jim mattis is one of the best commanders of his generation, hr mcmasters, the same. so it's an excellent team, but any national security team would struggle with the north korean problem and i think it's the singlemost dangerous problem that we've got. i was the secretary of state who tried to negotiate with the north koreans to get them to give up their nuclear weapons. that was jim kim jong-il, the father. he lived in aabounded parallel universe. i think that junior is unhinged and i think he's living-- when he says things like i can destroy the united states. i think i hope he doesn't believe that. he's also reckless, anybody who will reach into malaysia to kill his half brother, and by all reports, whose half brother was under chinese protection, so, he's reckless, he's probably a little unhinged and they've made a lot of progress in the last several years on their nuclear program. you see, useful nuclear weapons you have to have three elements, you have to have fuel and they've been harvesting plutonium and uranium for some time. then you have to have a bomb des

secretary of defense, jen jim mattis -- general jim mattis. for the annual australia-u.s. ministerial confrontations jmin. as aus it has been a principle forum for our bilateral consultations for about the past 30 years. and this ministerial meeting will be the first formal ministerial meeting with the new trump administration. it follows on from the very successful visit to us a dwrail by vice president pence -- australia by vice president pence, the prime minister's meeting with president trump in new york, and indeed there have been 13 ministerial visits to the united states since the inauguration, all high level, all targeted to mats that are will benefit the australian people. mr. speaker, -- matters that will benefit the australian people. mr. speaker, ausmin builds on the strong foundation of this long standing bilateral relationship built up over 100 years and formalized in 1951 with the signing of the treaty y my distinguished predecessor , the prime minister and u.s. secretary of state. mr. speaker, defense minister payne a wide range of matters of concern partic

jim mattis has said north korea is the biggest threat, is a massive threat that we're underestimating this is another example of america falling into full-on banana republic mode. here general mattis makes an accurate assessment about the threat posed by north korea with its ascending nuclear capabilities yet we do not have an assistant secretary of defense for asia, we do not yet have an assistant secretary of state for asia, what do we have? we have the worm. we have dennis rodman heading out there. this is just -- this is -- i never thought about the united states as a declining power. this is evidence we are really losing ground globally when we do have legitimate threats like the north koreans with their increasing nuclear capabilities and yet we don't put senior diplomats, we don't put senior defense department officials out there to deal with this. we take a retired basketball player who's a kim jong-un prop beganist. >> i'm not in the habit of defending trump but look at what professional diplomats and policymakers over the course of the last three administrations and they've

you can see the smoke and there's gunshots >> heather: defense secretary jim mattis announcing today that the u.s. will stay committed to its policy toward asia. he will discuss north korea and china. one u.s. officials traveling with mattis is speaking. >> there's a lot of concern in the region over the rising nort. there is concern china's rise in the assertive behavior. >> heather: let's bring in bob wells, former national security advisor to vice president dick cheney. thanks for joining us. when you listen to a wide array of experts, they say north korea will likely be able to strike the american homeland with a nuclear weapon before the end of president trump's first term. that's scary stuff. how do we stop them? >> it's very serious and i think the way you stop it is exactly what we're doing with the regard to the end of the strategic pause. the visit now with secretary mattis helps to reassure all the allies. we have five key alliances there which will be at the actual conference. their intent and what we are trying to do with the sanctions piece of it. we need to continue a s

cardinal pell says he looks forward to cleerlg his name. >> jim mattis says that the white house is warninga regarding a potential upcoming chemical weapons attack has worked at least for the time being. secretary mattis said yesterday "it appears they took the warning seriously. they didn't do it. he adds that the u.s. will continue to monitor sear yaes activity and wouldn't rule out assad launching another chemical weapons attack in the future. >>> president trump appears to be shifting his attention from health care to one of his key campaign issues. immigration. he met with family members who had lost loved ones to crimes committed by undocumented immigrants at the white house yesterday after criticizing the enforcement that existing measures and the media, president trump told the families that new immigration measures are currently being considered in congress. >>> well, the president at least partially turns his attention to immigration. time is ticking for senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. mcconnell is hoping to send a revised version of the health care bill to the congression

