jim mattis, the defense secretary that he wanted to assassinate assad and kill him and kill his people and mattis, said we'll get right on that. hangs up the phone and then tells a senior aide, no, no, no, we're not going to do any of that. that's ridiculous. we'll be much more measured. there are attempts by those serving the president from doing what he wants to do because they view it as so dangerous to the country. >> bob woodward released the audio last month after the book was completed in which he informed the president of his efforts through multiple aides to secure an interview with him. >> sorry we missed the opportunity to talk for the book. >> well, i just spoke with kellyanne. she asked me if i got a call. i never got a call. i never got a message. who did you ask about speaking to me? >> well, about six people. >> well, they don't tell me. >> senator -- i talked to kellyanne about it two and a half months ago. she came for lunch. >> well, it's too bad. i'm just hearing act it. i did hear from lindsey but i'm just hearing act it. we'll have a very inaccurate book and it's

quote, we're doing this in order to prevent world war iii, defense secretary jim mattis told him. after trump left the meeting, woodward recounts mattis was particularly exasperated and alarmed, telling close associates the president acted like and had the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader. tonight, secretary mattis has released a statement on woodward's new book that reads in part, and we wrote, the contemptuous words about the president attributed to me in woodward's book were never uttered by me or in my presence. he goes on to say, while i general and enjoy reading fiction, this is a uniquely washington brand of literature and his anonymous sources do not lend credibility. well, here with us tonight, former director of the cia, john brennan. we're happy to say he's also an msnbc senior national security and intelligence analyst. thank you for coming in. your reaction to just the story about bashar al assad and is general mattis one of the people you regard as a human guardrail around this administration? >> absolutely. i think it just underscores how fortune we all are t

i think it's different if it's jim mattis. i'm not suggesting it's jim mattis, someone at his level. or a staffer at the economic council. >> that's what we heard, mike, from some former clinton alumni. based on their experiences, it could be a lower level staffer at the nec. i do think that the "new york times" owes a responsibility to its leaders and owed a responsibility to its readers before publishing this anonymous letter to give us a better understanding of the level of this person. one of his top advisors, a cabinet level official. you know, a high-ranking official could be one of 1,000 people in the government. >> you wouldn't have had the piece in the paper. i'm sure, i'm sure the deal that was cut was, you have to protect me. whoever wrote it. whoever wrote it needs to step up and claim ownership here. i think the root of this piece that everyone is reading is in this one, two sentences. the root of the problem is, anybody who works with him first principles that guide his decisionmaking. this is the description of

while defense secretary jim mattis said the president had the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader. claims denied by both men. >> chief of staff, john kelly, aggressively pushed back. general mattis aggressively pushing back in the claims. >> reporter: woodward today stood by his reporting. >> they are not telling the truth. these people, these are political statements to protect their jobs. >> jon, as you reported, vice president pence saying he's willing to take a lie detector test to prove he didn't wherite that column. and sarah sanders talking about that today. >> reporter: yes, saying there's no plans for lie detectors. it doesn't appear that's going to happen. >> jon, thanks. >>> next to the dramatic moments at the u.s. open. the umpire calling a rare code violation on serena williams. many asking was it fair? would he have done the same against a male player? erielle reshef was at the match. >> reporter: new fallout tonight from those moments of fury at the u.s. open. >> you owe me an apology. i have never cheated in my life. >> reporter: serena williams unleashing on chair

again, jim mattis is reportedly on the outs. is a strategy here among the people who are in the administration to provide a check that congress just is not providing. >> yeah, indeed. another issue coming out of this book -- there is so much in here. but also the political risk of this bookmaking him out to be a phony to some of his own supporters. it is clear if there is anything he could do to turn them off. there was this issue during the campaign of hillary clinton calling trump supporters or saying that some of them will deplorable, that some of the people supporting him are deplorable. according to bob woodward, on page 216, trump told rob porter about jeff sessions, the attorney general of the united states. and this is going to be offensive. this is a term we don't use anymore. he said of him, this guy is mentally retarded. he's a dumb southerner. the idea that he talks that way, that he previously made fun of marla maples for being southern, makes fun of the accents, could that wind up rebounding on him? >> it certainly

