while sarah sanders would not confirm that patrick shanahan will be nominated to replace james mattis, you want a permanent secretary of defense, not an acting. we have a permanent attorney general and soon to follow have a permanent secretary of defense. >> she was smiling when you asked the question. letting on a little bit there. john roberts live for us. thank you. let's see how lawmakers reacting to the president's budget proposal. mike emanuel live on capitol hill. mike? >> good afternoon. vermont senator bernie sanders is blasting it saying this is a budget for the military industrial complex for corporate ceos, wall street and the billionaire class. it's dead on arrival. we don't need billions for a wall that nobody wants. we need a budget for all of americans. much of the fight over the budget debate this spring will be over that border wall. the president wants $8.6 billion for it. the president's allies support that request but note that democrats are in the majority in the house. >> they don't want a border wall, they don't want border security. you know, they give lip ser

. >> james mattis is returning to the hoover institution at stanford university to take on the same role he had before he joined the trump administration. he will start on may 1st. he will join the public tank re write about domestic and international security policy. he believes he has an obligation to pass along lessons for the benefit of future generations. >>> former house speaker paul ryan joined the board of fox corporation the parent company of fox news. ryan retired from congress several months ago. his appointment to the fox board comes as the company is going through changes. in a deal set to close tomorrow, disney will acquire most of 21st century fox. >>> spring might be approaching but flu season is here to stay. a second wave hitting the u.s.. why your flu shot might not protect you. >>> this bird might look like a run-of-the-mill pigeon, but it is worth more than most people's homes. >>> >> coming upthe talk of the town and one north bay city how one man hopes to prove a point by displaying naked mannequins in his yard. . >>> tropical are heading to san francisco, getting

marine general james mattis said the jury was out on women serving in combat units but the departmente was trying to give it every opportunity to succeed. those critical of lifting the law say, that adding women to these units could hurt cohesion and prompt the core to lower standards. the marines new gender neutral qualifications address that. >> regardless on of your gender can you perform the basic requirements of the specialtity. that is all that changed. >> reporter: since the removal of the combat exclusion rule, has it been a success in. >> i think the point is now, it's available. and i have no doubt that you will see, you know, lieutenant colonel brody sitting in this chair in a few years. >> reporter: what would you like to see? >> more female coworkers. i want them to view us asthma reasons. and to see a female in the unit to not think of it. >> reporter: the marines jernder neutral standard >> dr. stanley: remember this: cannot change the laws of god. when he has visited you in some form of adversity and he brings you through that, that's like he has increased the strength

announce that he was pulling all troops out of syria such a shocking decision you remember that james mattis who was the defense secretary at the time resigned because he completely disagreed with it so yes that is why the united states is still keeping four hundred troops inside syria for the time being at least to calm but any regrowth of eisel thank you very much for that alan fischer live for us in washington we'll have more on this breaking news story out of the u.s. with the white house announcing that the final offensive against i saw in syria in the village of beigels is over do stay with us on al-jazeera coming up next here it's a thrice. the way they'll see in antarctica the size of an extraordinary bids to create the largest protected area on a. for this special episode of a prize we're going on board the greenpeace icebreaker optic sunrise following one of the biggest campaigns in the environmental movement is ations history witnessing the spectacular biodiversity and the many threats to life from climate change to add to fishing as a team of scientists photographers and ocean ex