this may be a discussion as the secretary of defense, jim mattis heads to the hill. testifying in front of the senate where trump's proposed defense budget will be the topic of discussion. >> jeff sessions will be in focus this week. one would say after the huge focus on various testimonies last week, there's more economic data to focus on this week and the fed meeting, so we can hopefully transition away from the political headlines. approaching the top of the hour. the team is getting ready for "squawk box. joe kernen has a view of what's coming up from new york. >> hi, wilf, how are you >> i'm all right how about you? sounds like you're not all right? >> big weekend hot. finally got hot. i got a little air conditioning problem. it's all right trying to glean what i can from this tech wreck. you will see that term today we like to rhyme a lot of times. we'll use it if we can that was interesting on friday for people who said we have gone too far too fast they always pointed out what was leading us there's five stocks leading us it's not really f.a.n.g. anymore. goo

all this has defense secretary jim mattis told that we are losing the battle bear.s lieutenant colonel mitch utterback from a special forces officer in the u.s. army. thanks for joining us. i want to start with this. another unfortunate green and blue attack. afghan soldiers trying to help and wounded seven of them. how does they shake the resolve of our men and women on the ground there? >> right, it doesn't. it means you've got to watch your counterparts a little closer. we have duty positions called "the guardian" angels, troops dedicated to watching the afghans. that's never been a problem in iraq. i know our men and women over there are paying attention to this, but there's guns everywhere in an afghan could easily pick up a weapon leaning against the wall at a median and opened fire. they get to drop on us a little quicker than we can get the drop on them. hundreds of americans have been killed this way over the last several years. rick: is awful. senator john mccain, back to this troop surge, he says to me to strategy. is there one? what is the goal at this p

defense secretary jim mattis and secretary of state rex tillerson hosting their chinese counterpartse growing crisis. for months the white house has been lobbying china to exert more influence over the kim jong-un regime. >> at his rally last night in iowa, president trump praised china's president but also sent a message that he expects more from beijing. >> we've had a very good relationship with china in all fairness. and i do like president xi. i wish we would have a little more help with respect to north korea from china. [ applause ] but that doesn't seem to be working out. but i do like the president a lot. >> the meeting with top chinese officials comes just days after the death of otto warmbier, the american college student who spent 17 months in hard labor in korea after he was sent home in a coma. warmbier's funeral is today. matt rivers with more on the high-level meetings and where the two countries go from here. good morning. >> reporter: this is the first series of dialogue after president trump and xi met at mar-a-lago earlier this year. at the meeting, the secretarie

of its kind forum essentially having the secretary of state rex tillerson, secretary of defense jim mattiseeting here in washington at the state department with their counterparts from china. that white house official telling me at the top of the agenda, north korea. trying to have china exert some influence over the many problems that involved with that country. tillerson afterwards at a news conference saying u.s. and china both agree that the north koreans need to halt their nuclear weapons programs and their ballistic missile tests. >> china understanding that the united states regards north korea as our top security threat. we reiterated to china they have a diplomatic responsibility to exert much greater economic and diplomatic pressure on the regime. reporter: the trump administration and president himself made a point to establish relationships, working relationship with the chinese and top chinese officials. however on the eve of this meeting the president sent out a tweet yesterday that questioned china's ability to deliver on north korea. the president tweeted out, while i great

he doesn't have a special relationship with defense secretary jim mattis. this is jim mattis' pentagon that advised and directed the shootdown of the syrian airplane. what i think is interesting is the potential divide between donald trump, the president, and donald trump the franchise, with various people who run his national security apparatus that clearly are not in line with a potential pro with russia right now. >> is there an investigation of the president or not? his laer says there's not. the president tweets that we all interpret that he ys tre is. >> mueller, of course, is and will be investigating the issue of obstruction. it would be a dereliction of duty if he did not. there's enough facts on the table that -- and there's enough unanswered questions here that he has to interview everybody, fbi agents, and prosecutors, interview all the relevant witnesses. that's not just comey, but it's also mike rogers, the head of the nsa who got a phone call from the president. it's also dan coats, the director of national intelligence. and, you know, i thin

trump's defense secretary jim mattis vowed to defeat isis. >> we're going to take that caliphate downr the attacks that you've seen going on around the world that you all have reported on will that continue. >> reporter: now, this morning the threat level in london remains at severe. however, there is plans to go ahead with a vigil planned for 6 o'clock tonight near the london bridge. police also saying that they have identified the three attackers killed by police saturday but they are not releasing the names yet while the investigation continues and 11 of the 12 people arrested yesterday remain in custody. at the british embarks i'm melanie alnwick, fox5 local news. >> thanks very much. the london terror comes two weeks after the attack in manchester at the ariana grande concert. last night the pop star returned to man chester with a benefit concert with a whole bunch of friends. 50,000 people came out, pardon me, to see the one love manchester concert along with celebrities like katy perry miley cyrus coldplay a black eyed piece pharrell. the concert raised more than $2 million for