after the president reportedly questioned the cost of theist being on the korean peninsula, jim mattisexasperated, mattis later told close associates the president had the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader. john kelly once reportedly complained the president is an idiot, saying it's pointless to try to convince him of anything. he's gone off the rails. we're in crazy town. i don't even know why any of us are here. this is the worst job i have ever had. woodward says others spend days trying to keep him from making mistakes, swiping papers off the president's desk, saying "got to protect the country." the president not holding back saying of his punching bag, jeff sessions, this guy is mentally retarded. he's this dumb southern. he couldn't even be a one-person country lawyer in alabama. >> we're going to have a very inaccurate book, and that's too bad. i don't blame you entirely. accurate is nobody's ever done a better job than i am doing as president. >> reporter: john kelly call e ok total.s. jim mattis says it's the product of someone's rich imagination. but bob woodward is s

jim mattis said they would get right on it, and then said no, we're not going to do that. just kill everyone. and although pa rt to just kill everyone. and although part of me does think that all of this stuff, as entertaining as it is to read, it is almost priced in. people expect it to be unconventional, controversial and chaotic. all it does is confirm those suspicions that it was chaos. it is interesting because the book by bob woodward is entitled fear, trump in the white house. it is so silly that it is funny, and some of this stuff seems pretty serious, actually. it does, and it is almost like water off a duck‘s back. he has had so many what one would assume very damaging quotes and things that have been attributed to him, where people have put the boot in, and none of it has had any impact at all on his home support. as you said, some of these allegations are really damaging. in another one,jim some of these allegations are really damaging. in another one, jim mattis was particularly exasperated, bob woodward wrote, telling associates that he had the attention span

woodward has said with these people he will never say i got this directly from jim mattis, from john kelly. the likelihood is he spoke to all of them. but he will never come out -- the reality is in many of these situations he's going to have that same quote knowing how bob works, he's going to have it from the speaker, from the person who heard, it from the people that -- other people in the room, other people they told about it. and memorialized perhaps in e-mails and notes of the conversation. he's never going to say who the source is. but because of the fact that woodward's been doing this for so long and because so many of his books have withstood the at kind of criticism that come in all administrations of deep background books, because his books have held up so well to scrutiny for so long he's in a position of extraordinary power and although there are white house officials coming out saying i didn't use this word, i didn't use that word, what they're not doing is quibbling with the gist of the reporting and in many cases some of the e people who are quibbling with the specif

i do believe that it is better to have jim mattis in place than into the. i'm not sure i believe that about very many other people, however. unless this is by jim mattis, which i do not believe, i think the person is very likely kidding him or herself that he or she is doing more good than harm by doing this anonymously, feeding the deep state narrative rather than writing this same op-ed as a letter of recommendation, a letter of resignation with a copy sent to the house judiciary committee, which is the body responsible for initiating impeachment proceedings. and one of the problems here is that nobody has been willing to be that little child who says, the emperor has no clothes, as the naked emperor walks by, or trots by on his horse. and everybody, all these people are, you know, behaving like he is resplendent in his gowns. somebody needs to say, no, this is nonsense, and be willing to say that child was not anonymous in that story. and somebody needs to be willing to put their name on this. >> ben wittes, ashley parker, brett stevens, zerlina maxwell,

jim mattis right in the heather: secretary of defense jim mattis in the love storms around the whiteosed spot on a secret mission. here's what we know about what the secretary is up to. >> reporter: a very violent and deadly week in afghanistan. insurgents kill 19 insurgents after twin bombings in kabul killed 21 people mostly civilians and injured 90 more. isis claimed responsibility and u.s. army sergeant was killed in an insider attack. the seventh overseas deployment, he was shot dead by the afghan police officer who came to afghanistan to train as part of his mission in the defense secretary sounded optimistic about where the war in afghanistan stands. >> more indications that reconciliation is no longer a shimmer out there. the framework with lines of communication. >> reporter: donald trump made it clear he wants to end the 17 year conflict, the longest in us history. according to bob woodward's new book his frustration with the stalemate in afghanistan boiled over, he reportedly asked mattis and other military leaders, quote, when will we start winning some wars? you should b

