he also went after his former defense secretary jim mattis for his comments that isis would resurge if the u.s. fails to keep pressure on it. trump called mattis, quote, the world's most overrated general. the white house responded to the democrats portrayal of the meeting saying in a statement, quote, the president was measured, factual and decisive in the meeting. i'm joined now by jonathan lemire, white house reporter for associated press and shar lei sykes, editor at large for the bullwork. this meeting set the scene here, pelosi, schumer, hoyer, there were some other democrats there meeting with the white house. the subject here was syria, was foreign policy and what happened? >> well, we've now had a few rather eventful meetings between the president and speaker pelosi and leader schumer at the white house. some of it ended rather abruptly like this one. yes, you're right, the topic was syria. but as they got in there the president sort of bitterly started complaining about the impeachment proceedings and that is something that's really come to light in recent weeks. we've seen t

that's what the president said about jim mattis this week and here is what jim mattis said at the al> i earned my spurs on the battlefield, martin as you pointed out and donald trump earned his spurs in a letter from a doctor. and the only person in the military donald trump doesn't think is overrate the colonel sanders. >> what do you think of the general's comments after the president called him the most overrated general. >> i've had the privilege of knowing jim mattis a number of years. he and i are both from the aim part of eastern washington. there's never been a finer marine to wear the uniform. he has proved it time and time again in the fight. what he said light at heartedly also goes right to the point. he did his -- earn his spurs as did dom a craven who had a brilliant op-ed in "the new york times" in morning. and if the president ever reassociated with reality he would know that. that is why they are both i think just furious over this, as i am what is going on now with the troops that were in syria and ordered to abandon allies. >> ambassador crocker, i appreciate your

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and hours lart jim mattis poking fun at his former boss.ing pointed criticism at trump since resigning. he responded to the president calling him the most overrated general. listen. >> i'm honored to be considered that by donald trump, because he also called merril streep an overrated actress. so i guess i'm the merril streep of generals. and frankly that sounds pretty good to me. and you do have to admit that between me and merril we have have had victory some of you were kind during the reception and you asked if it bathered mo me to be rated this way based on what donald trump said. of course not i earned my spurs on the battlefield as you pointed out and donald trump earned his in a letter from the doctor. >> why are the military officers speaking out. >> here is mark hertling, general mark hertling. i was at the dinner where mattis dinner where he spoke. everyone speaks and cracks jokes and is expected to. it was surprising to hear mattis talk this way. why do you think he did now? >> it was surprising to me too kate when when i heard

but mostly jim mattis is a defense intellectual. he's a very thoughtful guy that understands the value of allies and understands the value of american character. and so he ought to be off limits to mr. trump. this isn't going to come out well. >> general barry mccaffrey, always a pleasure having you on. thanks very much for helping our conversation along here tonight. >>> coming up for us, remembering the man who was thrust by his life's work and the 2016 election into a powerful position of holding people to account. $9.95 at my age? $9.95? no way. $9.95? that's impossible. hi, i'm jonathan, a manager here at colonial penn life insurance company, to tell you it is possible. if you're age 50 to 85, you can get life insurance with options starting at just $9.95 a month. okay, jonathan, i'm listening. tell me more. just $9.95 a month for colonial penn's number one most popular whole life insurance plan. there are no health questions to answer and there are no medical exams to take. your acceptance is guaranteed. guaranteed acceptance?

but mostly jim mattis is a defense intellectual.guy that understands the value of allies and understands the value of american character. and so he ought to be off limits to mr. trump. this isn't going to come out well. >> generally barry mccaffrey, always a pleasure having you on. thanks very much for helping our conversation along here tonight. >>> coming up for us, remembering the man who was thrust by his life's work and the 2016 election into a powerful position of holding people to account. of course i -- ever since i started renting from national. because national lets me lose the wait at the counter... ...and choose any car in the aisle. and i don't wait when i return, thanks to drop & go. at national, i can lose the wait...and keep it off. looking good, patrick. i know. (vo) go national. go like a pro. dimitri's on it. eating right? on it! getting those steps in? on it! dimitri thinks he's doing all he can to manage his type 2 diabetes and heart disease, but is his treatment doing enough to lower his heart risk? [sfx: glass

