economic and political power for someone like president trump himself and perhaps secretary of defense mattis and secretary of state pompei o it is more about trying to get iran into a bilateral negotiation so that the united states president trump can come up with the deal of the century a deal that is so much better than his predecessor president obama so you have these two this is basically the spectrum of debate within the white house bolton wanting to undermine the iranians not get another deal trump himself perhaps with secretary of state pompei on secretary of defense mattis trying to force the iranians into a bilateral negotiation where they can claim victory just as they have with north korea ultimately how to read this will the iranian people with a retard that's the oil of the banking sector whatever it is there will be a trickle down effect to the iranian people and then adds will only stoke more you feeling well into the type of thing that we see yes we see it every november fourth but the sentiment in iran i mean it just seems to put things on even more of a collision course and

secretary of state might pay you and secretary of defense jim mattis to brief u.s. senators on wednesday and the latest developments relating to saudi arabia both democratic and republican politicians have expressed concerns about the killing of the saudi journalist. at the saudi consulate in turkey last month there's also been growing condemnation of the riyadh's involvement in the war in yemen which has created a humanitarian crisis but mike hanna joins us live now from washington d.c. mike so section of state might come pale and defense secondly james mattis would do this joint briefing to the senate why is it happening and what are we expecting them to say mike. well there's a couple of unanswered questions here firstly are they going to be briefing the entire senate or just the intelligence committee secondly is the director of the cia going to be present because some senators are insistent that it's all very well for the secretary of state and the defense secretary to come and brief the senate but they also want to hear from the director of the cia jeana as po

defense. mr. wilkie served james mattis as secretary of defense, he has served donald rumsfeld and before that, heonal security affairs and senior director of the national security council for five years, he was vice president for programs for ch2m hill one of the largest engineering and program management firms in the world. he is officer of the united states air force reserve and previously served in the navy reserve and joint forces intelligence command and special warfare group two and the cities of naval intelligence. among this, mr. wilkie is recipient of the public service medal. the highest noncareer award for that department. ladies and gentlemen, va secretary mr. robert wilkie. [applause] >> thank you, colonel, to my colleagues in the cabinet, to my friends, elizabeth dole, to leader pelosi, to the veterans represented here on both active and retired status, it is my pleasure on behalf of the president of the u.s. to welcome you to arlington. i have had the privilege in my life of seeing this military world from many angles, as a dependent, as the son of a wounded combat soldier, as an o

secretary of defense james mattis coming out saying their word cannot be trusted. the russians are not feeling as much blowback from the u.s. president. the spokesman for vladimir putin says despite the recent standoff, the meeting with trump and putin at the g20 summit is very much on. russia's president vladimir putin came out and he said that he still believes that president trump is positively inclined to bettering relations with the united states and russia despite the incident that took place right near where i'm standing now. fred pleitgen, cnn, tehman, russia. >> thank you, fred. the focus reflected in a newspaper interview on wednesday where president trump returned to the robert mueller's probe again and again. refusing to rule out a possible pardon for paul manafort. also defending his retweet attacking the russia probe and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein in particular. we have pamela brown with more from the white house. >> reporter: good morning, dave and christine. in a stunning interview, president trump defended a picture of his opponents beh

i welcome secretary of defense mattis' comments in october when he said it's time to stop this. he urged all parties to sit down and pursue peace. secretary of defense mattis comments were followed by the secretary of state pompeo's statement which he said the time is now for the cessation of hostilities. i echo his further comments when he said, we have got to look forward toward peace and we can't say we're going to do it sometime in the fuhr. we should support the u.n.-led efforts to bring peace to this devastated country and urged the saudi-led coalition and houthis to start peace negotiations immediately. ending our support for saudi-led coalition highlights the gross inhumanity of the war and do not support the way the conflict in yemen something conducted. it underlines our growing concerns about the we behavior saudi arabia and its effects the larger american strategic interest in the region and our interest in preserving global humanitarian norms. in our support for the war we'll force the saudi-led coalition to reconsider its policies and signal our support for peace n

moral and ethical mission to support our border patrolmen. >> secretary mattis facing criticism from a former official, writing "if defense secretary mattis believes the migrant caravan is not a threat requiring 6,000 active troops on the border, he should say so and quit." why do you say that, kelly? >> i think he should explain to congress why he thinks this is an appropriate use of troops. the active duty military is already very stretched, as we all know after 17 years of war, and to deploy such a tremendously large amount of active duty troops to the border for what is really not constituting a real threat to the united states leaves me with open questions and i think the american public has them, too. >> i'm curious of what you made of that scene today, a. b, we talked about the president hasn't tweeted about the invasion -- i put that in air quotes -- and if it was such an emergency, wouldn't it be the president who would show up on the border in addition to his secretary of defense? >> you would think so. i'm very glad that secretary mattis is visiting those troops because they're going to be missing their familie