he praised jim kelly and jim mattis about the book. the author of the op-ed piece.kelly and jim mattis about the book. i'm not the author of the op-ed piece. it doesn't say bob woodward did something wrong. is toast the right word? >> privately i don't think it will satisfy the president. he knows just as well as the rest of us the cat is out of the bag. the book say damaging account and a statement you put out one day after or on the day of publication after everybody has been talking about it, it's unlike the premises of the book. i'm positive all of us who have been around him watched his tweets know he will point to this as an absolute denial and add it to the list. either on his desk or close by, summer in his head of people who denied the book in his mind and makes the case publicly that this is made up and dis-grundled people now saying they never said what they are voted as saying even though that's what they are saying. >> these statements are going first to ax yoes and making a point that many of us made and all the other new

come often gone off the rails and saying this is crazy town he reports that secretary of defense jim mattis basically compared the president's ability to understand to a fifth or sixth grade level and that he reports to gary cole once the president's chief economic adviser once took paperwork trade paperwork off the president's desk saying that he wouldn't remember and he was trying to protect the country you also reports that the president has had very nasty things to say about his top aides including attorney general jeff sessions according to woodward trump said that he was mentally retarded and he referred to him as this dumb southerner. their white house is pushing back on this releasing a statement saying that this is basically fake news and the president's come out and said that bob woodward has a credibility issue he really hasn't ever had a credibility issue and he has say today he stands by his story still the president's taking to twitter we've seen kelly matt is the transformer lawyers come out and flatly deny all of these allegations again the president saying that this is fake

bob, you describe jim mattis, among others, but jim mattis principally, as saying there is a big problemdonald trump. and this recurs through the book. describe what mattis and gary cohn see as the big problem. >> what is really important and has not been reported until this book that there was an alliance between the secretary of defense, james mattis, and gary cohn, the chief economic adviser. and they had lunch in the pentagon and said we've got to get the president in some environment off site, away from television, away from the chaos of the white house and give him an education about this old world order. so they call him over to the tank, which is the meeting place of the joint chiefs of staff. what mattis describes to the president is the great gift of the greatest generation to americans, and that is this rules based international order. you have trade. you have the security agreements like nato and the secret intelligence partnerships. and that's the old framework. you can't just ignore it and destroy it. and trump wants to do that. and you see everyone fighting him on it. and

defense secretary jim mattis is firing back tonight. former clinton advisor, and steve hilton, and chairman of the american conservative union, match lap. welcome to all of you. i want to read a little bit of what secretary mattis had to say about this today. he's at the contentious words about the president attribute it to me were never uttered by me or in my presence. while i enjoy reading fiction this is a washington brand of literature and his anonymous sources do not lend credibility. matt let's start with you. >> this is rather astounding. you have a four-star marine general, basically calling out bob woodward as i liar. and i like to see this type of pushback because of this book to be riddled with all types of people who are trying to kind of do payback on their time in the white house, may be disgruntled former employees. i like seeing the folks who are at the president side serving and really pushing a rather amazing agenda pushing back on a book that we all knew for decades how he does these books. he doesn't have actual quote

silence ] >>> that's a proud honoring military parade there really of family members, john kelly and jim mattis but also all the mccain -- two boys, jimmy and -- jack rather in his naval uniform, in the whites, and jimmy in the marine uniform and of course meghan behind them, all behind cindy who's the widow now. this is so military. it's the family tradition of the mccains to be military. three generations of high level naval officers before him, and mccain followed in those foot steps as this family is honoring it now. it's unusual in recent american history to have someone in politics this high up who has such a profound experience in the military. it's probably something we're going to miss in the years ahead. bill clinton was the first president after the post world war. we had 8 presidents in a row who were in uniform during world war ii one way or the other all the way up until jimmy carter and reagan. they were all in uniform during world war ii hostilities and we don't have that right now in our political culture at all. today it's certainly going to be honored. let me go to steve schm