before i get to turkey specifically, peggy, jim mattis. make of what he said and what he didn't say and what he was trying to imply? >> oh, solid american opposed to what he thinks is a foreign policy blunder being made by the administration in northern syria. i think he was frank about one of his central concerns, which is how the allies and friends of the united states view this decision. to abandon people who have long been our friends. what did he not say? i think it was pretty clear. he did not want to get into his experiences of and observations of the president he served as secretary of defense. one wonders if he will ever decide it would be a good time to speak in a very candid way. or if he feels constrains, perhaps, by his position and the possibility of doing any damage. i'm not sure how he's thinking. >> a marine is a marine. and i think he views himself as a marine first, not a political worry. >> i thought the interview was brilliant, and a lot of things he said but didn't say right out in front. one of those things that came

trump became concerned when he was in a biography of jim mattis. trump called mattis and told him to screw amazon out of the chance to bid on the contract. amazon web services is the clear leader in cloud computing. >>> president trump, denying that former white house chief of staff john kelly warned him last year against hiring a yes man or risk being impeached. at an interview conducted by "the washington examiner" this weekend, kelly described his advice to the president. >> i said, whatever you do -- and we were in the process of finding someone to take my place -- i said, whatever you do, don't hire a yes man, someone that's not going to tell you the truth. don't do that. if you do, i believe you will be impeached. >> kelly's comments come after his successor, mick mulvaney denied a quid pro quo for security aid by president trump. an aide said, john kelly never said anything like that. if he would have said that, i would have thrown him out of the office. he wants to come back into the action like everybody else does. white house press secret

i don't know whether to think you know the secretary or general or jim mattis. >> jim mattis will definepplause] >> thank you. >> thank you. [inaudible conversations] starting now a book to be in "primetime" authors frank masterman and john kelly discussed the career of the longtime republican house leader bob michael of illinois. then journalist making winter will argue that the left must rebuild through state and local elections to increase the political power at the national level. fox news legal and political analyst greg jared will offer his thoughts on the mueller report on our author interview program "after words" at 9:00 p.m. eastern. after that former fbi agent mike german will take a critical look at the bureau and jennifer will report on the state of woman's healthcare. that starts now, check your program guide for more information. >> good evening and thank you for being here. as brad said i am tiffany white and i direct the congressional center which is located in illinois its name after former u.s. senator and non-for profit organization operation advancing the public unde

>> jim mattis was a mentor to me, he was the commander of u.s. troops in afghanistan. i have seen him on the battlefield. he is steady, smart, sure. for president trump to impugn him in any way for his generalship, or his character, is an utter misreading. his name is chaos, not mad dog. >> i real estate thize that jim how much of an impact would it make if jim mattis spoke out now, many people are calling for him to do so. >> it would make enormous impact in the military where his reputation is quite high, but i think on the general republic as well. he has been a leading general, a cabinet secretary, there has been charge and duress. i think he caught to come forward and speak more. like mike mckinley. we all have an obligation to say what we know, speak truth to power, where ever it leads. >> you also talk, you're talking about fearlessness but in your book you talk about empathy. people don't think about that when think think foreign policy or military engagement. how can you not be empathetic. >> the book takes the book takes a different influence in the character

i do i thought unlike in previous segments i thought this was a very significant coming out for jim mattis. the occasion called for humor, and i thought he, you know, threw some real jabs at president trump. and a serious comment, the lincoln quote was clearly directed towards the current situation we find ourselves in as a country and specifically at the present. so i thought this was a very significant event, and i think we're probably going to hear a lot more from jim mattis. >> if you thought this was the best venue because listen you know him better than all of us, knowing him as you do, do you think that this was the right venue, that it's significant he did it this way and with humor? >> yeah, well, if it was natural fit for him. i think he felt comfortable doing it this way. now, people might take issue with it, that he hasn't come out with some bold statement before. but i think this is -- he's kind of putting his toe in the public water so to speak. and i think it was done in a venue that he was comfortable making the points the way he made them. again, i for my part, me personal