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more dangerous now than it was in twenty twelve the situation earlier this year secretary of defense mattis said that the u.s. strategic threats now our main threats come from russia and china before that it had been global terrorism in january of this of this year the bullet an atomic scientist moved the hands of the doomsday clock to two minutes before midnight that's the they lasted that back in one nine hundred fifty four after the u.s. and soviet union tested their hydrogen bombs i think that the bullet the atomic scientists needs to meet again and move their hands closer to midnight we've got right now the u.s. is involved in a major nato exercise peroration trident juncture which is the biggest operation of this sort in norway since one thousand nine hundred ninety one the end of the cold war last month the right russia and china participated in vos stock eighteen which was the biggest russian wargame since one thousand nine hundred eighty one the world is gearing toward much more closely toward confrontation we've got the situation between the u.s. and china the u.s. doing freedom o

a short time ago defense secretary mattis spoke to reporters and he says that right now military personnel are playing a supporting role. watch. >> the deft of defense missions do not involve military personnel at this time directly participating in any law enforcement. law enforcement is left in the hands of the customs and border police who have the statutory authority to carry that out. at the present, i do not anticipate military personnel coming into direct contact with migrants. >> this comes as republicans are facing a big test over funding for president trump's border wall in a lame duck session. steve, let me bring it to you first, as we continue to look at these pictures of defense secretary mattis there live on the ground. there was all that talk, caravan, they were months away. now they're there. so at least a portion of it. the timing on what the critic weres saying. at the same time, i was watching ken paxton saying the group that's arriving appears to be doing what the president asked, which is to present themselves at a port of entry and ask for asylum. that's fantastic pro

defense secretary james mattis saying the saudi coalition has stopped its offensive . and the british prime minister trees amaze says a future relationship deal with the e.u. after brics it has now been agreed she called it the right deal for you the u.k. in order to leave the european union the e.u. is cheryl to vote only agreement on sunday the british people want this to be settled they want a good deal that sets us on a course for a brighter future that deal is within our grasp and i am determined to deliver it. well let's go live to. westminster and say this is a deal that's been agreed with the president of the e.u. commission on the future relationship of the united kingdom with the e.u. after bracks it. yes that's right will is but a very very busy few days for the british prime minister in the space of only a few days what has happened is that they've been to outline agreements in principle that have been a station essentially sort of built upon for negotiation and discussion and debate now for the twenty seven the first or so withdrawal agreement all about br

we don't expect to see defense secretary mattis.peo coming out and talking in the microphone, sharing some of what went on behind closed doors. sean, what you think they are talking about there? >> sean: i think there are two segments issues at hand, and we talked about this a segment to go. what do we know about the planning and execution of the killing of khashoggi? and who was responsible for it? that's totally separate. we will have a lot of agreement that saudi arabia come elements within saudi arabia, did this act. but then the question is, this is where the centers agree to be particularly honed -- does the cia, does our intelligence, conclude that the crown prince was involved, covered up, or knew about it? >> melissa: here he is, let's listen in. >> secretary mattis and myself just had the opportunity to befall the senators who wanted to hear from us. we talked about u.s. policy in yemen and the u.s. policy with respect to the kingdom of saudi arabia. we also, obviously, spoke about the heinous murder of jamal khashoggi. we

defense secretary james mattis discussed the administration's reasons for backing saudi arabia despite calls for accountability for khashoggi is murder on the khashoggi affair he said presidents don't often get the freedom to work with unblemished partners in all things you don't mention the conflict in yemen if you want to end the war you're going to deal with saudi you can't say i'm not going to deal with them a rejection of the policy advocated by an increasing number of members of congress to apply pressure on saudi arabia to end the war by ending the u.s. arms sales upon which its offensive depends matters a statements echoed the doctrine of spiles by donald trump and his statement on tuesday the us is strategic interest supersede all else and argument the received a withering response from the editor of the washington post who published a market share g.'s articles i was astonished even after two years of kind of astonishing and dismaying things from this president this one was is really almost beyond belief and it's wrong on so many levels. i mean of course it's wrong to excuse