member of the administration who has stayed out of the white house drama, that is defending is jim mattisduring a national security counsel meeting on the korean peninsula, woodward says trump asks, what do we get by maintaining the korean peninsula, why are we even friends with south korea, per woodward, mattis responded we are doing this to prevent world war iii, suggesting he was risking nuclear war. mattis' message was clear, stop bee-bee around with this. this isn't some business gamble if you happen to go bankrupt or whatever it's not a big deem. after that meeting mattis was particularly exaspirated and alarmed, telling close associates that the president acted like and had the understanding of quote a fifth or sixth grader." on the subject of another foreign crisis, syria, woodward writes after bashar al-assad used chemical weapons on his own people, trump called mattis and told him that he wanted to assassinate the leader, let's [ bleep ] kill him, kill a lot of them. yes, mattis responded and hung up and told a senior aide, quote, we're not going to do any of. that we're going t

jim mattis denied the things you reported and bob woodward said those denials simply aren't true.hat do you make of this? >> it's no surprise trump officials are falling all over themselves denying it. remember, mark felt denied he was deep throat until 30 years later when he admitted it. >> the fact is woodward has a long track record of 19 books and being an incredible reporter. there was a flap about a death bed confession by a cia director. other than that, he has a track record of credibility. i think the problem here, for the trump white house is, this is now the narrative. along with anonymous, the narrative of the white house is dangerous dysfunction and utter incompetence. instead of running around with their hair on fire, tweeting against woodward, what they should be doing is trying to construct another narrative, get a story out there and prove it is not true. >> let me go to shannon. we were talking about some of our reporting as it relates to this strategy inside the white house. as jeff bennet said, our team has been told, they are telling the president to simmer do

kelly supposedly calling the president an idiot a reportedly the defense secretary jim mattis says thatresident trump has the understanding of a fifth or 6th grader. both denied making those comments. the author bob woodward says no, they're not telling the truth. it's a he said, he said at this point and the i white house it's first briefing in weeks pushing back on both the book and trying to discredit the author and still trying to figure out who is the anonymous new york times author making similar claims. >> thank you. >> it's now 4:46. an accused russian secret agent muta in jail until her trial. the judge announced the decision yesterdayeste a new twist in the case. prosecutors admitted they misintpreted textmessages. that lead the government to say she offered sex in exchange for lavernment access. the judgeed the mistake during yesterday's hearing but again butina was sti ordered to stay in jail until the trial. >> they' now searching for a suspect that sete a f at a planned parenthood building. this is i earlythe morning. you can see a person right there. they're spraying ligh

one that has been bandied about, the defense position that jim mattis would go and your name came up.was asked about that position back in november of 2016. i told the president, i was not available and i gave him the reasons why. i have not been contacted by anybody and i have total confidence that jim mattis -- he and i have been talking back and forth. he wanted me to know what he's doing, et cetera. he has his head down and driving on. >> neil: a lot of things have changed for you since that time in 2016. does that mean that you're not entertaining it? >> i'm not entertaining anything. >> neil: okay. that went well. when it's out there, he takes it on. he's one of these shaking hands things. we have more coming up today, including president's visit to south and north carolina today promising a lot of aid for the region and committing a good deal of money to do that after this. >> our state took a bad punch and our people are still reeling. the trail was incredible... (laughing) until you kissed that tree stump. he was laid up in our apartment for weeks. by the time i was back at w