secretary of state rex tillerson and general jim mattis for the annual -- mr. speaker, this meeting will be the firstig formal meeting for the trumpadmi administration. the prime minister meeting with vice president trump in new yorn on there have been 13 visits to the united states since the inauguration, all high-level in all targeted to matters that will benefit this really people. mr. speaker, on the bills on the strong foundation of this long-standing lateral organization and formalized in 1951 with the signing of the s treaty, mr. speaker, defense minister and a will discuss with her u.s. counterpart a wide range of concern particularly security issues involving north korea and cooperation afghanistan, iraq and syria and how we work together on defeating isis on intelligenceor sharing for the benefit of our citizens. mr. speaker australia and the united states are like-mindednte and the commitment to defend the international rules -based order. we work together well and very closely in regional firms including aipac.mp i'm delighted to hear that b preside

my job, saying that he was glad i thatd to stay, saying he had heard great things about me from jim mattis, jeff sessions, and many others. he then said i need loyalty. i replied he will always get honesty from me. as i wrote in the memo i created immediately after the dinner, he might have understood the phrase differently,ty" but i decided not to push it further. it had helped and an awkward conversation and my excavations had made clear what he should expect." romney, democrat, good morning to you. before we hear from you, i want to show our viewers stationed outside of mr. comey's home this morning, hoping to get the former director as he makes his way from mclean, virginia, to the capitol hill here in washington. as we get side of him, we will show you that as well. of him, we will show you that as well. what do you want to hear from this director? caller: hi, i want to hear from the from -- from the former director comey in detail what he believed that mr. trump was trying to get at when he told him i want loyalty, and he drop the flynn case. i believe comey will be telling the truth

this came after he met with rex tolerson and jim mattis discuss the conflict.e tillerson might play is complicated by conflicting messages, including trump tweets in which he seemed to back saudi arabia over qatar. tom material costs continue rise. conservative -- consumer prices rised, matching forecasts. the u.s. energy secretary has dismissed criticism of donald trump's decision to pull out of the paris climate accord as political. he spoke exclusively to bloomberg in beijing. >> they are wrong, because i think they are coming at it from the political side rather than the reality side. i look at it from the reality side. we are going to continue to be leaders in clean energy. that is going to happen. popular issue of, oh somehow you don't care about the environment, that is political rhetoric. shery: global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. you can find more stories on the .loomberg at top manus we have a hung parliament on our hands. anna edwards is outside the palace of westminster. yo

jim mattis has said the goal of these extra troops going to afghanistan is to reduce the threat to the afghan government and to a zero level. in jerusalem connor powell fox news. >>> the stronger holds of isis in the city of mosul. the group captured mosul in their trip across northern and central iraq in the summer of 2014. iraq launched a massive operation to retake the city last october. and they have driven the militants from all, but a handful of neighborhoods. united nations workers say as many as 150,000 civilians are trapped in the old city area of mosul where militants are using them as human shields. >> well iran's revolutionary guard says they have launched missile strikes aimed at eastern syria. in retaliation for recent islamic state claimed attacks on teheran. the website says those strikes involve medium-range missiles with no official confirmation from syria. those attacks have taken place. five islamic state attackers stormed their parliament and a shrine to the leader of the iranian revolution this month killing at least 17 people and wounding more than 50. >>> well t

. >>> in other news this morning, defense secretary jim mattis is calling north korea a clear and present disabling to the world. the pentagon chief made that comment today at a global security conference in singapore. at the meeting, mattis called for international cooperation to denuclearize north korea. he also said he believes ultimately china will see the north as a liability. >>> staying overseas, police in the philippines are questioning a taxi driver who may be able to fill in the final moments before an attack that killed 36 people at a casino complex. the driver took the suspect to the casino. investigators are now focusing on figuring out the suspect's identity and background. he killed himself after the attack. isis claimed responsibility, but police believe it was a robbery gone wrong. >>> prince william offered his gratitude to the emergency responders who helped after the deadly bombing at the ariana grande concert in manchester. the bombing killed 22 people and injured dozens of others. prince william visited with officers yesterday and then visited a hospital and spoke wi

