. >> we're here with leo shane, deputy of military legal times in washington, d.c. and we'll talk about the past year in military and veterans issues. good morning. how are you? >> i'm fine. >> let's start off with current news. >> feels like two years worth of news in the last two weeks. >> james madison will wrap up his tenure on monday, i believe. guest: monday is his last day and deputy shanahan -- shanahan will take over january 1 and was quite the upheaval from the establishment. host: what was defense secretary matusz's successes and failures over this last year? guest: he believes as a very popular figure as defense secretary, and was beloved by military. we got a poll last fall saying upwards of 85% of military folks really respected him and had a highly favorable view and somebody viewed on capitol hill as being the adult in the room, somebody who moderated more of trump's impulsive man its on military issues and successfully got a larger military budget and talked as the president has, about needing to rebuild the military so we saw the military budget ri