let me start with you, mattie. i'm glad president trump went and talked about the strong economy because it is amazing. i'm not a big fan of the unemployment rate. it is so misleading, people drop out of the labor force and unemployment goes down. that is not reflection of america. what is the reflection is how many people are coming back and getting good-paying jobs. >> i agree, charles. could have been a home run for him. here is why. he talked a lot about unity and greatness for americans. nothing unites americans more than feeling secure in their own economic circumstance, which is finally changing after 10 years staffing nation. you point out the unemployment rate, that people are coming back into the labor market. people who are chronically underemployed, people with disabilities, people who have a felony record, those are people who are finally getting out of the sidelines, able to find a job again. that really speaks to the health of the economy. waynes are another one too. you mentioned fact we have wages

and the world of ski—jumping mourns, as four—time olympic gold medallist matti nykanan dies at the age. welcome to the programme. thank you forjoining us. we start in the english premier league, where the leaders liverpool have been held to a 1—1 draw at west ham, which now leaves the door open for manchester city to go top of the table when they play later in the week. jurgen klopp was disappointed at the end, but fortunate that sadio mane's opening goal on 22 minutes was allowed to stand. replays showed james milner‘s cross was offside. west ham were level six minutes later thanks to mikhail antonio, and they had several great chances to win the match thereafter. we just wejust did not we just did not enjoy the game enough, to be honest, and it was tough, it was tough because of the changes, it was not easy. with the counter—attacking threat and the good set pieces, we struggled most with the set pieces. apart from that, we had a bit of open downs. at the end, we were up and down again, we could have scored in these situations. we were good on the fla nks situations. we were good on

i think everyone knew that mattis was not long for the job at that point.olutely agree with the fact that trump was unhappy with mattis on syria. on afghanistan. on sending troops down to the southern border. there were a bunch of issues where these guys were loggerheads. >> but the notion he asked mattis to resign and mattis didn't quit is just not true. >> from all accounts, both internal and external, that is not true. but again, trump, a lot of revisionist history on things that would make him look better. we saw that with the size of his win, the size of the crowds during the inauguration. same thing here. i think everyone that watches him after 2 1/2 years now kind of gets that about him. >> let's listen to the president in this important exchange on any military option for venezuela. >> what would make you use the u.s. military in venezuela? >> i don't want to certainly it's an option. >> as he pulls troops out of syria, for example, he continues to leave that as an option on the table. do you believe that the president would use military force? >> i

i think that goes through james mattis' firing. the president said he fired me and mattis resigned.also saw it around the comey firing, where the white house blows anything out of proportion. >> on this broadcast, any meeting in your family office that you have to have a russian translator present for should maybe set off alarm bells. >>> anyway, shannon and aaron the president said he fired me and mattis resigned. we also saw it around the comey firing, where the white house blows anything out of proportion. i think that goes through james mattis' firing. the president said he fired me and mattis resigned. we also saw it around the comey firing, where the white house blows anything out of proportion. >> on this broadcast, any meeting in your family office that you have to have a russian translator present for should maybe set off alarm bells. >>> anyway, shannon and aaron have agreed to stick around a bit longer. coming up, we'll talk about what the president has said just this week. (voice) you know what you're doing right now? (danny) impressing the heck out of me. also, giving a

raised this in december, jim mattis, the defence secretary promptly resigned, it certainly took him by surprise and many others. we heard from security officials just last week a rather different assessment of isis and its potential to reforme, so that doesn't really seem to 100% gel with what the president is saying now. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme... whatsapp steps up the fight against fake news and misinformation, deleting millions of rogue accounts every month. also ahead on the programme for you: brutal or beautiful? a debate over architecture in singapore. and it's all in the eye of the beholder. this is the moment that millions in iran had been waiting for. after his long years in exile, the first hesitant steps of ayatollah khomeini on iranian soil. south africa's white government has

matty never had to give his age. he spent his birthday money trying to win the expensive pc.won a keyring and a pot of slime, but it never arrived. so you ended up with nothing? yeah, nothing at all, £35 vanished. and what do you think about morgs? he knows his fan base is mostly children around this age, and that he would promote something that is gambling, like, it's very bad. morgs has told panorama he was assured the site was an e—commerce store, but accepts he was naive. he has removed the video and apologises to his followers. he hasn't denied that he was paid to promote mystery brand. they're a big influence on teenagers, so they should be careful what they put on and they should be regulated so that people of his age aren't like, he does it, so that really looks good and i will do it. mystery brands website is still online and is being investigated by the gambling commission. we have had no response to the e—mails we sent to the site. youtube told panorama that influencers must comply with local laws and guidelines, including disclosing if they are being paid to endor

