, general mattis, was he a baby?somebody who was broke? i wouldn't fight beside him? i would go beside jim mattis any day of the year, any day of the week to be with jim mattis saying you got me, you got my back. so i think he's insulting the military. now he's claiming i have rebuilt -- only i could do this, i have rebuilt this military in three years, before i came along, it was all broken, you were all babies, all incapable of carrying out the mission. i would take great offense, certainly as secretary of defense, i would take great offense as an american. >> senator, secretary cohen, thank you very much for taking the time. appreciate it. >>> virginia's capital bracing for what it is concerned would be a dangerous gun rally as the fbi arrests three alleged white supremacists planning to be there. more on the growing tensions there, the concerns on the ground coming up. what's going on? it's the 3pm slump. should have had a p3. oh yeah. should have had a p3. need energy? get p3. with a mix of meat, cheese and nuts

so this has been, basically been a national priority since secretary mattis was in the seat. the president has invested a lot of attention against this as well, in particular, so the resources there, there is tremendous energy there but what we need to see is industry to step up and invest and they got to come forward, first and foremost, invest the time to work with our national land network to understand how we have come forward with this technology but they're going to have to make investments to be able to produce these at scale. >> i'm going to do it again. because people keep asking such great questions and raising topics that i think i will invite follow-on questions, we talk a lot about hyper sonics these days and i wonder mr. secretary if you could explain a little bit more what specific problem they are trying to solve at an offensive level. so there is the missile defense question. but there is also the question, i sometimes think that is as important as these weapons are and as happy as i am that you're investing more in them, they're always going to be somewhat e

secretary mattis had that strength. i don't even know that secretary esper does. he's a very smart and capable person but my interactions with him, at this point, he is carrying out the white house policy, that's the way he sees his job. that's not the way secretary mattis saw his job past a certain point, he saw it as, i need to advise and also in some cases contradict the president. ultimately secretary mattis just like secretary esper felt when the president makes a decision, i do one of two things, either i carry it out or i quit. he does understand the chain of command in that regard. but secretary mattis was pushing the president during the decisionmaking process. i don't think there are any people in the national security part of the white house now who really do that. they offer suggestions, the president makes his decision, and they go with it. and i think that is a huge problem. and this decision, killing this guy, is going to have major, major impacts on our interests in the region. and the basic question i have is, if we were supposedly doing this to p

the first member of that series was general james mattis who was here two months ago. jack was a first friend sue president nixon, lieutenant colonel marine corps vietnam veteran living in the white house, return with president nixon to san clemente. retired from the marines and when we had a gift without we would name it the jack sears. when we have distinguished professional of arms we would remind people that jack served and continues to serve it was so glad so many of you are here. if you're a veteran or a member of active duty will you stand and allow us to thank you? [applause] >> now our guest is admiral james stavridis, graduate from united statesra naval academy in 1976. hehe went on for 37 year career and some extraordinary stations along the way including as combatant commander of u.s. central command -- excuse me, seven command from 2006-2009 and, of course, as nato ally supreme commander. he earned his phd as well and masters of arts from the fletcher school of law and diplomacy which he subsequently went on to lead as dean after his retirement from the na

jim mattis talked about leadership. i'm not here to talk about leadership. i'm here to talk about character. it is a big door that swings out, influencing millions of people. the big buoy of leadership swings on a small hinge and that hinge, you cannot do that unless your character allows it to swing. we are awash in books of leadership. i want to write a book about that inner void, how we lead ourselves. that his character. write about what you know about. i decided to write about using a framework of ten admirals. go back 2500 years and pulled it up to the present and talk about ten very dynamic admirals. there has to be a greek american. and 2500 years ago evans is a nexus essential thread, athens is threatened by the persian empire. the persians are the iranian's of today, they are about to conquer athens, city states. and convinces his captains to go and fight a battle in which they are outnumbered, 5, 10 to 1 on these try remains the rowing captains of that day launched. here is the advantage domestically. they were free men, the persian fleet 5 times