you have jim mattis and john bolton out of the way. bill: those are the heavy hitters that have long opposed this decision and fought the president. they are gone and have been replaced by defense secretary mark esper and national security advisor robert bryan. nearlywo are not seen as as influential on foreign policy issues as mattis and bolton were. it leaves the president making these decisions with less pushback in the white house. david: he is getting pushback from his republican colleagues. you at lindsey graham, and former u.n. ambassador nikki haley come out and were quite critical of the president. bill: you have a lot of senior republicans on the outside saying this is a bad move. lindsey graham being the most prominent. he is a close advisor to the president on foreign policy issues. also nikki haley, president trump's former u.s. ambassador and one of the few people who left the white house on good terms has spoken out, as has liz cheney and marco rubio, other people the president tends to listen to on foreign policy. they

conclusion there. >> i'm not sure nancy pelosi has the same answer to that, but ro khanna is ready. >>> jim mattisokes at the president's expense at this big charity dinner in new york city. mattis laughing off president's insult he is the, quote, world's most overrated general. take a listen. >> i'm not just an overrated general. i am the greatest -- the world east most overrate d. and this in no small part -- i will tell you, i owe new york for this. because senator schumer, have i thanked you for bringing my name up in a rather contentious meeting in washington where this grew out of. i'm honored to be considered that by donald trump because he also called meryl streep an overrated actress. so i guess i'm the meryl streep of generals. frankly, that sounds pretty good to me. and you do have to admit that between me and meryl, at least we've had some victories. some of you were kind during the reception and asked me, you know, if this bothered me to have been rated this way. based on what donald trump said. i said of course not. i'd earned my spurs on the battlefield, martin, as you pointed out.

a lot of attention as well tell us more, morgan, about reports the president apparently called jim mattisr the language screw amazon out of the contract >> yeah. there are excerpts according to the excerpts as well, general mattis pushed back on that and say, no, that's not what's going to happen this is not how we're going to do this contract here is the thing, controversy in d.o.d. contracting bid protests, lawsuits, et cetera, all of this is not new to the pentagon that's why there are very specific and very detailed rules and methodologies and regulations about how these types of competitions play out now you've seen some of that already play out here. you know, there was a protest and lawsuit from oracle, for example. the defense department inspector general also done a major deep dive investigation we're still waiting for the public results of that so we'll see there does seem to be grounds for amazon to protest this but again, very long, drawn out regulatory process to see these types of contracts given we'll see. we're not done talking about this. >> we'll see all day right here o

brett, you resigned in part when jim mattis resigned after the president tweeted that he was withdrawingll u.s. forces from syria. that was then slow walked in the succeeding weeks and months. but this looks like the final pull back of the remaining special forces and a green light clearly to move in. >> these are the most consequential decisions a president can make. we have american military personnel on the ground in syria carrying out a mission that he had authorized and then from a call with a foreign leader, it happened twice now, very impulse e ly reverses gear. this is no way to run the country and i don't say that lightly. this is very serious. no one knows what to do. i see the administration scrambling to make sense of what is happening. the president is all over the place. his tweets indicate that he has no real idea or conception of what is happening on the ground. so nobody really knows where this is going. we can go back in if isis comes baic. look, we took isis' capital without a single life because the syrian kurds did the fighting. they lost thousands of fighters. if he

and that is exactly the ill-considered decision that made jim mattis resign in protest.ou want to know who's going to be the best person to lead this country for our position of security and strength overseas or for america's families here at home, i think it's joe biden. i think the developments of today have demonstrated that more clearly than ever. >> we've been talking about the developments in syria all morning long. we will keep on covering them throughout the morning. the president just weighed in. we'll get to that in a second. thank you for being with us this morning. >> thank you, john. >>> all right. well, china is now cutting ties with an nba team all because of one tweet. we'll tell you about the political fire storm with billions of dollars and people on the line. that's coming up next. ou have pl osteoporosis and a high risk for fracture now might not be the best time to ask yourself are my bones strong? life is full of make or break moments. that's why it's so important to help reduce your risk of fracture with prolia®. only prolia® is proven to help stre