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and second, i want to back up james mattis resigned because he thought the idea to pulling out of syriammediately was stupid, didn't he? shouldn't he come back and shouldn't trump resign? if it was that stupid of an idea. one way to think of it, relying on the federal reserve rather than on government buying stuff to try to drive a strong economic recovery in the early 2010s was an absolute disaster. on thursday morning, two of my colleagues are going to be at the brookings institution giving their paper on how much more successful recoveries were when countries let the government drive it rather than relying on central banks and lowering of interest rates to drive recovery. second, we have all been looking now at the oxycontin revelations and have all been thinking in a well-run society, the top executives of purdue pharmaceuticals would be in jail for life given how they responded to market incentives by trying to addict as many people as possible to oxycontin as fast as possible. a lot happened in the past in the past 20 years that has to make you say hmm. the world seems to working

later orys thereabouts, rex tillerson and james mattis are at a conference in australia.their astonishment, they saudis and a group of middle eastern countries to blockade qatar where america has a near base. an air base. they had no prior knowledge of this. tillersoson immediately knew the agreement, the saudis would never have done this without support from the white house, it came from jared. to -- hewanted was wanted to invade qatar. it was worse than that because he wanted the qataris resources, which is what -- what he could not get a hold of those, that is what leads him to round up six of the seven ruling branches of the saudi royal family later in november. it is all about money. rex tillerson such a jared --hner, how do notice that that were seven ruling houses and saudi arabia. the only branch that mbs has not rounded up is his own. statistically unlikely that they're not corrupted? jeer did not want to know and tillerson told him how dangerous this was. whatlly what jared did was mbs wanted him to do, which was fire rex tillerson. there is an ironic twist to t

james mattis, he knew nothing about any of this.ed kushner controlled the relationship behind this blockade that he had given the green light. from the white house. >> hold on, how do you know how they would know that and two, why would kushner want to do that? >> the theme of the book is that the middle east is a casino in which jared kushner runs around for his private financial interests. hear me out, what they didn't know back then is that at the end of april, charles kushner, jared's father desperately needing investment into a money pit in new york, 666 fifth avenue meets with the qatari finance minister. i have spoken to someone in the meeting. they turned them down because it was a bad investment. jared kushner, and here's the breaking news chris, went before the saudi summit and he reamed the qataris. reamed them for not doing a private business deal. the next thing is they're made to feel very unwelcome at that summit. in saudi arabia. the day of the blockade have very strong sources saying the troops were on the border. >

secretary of defense, james mattis, last year, saying they were going to scale it down.l is also questionable. the fact that this happens just after the u.s. president donald trump walked away from that meeting in hanoi with kim jong-un, without any kind of agreement. it is being seen as a concession by the united states, but we know that mr. trump does not like these military exercises. he said just last thursday in hanoi that they are very expensive. so he doesn't believe that they are necessary. >> curious to get a sense from people there in south korea, because these drills are meant to show defense against north korea. what are people thinking about a new scaled down approach? >> well, i think that the general feeling is not really very forceful here in seoul. i don't think many people would be too concerned about it. from a military point of view, i've covered these drills for many years and every time you speak to the commanders that are carrying them out, they say how important they are to make sure that these two allies can fight side by side in a very successfu

he ordered an immediate withdrawal of the 2,000 stereotypes which led to james mattis' resignation.s in syria and recent reporting indicates more than 1,000 u.s. troops could remain many as a troops can remain there. that does not mean that isis is no longer a threat, despite losing territory isis has started regrouping in iraq and the ideology remains potent in the middle east in addition to gaining influence now in africa. >>> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's visit to washington being cut short before it begins. he was set to meet with the president later on today. however, he is instead headed back to israel after his meeting with the president today after a rocket hit a house in tel aviv. this came days after the president is now recognizing the territory over the golan heights. this comes less than a month after the attorney general announced he intends to indict the prime minister on a host of corruption, bribery and fraud charges and ahead of the elections on april 9th. >> and now the president renewed the attacks of democrat support of jews on friday, although not

after they started claiming them our former defense secretary general james mattis accused them of intimidation and coerce. china got what they want so hard line trade negotiators have said over and over again they don't want to be taken for a ride by china like the obama administration, the bush administration and the clinton administration were. the hard-liners have the upper hand, people especially after today's statement from the federal reserve that inflation is negligible and it's not too hot, not too cold if the tariffss are hurting commerce this this country but they're not having that much of a negative impact empirically. now, the problem here is that the stock market is eager for a trade deal and wall street wants everything back to normal even if normal wasn't that gait for us without one it's a lot harder to own a whole host of international industrial stocks as i've said to you many times and i think we are a long way from a big deal. because our two governments are totally at cross purposes. the chinese are talking about buying more soybeans and trump is trying to prevent the the

