in fact james mattis insisted on having what is called the election clause in the constitution which gives states initially the ability to set time, place and manner of election but gives congress the power to override purse iso because james mattis andri the others felt that state legislatures would be captured by a fraction impasse that we would now call voter suppression laws or gerrymandering. . . . that then, but that's what they're talking about. that there needs to be checks and balances. our national government needed to make sure that people had the effective right to vote. that is what this legislation would do. it would set national standards and modernize our elections in a way that is fair to everyone. what we see with our naked eyes, right in front of us, the racially driven and partisan efforts to restrict the vote across the country. if we aren't happy with that, if we aren't satisfied that's the way to >> if we are not satisfied that that is the way to go, that can be problematic. >> let's take a call. >> i haven't heard anybody i talking about the politician from mi

another secretary mattis saying is america can afford survival. patty-jane: you also hear some argue the capabilities you mentioned, particularly cyber, can be substituted for nuclear weapons, and that is used to justify redirecting findings to those areas. any comment on that? sen. fischer: cyber capabilities are important, and prior to chairing the strategic forces us up to mitty, i chaired the -- subcommittee, i chaired another subcommittee, and at that time, we had the responsibility for overseeing the department on cyber activities. i think this idea of one for the other is not wise. i recall a conversation i had on this in a hearing with general dunford, when he was chairman of the joint chiefs, and his testimony i thought was very clear. he said cyber capabilities cannot be substituted for nuclear capabilities. they are fundamentally different. it is a shame he couldn't elaborate, but obviously discussing what we can and cannot do through cyber and preparing that through nuclear capabilities is possible in an unclassified environment but i

we have that with secretary austin and secretary mattis. has the exception now become the rule? that is to say, the rule that you should not have a person in the military within seven years become secretary of state become now something that is fine? sec. panetta: i am not sure this waiver makes a lot of sense, to be truthful. if you are going to have a requirement, you either stick to the requirement or you don't have the requirement. and, look, i understand the reason for the exception, for lloyd austin and the reason for the exception for jim mattis. they are both good people, both qualified, and they both really were very qualified secretaries of defense. so i understand why. i don't think having given a waiver to jim mattis when it comes to the first black secretary of the defense department, that somehow you draw the line and say, we are not going to provide a waiver for lloyd austin. i do think that congress has to give serious consideration. if they are going to have a requirement, there ought not to be a waiver, or they ought to get rid of the requirement, one or the ot

we have that now with secretary austin, and secretary mattis.has the exception, now become the rule? that is to say, that the rule that you should not have a person leading the military, who secretary of defense, and now becomes -- ? >> i'm not sure this waiver makes a lot of sense. to be truthful. you know if you're going to have a requirement, you have the step to the requirement, or you don't have the requirement. and you don't look, i understand the reason for the exception as for lloyd austin, i understand the reason for the exception, for jim mattis. they're both good people. they're both qualified. and they're both very qualified secretaries of defense. so i understand why. and i don't think haven't given a waiver to jim mattis, when it comes to the first black secretary of the defense department, that somehow you draw the line and say we're not gonna provide a way for lloyd austin. i do think that congress has to give serious consideration to if essentially if they're going to have a requirement, there ought to not be a waiver. or they o

archbishop bashar matti warda.ice and the military has not stopped protests against the military coup. meanwhile, the un's special envoy on myanmar has urged the security council to restore democracy to the country. in a private meeting in new york, members were told that anti—coup demonstrators were beginning to lose faith in the united nations. mark lobel reports. gunfire. the crackdown continues on citizens calling out the coup. they chant. they remain defiant, despite the deadliest week here. appealing for international support, these signs are reference to the un's responsibility to protect principle, to prevent mass killings. now, a month after the un's top security body called for a return to democracy and for the immediate release of detainees, including aung san suu kyi, it's met again. we requested this morning's meeting following further deterioration of the situation in myanmar. as of today, more than 50 people have been killed and many more injured since the coup began. over 1,000 people have disappear

going, but kamala harris is going to be in charge. >> jesse: kamala harris is no jim mattis.the president, here, kamala, you take it. it's kind of like what trump did with pens and the coronavirus except trump had to be chief and had to take charge, i don't think joe biden has that problem. he's happy to sit back and let kamala take all the heat from this. that is not going to happen. joe will take eat and pay a big price but with kamala on the line, she is going to get crushed. she doesn't speak the language of the border, she doesn't understand the policy. it's not in her wheelhouse, she's going to have a lot of trouble explaining why the border is in fact not open. that is the big left-wing talking point. the border is not open. riddle me this, then, if 100% of teenagers are allowed in, that's not my number, that's their policy, how is that not open? or if a family unit is allowed in, 80% of family units are being allowed income of that is the dhs number from biden. axios reported that, not my number. you cross the border, you are in. and not only are u.n., they are going