could you imagine if jim mattis came out and said, you know what, i did say that? we would be in absolute turmoil. so when bob woodward says that's a political statement, they have jobs. it's more than they need a paycheck. there's much more to it than that. there is the country at stake. so i do think that's what woodward is getting to. >> and the op-ed denials are interesting to me because you have folks, if you wrote an anonymous op-ed like this and would you then immediately say, oh, actually, i did do it when asked by the press? if you were willing to write such an op-ed and place it, hard to imagine now i received a press question so i'm going to fess up to it. >> i don't need to be anonymous anymore. sure, it was me. >> right, it was me. so it's hard to know, you know, how if any of the denials are disingenuous because you're not going to just say i did it. >> oh, and at and point, perhaps we'll look back on this and laugh at the fact it took us now six days to figure this out. mark and josh, always appreciate it. thank you. >>> coming up, an awkward mistake

of syrian president bashar al assad or that there had been talk of replacing defense secretary jim mattis. >> the book is a work of fiction. if you look back at woodward's past, he had the same problem with other presidents. he likes to get publicity, sell some books. the book is a work of fiction. it's a -- it really -- if you look at it, it was put out to interfere, in my opinion, at this time, with the kavanaugh hearings which i don't think it's done because so many people have come out against it. so many people who have been written about said i never said that. >> did you suggest the assassination of president assad? >> not at all. the book is fiction. i heard somewhere where they said the assassination of president assad by the president of the united states, never even discussed. the book is total fiction. >> report you're looking to replace secretary mattis, is that true? >> he just made the nicest quote about me i think i've ever had. the book is total fiction. he was totally -- not even misquoted, he never made the statement. he came out with the statement that honestly, you kn

and secretary of defense, jim mattis, said, in contem contem contem contem contemptous words were never attributed to me. >> who should we believe here? >> i found in 47 years of reporting, when people have denied things or challenged things, that then they will, in their own memoirs, come out and say, oh, yeah, by the way, that was true. >> woodward says he has audio tapes of most of the interviews. in fact, just last month, woodward recorded a conversation he had with the president himself. >> sorry we missed the opportunity to talk for the book. >> i never got a call. >> senator graham said he had talked to you about talking to me. now, is that not true? >> senator graham actually mentioned it quickly on one meeting, you know, that is -- that is true. >> that once cordial relationship -- >> you've always been fair, but we'll see what happens. >> has now clearly cured if i'm a trump supporter, i've seen now one, two, three, four negative books about the president. why wouldn't your book just wash over me as more noise? >> i think if anyone looks at it objectively and goes, gee, they'r

sale at midnight and bob woodward's standing behind his explosive claim that defense secretary jim mattis and white house chief of staff, john kelly, made disparaging remarks about president trump. the two white house officials have denied this. >> they are not telling the truth. my old boss at the washington post, ben bradlee, the great editor, use to say the truth emerges. sometimes it takes time. >> president donald trump has gone on twitter to blast woodward's book, calling it a joke and a scam, among other things. >>> the raiders are coming off a week one loss to the rams as they prepare to go to denver to face the broncos this weekend. a crowd of 55,000 fans packed to the to watch the raiders take on the rams in a nationally televised game. after missing a playoff last season, fans have high hopes for this year and with oakland planning the anti-trump lawsuit against the team, the las vegas bound raiders could leave after this season. >> it's about pride and a dedication that most fans don't understand. we are a family out here. >> many fans said they will cheer on the team no matte

. >>> defense secretary jim mattis arrived in kabul this morning to meet the new commander of nato troopsfghanistan. his visit comes amid a surge of violence in that country as we approach the 17th anniversary of the u.s. invasion. charlie d'agata is in kabul.r:h surge has arrived. attacks in 24 hours have left at least 40 dead. these are some of the security precautions you have to take when you're traveling anywhere in the capital. flak jacket, armored car. blasts have turned kabul into a fortress. the american university looks more like a maximum security prison with good reason. after clearing several security checks we finally arrive at the university that came under attack back in august of 2016. that's when taliban suspects went on a ten-hour rampage, killing 16 students, faculty, and police. student breshna musazai watched them blast their way onto the compound. >> i heard them running ilding. >> reporter: she couldn't run from the nmaua limp from childhood polio. >> when he shot me, i started to pretend because i thought this is the only thing i can do to save myself. after that