more dangerous now than it was in twenty twelve the situation earlier this year secretary of defense mattis said that the u.s. strategic threats now our main threats come from russia and china before that it had been global terrorism in january of this of this year the bullet an atomic scientist moved the hands of the doomsday clock to two minutes before midnight. they lasted that back in one nine hundred fifty four after the u.s. and soviet union tested their hydrogen bombs i think that the bullet the atomic scientists needs to meet again and move their hands closer to midnight we've got right now the u.s. is involved in a major nato exercise peroration trident juncture which is the biggest operation of this sort in norway since one thousand nine hundred ninety one the end of the cold war last month the right russia and china participated in vos stock eighteen which was the biggest russian wargame since one nine hundred eighty one the world is gearing toward much more closely toward confrontation we've got the situation between the us and china the u.s. doing freedom of navigation operatio

actions take my palm parents actually of defense james mattis or brief senators on wednesday on the latestdevelopments related to saudi arabia comes as to police investigating the murder of saudi journalist mark associate search to just northwest of istanbul. ukraine's parliament has backed president petro poroshenko decision to impose martial law for thirty days after of tensions with russia on sunday russian forces opened fire on and seized three cranium boats off the coast of crimea. and u.s. called make it general motors is shutting down five manufacturing plants across north america fourteen thousand jobs will be lost yes president donald trump says he's not happy and has criticized the card giant. a british student accused of spying in the united arab emirates has been granted a presidential pardon and is on his way home to the u.k. matthew hedges was sentenced to life in prison last week a surprise we stress and to create a serious diplomatic rift between london reports. seven months after his arrest matthew hedges is going home his wife daniella surprised and delighted by the news

. >> defense secretary mattis is at the border in texas. >> in tijuana, the first of the migrant caravan made it to the border. >> michael avenatti has just been arrested on suspicion of felony domestic violence. >> avenatti represents stormy o s nt tmp.adultacess >> according to a new bipartisan report, the u.s. military might struggle to win-- or perhaps lose-- a war against china or russia. >> cnn versus trump: a hearing a a u.s. district court in washington taking place. >> this comes after the white house removed jim acosta's press pass following a news conference last week. >> the harlem man who won new arrk's largest jackpot has now claimed his prize. >> worth a record $343.8 million. >> i need a bodyguard. >> glor: good evening. i'm jeff glor. this is our western edition. we are going to get to the first winter storm of the season in the east, in a moment. it has already turned deadly. also, the wildfires in the west. but there is news that is just coming out on a figure who has been all over the news in thepa a law enforcement source tells cbs news that michael avenatti, stormy

defense secretary james mattis saying the saudi u.a.e. coalition sees its offensive and the u.n. special envoy to yemen has met with the rebel leaders in the capital sanaa griffith is expected to travel to dayton nato the port is crucial for food and aid supplies . now protests against soaring fuel prices in the french territory of reunion have shut down much of the island the government has canceled all flights and close calls and suspended public transport and demonstrators on the island in the indian ocean say it's about much more than the cost of filling up a tank mariana honda has more on. the island of reunion more commonly associated with beautiful beaches and some say it's paralyzed for days by violence police and protesters have been injured and more than one hundred people arrested but five days on the discontent at rising fuel prices shows little sign of waning protesters are refusing to take down the road blocks. we block but we do it calmly very peacefully and we try not to block the population too much. mess protests in fran

. >> neil: defense secretary james mattis visiting troops in texas. ops there are ready to help with the migrant caravan on its way. jennifer griffin has more. >> that's right, neil. defense secretary mattis met with troops and was there with kirstjen nielsen today. he said there's about 5,900 troops deployed but the number could go as high as 7,000. he said he didn't anticipate military personnel coming into direct contact with migrants. >> there's all sorts of stuff in the news and that sort of thing. you just concentrate on what your company commander tells you. if you read all of that stuff, you'll go nuts. >> the pentagon has been unwilling to answer questions about how much this deployment will cost. estimates are a $200 million bill, which means less money to fix planes and maintain equipment. >> we'll update you on costs ace they become known. obviously the units executing the border mission have to report up here. but we're capturing the costs. >> unlike a deployment overseas, they're not getting combat pay and living in tents. affairs units s