one of the things secretary mattis said that was so quotable. >> yes. that is very important. there is a section if the biden administration will have a new nuclear posture. ided befoe with that be wise? >> i do.o. especially if the administration is considering changes to the posture because threats continue to evolve. that is part of the question whether a strategy shouldn drive budgets for but it budgets should drive strategy. it is important to have policy reviews happen and strategies decided before they are made. the npr is an important way for the administration to think through and bring in officials and military leaders for that strategy. and then have transparency and it's also important and with that strategy is as well. to see the last several administration's do this and in that process to make decisions about the nuclear posture is appropriate to ask m. the biden administration has been emphasizing the importance with the abbreviated budget cycle. let me be clear. we should be conducting the npr for nuclear modernization. modernization is just-in-time. we don't h

cole: i have not heard much since the hearing, but i remember asking jim mattis when he was secretary of defense, i was and still am on the defense appropriations subcommittee and asked him if he needed aumf. he said they do. we never got a proposal out of the trump administration, i'd be unfair to the formal president i didn't say he wanted to get our troops out of afghanistan and he did not initiate major military operations overseas. obama and bush did much more of that than president trump. in some areas i disagree with him, like trying to reduce troops in nato i think was a mistake. >> thank you both of you. patients. in formal conversations i am privileged to have with both of you my i always learn something. i know what incredible staff you have because of the immense workload you have. our witnesses today send a clear message about fiscal support, the american rescue planet what we need to do. it is the right move getting money into people's pockets. thank you all.

as you mentioned jim mattis drove the national security strategy but take that as we work our way through president trump's four years trump himself began to really dominate a number of aspects of that. his worldview is considerably different than joe biden's. they transitioning happening and this will impact what we do in the world, our partners view us and so the relationship that we have in the world are really important right now. much of the rest of the world is wondering where we go and i think there's a great opportunity. certainly we have a fairly known quantity in joe biden, 40 years of work on foreign policy and national security and we've seen some clear themes emerging. over-the-top we will be looking for peaceful process moving four. it's to build institutions and to help be part of creating a world that enables people to live in peace and prosper. our general approach to that is a belief in economic and political freedom and international institutions, partnerships, working together with people all around the world to deal with whatever challenges we face. there's going to b

the archbishop bashar matti warda leads the chaldean catholic community in erbil, where the pope willtant visit. historical and courageous visit to come to iraq, and to travel, and to meet all of these important and influentialfigures. hope to make notjust history, but really to open a history. so interesting that this is the pope's first international trip since the start of the pandemic. he has chosen to come to iraq — why is that do you think? well, iraq is still an important country for us, as a christian. christianity here is around 2000 years, very historical. at the same time, because of the persecution and difficulties, it's really getting to a stage where there is a danger of disappearing. so, it needs to be supported, given hope, given all the support that is needed to maintain and persevere through all of these difficulties. also, to come back and be an important player in the life of all iraqis. i'm sure he wanted to visit iraq many times, he mentioned this to us as a bishop when we met him, because he was so close to the suffering of the iraqi people, which everyone aroun

the biggest what is my bet is that it was that there wouldn't be a woman or a family building to mattie to go to to me and that's how it starts playing out cost actually is at the intersection of cost jane and cherokee a lot of these complex issues start playing out i have to say gentlemen and we could talk about. such a fascinating conversation especially when constable talking about themselves talking of the moscow thing of the mosque i love it this summer that you do in the pub and you ask for rapid fire questions and you is subject to all the men to stand by describing himself in one question to you but go ahead. if you want to see my son and once a month set. up a fire curious passionate compassion one thing you like about yourself i can renew my passion one thing you dislike about yourself i'm continually read nearing my passion. did to tell your mom about your 1st kiss your 1st crush. through late. day now we're getting spicy and now it's the end have a look here on my laptop what. india is the call cost you take a look at that and of course dream a dream this is her project and

that just nation that for now at least protect the media and loving it to collect information and mattis that are considered to be of public interest so far just sounds like the day job of journalism here is there any made to this what else does daniel accuse us of another claim that the whistleblower is making that is that the senior r t staff members were always directly in touch with the bosses of the government and what we see in that built article is a picture of my. call league with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov of wow i can tell you that it was from a christmas party that christmas party 2 loads of journalists were invited there even foreign journalists tens of them maybe even hundreds of them and everyone wanted to take a photo with sergei lavrov so that doesn't prove anything and my colleague is saying that no she doesn't have a direct line with members of the russian government today. to me. not just a member of the media looking back i'm trying not is not you. that me. next there was a part about ra please the party's video agency about the van staying day and nig