you co-wrote a book with former secretary of defense jim mattis.he edges w what he feels about this and why he left the administration. all americans need to recognize our democracy is an experiment and one that can be reversed. we all know we're better than our current politics. tribalism must not be allowed to destroy our experiment. that was seen as basically a message to president trump. how did you interpret that? >> secretary mattis can speak for himself. i agree with the judgment, though, that it really matters for us to have a common set of rules that we hold either party in power accountable for, and especially in the highest office of the land, the president of the united states. >> some people on twitter, primarily, i've noticed, are saying when will former president george w. bush say some of these things? >> well, you know, i feel like people currently holding public office, especially in congress, ought to be our first line of reaction. and i'm surprised that so few of my fellow republicans are willing to actually publicly hold the pr

i want to get back to that point there, but let's go back to jim mattis last night making fun of the> some of you were kind during the reception and asked me if this bothered me to have been rated this way based on what donald trump said. i said, of course not, i had earned my spurs on the battlefield, martin, as you pointed out, and donald trump earned his spurs in a letter from a doctor. and i think the only person in the military that mr. trump doesn't think is overrated is who you pointed out, martin, and that's colonel sanders. >> that part there an attempt at humor, but since we played the other bite, i want to move on to the next point. secretary mattis there, we'll see if this is a one-off. admiral mcraven has led this successful raid to capture osama bin laden and has been critical of the president in the past. he wrote an op-ed and went on "the lead with jake tapper" the other day, and what he said about the commander in chief is eye opening. >> he's a transit president. he believes it's only good if it's good for us. but he forgets we're the same nation that fought naziism

there's no jim mattis. there's no -- none of the senior people who were there in the first couple years whom republicans could tell themselves, you know, trump is a little wacky. he wants to do illegal things, but don mcgahn stops him and jeff sessions stops him. no one stops him. so syria shows the real-world consequences of trump unleashed here at the end of a thousand days of his presidency. doral shows the incredible brazenness of the corruption. and ukraine shows genuinely, i think, illegitimate use of u.s. foreign policy for plolitical ends. >> s.e., final thought? >> the hillary/stein/tulsi thing is so bizarre. for hillary's part, so unwise. i don't think she needs to make these outlandish -- i mean, bill is right. tulsi is a favorite of russia's and certainly assad's, but she doesn't have to go this far. it feels to me like hillary is sort of in burn it down mode. just burn it down. i mean, her aides are, you know, giving these cute, you know, kind of responses. well well, if the nesting doll fits.

last time he was considering something like this, he had jim mattis essentially resign over it.ou had brett mcgurk as well resign over it. this time a lot of silence from those in the national security apparatus, if you will. >> you ought to expect it, as phil mentioned. i think so many of these republicans who have been silent on ukraine and china are willing to be so out there in the criticism of the president on syria. it tells you something about the president's mindset, that criticism about syria is about an issue and he doesn't really care about issues. he doesn't care about policy that much. so he's willing to tolerate that in a way that criticism about ukraine or about china, that's personal, that is existential, that deals with regime change. there's kind of a free zone for republicans to break with him on policy, which is not really a priority for this president. but there's no tolerance for any sort of dissent when it comes to impeachment because that's very personal. that's what the president really cares about. >> i want to read this excerpt for you from the story y

well, that's what we saw from jim mattis. he was fine until trump called him overrated and all of a sudden, he counterpunched at the al smith dinner. >> it was actually a clever retort. >> it was. >> if you like meryl streep. >> wow. good luck on twitter tonight. >> no, i like her. i'm just saying. >> yeah. you better say you like her. good luck. >> interesting, though. the president's been talking about the general's overrated. i know more than the generals. they're political. and he's kind of proving his point through forcing them and snuffing them out a bit. in a way, it's really interesting that's working out. >> there is not a two-star or higher general ever that didn't have to play a little politics to get that second star. you earn the first one. everything else, you have to do a little politics that comes with it. jeff bennett, thank you, sir. have a good weekend on capitol hill. president trump claims that the kurds are very happy with the u.s. brokered ceasefire. let me get a fact check on that from richard engel wh