but it's just, let's do it, let's print money.cr robert: ary jim mattis in the defense department, chief of staff, john kelly, are they getting toot much cre for keeping president trump in line? because he still seems to be going his own way on every front. bob: that's a rea question.ting where's the credit? i think it happens at lots of levels. there are some people who've read the book who say you know,e hasn't started a war. which is quite true. he's talked about let's assassinate or let's go after, let's kill the syrian leader assad. he has -- someone was telling me today, hugh hewitt, said he wants t air-drop copies of the book to every embas in washington because this will tell you how he's working. it tel y a lot that's new but there is tysry of the trump personality which persists. robert: and the mystery of the republican party persists. dvisers andl these officials in the book trying to aing president trump in different direction. but where are the republican leaders? speaker ryan,eaajorityr mcconnell. they seem to barely figure in the effort to keep trump moving towardhe cente

the book describes defense secretary jim mattis as exasperated. after trump repeatedly questioned the cost of america's large military presence on the korean peninsula, woodward says, "mattis bluntly told the president, 'we're doing this in order to prevent world war iii.'" according to woodward, mattis later told close associates the president "had the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader." mattis denied using such contemptuous words, and the president today called woodward's book a piece of fiction. >> the book means nothing. it's a work of fiction. if you look back at woodward's past, he had the same problem with other presidents. he likes to get publicity, sell some books. >> the president reacting to that book, now reacting to this letter in "the new york times." let's go live to jon karl. and this was an extraordinary move by "the new york times" to publish this letter by someone they describe as a senior administration official, particularly because the person didn't sign their name, the writer remains anonymous tonight. i know our team

. >> somewhat difficult, because jim mattis is internationalist, he's a support are of american alliances. his belief system is completely different than donald trump's believe system. he's to serve the american people and be the adult in the room.sn l a the jokes as was pointed out in the "new york times." he doesn't do all the things that trump seems to like doing.e military, obviously he's a revered figure in the military that might keep the trump administration from moving against him too quickly. he might get fed up with the d dischord where constantly being surprised by white house announcements of policies that he disagrees with and leave. he could be the leading edge of exodus of senior administration officials post election. >> dickerson: we'll hold it there. much more, stick with us, more from the panel, we'll be right back. and an ice plant. but we brought power to the people- redefining what that meant from one era to the next. over 90 years later we continue to build as one of the nation's largest investors in infrastructure. we don't just help power the american dream. we're

jim mattis quoted saying the president's understanding is like a 5th or 6th grader.says he didn't say it. are they lying? >> they are not telling the truth. how there are rob porter the former staff secretary said there are often misleading portraits, but didn't deny any of the sources in the book. kat: books like this in general, i don't understand the point of them. as cathy said, they just reiterate what people already think. howie: woodward spent many months going behind the scenes. you don't think there is any value in a book like this? >> i understand the point of it, but i don't understand if he thinks it will change any minds here. anybody who thinks that trump is not a great guy looks at this as further evidence trump is not a great guy and the white house is in complete chaos. but people who support him say its anonymous, it's just more left-wing people trying to smear the president. howie: you might be right by the not changing minds, but it generated an enormous amount of media coverage. by attacking -- by attacking woodward, didn't donald trump give this

come often gone off the rails and saying this is crazy town he reports that secretary of defense jim mattis basically compared the president's ability to understand to a fifth or sixth grade level and that he reports to gary cole once the president's chief economic adviser once took paperwork trade paperwork off the president's desk saying that he wouldn't remember and he was trying to protect the country he also reports that the president has had very nasty things to say about his top aides including attorney general jeff sessions according to woodward trump said that he was mentally retarded and he referred to him as this dumb southerner. their white house is pushing back on this releasing a statement saying that this is basically fake news and the president's come out and said that bob woodward has a credibility issue he really hasn't ever had a credibility issue and he has said today he stands by his story still the president's taking to twitter we've seen kelly matt is the trump's former lawyers come out and flatly deny all of these allegations again the president saying that this is f