. >> reporter: defense secretary mattis was with thousands of troops demanded by president trump over his concerns about that caravan of migrants and refugees. meanwhile, the president hasn't spoken much about the caravan since the election. here's nbc's hans nicoles. >> reporter: defense secretary jim mattis on the border getting progress reports and giving pep talks. >> one thing about the u.s. army, we give you a mission, you'll do it, right? >> reporter: preparing his troops to dig in for the holidays as they wait for the caravan of migrants and refugees still one week away from tijuana. >> we want legal immigration. that's part of what makes america good. but illegal, we're going to carry out the law. >> reporter: mattis touring with the embattled homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen, insisting the nearly 6,000 troops are mostly unarmed and won't apprehend migrants. the president has all been stopped talking about the caravan after daily warnings in the lead-up to the election. >> i think you can't call it anything but a stunt here. >> reporter: troops won't get combat pa

defense secretary james mattis discussed the administration's reasons for backing saudi arabia despite calls for accountability for khashoggi is murder on the khashoggi affair he said presidents don't often get the freedom to work with unblemished partners in all things you don't mention the conflict in yemen if you want to end the war you're going to deal with saudi you can't say i'm not going to deal with them a rejection of the policy advocated by an increasing number of members of congress to apply pressure on saudi arabia to end the war by ending the u.s. arms sales upon which its offensive depends matters a statements echoed the doctrine of spiles by donald trump and his statement on tuesday the us is strategic interest supersede all else and i'll give it the received a withering response from the editor of the washington post who published a market share g.'s articles i was astonished even after two years of kind of astonishing and dismaying things from this president this one was is really almost beyond belief and it's wrong on so many levels. i mean of course it's wrong to exc

that the saudis had been getting better at refueling in midair last week the secretary of defense james mattissaid that lists then one third of saudi aircraft were being refueled by the u.s. so certainly this is a matter that was coming to an end it would appear the saudis now unilaterally announcing that the refueling processes will end the ongoing u.s. cooperation with saudi arabia will go on though however it may be a coincidence about the saudi announcement came on a day when senators one republican and one democrat said that they would introduce a bull to end the u.s. help in refueling saudi planes in the war in yemen so certainly there is some kind of action that was being contemplated within congress but a far more importance within congress is the move to introduce a bull to suspend civilian nuclear talks between saudi arabia and the u.s. both from the senate and in the house of representatives there's been moves to introduce bills when congress resumes that would either suspend these talks or end any such agreement should it be passed a by that particular time so certainly there is mo

active state and sect of defense james mattis will brief senators on wednesday on the latest developments rates to saudi arabia comes to his pleas investigates in the murder of saudi journalist a month or so to search two villages just northwest of istanbul. ukraine's parliament has backed president petro poroshenko decision to impose martial law for thirty days after a flare up in tensions with russia on sunday russian forces opened fire on and seized three ukrainian but it's off the coast of crimea. and u.s. called make a general motors a shutting down five money factor in parts across north america fourteen thousand jobs will be lost as president donald trump says he's not happy and has criticized the car giant. the saudi crown prince is expected to arrive and tunis and the next few hours on the laces leg of his first overseas tour since the jamal khashoggi case not everyone is welcoming him an activist trying to mount a legal challenge to stop his visits to sell reports and look at us first stop in hama been some man's regional tour was to his closest ally mohamed bin ziad crown princ

nothing can shake you. >> defense attorney mattis rallying the troops to secure the southern border butirst of thousands of members of the migrant caravan already arriving in tijuana, some climbing up the border fence and even daunting us law enforcement. you to weigh in his former ice supervisor jason piccolo. thank you for joining us, really appreciate it. to begin i just want your reaction to migrants climbing to the top of the border wall and taunting law enforcement officers was what was your first initial response when you saw those images? >> i don't think they are part of the caravan. the caravan will go to the port of entry. i believe these are just the other aliens that are trying to taunt our border patrol agents. heather: what about mattis's visit to the border area? some people say that is just for optics? >> i think it is great. i'm a former infantry officer who did a deployment any rack and having a ground commander come out and see what is going on to get the ground troops is imperative. heather: the opposite of what you are saying, listen. >> it is unfortunate that we h

defense secretary james mattis has also been discussing the war and yemen he says the saudi of erotic coalition has again ceased an offensive around the port city of whole day that earlier the u.n. special envoy to yemen met with the rebel leaders in the capital saima mohsin griffiths is expected to travel to on thursday. president donald trump has faced off with the supreme court chief justice in a dispute over the independence of america's judiciary john roberts seen here swearing trump into office took issue with the president after he denounced another judge who rejected his asylum policy and u.s. troops on the southern border with mexico could be given permission to use lethal force if necessary to protect customs officials thousands of asylum seekers are gathering near the fanti over the u.s. but it could be months before they're allowed to attempt to cross over thousands of border patrol agents and are preparing for the so-called caravan of people. survive as a record wildfires in the u.s. state of california bracing for a new threat from nature heavy rainfall forecasters are e