defense secretary jim mattis resisted any action. reports former white house officials who supported the killing of soleimani this month viewed mattis' absence as one of the reasons the strike proceeded, surmising that mattis either wouldn't have supported such a strike or wouldn't have presented the option to the president. >> so on friday the trump administration nounsed another set of economic sanctions against iran in response to iran's missile attacks against military bases housing u.s. troops in iraq. secretary of state mike pompeo and treasury secretary steve mnuchin specified that the sanctions are issued against individuals involved in iran's, quote, construction, manufacturing and textile mining sectors including its largest steel and iron manufacturers. now, the trump administration also singled out eight iranian officials could be targeted by sanctions for, quote, destabilizing activities. soon after president trump issued his own statement reiterating the call for sanctions saying in part, these punishing economic sancti

thank you. >> i very much are in line with secretary mattis started this and secretary esper is right there as well, , dynamic force employment. it's expeditionary in nature. we can be much more comprehensive in the touch point in the region. as well as economical. as you know, speed counts. it will be dynamic expeditionary nature for the foreseeable future. >> i'll even give a brief shadow to secretary rumsfeld. he gets beaten up a lot over iraq but you can go back to him, it's been an idea that's been in the works, you were able to make it happen more than some of your predecessors. the woman here on this site in the sixth row. >> i'm from radio free asia. about north korea, do you think these current conflict between u.s. and iran affect directly or indirectly affect to north korea? some prospects that north korea might take advantage of this time when u.s. is more focused on middle east area and they might take more provocative action towards u.s. and the following question is, is there any new effort by u.s. army in korean peninsula to step up defense or offense capability agains

very clearly people on the streets mean that the economy mattis slowing down. in hong kong and chile and columbia and lebanon. whether this unrest momentum will be sustained is downsize to that forecast. >> let's go to the dragon in the room, china. the second largest economy, what are you expected to see there? a lot of the economy attributed the growth slow down to china. china along of its double digit growth year contributed a lot. do you see it stabilizing or slumping more. >> you are absolutely correct. china contributing to global growth slowing down, that's affecting the numbers. this year, we are expecting to grow at 6.1%. this is still within their forecast of projection of 6 to 6.5 but of the low end of the forecast. next year for the first time, we project china do grow 5.8%. it is partially because of processes of shipping to high speed of high quality growth, shifting for an independent growth to domestic assumption. so if you look at the numbers, how trade tensions affecting the world economy, china has more of that green pack just because it is

the auto industry is facing to mattie changes its cost like this ought to make us believe we'll be the future of this fully autonomous audi has a steering wheel that only comes out if you really wanted to but until cars like this. will hit the road it might take another 10 to 20 years. the current shift to electric and self driving cars is forcing traditional common occurs to rethink their business and not just car makers germany's batons has long supplied parts to the big international car brands but now it's showcasing its own autonomous vehicle. you know what i felt so i can keep up and over history does seem to be easy for him to win with all the changes in the auto industry we want to show off batons expertise in autonomous driving electric mobility digitization and interconnectedness because we want people to see where our strengths are its home on 360 and. the pressure is mounting on the auto industry traditional com makers will have to actually asked if they want to avoid falling behind. thanks for watching. 2 conflicts with sebastian. he has outraged many of its allies in fond

and joining us now is trade policy expert, mattie duppler.ee on the national security threat here, so the national security threat here, so america will have to live with britain having made a different decision? they will not change minds in downing street. i think that is entirely possible. the question on atlee brett said that line is what this for that special relationship between uk and us? over the past week, there have been hints at the prime minister would make less made at davos summit,. the chief treasurer for the brits were talking about the digital services tax, another challenge between the us and european countries. the british there are very clear that they were going to pursue this descriptor detects. the response of that was for the secretary to say, perhaps we will pursue retaliatory tariffs. already, the stage was felt that the us and britain may have a more difficult role ahead of them, particularly as britain emerges from the eu and starts to discuss what their economic relationship is like with the rest of the world, ind

trond old advisors here in washington warning him against us papa visors former defense secretary mattis general don for his former secretary of state tillerson all warning him to not leave the nuclear deal which he did anyways calling himself the best deal maker who's going to cut a new deal well none of that has happened as far as reigning iran regional the hague here that hasn't happened in fact iran has regional adventures have gotten worse now they're attacking bases where u.s. forces are station and it just seems like he's more president obama is on a more secular tour he had although he might be interested he might say that he's interested in talks and a new deal but as far as his policy and where his aides have been pushing him it's really the path toward more conflict unless he changes something. you know dramatic and his policies. ok reporter nick are mortazavi in washington d.c. thank you for that iraq's military says 8 rockets have struck and a major air base where some u.s. personnel are housed an official statement says 4 iraqi soldiers were wounded at balad air base 80 kil