obviously, the resignation of his defense secretary james mattis. this was planned.his was planned. it's something he's wanted to do that netanyahu influenced him on very strongly and pressed very hard in a couple of days here with secretary of state pompeo for. so they were considering it, obviously, but i think the closing of the deal certainly in conversations with pompeo and netanyahu here and then rolling out that announcement. there was some idea it would to be done, in fact, in the u.s. next week when netanyahu goes to the white house and invited for a visit basically which is a celebration and almost a campaign event for the israeli prime minister who has been fighting a very tough contest for re-election. the election is now only three weeks away. >> we heard the president speak about netanyahu's tough re-election ahead. he said no. talk quickly about the significance of the secretary of state visiting the western wall when he did. >> reporter: that was significant, because the president has been there, vice president pence has been there, i was with him on

because you have the president with his foreign policy in essence pushing out people like james mattiss former defense secretary, who disagreed with the president's removal of troops from syria and afghanistan, and you have a president who is really out on a limb conducting foreign policy, running a personality-driven foreign policy off of his gut instinct, and at times encourages his own engagement with autocrats like kim jong-un, a murderous dictator. crown prince salman in saudi arabia, who has been implicated in the death of "washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi, erdogan in turkey and so many others, the president has embraced politically and diplomatically in a way that no other american leader has in decades. >> is there a 30-second summation of the effect of the departure of a general mattis from the kind of counsel of adults around this president? >> general mattis had a reputation of mad dog with the president. he was seen as someone seasoned and a military presence. the people around the president now have big personalities. ambassador bolton and secretary of state pomp

rod rosenstein, adam schiff, mazie hirono, gavin newsom, stacey abrams, james mattis, chuck schumer, hillary clinton, and of course, house democrats, some of whom the president says hate our country. he says that's very, very sad. so, plenty for everyone to talk about, plenty of things for everybody to talk about. but look, that was red meat, raw meat to a salivating base. they ate it up down there at cpac. >> they did. a lot of standing ovations and shouts and hollering. thank you, mike viqueira. we'll see you later today. kevin cirilli is with bloomberg news and david levinthal is reporter for the center for public integrity. guys, let's get right into this here, the president's address to cpac. kevin, you first. how do you describe this speech? what do you think was the motivation behind it? >> look, i think we always say this in the media as almost a cliche, but i was thinking about it coming in here. this was without question the start of the 2020 presidential campaign cycle, that off-the-record, off-the-cusp style is something that, quite frankly, when you talk to aides connect

our troops out of syria, conceding crucial ground to vladimir putin, the same policy that caused james mattisotest. keep in mind that while he always pushed for withdrawing from afghanistan, private citizen trump repeatedly blasted president obama's weakness and withdraw time tables, all things trump appears to be engaging in now. almost eight between years in war, more than a trillion dollars spent, the taliban is stronger and controls more territory than at any point since the conflict began. the lot of ground isn't just happening over there. the foundation that's helping with the first responders is about to rouchbt money. and first responders are dying faster than ever before and the senate can't make the fund permanent. john stu stewart has remained committed to this. he's been to capitol hill receiver times already on this issue and can't believe he's back again. >> this is nonsense. you guys know it, i know it, this is theater. we're all down here today, there's no reason to have dra d dragged these people down here. there's no reason to have to have these conversations. it's bull [ bl