jim mattis could make the announcement as early as next week. >>> president trump is planning a new crackdown on cuba. tomorrow he's set to make a new policy change to stop the flow of cash to cuba's military. traveling could become harder as a result. >>> silicon valley is soaring to new heights. len ramirez is at san jose international which just hit another major milestone. >> reporter: that's right. 1million passengers in a month and traffic tonight is still pretty busy. by the time it's all said and done tonight, airport officials say there will have been more traffic through this airport today than the day before thanksgiving last year, one of the busiest travel days traditionally and airport officials say the summer flying season is off to a flying start. fast motion video shows in hyper speed what frequent flyers out of ma net a san jose international -- manetta san jose international have been experiencing for months. >> there is a dramatic increase in traffic. >> reporter: for years it was slow growth coming out of the recession, but the last few months have seen double digit growth

the heels of the president's decision to hand over decision making authority to defense secretary jim mattis to set troop levels there in the country meanwhile the decision to start criticism from some including former principal deputy assistant secretary of defense who wrote quote war without oversight is war without end congress must reopen the debate on the. this will mark the largest deployment of troops under the truck presidency of us far. the u.s. government has acknowledged just twenty percent of airstrikes it's carried out over the past fifteen years in pakistan somalia and yemen that's according to a new study released just this week by columbia law school and the sanaa center for strategic studies argue some tells us the impact that the report says it has had on the families of all those killed. since the september eleventh attacks on american soil back in two thousand and one the u.s. government has increasingly turned to covert targeted drone strikes and its counterterrorism operations before from the traditional battlefield three countries have been targeted with little recogni

you know, the part that is so, i think, damning was spoken by jim mattis, the defense secretary, recently. he was asked what worries him the most. he didn't say any military enemy, he said it was the divisions among us as americans, the failure to talk, to listen, to be able to come to compromise and some solution. he said we can't go on like this because what we fight for in the military are american principles and values, and yet those are shattered. chris: president trump made several appeals this week for unity. here was his weekly address. >> though we have our differences, what unites us is so much stronger; our love of our country, our devotion to its people. now more than ever these values must guide us and bring us closer together. chris: julie, do they feel any responsibility in the white house? do you hear any talk about that for this division? obviously, it didn't start with donald trump, but i think as brit would say, a number of people would feel that he has added to it. and is there any sign that the president, for all of that talk, intends to dial back his rhetoric? >> wel

." >>> defense secretary jim mattis says the syrian government appears to have taken american warningabut chemical weapons seriously. mattis told reporters there has been no chemical attack since the white house warned a heavy price would be paid if they're used again. meanwhile the fight against isis is intensifying. cbs news crew joined a group of american troops inside syria. holly williams is north of the isis stronghold. >> reporter: officially there are 500 u.s. troops here in syria for the fight against isis. the real number is thought to be much higher. and yesterday, we met some of them. just 12 miles north of raqqa. >> replacing a shattered bridge destroyed when isis fled the area two noneth months ago. when isis left they vowed to haunt this place for 70 years. perhaps what they meant are the deadly mines the extremists planted around the village. >> where isis had positions. >> captain bobby murray, based at north carolina said his team is working with the villagers to clear the area. >> they'll point them out as we go by. if we are going by, we see them. we will help disp

. >> it was interesting to hear from rex tillerson and jim mattis.y were speaking for chinese help when it came to north korea. we are trying to get clarity. thatard reports from seoul the north has made a surprising officer. the ambassador to india says pyongyang will halt weapons tests if the u.s. ends wargames with the south. speakss hard to know who for who and north korea. obviously the guy at the top speaks for everybody. but it is an open question. the american society is skeptical of north korean office. -- korean offers. the american side is of the belief that north korea tends to operate cyclically, that they will escalate, people will put pressure, then they will deescalate and ask for favors, etc. until we all get dizzy and fall down. that is where we have been for a while. maybe that is that cycle. i am seeing questioning from the koreans about the terms of this, and whether there will be any action. koreansi think this administras looking for action. words are very nice, but the opinions capitol hill lawmakers have been telling us is th