if a dedicated american like jim mattis chose to resign in protest over this decision before, i am hopefulof both party also weigh in with the white house and with secretary pompeo and say this is a terrible idea and shubd reversed promptly. >> i want to turn to 2020 politics briefly. you're a close ally of vice president biden. "new york times" has reporting out that there's some displeasure in his democratic allies in the way he has pushed back against president trump in the face of the president's attacks against him and regarding his son, hunter. what's your take on that? do you think he should be more forceful? can you tell us what you're advising him, if you are? >> former vice president joe biden has been very forceful. if you read his editorial in the washington post this weekend it calls out president trump directly for smearing, for attacking both joe biden and his family. and says that joe won't stand for this. he won't allow the kinds of baseless attacks on hillary clinton that drove down her campaign to be made against him. and, frankly, he says he will focus on dealing with t

where is jim mattis? where is h.r. mcmaster? where is john kelly?nal security -- where are the generals who have stood on battlefields and hear a president say something this stupid, where are they? >> the mattis thing is striking. he didn't want to -- >> he quit over this policy. >> he said he didn't want to criticize, but people around him suggested he still would be heard from. if not now, when? >> we have a seat for you. my thanks to elise, basil, michael, thank you for watching. i'm any nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" with katy tur, in for chuck todd, starts now. >>> welcome to wednesday, it's "meet the press daily," i'm katy tur in new york. the president says he wants to pull the u.s. out of what he called an endless war in the middle east. and it is causing some members of his own party on capitol hill to speak out against him. we'll get to the latest between the u.s., syria and turkey in just a moment. but first, a far less literal battle he is waging, where republicans are staying almost entirely with him. and that's the trump versus the

this is why former defense secretary jim mattis, ther retired four-so was previously centcom commander, why he retired and put it his resignation papers in and left his position as secretary of defense, because he did not approve of this. some troops were withdrawn, but basically the united states held about 1000 troops and mainta the border between turkey and the ypg. what has happened is that the that he was going to pull these troops back. maybe he didn't greenlight the offensive, but the fact that the the way opened the opportunity for president erdogan to move thoffensive forward withoutdi ct conflict with the u.s. troops who were in the way. and so that is the issue.so these were our allies. they fought for us. we armed them, we asked them -- they have taken 10,000 killed on their side fighting isis. there is another 10,000 isis people in jail or in prison and confinement camps that they gve berding. all of this is now out the window. we don't know how this is going to settle out. nada: the president has threatened sanctions. he also said he would be willing to mediate. do you th

unilaterally decided to pull troops out of syria immediately, which prompmpd then-secretary of defense jim mattis to say i cannot continue indisposition any longer. here we are almost a year later whether president has done almost the same thing in the same way. for me to authorize this author operation without any -trategy involved, to do so on the basis of a oone call with president erdogan, to me that is the bad idea, because he has totally circumvented orna ignored hional security team, his diplomats, the allies in particular o have been with on the ground fighting in. all of that has en circumvented. to me the key issue is what signal are we sending to our other allies. e president has adopted a policyf total withdrawal, isolationist in my opinion, to say we should nobe in any places where there is conflict. we arehe forward to avoid so will be no conflict. laura: right and as a former defense secretary who believes in the importance of alliances from what do you make of the treatment of the kurds? mr. cohen: well, it was tempary, ny,er meant to be a long-term relareonship. the tes were know

here's jim mattis with chuck todd. >> isis is not defeated. we have got to keep the pressure on isis so they don't recover. >> we'll have more on that exclusive interview coming up. >> plus, new reporting on what our ambassador to the european union will say this week on capitol hill in his testimony. how he's expected to blow a hole in trump's ukraine defense. >> also, keeping an eye on iowa. 2020 democrats are making their pitch for a big union ahead of the largest democratic debate in history. the question, will bernie sanders take the stage after his health scare? the news that we learn from the senator today. >> but we begin with the major breaking news on the syrian/turkish border. the situation, we're told, rapidly deteriorating by the hour. you see the location right there at the edges of the middle east. this is day five of turkey's attack on u.s. allies, and now nearly 1,000 american troops were told today are prepared to evacuate syria entirely. according to defense secretary, the active one, mark esper. plans for that withdrawal ar