so this has been basically a national priority since secretary mattis was in this seat. invested a lotas of attention on this as well, in particular. the resources there are tremendous, and there is energy there. we need industry to step up and invest, and they have got to come forward. first and foremost, invest the time to work with our national network to understand how we have come forward with this technology. but they are going to have to make investments to be able to produce these at scale. dr. o'hanlon: i'm going to do it again, because people keep asking such great questions and raising topics that i think invite follow-on questions. we talk a lot about hypersonic's these days, and i wondered, mr. secretary, if you could explain a little bit more what specific problem they are trying to solve at an offensive level. it is the missile defense question, but there is also the question -- i sometimes think it is important that these weapons are -- as happy as i am that you are investing -- that they are always good to be somewhat exquisite. they are complex, they ar

six months into the administration, rex mattis, cone, sought to educate the president at the pentagonn information intervention and teach about alliances, trade deals and how they work together to prop up world order. they used visual aids with dollar signs to get his attention. trump was apparently allergic, as they describe it too, the schoolhouse vibe. he went into a rage afterhering trigger words like base and nato. he criticized the war in afghanistan, calling it a loser war in front of several men and women in uniform. they report this, i wouldn't go to war with you people, addressing the room, the commander and chief barked, you're a bunch of dopes and babies. this is in front of his military team. carol, i want to get to you on this. because you were on the team that reported that rex tillerson, after that meeting, described the president as a expletive moron at the time. so how does this all fit together as you remember? >> carol and phil's excellent reporting sheds new light on what exactly transpired before and prompted rex tillerson to say that. we knew it was a very tense

people like general mattis were a counterbalance to trump's impulses and many of the people left theistration. what affect has it had on his foreign policy do you think? >> well, secretary of defense jim mattis refused to provide military options on iran and north korea. i will disagree on the question of immanence the administration would serve itself well to go back to the obama administration's justification for the killing of an american city by drone strike and they said that, he posed an imminent threat because he was constantly plotting against the united states and it's-- it's pointed to that, and they would be on better ground instead of getting bogged down on when the attack happened and when. >> it's fair to look back at the obama administration and a legal drone program as peter said. striking american citizens. extra judicial killings. did some of that pave the way for trump's beligerence in the theater? >> it's fair. and precedent is precedent. when it's made by the president of the united states. it's a powerful president. i would -- i would accuse president obama and

and nowow i'm working for generl goldstein but when he is not there general mattis is there. and so i worked extra hard to quickly build the trust.ly i never ever felt that people didn't trust me but i wanted to earn that very quickly. just because i was different, you know? i'll tell you a story. i went to china and met the chinese air chief, you know, he -- again, it's a different culture, right? it's that howdy bill that trust that trust as quickly as you can and no, hey, either as the command of the pacific air forces. again i just happen to bee a woman. anduse i was differented because in different services and countries, i put a lot of pressure on myself to make sure that i kept everything on an even playing field and i'm here to do a job. >> as an abouthe manager, maybe just a little bit on that, i would like to explore what that means for for a crowd on televn and here and watching and learning about the military. can you tell us, you are involved not only in the air to air relevant but the air to ground, the grant attack piece of that, right? you essentially, you and

and ten years after the constitution was written in 1787, james mattis wrote a letter to thomas jefferson directly addressed whyhy is it that the power to declare war is something forai congress. and he said this. our constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrate. that is the executives most prone show war, and the executive most interested in it. so for this reason we have c this study care thus the ntestion of war with the legislature. they recognize that executives were prone show war and they wanted the legislature to have to sign off on the initiation of war. it was unusual then and it's unusual now. at that the initiation of war is to be left to the legislature. why isn that provision in the constitution? why would we want to leave that question whether war should be started to congress rather than let the president do it as a be the case. it's about a value judgment. so as important as the constitutional provision is, i would argue that what is more important is the value judgment that underlies this requirement of congressional authorization. and the value

and this has to do with a meeting in the tank in 2017 where where former secretary mattis, tillerson, the former chairman of the joint chiefs were trying to brief the president in terms that they thought he would be willing to take, graphic terms, about why we have relationships, why we have alliances, why we have bases overseas. and he got angry and angrier according to those who were present and in this book and said, i want to win. we don't win any wars anymore. we spend 7 trillion. everybody else got the oil. we're not winning anymore. also, you know -- >> i've read -- >> and that he was in a rage. he was angry. he wasn't taking it in. he had been course and cavalier. you've seen these experts. he bell lowed. and they have not been reported until now and he said i wouldn't go to war with you people, he told the assembled brass, including jim mattis. he barked you're a bunch of dopes and babies. i just wanted to put that in front of our audience. >> i've read the excerpts. i've talked to a lot of the people who were there. without going into specifics, i found nothing in those exce