defense secretary james mattis discussed the administration's reasons for backing saudi arabia despite calls for accountability for casualties murder on the khashoggi affair he said presidents don't often get the freedom to work with unblemished partners in all things you don't mention the conflict in yemen if you want to end the war you're going to deal with saudi you can't say i'm not going to deal with them a rejection of the policy advocated by an increasing number of members of congress to apply pressure on saudi arabia to end the war by ending the u.s. arms sales upon which its offensive depends matters a statements echoed the doctrine of spiles by donald trump and his statement on tuesday the us is strategic interest supersede all else and i'll give it the received a withering response from the editor of the washington post who published a market share g.'s articles i was astonished even after two years of kind of astonishing and dismaying things from this president this one was is really almost beyond belief and it's wrong on so many levels. i mean of course it's wrong to excus

defense secretary james mattis says saudi arabia and the united arab emirates have ceased an offensive around yemen's a vital port city of head data the u.n. special envoy to yemen met truthy rebel leaders who are fighting to hold on to her data. u.s. troops on the southern border with mexico could be given permission to use lethal force if necessary to protect customs officials thousands of asylum seekers are gathering near the frontier with the united states but it could be months before they are allowed to attempt to cross over al-jazeera as john holdren isn't here wanna and joins us now john what else do we know about what the u.s. is planning. we can actually see most of it behind me you can see this concertina wire here which is sort of creating a bit of a funnel usually this crossing point for vehicles and pedestrians is completely open but they've tried to make a funnel and that's to stop any sort of mass of people from breaking through and trying to get into the united states between the cause also lots of officials here from the customs and border protection where the pedestr

state might pompei one sector of defense james mattis will brief senators on wednesday on the latest developments raise to saudi arabia it comes as police investigating the murder of saudi. to venice just northwest of istanbul. ukraine's parliament has backed president petro poroshenko decision to impose martial law for thirty days after a flop of tensions with russia on sunday russian forces opened fire on them seized three ukrainian boats the coast of crimea. and u.s. called make a general motors is shutting down five money factoring plants across north america fourteen thousand jobs will be lost u.s. president donald trump says he's not happy and has criticized the current giant. saudi crown prince is expected to arrive in tunis in the coming hours on the next the latest leg of his first overseas tour since the jamal khashoggi case but not everyone is welcoming him the activists trying to mount a legal challenge to his visit. reports in the capital tunis. first stop him have been some man's regional tour was to his closest ally mohammed bin zayed crown prince of the united arab em

secretary of state mike pump alun second of defense jim mattis will brief u.s. senators on wednesday on the latest developments relating to saudi arabia it comes as turkish police investigating the murder of the saudi journalist. searched to villas just northwest of istanbul mike hanna has more from washington d.c. a number of senators say it's all very well to hear from the secretary of defense and the secretary of state but they really want to hear about the circumstances surrounding the murder of jamal khashoggi and the involvement of the crown prince of saudi arabia mohammed someone in that killing so there is still questions coming from senators they welcome the fact that they will get this briefing but that's the other question too is the briefing going to be about the murder of democracy edgy or is indeed the briefing going to be about why sanctions should not be imposed on saudi arabia ukraine's parliament has backed president petro poroshenko decision to impose martial law for thirty days after a flare up of tensions with russia on sunday russian forces

. >>> now to the border, where defense secretary mattis is with thousands of troops, demanded by president trump, amidst concerns about that caravan of migrants and refugees. the president not talking much about the caravan since the election. here's hans nichols. >> reporter: defense secretary jim mattis on the border getting progress reports and giving pep talks. >> one thing about the u.s. army, we give you a mission, you'll do it, right? >> reporter: preparing his troops to dig in for the holidays as they wait for the caravan of migrants and refugees still one week away from tijuana. >> we want legal immigration. that's part of what makes america good. but illegal, we're going to carry out the law. >> reporter: mattis touring with the embattled homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen, insisting the nearly 6,000 troops are mostly unarmed and won't apprehend migrants. the president has all but stopped talking about the caravan after daily warnings in the lead-up to the election. >> i think you can't call it anything but a stunt here. >> reporter: troops won't get combat pay, but som