describing to mehe how in the first year he was president, that donaltrump rarely seemed to respo to a jim mattis or rex tillerson or even reince priebus who would push back on him and say mr. psident, here's the line, you can't go over it. and ryan described a gradual evolution where month by month on the job the president began to become more comfortable with pushing up next to that line and then crossing it and whende woealize there was no consequee for crossing, he would continue to cross it and hestopped listening altog and when you get to the that point, i think that's where we are now and probablyell beyond it. robert: it's not justbert tt hes not listening to cabinet members, he's listening to new people outside, like rudy the ascent of giuliani is part of this story? karoun: and giuliani has leanedi into what he believes is advantageous and politically correct and isn't really lettinh anybody sto. he also goes on television and case against the presidenthe t except it's not changing where the s pendulum isnging in terms of where the political line is who sports and whoit izes the preside

here is jim mattis on his military career and his thoughts on leadership. >> one passage in here we see the commitment to excellence is uncompromised and personal sensitivity is irrelevant if when there's a mistake. >> when i read that i thought the last 60 years just kumble. because in most workplaces and most schools personal sensitivity is not making people feel bad, is a high priority do think that comes as he extends of excellence? >> it is a good point, the fact is on the battlefield there is no trophy for second place much less ninth place. you have got to win. so you're brought up with a very grim set of skills by people who have been there, done it and they are not really interested in reasons white cannot happen. you have simply got to carry through but pretty soon what carries you along, you know everybody beside you is also going to be there and when trouble looms they will come even at the risk of their life. it is humbling but interesting. you are now part of something bigger than yourself and i think that is really what expands you. it does not shrink you to be part of an

james kelly, jim mattis. mattis was on your show and wouldn't answer any questions. they have enabled trump to be reckless, abandon people. enabled that. they could help stop it speaking out against it and choose not too. >> i have hope for people who would be the adult it's in the room, although we don't see them that often. just do the thing and don't parade around -- >> mattis makes jokes about it but refuses to talk to you about it. >> breaking news right now. >>> in politics lead as the impeachment inquiry begins we get our first look at the opening statement of ambassador bill taylor. he is the key diplomat testifying in the impeachment investigation today. taylor the top american diplomat in ukraine raised concerns in text messages about whether or not the trump administration was forcing a quid pro quo. demanding one. go to cnn's manu raju live on capitol hill. manu, you're reading an opening statement. what does. say? >> reporter: yes. just obtained 15-page very detailed opening statement that raises serious questions about the president's actions and the re

criticizing these even size or insight or politically appointed republicans that that resigned not like jim mattis did or brett mcgurk the counterterrorism adviser they resigned over principle and over difference in issues these are people that had differences because of one of the riots one of them feel she resigned before the july 25 cool but had cautioned against this have a look at have a listen to to go back and look at what she had to say what was the type away from from what she had to say of those proceedings begin to go to this point about how trusted senior advisers were being kept in the middle why i think what fiona hill brought to the table and of course she was responsible on the national security council staff for russia and she's been rushed out he's been there the whole time probably one of them. as leading experts on vladimir putin as it was useful to have her inside but what she saw and what she was told by ambassador john bolton was to go talk to the senior national security council lawyers that rudy giuliani and others were run ending a run at running an endgame around the nat

former defense secretary jim mattis recounts his military career and offers his thoughts on leadership in callsign chaos. then asked carter, another to former defense secretary talks about working in the pentagon and his book inside the five sided box. and and eyes in the sky journalist, a report on the gods aerial surveillance system. enjoy book tv this week and every weekend on c-span2. c-span's 2020 coverage continues as president trumps host the keep america great rally in minneapolis, minnesota. one thursday at 8:00 p.m. c-span. watch anytime on c-span.org and listen free wherever you are using the free c-span radio app. democratic presidential candidate and former maryland congressman john his life,lked about his career and why he is running .or president >> congressman, you're the earliest to announce your candidacy. what is a surprise about the process and for you personally? thank you for having me and it is great to be here with you. what a surprise me. what has surprised me is that the voters in the early states really do take this process very seriously. so that has been a