recall the op ed written in the wall street journal in august of 2017 by secretary still listen and mattis where they mention the 4 nose which i think should be could be repeated by the biden ministration which is no regime change no regime collapse. accelerated reunification and no u.s. troops crossing the demilitarized zone the president biden has already insulted the russian president he's insulted the chinese president he's insulted kim jong un as a hitler and as a tug and then how does one expect to have a meaningful dialogue when the leader of one country the man interlocutor is insulting the others and then inviting them to a dialogue so a president biden i think who is known for rash decisions and basically insulting foreign leaders needs also to be restrained we criticize spread. sort of prompt quite justifiably but president biden there is no angel either he's not going to wave a magic wand and things are going to fall into place that we have a lot of hard work ahead we need to sit down seriously when it was working with the north koreans. had pretty good outcomes in terms of the

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cole: i have not heard much since the hearing, but i remember asking jim mattis when he was secretary of defense, i was and still am on the defense appropriations subcommittee and asked him if he needed aumf. he said they do. we never got a proposal out of the trump administration, i'd be unfair to the formal president i didn't say he wanted to get our troops out of afghanistan and he did not initiate major military operations overseas. obama and bush did much more of that than president trump. in some areas i disagree with him, like trying to reduce troops in nato i think was a mistake. his instinct was broadly not that different in terms of not being involved in these things. i think the military wants a new aum -- that means we need to get together and find a way to assert congressional authority. i think congress is much less likely to plunge the country into war then either party. i think getting more people involved in decisions slows it down. that's probably a good thing except in a national emergency where the president has all the authority he needs if there is an imminent at

i've been in good contact professionally with secretary mattis and secretary esper and we just did abrookings event two weeks ago with myself interviewing secretary esper. this is a group of people that in many cases i work with well, some of them are my friends. there are some areas of bipartisan cooperation in washington even when we have a trump presidency and the kind of partisanship that existed at the top levels of our political classes. i guess that's a partial comment. you say congress forced trump to stay, i think congress recognized that also in south korea and germany, it was important to have some degree of stability, that our alliances have actually helped keep the peace of the years and they should not be discarded lightly. congress did have a role in the wars. both of those wars were approved by congress. let's not forget that. congress did not declare war and so you get into constitutional debates about whether an authorization on the use of military force is adequate. but congress did vote in favor of both of those wars 20 years ago. and at that point, it was seen as

i anticipated that they might do something like bring in general mattis to come in and coordinate.use they spent the last three weeks not being willing to call the issue at the border a crisis. but if you are going to put the vice president in charge of all of this, then you are definitely saying you don't just have a p.r. problem but a crisis problem here the question that the biden team that he will get tomorrow or she will get in the coming day as she takes this on. that is, we know from reporting and including "the washington post," axios, and other, the career border patrol telling the biden team you will have a major problem here because the people are coming. they believe you are going to be more lenient on them. we need to get ahead of this. they didn't do it. so when she says on cbs this morning, they've only been in office 100 days. that is not going to cut it for most americans as there is support for illegal immigration starts to decline. >> bret: trey my your thoughts on this move after all we have seen in the recent weeks. before, you know, bret, she said she is frust

there are two people who were at light the livelong of the him erin burr and james mattis. but they retired. they may not wanted to be retired, but medicine was totally retired. when it comes to i live in philadelphia. i had an operation in the last year the same place that john marshall died the same building the first hospital in the united states. it comes up is got kidney stones. i forget he was in washington or lisbon at the time. he writes all the way up. kidney stones. now that is a man. that's the guy is living any dies in philadelphia basically on the operating table. but he is working until then. and has a very long career. the 30 some years he was chief justice is only part of it. i hope people get to read my book. as well as his career. while people did his founding fathers it really wasn't that hard. there's only 3 million people in the first census. 3million whites people i'm sorry, people who could then there were women so presumably they're even less than that. it could've been founding fathers. in their way out in western virginia. so if you really wanted t

you can say the same thing about general mattis., how can he stay in there? we were a hell of a lot better off with james mattis in the pentagon than a lot of the clowns who followed him. it is -- again, it's -- because it's not black and white, i know it's hard for people to grasp, some people to grasp on twitter, but deborah birx was working a tightrope and if you think she should have quit much earlier, if people think that, that's fine, but there's an argument to be made that she actually staying in there and being humiliated time and again and slugging it out and fighting behind the scenes probably did a lot more good than if she had quit earlier and let an idiot like scott atlas go in there. >> and dr. fauci didn't quit. i didn't hear the same calls for him, why didn't he step aside? no, people wanted dr. fauci in there the way they wanted dr. birx. i take your point. and i also would just say, that the guidance people from the outside, who haven't been around donald trump, the people like dr. deborah birx is, flattery of this