. >> greg, is there any way to speculate if mattis and mcmaster and their ilk were still in the circle around this president, would that military briefer have ever been sent in that room at mar-a-lago with this option to place in front of the president even if it is, as the reporting indicates -- even if it was the worst-case, break-glass option? >> i mean what you're getting at here, brian, is that the ways that senior national security officials have briefed presidents often over many years now has to be rethought with this president in many cases because the reporting so far suggests that this option of a strike on soleimani was sort of put out there as an extreme, possibly even to make the other options that the military was laying out look more reasonable and measured and look better by comparison. and instead president trump, according to some military officials who are talking to news organizations, reached for that most extreme one. and so, you know, it's hard to -- it's hard to manage that if you're a secretary of defense or the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. it goes a

jim mattis was in the room.y about the things they've seen under president trump? >> that is a personal decision for everybody in that room, and i think i know them all pretty well, and my view is at some point in your heart, in your character, you have to say to yourself what is my responsibility, and when do i go from serving the country to becoming an enabler? and those are very internal, personal discussions for each of them. i hope everyone who was in that room is having that conversation, and by the way, this is a moment when we ought to celebrate the media, the ability to have a free press that can find sources that can reveal -- that can help us understand what happens behind the closed doors, because that's part of what we need to know. >> all right. admiral james stavridis, thank you. a lot to absorb. >> thank you so much, sir. we appreciate it. >> the rampant corruption of vladimir putin's russia, and the implication it has on the united states. that is next on "morning joe." (whistling) (whistling) c

and the trading day ahead, i'm joined by chief strategist david nelson and chief strategist drew mattisays on that endof the table it's amazing to have both of you guys here for what could be a very big jobs number it's a catalyst. drew, we'll start with you the economist, what are the expectations and is this a sign maybe that the job market is slowing down just a bit? >> the expectations i've seen are kind of 160-ish. i think that's low people have forgotten about the gm strike already and there's a strike that actually hurt october payrolls and boosted november payrolls and now people are expecting that we're going to come back to the october level. the october level was biased lower. so just take theaverage and move it forward would be the safer bet. so i think the number today is going to be pretty good. it's probably going to be better than expectations. and if people don't like the number they're going to point to the wages. it's all about telling the story about where the u.s. economy is. >> bureau, what kind of numbers are you expecting to see >> i would say it's going to be pr

i mean, mattis has some comments in his book that he kind of dreamed about this guy sometimes and figuredhat he was dreaming about him too. you don't kill someone like this unless you're at war with the country. so we're basically at war with iran with this act. iranians will certainly look at it that way. and the only question as to whether we think this, trump thinks this, which is more reckless, that he did this without thinking that this was an act of war or doing it knowing that it was an act of war? >> in terms of how iran is taking it, we can show you this too. this tweet went up 10:58 p.m. eastern time. basically a half hour ago. this is from the foreign minister of iraq, javad zarif. the u.s. act of international terrorism targeting and assassinating general soleimani, the most effective force fighting al nusrah, al qaeda is extremely dangerous and a foolish escalation. the u.s. bears responsibility for all consequences of its rogue adventurism. this an official response from iran here. >> i think the attack also killed the head of khatib hizbollah who is an iraqi in charge of th

second, october 2017 -- then-defense secretary jim mattis stated that iran is, quote, fundamentally, unquote, in compliance with the jcpoa. quote, overall, our intelligence community believes that they have been compliant in the iaea -- and the iaea also says so, unquote. said general matter physical, then-secretary of defense -- said general mattis, then-secretary of defense. then you go to march 2018 -- iaea director amman know, quote, iran is implementing its nuclear-related commitments. if the jcpoa were to fail, it would be a great loss for nuclear verification and for multilateralism, unquote. and finally, number four, january 2019 -- former director of national intelligence dan coats, a former republican senator from the state of indiana -- director of national intelligence coats said, quote, we continue to assess that iran is not currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons development activities we judge necessary to produce a nuclear device, unquote. three of these four officials -- secretary of state tillerson, secretary of defense mattis, and director of national intelli