>> hallie jackson in washington. >>> jim mattis is sounding a new alarm over north korea.are now the most urgent threat to our national security. mattis said work on those systems has increased in pace and scope, despite new sanctions. in the meantime, former nba star, dennis rodman, arrived in north korea overnight. this is his fifth trip to that country. and president trump. rodman says he's on a mission to open a door and that president trump would be happy with what he's trying to accomplish. >>> and jury deliberations resuming at the assault trial. his defense team wrapping up their case with surprising speed. stephanie gosk is outside the courthouse in norristown, pennsylvania. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. everyone on pins and needles here waiting for the jury. a full day of jury deliberations. they're considering three charges of aggravated, indecent assault. and each one of the charges carries a maximum sentence of ten years. bill cosby, 79 years old and not in great health. a guilty verdict could mean he spends the rest of his life in prison. looking b

defense secretary jim mattis has not decided to increase troops in afghanistan, that is according to the pentagon. previous reports said that the u.s. is any more than enough troops there. mattis says that he doesn't have enough forces to help afghanistan's are made by the taliban. rod rosenstein now has lance to recuse himself -- plans to recuse himself from the russian investigation into meddling. news, 24 hours a day, 27 hundredmore than journalists and analysts in more than 27 countries, this is bloomberg. >> this is bloomberg technology, coming up, amazon globals -- gobbles up whole foods. we go over every angle of this stunning development, including the implications for .rick-and-mortar stores why the world's e-commerce giant's diving back into the space it has disrupted. shockwaves rippling across upon. why the competition should be concerned that amazon may have a plan in the pipeline. amazon upsets the grocery cart. agreed to by whole foods by $13.7 billion. new sent shares of both whole foods and amazon are trading higher on friday and then shockwaves of ross online and of

jim mattis, defense secretary. rich ellerson -- rex tillerson, secretary of state.an coats, nikki haley, ambassador to the human -- the u.n. gary cohn, economic advisor. that group sees the world the way i do, which is the u.s. has to lead. when the u.s. does not lead, that vacuum is filled by adversaries and we pay a price. that group believes in free trade. that group believes in climate change -- in sticking to our commitments on climate change and the risks posed by, change -- climate change. those are the two primary groups and then there are two others. both of those others have only one person in it. the third one is jared kushner. who has amazing influence with the president. i think he comes at things not from an ideological perspective, not from a perspective of what is in the best long-term interest of u.s. national security, but from a perspective of making sure my father-in-law does not make a mistake, making sure his legacy is not tarre d. i actually call him, interestingly, i call him the barack obama of the trump administration. he is risk-averse. he

secretary jim mattis is labeling the regime the most urgent threat to national security. this as nba hall of famer dennis rodman touches down in north korea overnight. kelly cobiella has more on that. kelly, good morning. >> reporter: carson, good morning to you. this just breaking -- secretary of state rex tillerson announcing that college student otto warmbier, held in north korea for over a year, has been released. the "washington post" reporting that he is in a coma, has been for the past year, and has been medically evacuated. the 22-year-old was sentenced to 15 years hard labor last year. now reportedly on his way home just hours after dennis rodman landed in pyongyang. basketball hall of famer dennis rodman arriving in pyongyang on his fifth trip to north korea. hours earlier telling reporters in beijing why he was going. >> have you spoken to president trump at all? >> i'm pretty sure he's happy with the fact that i'm here trying to accomplish something that we both need. >> what are you trying to accomplish, sir? >> dialogue. >> trying to open a door. >> reporter

. >> this is why president trump picked jim mattis to be defense secretary in the first place.a lot of the establishment does not have much faith in donald trump but they do have faith in a guy like jim mattis and one of the only victories we have seen politically domestically that sort of unified all sides from the administration was when donald trump decided to enforce barack obama's red line and do it with absolute ferocity. so i agree with chris. i would imagine this is definitely a stark warning to russia and iran. >> bill: you think about the theater of operations in syria now, wow. between assad forces and russia, the united states, isis, anti-isis forces, iran. it is a dangerous combustible mix. >> we have in a certain sense the same sort of ingredients that europe had at the beginning of the first world war. this is a powder keg. there are a series of interlocking alliances between sunni states, gulf arab states and russia and iranians and the united states in the middle. given the tensions between tehran and riyadh it could go bad quick. >> bill: you talk about the so

pentagon says nothing is set in stone yet and the final decision will rest with defense secretary jim mattis before congress this week about where the war stands right now. lucas tomlinson is life. what is the pentagon exactly saying officially? >> officially the pentagon for saying no final decision has been made yet, but for months there has been reporting that three to 5,000 additional troops are expected to be deployed to afghanistan. this comes as president trump gave secretary c6b --dash congressional testimony, mattis were cutting trips to early reading to the setback. >> when we reduced our forces there, i believed in what was probably a hindsight of misguided application of our forces being restricted from using our air support with some idea that we would wean them off the need of it. in the mountain country, they were often fighting at a disadvantage. >> before leaving office, president obama ordered 1500 u.s. troops home to his increase of american farmers, forces come apart to that. >> kelly: how likely is this that this announcement will come next week? >> secretary mattis told