last year's matty act report was one-page shy of 200 pages. it's a road map not only for the rules committee but for everyone who's interested in applying for a policy body or commission. that reports set forth the qualifications, the mission of the body, inspiration dates. dozens upon dozens of such commissions and advisory committees and task forces. it is incomplete in a number of ways. by the way, for anybody who's watching, can be found on the board of supervisors website. you can get a link to it. new chair of the rules committee, i believe we can and should go beyond what the state law requires and enhance this reporting requirement in ways that highlight the racial ethnic and gender equity goals of the city. including how those goals are achieved not just through the board but what's missing from the report,s which the mayor's appointments as well. we look forward to working with the clerk's office and office of racial equity and members of the public and members of this board as we start this conversation. second, i'm introducing amen

last year's matty act report was one-page shy of 200 pages. it's a road map not only for the rules committee but for everyone who's interested in applying for a policy body or commission. that reports set forth the qualifications, the mission of the body, inspiration dates. dozens upon dozens of such commissions and advisory committees and task forces. it is incomplete in a number of ways. by the way, for anybody who's watching, can be found on the board of supervisors website. you can get a link to it. new chair of the rules committee, i believe we can and should go beyond what the state law requires and enhance this reporting requirement in ways that highlight the racial ethnic and gender equity goals of the city. including how those goals are achieved not just through the board but what's missing from the report,s which the mayor's appointments as well. we look forward to working with the clerk's office and office of racial equity and members of the public and members of this board as we start this conversation. second, i'm introducing amen

even mattis can't get his people in place, without and gop are a clown show, don't like government and center in u.s. and foreign policy and now now debates themselves as the party of trump and now in may 2019 every republican senator upheld trump's veto now shares ownership of the world's worst humanitarian crisis, and saudi arabia trying to pushback on the rebel whose are on their doorstep and sponsored and supported by iran. what would you, how would you vote, general? >> well, i don't get into the politics of this thing, but here is what i will say. i think it serves the country better when we pick people who are going to go into policy formulation, particularly in the department of defense and the national security council where we're doing a very complicated issue who don't have a deep partisan and passionate past for those partisan attributes that you just described. i mean, trump nominated a person like this as well, and couldn't get it through. the republican-controlled senate confirmation process, so i think it's a mistake to nominate somebody like this. there are plenty of p

that mcgregor and others were advising, i have been in good contact professionally with secretary mattis esper, donald trump's two secretaries of defense and we did an event two weeks ago interviewing him. in many cases these are people i'm collegial with, work with well, some of them are my friends and there are areas of bipartisan cooperation in washington, even with a trump residency and of the kind of partisanship that existed at the top levels of our political classes. i guess that is a partial common. but you say congress forced trump to stay. i think congress recognized that in south korea and germany it was important to have a degree of stability and the alliances have helped to keep the peace over the years and shouldn't be discarded lightly and by the way, congress did have a role in the iraq and afghanistan wars that were essentially approved by congress. let's not forget that. they did not declare war and you get into constitutional debates about the authorization of military force being adequate, but congress voted in favor of both of those words 20 years ago and at that poi

cole: i have not heard much since the hearing, but i remember asking jim mattis when he was secretarynse, i was and still am on the defense appropriations subcommittee and asked him if he needed aumf. he said they do. we never got a proposal out of the trump administration, i'd be unfair to the formal president i didn't say he wanted to get our troops out of afghanistan and he did not initiate major military operations overseas. obama and bush did much more of that than president trump. in some areas i disagree with him, like trying to reduce troops in nato i think was a mistake. his instinct was broadly not that different in terms of not being involved in these things. i think the military wants a new aum -- that means we need to get together and find a way to assert congressional authority. i think congress is much less likely to plunge the country into war then either party. i think getting more people involved in decisions slows it down. that's probably a good thing except in a national emergency where the president has all the authority he needs if there is an imminent attack or

last year's matty act report was one-page shy of 200 pages. it's a road map not only for the rules committee but for everyone who's interested in applying for a policy body or commission. that reports set forth the qualifications, the mission of the body, inspiration dates. dozens upon dozens of such commissions and advisory committees and task forces. it is incomplete in a number of ways. by the way, for anybody who's watching, can be found on the board of supervisors website. you can get a link to it. new chair of the rules committee, i believe we can and should go beyond what the state law requires and enhance this reporting requirement in ways that highlight the racial ethnic and gender equity goals of the city. including how those goals are achieved not just through the board but what's missing from the report,s which the mayor's appointments as well. we look forward to working with the clerk's office and office of racial equity and members of the public and members of this board as we start this conversation. second, i'm introducing amen

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