in september, former secretary of defense, marine general james mattis, said "the jury was still outy to succeeds." those critical of lifting the law say adding women to the units could hurd cohesion and prompt -- could hurt cohesion and prompt the corps to change standards. others say the gender equ qualifications -- >> can you perform the specialty? it's adding that piece. >> reporter: since the removal of the combat exclusion rule, has this been a success? >> for the first time in the marines it has been. while the numbers are small, i think the point is now it's available. i have no doubt that you'll see lieutenant colonel brody sitting in this chair a few years from now. >> reporter: what do you hope for the future of the marine >>mes? i'd like some more female co-workers. i want them to be viewed as marines and for there to be a female in a unit, for no one to think twice about it. >> the marines' general-neutral standards were developed after a nine-month-long experiment where men and women were measured side by side in combat simlations. as for the women we profiled, tough-as

and i think that rex tillerson, the former secretary of state, the former secretary of defense, james mattisl timing anchorlation of what was happening to kushner company's own finances. this requires really, really serious investigation. congress is beginning to look there. and i know from my reporting that robert mueller you know also got his arms around some of it and sent it out to other investigations. so the mueller report is not the end. it's the beginning. >> have you gotten a sense that the president blames jared? i mean if it was jared saying to him fire james comey, fire james comey, is the president blaming him for all that's transpired since? >> it goes in waves is what i say in the book. you know, the president absolutely -- was furious with jared for not filling out his security clearance forms properly and hated the negative attention it got. he was furious with jared and ivanka over the misuse of e-mails and what's app, the very thing that's come up in the news this week the oversight committee is now looking at because of course, that's what he went after hillary clinton fo

i served at first untd general james mattis. that's the policy we should have.the opposite. he's becoming best friends with our enemies and leaving our allies out to dry. >> we're going to get news this morning about more democrats possibly jumping into the race to run for president. your name has been mentioned. are you considering running in 2020? >> i am. i'm seriously looking at it. the first time that i really felt betrayed, abandoned by washington, really saw the consequences is when i was in iraq. as i've trfd the country, helpings they mazing people people, our economy is changing faster than it ever changed before. people are losing their jobs, not to immigrants but to robots. they're being automated out of existence and washington isn't doing anything to help. i don't think washington even understand these challenges. so we can do this, we wee can federal government this but it going to take someone who cannot own beat donald trump but with can and i thought the best way could i serve the country in 2002 was to join the marines. the best way i could se

we have mattie duppler and "wall street journal" editorial page editor james freeman.reat to have you both in the studio. i wait a minute necessarily surprised they went with no rate hikes but one for next year. that is long runway to say we may only raise rates one time. a lot of people were nervous about it. the market sole off yesterday. sold off this morning. what are you getting from that? >> i think the selloff was due more to the president's comments on chinese tariffs than powell. you're right the whole idea of patience from the fed is not necessarily unexpected but should probably take the uncertainty created by notion the fed might hike off the table. that is one of the major factors last year to all the market volatility. that is something we focused so heavily especially the end of the year. wouldn't be surprised to see no rate hikes until the end of the year. conversation was certainly interesting but the fed talks about growth. confident, but not maybe as confident as the administration. charles: no one is confident as the administration. >> they have a g

james comey in any way shape or form the closer to batten down the investigation into michael flynn and also as you well know. next question bottle field washington on al-jazeera. monch outages you. mattie has son jim bates discusses and dissects the big issues of our times and head to heads five years after the revolution focuses in ukraine will have a chance to offer a verdict on what's come see him. in a powerful new film residents of occupied east jerusalem show that to its own its past present and future. leaders will gather for the thirtieth arab league summit in tunisia join a school coverage and we examine the development of an unusual alliance between radical buddhist monks and the military in million mom. march on i'll just sierra. and come out santa maria with a look at the headlines for you on al-jazeera donald trump's been speaking to the very people who got him elected the largest annual gathering of conservatives in the united states the president attacked democrats over their plan to tackle climate change and dismissed their attempts to look into his personal finances they fight so hard on this which chant this phony deal that they put together this phony thing that now