the decision by jim mattis seeks to address assertions by the top u.s.ommander that he doesn't have enough forces to help afgan's army against a taliban resurgeon si. >>> the president wants to stop u.s. money from going to cuban military and security services. the u.s. will maintain diplomatic relations but americans will travel to the island only on organized tours. more details expected when the president announces the revisions this afternoon in miami's little havana neighborhood where many cubans live. >>> mike pence is hiring a private lawyer to represent him. he hired attorney general richard collins. special counsel, robert mueller is investigating president trump for possible obstruction of justice. the president hired a private lawyer as well several weeks ago. >>> coming up on cbs3 "eyewitness news" an alert for families why hundreds of thousands of minivan are being recalled. >>> they can get airline passengers through security lines faster. we'll show you what's special about the baggage scanners and the two cities where they're being tested

we also met with secretary of defense jim mattis, who was one of the keynotes at the overall conference. i will tell thaw china's aggressive actions in the south china sea and the east china sea has created a great deal of instability in the region. and china's lagging willingness to engage actively on pushing back against north korea's destabilizing nuclear weapons program is raising a real question. so op the one hand you've got china, not taking a rules-base aid approach to the international order. not respecting a ruling that said that their claims for exclusive economic zones, their building islands by dredging and taking remote rocks or coral reefs that they claim and turning them into military bases, that's been ruled illegal in an international court ruling. but the real is asking where are we. what are we doing to push back on that? and unfortunately much like the league of nations, there is a table that we built and there is a chair at the table that's empty and we're not in it. and that's the united nations convention on the law of the sea. as a member of the foreign relation

. >> reporter: and while rodman has called kim jong-un a friend for life, secretary of defense jim mattis is now calling north korea the most urgent and dangerous threat to peace and security facing the u.s. test firing missiles, testing the international community and holding americans prisoner. the former basketball star denying he's been hired to help free >> that's not my focus right now. >> no mention of rodman in a statement from the state department. he's due back in the u.s. by this evening. the state department is working to secure the release of three other americans held in north korea. kelly cobiella, nbc news, london. >>> developing this morning, we are working to learn what led up to a deadly shooting in the district. d.c. police say someone shot and killed a man on parkland place in southeast last night. they didn't give us the man's name. police said they have not arrested anyone so far. >>> neighbors called her the best mom and this morning those neighbors in vienna are holding a fund-raiser for sabine na titus who was killed in a murder-suicide. ralph titus strapped his

elizabeth: giving jim mattis several additional troops to work.n troops were engaged in our nations on this conflict. the brave men and women returning home and need help now more than ever. the process for returning can take anywhere from nine months to almost two years. where you're sending housing and transitional options for themselves and their families. the troops first foundation just completed a transitional housing program located not far from walter reid and they are doing just that. >> that kerry doesn't end when you leave the hospital. elizabeth: survive the unthinkable. he threw a live grenade away from wounded comrades as they came under attack during a raid in afghanistan. it was his seventh tour. sergeant leroy petry reenlisted but not after a long road to recovery suffered the loss of his hand in severe damage to both of his legs. it taught him the rehabilitation journey needs special attention. >> the work is amazing and it's great for the spouse, the children, everyone involved. you have neighbors who can rely on and trust. >> s

defense secretary jim mattis has not decided to increase troops in afghanistan, that is according tohe pentagon. previous reports said that the u.s. was sending 4000 more american troops there. mattis says that he doesn't have enough forces to help afghanistan's army fight the taliban. rod rosenstein now has plans to recuse himself from the russian investigation into meddling. it comes a day after president trump tweet targeting him. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm alisa parenti. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: i'm emily chang and this is "bloomberg technology." coming up, amazon gobbles up whole foods. we go over every angle of this stunning development, including the implications for brick-and-mortar stores. why the world's e-commerce giant's diving back into the space it has disrupted. plus, the shockwaves rippling across the pond. why the competition should be concerned that amazon may have a plan in the pipeline to expand its european footprint. amazon upsets the grocery cart. company agreed to buy whole