when it came to the crisis on the korean peninsula, woodward writes that defense secretary jim mattis told associates the president, quote, had the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader. in a new statement, secretary mattis denies saying those words adding while i generally enjoy reading fiction, this is a uniquely washington brand of literature. according to the book chief of staff john kelly once reportedly complained the president is an idiot saying it's pointless to try to convince him of anything. he's gone off the rails. we're in crazytown. i don't even know why any of us are here. this is the worst job i've ever had. this morning kelly denies calling the president an idiot and says this is another pathetic attempt to smear people close to president trump. woodward says some aides including former economic adviser gary cohn even stole sensitive papers off the president's desk to keep the president from making a mistake. cohl reportedly said, got to protect the country. according to the book, president trump said this about the embattled attorney general jeff sessions. this gu

questioned the cost of america's large military presence on the korean peninsula, defense secretary jim mattis bluntly told him, "we're doing this in order to prevent world war iii." exasperated, mattis later told close associates the president, quote, "had the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader." chief of staff john kelly once reportedly complained the president is "an idiot," saying, "it's pointless to try to convince him of anything. he's gone off the rails. fwhooer we're in crazytown. i dot job i'ird.g to prevent president trump from making catastrophic mistakes. former chief economic adviser gary cohn even swiping sensitive papers right off the oval office desk to keep the president from seeing them, saying, quote, "got to protect the country." the president not holding back either, saying of his favorite punching bag, embattled attorney general jeff sessions, "this guy is mentally retarded. he's this dumb southerner. he couldn't even be a one-person country lawyer down in alabama." in his phone call with the author, the president already bracing for the backlash to come. >> we're g

vice president pence and defensive attorney jim mattis .ed 9/11 remembrances the vice president laidh to those who dies. we keep faith with the innocent to perished. we take solace in their deaths were not in vain, for them passing, they empowered us forever with an enduring sense of purpose. mark: secretary mattis said hate will not prevail. global news 24 hours a day, on air and on tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. ♪ shery: live from new york. amanda: welcome to bloomberg markets. we are joined by our bloomberg and bien and bloomberg audiences. constructive conversation, canada's foreign minister says she is making progress in after negotiations. talks resume in d.c. this afternoon. the expansion high-end pays off -- the expansion plan pays off. gets. good as it why small businesses in the u.s. have never felt this confident. shery: a quick check of the major averages. highs.ocks near session the s&p 500 gaining .4%. related -- leading higher by telecom stocks. bank stocks leading the n

president within our department of defense so a fairly strong denial there from secretary of defense jim mattis we've seen other denials as well but if you go through this book and so far it's not released yet but just the excerpts that are out there from the washington post where bob woodward is an editor they seem fairly damning and along the lines of things we've heard from within this administration from other journalists and authors one report says a john kelly called the president an idiot basically were in crazy town he said this is the worst job he's ever had the book says that the president looked at his commerce secretary wilbur ross and basically said he was passed as prime very insulting to jeff sessions we know he's got a big problem with his attorney general he goes on twitter and talks about it almost every day it seems but apparently he called just that again harsh words not from me but like allegedly from the president he called him mentally retarded and a dumb southerner and medicine parent he said that the president has the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader but again m

defense secretary jim mattis made a stop in afghanistan today. the u.s.g to help the country reached a cease-fire and peace agreement with the taliban. the visit is days after a new u.s. commander took over as head of allied forces in america's longest war. global news 24 hours a day, on air and @tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am courtney donohoe. this is bloomberg. vonnie: thank you. this is bloomberg. ♪ it is time for our global battle of the charts. see these by running gtv go. a special jobs battle. joined by two economic reporters. chart is focused on missing millennial men. a huge history in the job market. men andtwo lines are the bottom two lines are women. 25-34-year-old women have been trending alongside what is happening with 35-44-year-old women. en, that used to be true. they traded alongside each other. -- since the recession, that trend has decoupled and millennial men are unemployed much more unemployed than the 35-44-year-old counterparts. i think it speaks to some sort