defense secretary james mattis discussed the administration's reasons for backing saudi arabia despite calls for accountability for casualties murder on the khashoggi affair he said presidents don't often get the freedom to work with unblemished partners in all things you don't mention the conflict in yemen if you want to end the war you're going to deal with saudi you can't say i'm not going to deal with them a rejection of the policy advocated by an increasing number of members of congress to apply pressure on saudi arabia to end the war by ending the u.s. arms sales upon which its offensive depends matters a statements echoed the doctrine of spiles by donald trump and his statement on tuesday the us is strategic interest supersede all else and argument the received a withering response from the editor of the washington post who published a market share g.'s articles i was astonished even after two years of kind of astonishing and dismaying things from this president this one was is really almost beyond belief and it's wrong on so many levels. i mean of course it's wrong to excuse th

and defense secretary mattis and president trumpis at home, my wife and i, a lot about the military because these top people like the president can make all kinds of decisions and these soldiers will do almost anything, they'll risk their lives, they'll live in horrible plac places out in the mountains of afghanistan, do anything under orders. you have to be so careful morally what you tell them to do. and to put them on a mission that's full of b.s., it's like the parade they were going to have on constitution avenue. remember that, with the tanks up and down? they said it would do too much damage to the street. and now they have this thing which looks like a real caravan. look at this. ahead of the election president trump said he'd have a wall of people lined up at the border and that he'd consider rock-throwing by immigrants to be tantamount to a firearm -- in other words, gun play. let's watch. >> it's very important. we have to have a wall of people, very highly trained people, terrific dedicated patriots. that's what they are

secretary of defense mattis blasted the russians saying they have shown once again their word cannotusted. however, the russians not feeling not much blow back from the white house. earlier we asked the press secretary whether the russians believed that the russian at the g20 between president trump and putin was still on. the russians say they believe absolutely that meeting is very much still on. they are preparing for it. putin came out and praised president trump and said he believes the u.s. president still very much positively inclined, as he put it, to improving relations between the united states and russia. wolf. >> looks pretty cold where you are. approaching 3:00 a.m. over there. how cold is it? i don't know if he could hear me. it's that cold. never mind. we'll talk about it another time. >>> just ahead, the state of hate. cnn special report on the disturbing rise of hate crimes right here in the united states. at humana, we believe great things are ahead of you when you start with healthy. and part of staying healthy means choosing the right medicare plan. humana can hel

defense secretary mattis explained to reporters that troop still would not for the most of part come into contact with migrants. but if they did in addition to self-defense they could conceivably use force to protect a border patrol agent. if someone is beating on a border patrolman we could stop them beating on them and take them over and deliver them to a border patrolman. most of of these troops are engineers, most of will there will be for the holidays. liz: coming up later in the show, we'll talk to the vice president of the national border patrol council. the new york police department warns blustery winds may ground the balloons in the thanksgiving day parade. the last time the balloons were ground was in 1971. now the thanksgiving holiday traffic jom is expected to hit a 64-year high. this is what it can look like in the run-up to thanksgiving. but new york and boston, you may want to the get out a little bit earlier. the dow ending the day flat. it's basically retracing a little bit with a fairly positive day. coming you have next. thanksgiving traditions, they are just turke

vice president pence and secretary of defense mattis and secretary of state pompeo.k at iraq, more officials as well visiting that war zone, including jared kushner, the president's son-in-law. he did spend thanksgiving morning on a conference call where he wished them a happy thanksgiving and talked up the economy and hinted he might be making a trip in the near future. >> while you're away from your families and loved ones, i hope you will take solace in knowing the american families that you hold so close to your heart, we are all doing well. the nation is doing better than economically. we are the hot nation of the world and it's nice to know you are fighting for snag is doing well and that's our country. i will see you back when you are in the united states or maybe i will see you over there. you never know what's going to happen. >> cnn military analyst retired analyst, this is a president who talks about how much he has done for the military and how much he has done for veterans. why hasn't he visited the troops in a war zone some. >> it's difficult to know th

and of course, a special welcome to our guest of honor secretary of defense, james mattis. thank you for being here with us tonight. the u.s. institute of peace was founded in 1984, as an independent nonpartisan national institute that is dedicated to reducing the kind of violent international conflicts that pose a threat to u.s. national security. the kind of conflicts that secretary mattis has spent a career addressing. and in fact, our most passionate congressional founders were themselves veterans of world war ii and korean wars. and their searing experiences on the battlefields in fact, created their determination to found and support an institute that was developed to, that was dedicated to how to prevent, how to resolve violent conflict. and so we pursue this mission by linking training and analysis with action on the ground in conflict zones, here with policy makers in washington, d.c., and with partners and people organizations and governments around the world. and over the course of our 34-year history, usip has worked closely with the state department, with us-ai