jim mattis, the secretary of defense, says frequently, i think he has been quoted as saying this.one of the issues that concerns him the most, obviously there is north korea and isis and iran, etc. but one of the things that concerns him as an american is we have stopped liking each other. that one part of the country has come to loath another part of the country. i have her to another people say we are drifting toward divorce. there are people who no longer have friends or acquaintances on the other side. with respectpeople to those who supported president trump in the election believe everything has failed them and nobody is listening to them, and that they don't know what to do. >> i think this is one of the little secrets about the durability of the donald trump's support. the secret is i think there are a lot of people who voted for him who look at this administration and do understand analytically it is dysfunctional, that he is not delivering on the things he said he would deliver. but that feeling is outweighed by a feeling of loathing and repulsion for his critics. in oth

jim mattis the defense, rex tillerson the secretary of state, mike pompeo of the cia. >> you include mike pompeo in there? >> yes i do. gary cohn, nikki haley, the ambassador to the u.n.. that group, they see the world the way that i do, which says that the u.s. needs to lead. and when they do not eat meat less when they do not lead, the vacuum is sealed by our allies. that group believes in free trade, and climate trade -- climate change and sticking to our agreement on climate change. those are the two primary groups, and then there are two others. both of those others have only one person in it. the third one is jared kushner, who has amazing influence on the president, and i think he comes at things not from an ideological perspective, not from my perspective of what is in the interest of national security, but from a person active of making sure that my father in law does not make a mistake. making sure that his legacy is not tarnished. i actually call him, interestingly, i call him the barack obama of the trump administration. >> why? >> he is risk adverse -- risk averse, he as

hissing] uh- i- [sound of wrench] [intricate guitar riff] [engine starts] [guitar continues] >> jim mattis and rex tillerson sitting down with top chinese military officials figuring out ways to ratchet up tension on north korea. this comes a day after trump shaming china for not stopping north korea. there's no activity at north korea's test site for nuclear weapons. they tested five times. do we wait for them to test another one or do something preempti preemptively? >> i don't know. but this open twitter diplomacy that we're getting from donald trump is the one of the most appealing from president trump. he has a fine way of putting a point on things. clearly the area of strategic patience is definitely over. that's a good thing. >> cat, what do you think? just to give the people a perspective. in 2006 under bush, that first test was less than one kilo ton. under obama, it went all the way up to 10 kilo tons. we don't know what they have planned under the ground there. >> no. but we need to do all we can focusing on beefing of missile defense. you don't want to be the country responsibl

on a trip last week, officials traveling with traveling with defense secretary jim mattis seemed to indicatethe deal was complete. >> we've been consulting with the government throughout the process. to get the entire battery to the korean peninsula which includes six launchers. >> pentagon taking a wait and see attitude but some see it as a challenge for president trump's north korea policy at a time of uncertainty on the korean peninsula when they would prefer to present a united front. >> bret: news about the pentagon's ability to defend the homeland against an incoming missile. >> pentagon officials say this is the equivalent of getting upgraded to a triple a+ rating and comes in the wake of the successful missile defense test at the air force base in california. fox news has obtained a memo sent june six to the defense secretary which says that the u.s. missile defense agency is now for the first time capable of defending theo's homeland. the memo was written by the independent operational test and evaluation director. >> bret: jennifer griffin live the pentagon. thank you. terrorism ha

jim mattis telling lawmakers the president has given him the power to decide troop levels in afghanistan. u.s. officials said they could send up to 5,000 more troops. secretary mattis says he's not decided. he says the u.s. not winning in afghanistan. america's longest war. police in london say 12 people are dead after a massive fire engulfs an apartment tower. crews still searching for victims. the fire broke out around midnight. witnesses say they saw people throwing kids out of windows to try to save them. the news continues with bill hemmer after this. termites, feasting on homes 24/7. we're on the move. roger. hey rick, all good? oh yeah, we're good. we're good. termites never stop trying to get in, we never stop working to keep them out. terminix. defenders of home. >> congressman scalise is a friend and a very good friend. he's a patriot. he's a fighter. he will recover from this assault, and steve, i want you to know, that you have the prayers not only of the entire city behind you but of an entire nation and frankly the entire world. >> bill: that from earlier today. we're going

wonder if donald trump could find the civilian equivalent of jim mattis, who has the gravitas to change president's mind and tell him no. he needs to find somebody like that. because history is littered with the wreckage of presidencies that tried to govern this way, including jerry ford's. >> back to your first question, what makes a good chief of staff ? i completely agree with john. the role of them chief of staff will vary drastically from president of president. see two be hard to presidents more different in the delegation process then-president reagan and president carter. one wanted to assimilate, absorb in his own mind and his own way, vast and of information. i knew that about him. criterion for the chief and the president is, mutual trust. they know each other, know the minds of each other, and they trust each other. , i wouldhief of staff say it is important for him to admire and respect the president, as not just a leader, which he clearly is, by role and the definition, but a moral leader. conversely, the president needs to know that is chief of staff is not there, self-se