come off and gone off the rails and saying this is crazy town he reports that secretary of defense jim mattis basically compared the president's ability to understand to a fifth or sixth grade level and that he reports to gary coleman once the president's chief economic adviser once took paperwork trade paperwork off the president's desk saying that he wouldn't remember and he was trying to protect the country you also reports that the president has had very nasty things to say about his top aides including attorney general jeff sessions according to woodward trump said that he was mentally retarded and he referred to him as this dumb southerner. their white house is pushing back on this releasing a statement saying that this is basically fake news and the president's come out and said that bob woodward has a credibility issue he really hasn't ever had a credibility issue and he has said today he stands by his story still the president's taking to twitter we've seen kelly matt is the transformer lawyers come out and flatly deny all of these allegations again the president saying that this is

i read this long time ago, but there was recently told that this is jim mattis, secretary of defense favorite book and so it's me understand him a little bit after. i have a biography here from an older book out for a out for a long time but i never got a chance to read it. this is the 50th anniversary of the tragic death of senator robert kennedy. chris matthews has a new book out about senator kennedy. cadman know senator kennedy's grandson joe kennedy is a member of the house here and this is something i'm looking forward to. another book here a year of significance recommended again by the dynasty in china if you want to understand china, you need to understand the main dynasty. this book is on the temptations of power. another way to look into the mindset of that happening the middle east and what's happening within islam worldwide. this book was recommended to me it is a very interesting book called the sides and mr. freshwater mussels. we have the widest diversity in the world in my district in southwest alabama. this thing that you could probably throw like a rocket and hurt

telling associates the president acted like he had the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader, jim mattis is firing back tonight. the next revolution with steve hilton on fox news, steve hilton and chairman of the american conservative union. i want to read what secretary mattis had to say, contentious words about the president attributed to me were never uttered by me or in my presence. i generally enjoy reading fiction but this is a uniquely washington brand of literature and anonymous sources do not lend credibility. >> this is rather astounding, you have a to restore -- 4-star marine general calling out bob woodward as a liar. i like to see this type of pushback because this book seems to be riddled with all types of people who are trying to kind of to pay back on their time in the white house, disgruntled former employees. i like seeing folks at the president's side pushing back on a book that we all know how he does -- he doesn't have actual quotes from the people, he asks other people what they heard them say and that is shoddy journalism. >> everybody knows bob woodward is a house

host: we have a viewer on twitter that says why would jim mattis, rex tillerson, gary cohen, and others dispute? guest: there is what is called the politically calculated where a number of people who said, this doesn't capture everything. people have disputed some specific things, but not all kinds of other things. people need to survive. case, wek to the nixon used to call this the nondenial denial. and,pears to be a denial in fact, it is not. that is part of how people survive in the administration. reality ofof the survival denial and take them for what they are, believe me, vaguech and a kind of comments by people. it is select the -- everything is selective and it doesn't totally reflect someone's experience in the white house. itnow it accurately reflects -- perfectly on every moment -- that is impossible. there has been actuallyents by people greater confidence in the method i use. host: this is alan in little rock, arkansas. caller: good grief, you sure answer questions taking a lot of time. i love c-span, i love listening. mr. woodward knows, it is a great cross-section of amer

the woodward book making the argument donald trump is jeopardizing national security and jim mattis fires back. he will hear dan hoffman how the commander-in-chief is handling hotspots like korea. >> the president received a letter from kim jong un, very warm and positive letter. shannon: the trump administration gets tough for the palestinians again. the middle east peace process and allegations of racism at a california high school over signs at a football game that overturn the trump presidential politics. chris gallagher on the case. stay tuned. of nowhere. you do, too, but not in time. hey, no big deal. you've got a good record and liberty mutual won't hold a grudge by raising your rates over one mistake. you hear that, karen? liberty mutual doesn't hold grudges... how mature of them. for drivers with accident forgiveness liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. liberty mutual insurance. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty ♪ this is moving day with the best in-home wifi experience and millions of wifi hotspots to help you stay connected. and this is mo