the relationship with jim mattis in the defense department is souring. folks like neilsen, kelly, others, who will be the moderating voices if they do depart? >> i think if there is anything we have learned in the last couple of years, the moderating voices it is not a silver bullet here. i think that will remain the truth. the other part is that those who are in there doing that part of the job and trying to serve the problem and their morales are in an unorthodox situation and dysfunctional management situation. how long can you last there? it's a fair question. when it comes to the most latest really bonkers move by the first lady to sort of publicly denounce somebody who has not lost the job -- it's hard to tell at any moment what is going to happen. i wonder if post mid terms he is feeling a little bit more in a corner and that is some of the reason for this. >> molly, how is mira ricardel the deputy national security adviser, the public statement from the first lady calling for her departure, how is she still in that position? >> she hasn't left. i

the united states, even for a short period of time and then send us back. >> reporter: defense secretary james mattis visiting the border today getting a look at the 5,900 u.s. troops deployed in the area. he says they are helping border patrol prepare for the central american migrants' arrival. >> the department of defense missions do not involve military personnel at this point directly participating in any law enforcement. law enforcement is left in the hands of the u.s. customs and border protection. >> reporter: president trump made the caravan a major issue since the mid-term election and some say the focus on national security could be an attempt to been over lawmakers who have been reluctant to fund had border wall. >> thrill -- the border wall. >> reporter: defense secretary james mattis anticipates the number of troops could get as high as 7,000. >>> all right. we want to give you a live look outside here. and this is a shot from our emeryville camera facing west, looking toward san francisco. you do not see the city sky line in this shot but you can see right there, quite a bit of smoke in

this comes as secretary of defense james mattis today, visiting active duty troops posted outside of mcallen, texas, saying i am 100% nep we % confident we have troops necessary for the mission. joining me now with recoin recoy ron york. fox business contributor, great to have you with us byron. >> hello, lou. lou: this is a interesting time to say the least, but the recounts in florida make it seem as though time has stood still. the fact that palm beach county and broward county are issue here, to me is amazing. what in the world lead to this, and how in the world is it going to end. >> it started with a very agressest democratic effort to challenge the results, they were pretty definitive. what is going on now is mind boggling, i saw a reporter today tweet out a photo of work space at palm beach board of election, nothing of happening, tomorrow is deadline, they are doing nothing. i think there are important things to remember, last i checked. rick scott had a 12,000 vote lead, and desantis with a 3500 vote over gillum. -- 35,000 over gillum, there have been 26 statewide recounts

defense secretary james mattis says saudi arabia and the united arab emirates have seized an offensive around the. city of data earlier the u.n. special envoy met with the rebel leaders who've been fighting to hold on to the city. and the president has faced off with the supreme court chief justice in a dispute over the independence of america's judiciary john roberts. swearing trump into office after the president announced another judge rejected his asylum policy the british foreign secretary has warned of serious diplomatic consequences for the u.a.e. after it sentenced a brochure citizen to life in prison thirty one year old matthew hedges has been convicted of spying for the british government which he denies when and reports. thirty one year old matthew had his was arrested at dubai airport at the end of a two week research trip as part of his ph d. on the country's security policies last month a court in abu dhabi granted him conditional bail raising hopes he might soon be cleared of all charges but the sentence of life imprisonment is a massive blow to those expectations this o

so what does defense secretary mattis on the border today have to say about this so-called invasion? >>> plus -- he called himself a meth-smoking, pipe bomb-making alt-right, now thankfully under arrest after he terrified his own family about what he might do. did the u.s. just dodge another massacre? >>> welcome to "the lead," i'm jake tapper. breaking news in the politics lead in what aides are describing as a darker than normal cloud hovering over the oval office. a white house official saying if president trump, quote, he's pissed at damn near everyone. unquote. with democrats having recaptured the house and the mueller noose presumably tightening, few trump aides feel any sense of job security these days. the president confirming what many have speculated, he's looking to make major changes. the two at the top of his list, apparently, chief of staff john kelly and department of homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen. the president telling the daily caller he's looking at a lot of options as he contemplates his next purge but has not yet major a decision. this as cnn is lea