was planning to pull out when the president suggested as much triggering jim mattis' resignation. >> we received a statement for develops secretary mark. he said, despite misreport to go the contrary secretary and mark milly were consulted regarding the president and situation in syria. he blamed turkey for actually beginning moving toward the border and said caused the president to pull those forces back. but from conversations we've had today, the president ignored the advice of his top military kmanlder by ordering the american retreat from the board cher he had been warned could be seen as a green light to slaughter the kurds who had been a key partner the december mate isis. the white house announcement shocked congressional leaders and send the pentagon scrambling. turkey president considers the syrians a terrorist group linked to insurgency in his country. a spokesman for the ally of isis said. turkish forces of met near the border in recent days. u.s. defense officials say no decision whether all u.s. troops are being pulled out of syria altogether. in fact all of them remain

defense, the principal adviser to the secretary and the deputy secretary of defense and served jim mattis as the undersecretary of defense as an assistant secretary of defense. before that was in a special assistant to the president of the united states for national security affairs and a senior director at the national security council -- did you ever see this guy at all? for five years he was part of the largest engineering management form at all. he's a colonel, we don't hold that against him, and he previously served in the navy reserve with the joint -- i hold that against him! with a joint force intelligence naval special warfare group to. he has army guys in his family, so that's a great redeeming value on his point. he won as many awards as mr. wilkie, he's the recipient of the defense disagree with public service, medal the highest in the department. today, he's here to talk about a subject which was very dear to senator helms heart, something that was very close to heritage and close to everyone in this room, otherwise you would not be here. when the most important things that w

and readiness issues, principal advisor to the secretary deputy secretary of defense, also served jim mattis and donald rumsfeld and robert gates as secretary of defense and special assistant to the president of the united states for national security affairs, director of the national security council. did you see this at all? for five years he was vice president for strategic programs for the largest entering and program management firm in the world. is a colonel in the united states air force, we don't told that against him and served in the navy, i do hold that against him. the special warfare group, he does have army guys in the family so that is a redeeming value. the highest -- very dear to senator helms. close to everybody here today. to honor our veterans. please join me in giving a warm welcome to the secretary of veterans affairs. [applause] >> thank you so much. i will make a confession. i am the one who broke the mold, i have my hearing, i have not appealed -- i'm not a field artillery officer. it is an honor for me to be here. i was thinking about the time i stood up and the rol

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was the comment we played at the beginning of chuck schumer saying the president was going after jim mattisneral mattis, surprise to hear democrats come to the defense of mattis here. >> mattis has been somebody a lot of democrats would point to as a reassuring presence and adult in the room. he definitely had a reputation of being a tough general. his nickname was mad dog. >> he hated it but yeah. >> he hated it but it was come by honestly. for president trump to say he wasn't tough enough i think underscores how willing the president is to attack anybody who he thinks opposes him in any way. >> adam, great to have you on the show. thanks for being on set. >> thanks. >> a lot following and happening that we're following this morning overseas. not just in turkey but in britain. you have the headlines touting how the british prime minister and european union have reached this brexit divorce deal but some british lawmakers are already saying they're not going to support it. so does boris johnson have the political muscle to get the deal done? a special guest coming up. first we told you about

a new book by jim mattis's speechwriter alleges trump called mattis and said can we screw amazon out pentagon cloud deal? was reported to have said we are going to follow the normal procurement process, but this came before trump questioned whether the contract was in bid. he said that on the record. the defense department has a strict protocol in place to avoid political interference inside and outside the pentagon. --hink the question will be we will see more news come out and potential challenges by amazon about whether that political interference actually makes a difference or whether on for other, legitimate reasons. david: tech companies spending millions and millions of dollars on lobbyists, on lawyers in washington it appears to have paid off for the time being with microsoft. many thanks, naomi. that is naomi nix down in washington. up next year, we talk with alaska's governor about his approach to fiscal responsibility and what it has to do with the price of oil as he is fighting against a recall effort after having cut the budget quite a bit in order to keep up payments. t