jim mattis offered this assessment. >> are not not winning in afghanistan right now, and we will correctoon as possible. >> mattis setting will present a new plan for afghanistan in mid-july. his predecessor had the following morning. >> we have to worry about the safe haven in pakistan in which terrorists go back and forth across the border at will. and are able to attack in afghanistan and retreat to pakistan. that has to end. has to be stopped. >> in february, the top u.s. commander in afghanistan told congress he needed a few thousand more troops after then president obama ordered roughly 1500 u.s. troops out of afghanistan at the end of december. in an effort to end the war. >> we skipped a step where you are supposed to be able to have a few dozen teams of advisors in the field with key afghan units to help them improve, call in air strikes and so forth. in a sense, what i see this decision by president trump is potentially doing is repairing one of the holes in the obama strategy. >> officials say the new strategy in afghanistan will look like the current fight against isis in ira

the defence secretary, jim mattis, signed the deal on wednesday.s own security and also support the us in operations against violent it's interesting that qatar have been hitting back pretty hard against isolation. saying that they we re against isolation. saying that they were the ones to allow the americans to keep a base there after saudi arabia kicked to the americans out. actually, the cat ambassador said that the attackers from 911, none of them were from qatar. the actual arms deal was in place during the 0bama administration. this is not a trump innovation but he has not blocked it. one week, he says it is a country that funds terrorism and the next week they announced a huge arms deal. there appears to be some confusion in the administration about how to treat qatar at the moment. we've had a lot of tragic stories. we wanted to bring you something else. well, i've seen some impressive trump impersonators on saturday night live, christian, but i'm not sure i was expecting the australian prime minister malcolm turnbull to try his hand at it

. >> heather: secretary of defense, jim mattis on capitol hill looking for money.mes dunford are testifying before the armed services committee. secretary matus says the military is not ready to fight. and he blames congress. the >> i retired from military service three months before sequestration took effect. four years later, i returned to the department and i've been shocked by what i've seen about our readiness to fight. >> heather: jennifer griffin is life force from the panic on with more. >> defense secretary mattis and dunford testified for 4 hours. they are back at it this morning. many of the questions today focus on russia's interference in the election. mattis responded to a quote from today's bloomberg report that russian hackers entered databases and 39 states. >> i think our organization right now is ill adapt into this domain. we have to do new things. i also assume in something like this that what you just outlined is not the whole problem, it's worse. >> max thornberry hopes to get the focus on readiness, giving a starch assessment of how budget c

the defense secretary jim mattis says the fact that there's been no new attacks since then shows to himseriously. the united states ambassador to the united nations, nikki haley said today, she believes the president's words save lives. >> by the president calling out assad, by us continuing to remind rush and iran as they continue to back assad, this is not something we're going to put up with. i'd like to thank the president saved many innocent men, women and children. >> shepard: white house officials said they saw ed that the syrian government may have been planning another attack. we don't know details. the syrian dictator bashar al-assad didn't seem concerned. he visited a russian air base. a clear signal that he continues to have support from the kremlin. the civil war does continue there. syrian forces dropping bombs on an islamic state held town today. activists say this bomb killed 15 people including children. they say the regime used cluster bombs which are illegal. jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. jennifer, to you. >> shepard, it appeared the assad regime got the m

defense secretary jim mattis is deciding whether to send up to 5,000 more u.s.s to afghanistan. many would be marines. >> mattis talked about u.s. forces in afghanistan, that will be in a broader strategist review. >> john mccain has expressed frustration in the delay. after 16 years of war. >> we are losing in afghanistan. we just had three americans killed in the last couple of days. this is not an academic exercise. >> secretary mattis, the rising number of insider attacks by afghan troops turning on their american partners is alarming. mattis said he will present a strategy in mid-july. john. >> john: thank you. some republicans are urging trump to spend a lot more on national defense. one of those people is liz indicating. she and her father, the former vice president are going public with their case. bret baier talks with liz cheney tonight. >> she is dean of the wyoming delegation. there is only one representative. >> is an honor to be here. my first national interview. >> you wrote an op-ed with vice president dick cheney in which he warned about defense