. >> secretary of state mike pompeo and secretary of defense james mattis toed the line on the importance of the saudi and u.s. relationship. pompeo saying there is no direct evidence that mohammed bin salman ordered the murder. >> we have no smoking gun that the crown prince was involved. not the intelligence community. no smoking gun. we have not changed that accountability for the murder is our expectation of everyone involved in the murder. accountability is our position. it has not changed at all. >> senate aides say white house nixed the answers because of the response to the murder. secretary pompeo had no answer when asked why she was not there. >> i was asked to be here. here i am. >> senators were frustrated. as your past role, you would be here on issues this sensitive. why isn't the cia director? >> i was asked to be here and i'm here. >> in the end, 14 annoyed republicans crossed the aisle to advance the resolution. >>> i, too, was asked to be here, and i am. nancy pelosi taking a giant step toward historic second turn as house speaker. democrats voting wednesday overwhelming

mattis about the threat from iran with regard to this entire situation. that is iran has been supporting the rebels in yemen. the u.s. must continue to provide defensedis to this threat. >> we'll get to yemen in a moment. rick, i want to drill down on what happened today in that hearing. you have mattis and pompeo saying there's no concrete proof. the only person in our intelligence apparatus to have listened to that recording of jamal khashoggi being murdered is gina haspel. why was she not there? >> she was obviously excluded because the cia has determined with high confidence he was involved. in my experience when the cia says they have high confidence in something, it's like saying i have high confidence that the sun will come out tomorrow. they always hedge their bets. the fact they said mbs was directly responsible is really kind of extraordinary. i think they were trying to excludes the cia director to excludes that evidence. >> is this a cover-up? >> it's kind of mushing things up. the administration has so kind of pledged their trough with mbs that they don't want any evidence that he's a bad guy at all. in fact, there's so much evidence th

defense secretary jim mattis met some of the six thousand troops present donald trump sent to the border before the midterm elections boards. it came off as carefully choreographed fellow soldiers tell you doing. one after the other soldiers walking the secretary of defense through this new temporary base secretary jim mattis often meets with the troops but it's pretty unusual for cameras to follow him every step of the way even into the laundry tent of the mist back filled up he was joined by the secretary of homeland security cures to nielsen both have reportedly fallen out of favor with the president and nielsen is rumored to be on her way out. donald trump consumes a lot of television he will have seen these two cabinet members bringing attention to an issue that he talked a lot about before the midterm election so as the care and look that is and assault on our country when he warned of an incoming invasion he was talking about several thousand asylum seekers currently walking through mexico many former top military officers have called the deployment a political stunt including gen

reports to congress and amplified by this administration, including most recently, secretary of defense mattis'sbriefing with the secretary of nato a few weeks ago. the response of the obama administration to the palpable violations of the treaty was to simply keep talking. now, we are at a point in terms of russian violations, where the president has decided that we are going to get out of the treaty. people have said, oh my goodness, can't you just try to bring the russians back into compliance? let's review the bidding on that diplomatically. the american position is the russians are in violation of the treaty. the russian position is they are not in violation of the treaty. let me ask you this. how do you bring the russians back into compliance when they don't think they are out of compliance to begin with? that's the reason the president made it unmistakably clear about 10 days ago that we are going to withdraw from the inf treaty, and i think that would be entirely justifiable if i didn't even have to mention the word, china. i could also mention words like iran and north korea. the reason

house very strong we heard that there was a closed door session in congress with general mattis the secretary of defense james mattis speaking to the u.s. congress behind closed doors urging them to not pass this resolution and we also understand that mike pompei o the secretary of state also addressed addressed members of the u.s. senate and urged them not to pass this resolution this is some of what my pompei zero said essentially arguing that somehow this resolution would actually hurt the conditions of those living in yemen. the suffering in yemen grieves me but if the united states of america was not involved in yemen it would be a hell of a lot worse now it's been widely reported that the united states prevented a resolution in the united nations that would have condemned the saudi attacks on yemen the resolution had support from the united kingdom among others and essentially would have called on saudi arabia to cease its activities that harm civilians however the united states worked behind the scenes to prevent it from becoming a resolution now there has been widespread opposition and condemnat

defense secretary james mattis says sal the and the united arab emirates have seats to the fence around yemen's city of how they their earlier the u.n. special envoy together met with the rebels who've been fighting to hold on to the city and survivors of record wildfires in the u.s. state of california bracing for a new threat from nature heavy rainfall forecasters are expecting as much as twenty centimeters of rain by friday in areas around town power dies at least eighty three people have been killed in the fall as well hundreds of others are missing. us troops on the southern border with mexico could be given permission to use lethal force if necessary to protect customs officials thousands of asylum seekers are gathering near the border and making their way from central america john heilemann reports from tijuana. cold and hungry after a day's travel to one on the mexican u.s. border around one thousand people arriving at the final base camp for a caravan of central americans they join about three thousand already here preparing for the final leg of their journey. my dream is to ar