and i know you're supposed to ask admiral questions, why didn't jim mattis speaking out about this or rh mcmaster. they are former military men and they are not speaking out about it. >> i think we will will hear from the former secretary general mattis. don't hold me to it, but of all of the issues, this is what caused him to resign. but i agree with you, senior military out of uniform have an obligation. they are speaking out and this is the former commander of u.s. central commander. >> i want to play part of what lindsey graham said yesterday. >> president trump has not ended a war, he created a bigger war, and if you think that we can wr withdraw from syria you're making a mistake. you don't have to believe me, talk to the commanders. they're universally opposed to this, and to the soldiers that have sacrificed, i'm so sorry. >> let's go to the commanders we just spoke about, you wrote a piece about the troops in time magazine, how does the military absorb this kind of decision. >> i can't tell you how many junior officers, senior enlisted, who are in this fight. how many of them

principal advisor to the secretary and deputy secretary of defense for force management and served jim mattis, donald rumsfeld and robert gates as assistant secretary of defense was before that he was special assistant to the president of the united states for national security present director of the national security council. did you ever see this guy at all? for 5 years he was vice president for strategic programs for one of the largest engineering and program management firms in the world. he is a colonel in the united states air force. we don't hold that against him. he previously served in the navy reserve, i hold that against him. joint force intelligence command special warfare group but he has army guy in his family so that's a great redeeming value on his part. among his many awards he is recipients of the defense system was public service medal, the highest in the department. today he's here to talk about a subject which was very dear to senator helms's heart, something very close to heritage and everybody's in this room otherwise you wouldn't be here today, one of the most importa

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unclear how long it will last. >> james, thanks very much. >>> in the wake of the crisis, general jim mattis spoke out against trump for the first time last night here in new york. this comes one day after the president denigrated mattis in a closed door meeting with congressional leaders. our chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz is here with us. >> reporter: mattis had warned of an isis resurgence after he began removing u.s. troops from syria, but he has been reluctant to directly criticize trump even in jest until last night. the event, a roast. an annual white tie fundraiser for catholic charities. the humor direct, the target clearly donald trump and his lack of military service. >> i had earned my spurs on the battlefield, martin, as you pointed out, and donald trump earned his in a letter from a doctor. >> reporter: just this week in a white house meeting with legislatu legislators, trump called the retired four-star general who he named secretary of defense overrated. >> i'm not just an overrated general. i am the greatest, the world's most overrated. >> reporter: but ma

. >> jim mattis is gone, but clearly his sense of humor is very much intact. very good last night. >>> welcome to "cbs this morning" where the story is alive and well at the white house. that's where we're going to begin. the white house is trying to contain political fallout on two fronts -- impeachment and syria -- after a pair of announcements drew major, major backlash. acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney now denies that he confirmed an apparent quid pro quo over u.s. aid to ukraine. there is also heavy criticism of vice president mike pence's deal to stop turkey's attack on kurdish forces in northern syria. >> new video shows evidence of gunfire and shelling in one syrian city along the turkish border just hours after the cease-fire agreement was announced. the kurds blame turkey for the violation. charlie d'agata is in the region and filed this report. >> reporter: good morning. welcome, a shaky cease-fire and a shaky deal. not everybody here is happy about it. as for the role of the u.s. military, there's some serious questions about exactly

. >>> jim mattis cracking a few jokes at president trump's expense after the president called mattisoverrated general. >> i am honored to be considered that by donald trump because he also called meryl streep an overrated actress. so i guess i'm the meryl streep of generals. and, frankly, that sounds pretty good to me. and you do have to admit that between me and meryl, at least we've had some victories. and some of you were kind during the reception and asked me if this bothered me to have been rated this way based on what donald trump said. i said, of course not. i earned my spurs on the battlefield, martin, and donald trump earned his spurs in a letter from a doctor. not in the least bit put out by it and i think the only person in the military that mr. trump doesn't think is overrated is who you pointed out, martin. and that's colonel sanders. it's been a year since i left the administration. the recovery process is going well. the counselor says i'll graduate soon. a year is -- according to white house time, about 9,000 hours of executive time or 1800 holes of golf. >> so we sen