as one of the reasons the strike proceeded, surmising that mattis wouldn't have supported such a strikeen presented the option to the president. >> on friday, the trump administration announced another set of economic sanctions against iran in response to iran's missile attacks against military bases housing u.s. troops in iraq, secretary of state mike pompeo and treasury secretary steve mnuchin spec specified that the sanctions are issued against individuals involved in iran's construction, manufacturing, textile and mining sectors, including its largest steel and iron manufacturers. the trump administration singled out eight iranian officials to be targeted. soon after president trump issued his own statement reiterating the call for sanctions saying in part this, these punishing economic sanctions will remain until the iranian regime changes its behavior. >>> over half of american's disapprove of president trump's handling of the situation in iran, according to a new abc news poll, 56 percent say they disapproved. broken down by party lines, that cou includes the approval of 87% of r

this remedial session that was schedule bid tiller and mattis and cohn was to talk about the rules based order, the security and strategic and economic benefits of it and why it matters to america's security interests. and it turned into a situation where the president is disrespecting and insulting the uniform military. it almost speaks to a hostile work environment. i've been that situation too where he told me i was going to ruin the republican party, i was being selfish. blah, blah, blah, i'm going to blame you. that's what had does. and i think he gets a little defensive. when somebody shows him information or that he is uncomfortable with. he'll push back. he could be very aggressive. again, speaks to a hostile work environment. but more importantly, i think these three patriots were really -- and they're adults. they were simply trying to explain to the president why these alliances matter. and why america has benefitted from an economic and security standpoint. apparently the president doesn't have any appreciation for this order that the greatest nation gave to all of us. >> cha

what the president says are his strategic goals. >> guy, i mean, since you worked with secretary mattis so closely what is that about? why is there this cognitive dis dense? >> i think what you've seen over the course of the last three years is if you take a look at the 1950s through '70s when you had like henry kissinger, it's a holistic approach, kissinger was noted for pursuing a course called triangulation. that's a fancy way of saying when you take an action anywhere in the world it will have repercussions elsewhere. you want to understand and take deliberate actions to get the desired strategic response. what we've seen over the last three years is an administration where in many cases the president will direct a specific action and now the rest of the organization, the defense department, the state department have to catch up to try to now determine that specific action. how do we actually align our strategy to get back on course? >> i have to say mike pompeo the secretary of state when he talks to the press at 10:00 there are some serious questions he has to answer, bianna, numb

what do you make of this situation and what would general jim mattis think of this? >> well, it is a complete mess. and iran has been our enemy for 40 years. it's finally gotten to this point by a series of missteps. so the question really is what's going to happen next in this. i think you can look at two things. first, in iran, they may not be in any hurry to do any retaliation because this shows that they're totally penetrated by spies. before they come out with any other concocted plan, they have to see if they can clean house to find out why we know all that we know about them. and second, it could be that the iraqi parliament, half of which are bought off by iran, will ask the united states to leave. now, if that happens, there won't be too many americans who say, oh, dear, that's a shame. actually it could be ironically an ending that would be better than some of the alternatives. >> okay. sam, let me bring you into this discussion, national security advisor robert o'brien said this strike was aimed at disrupting ongoing attacks that were being planned by sole

nicholas church and mattie martin came out for a peaceful day in nature. >> it seems tumultuous but you can get lost in the vastness of the ocean. >> it puts you in perspective in the world. sometimes you think it is just me and the waves are big and they crash and they remind you that there is just more to the world. >> reporter: it is just a gorgeous scene out here in santa cruz with the sunset. this high surf advisory expiring at 9 pm today. mother nature is certainly making some waves here. >>> coming up at 6:00 we speak to the hiker who experienced just how strong these waves are. >>> let's take another look at the waves as we can hear them through the microphone from kiet do. those waves are getting pretty big but this high surf advisory is in effect until tomorrow. >> here is a look toward the tower intemperance --. clouds covering much from view except the very tip of the tower. let's go to darren peck with a look at the forecast. >> the clouds came back today but the surf that we are seeing has nothing to do with the clouds. this has been out in the ocean from days ago. let's j