i worry about that mattis resignation letter and i don't think we should take it as, oh, secretary mattis, it was coming, we shouldn't take it lightly. there was a message in that letter and i think we need to take it seriously, so that piece of puszzle on the trump side is new. i think abe has done good about hugging mr. trump close. that's going to have to continue to be a japanese strategy. i'm not sure i'm ready for a japan that's actively hedging. i'm not sure we're quite there yet. but i know the security planners in tokyo are thinking -- that's a longer term conversation for japan. >> so the next guy should also have golden golf putter ready to hand to mr. trump. terrific. let me let you ask the smart questions. i see a hand way in the back. i assume there are microphones. if you could quickly identify yourself. in fact stand up, first, please, so we can see you and ask a question if you would of sheila. >> steve winters, independent consultant. i wonder what your thoughts are. you mention the transition from the era to the new emperor. i get the feeling that maybe here in d.c. we

secretary mattis and chairman dunford have testified that they believe that can order to execute thattrategy they will need 3% to 5% annual growth in the budget in order to execute the strategy. it stood to reason as we look at it, that a more ambitious strategy would require even more in the way of resources. to answer the question of what should the top line be among the trouble of us, we would have probably had 12 different answers, but we did conclude that as an illustrative matter for the congress to consider, the 3% to 5% to that mattis and dunford said they needed for the previous strategy ought to be considered at least as a kind a starting point for discussion of what's needed to execute this strategy. the other resource point that i will make is that when the congress in its wisdom has occasionally tried to repair the is one ofis afflicted the budget control act, we've had a series of two-year bipartisan budget agreements. but more often than not, the solution has been to shovel more money at the department in the overseas contingency operations fund. what in previous years

only new experience for tom daley this weekend, who is also preparing with his new synchro partner, mattyod, that he is actually considering extending his career beyond the next olympics, tokyo 2020. i thought i was coming to the end of my career last year with my injury and illnesses. i thought i was not going to be able to do it. now, i'm stronger, fitter, healthier in both mind and body than i have ever been in my whole career, so i am really excited with what's to come. so daley in a confident mood — and he's got off to the best possible start in 2019. daley and his new partner matty lee have won today's 10m sychronised event at the british national diving cup. they finished a5 points ahead of noah williams and kyle kothari after six rounds. his first metal of 2019. they had to be in grand champion and island. opening weekend of the six nations competition is over and england victory in the last few minutes. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more at half past seven. snow may have been the prominent feature by sunshine. it will be called us overnight. we have the deepest snow on th

like general mattis, i wasn't happy with his service and i said give me a letter.he asked him to resign and resigned. >> that's not what we heard at the time. he has a habit of not liking other people and having chief of staff kelly do the firing. or if you quit on him, he wants people to think you're rejected. so there's a lot of moving explanations. i don't think people are really buying this one. but i would go back to what he said about iraq and what he's saying about iran because he tends to have these precooked notions going back sometimes 30 years about things and he cannot be moved off with any new facts. from his previous decisions. so iran right now is in his crosshairs drowning over the holidays in the midst of a lot of russia investigation developments and really bad shutdown, "the wall street journal" reporting the white house has requested from the pentagon options of how to strike iran, much to the shock of many people at the pentagon. and there is -- there's an idea in his head about how the iranians took us for suckers because obama let this happen

if you recall trump's initial tweet about mattis's resignation, general mattis is retiring. we thank him for the service. this is the president attempting to rewrite history to make himself look, you know, nonspurned. he doesn't like it when people know that he has been rejected by someone, especially when that person, like mattis, then comes out and publicly criticizes him. so trump is simply attempting to assert that there was some secret firing precipitated what we all thought was resignation. that didn't happen. it was a resignation. >> eleanor, in the meantime, he did brush on the mueller investigation a little bit, talking about recently indicted former colleague roger stone and saying roger didn't have that big of a role in his campaign. >> this is the world, according to donald j. trump. and he rearranges it everyday, according to whatever pressures he feels. roger stone has been an important factor in donald trump's life for decades. he was the person who was whispering in his ear that he should be president. he orchestrated the run in 2000 when trump tried to get t

robert: secretary mattis is gone, gary co-len isone from inside the whoums.ho is going to pull the president back towards the, centck towards the mainstream snleds bob: i don't know butha the to do it. collectively smouse -- somehow, the intelligence chief and make that argument. look, p msident, we're just telling you what we find. let's have a discussion about this. this impulse decision makin is very dangerous in this climate d remember, it was president obama in his last months in autopsy -- actually considered maybe we have to launch preemptive strike on north korea to get rid of all their nuclear weapons and the intelligence people told obama we won't get them all and obama said quite naturally no. so this is kind ofne of these moments where, fork in the road. it can take the dangerous fork where we go off a cliff. robert: it's not just what we saw from the intelligence testimony. there's more news on thi front day in, day out. secretary of state mike pompeo announced friday that the u.s. is pulling out of a nuclear arms control treaty with ruia. >> rus

trancepresident pence's -- >> even secretary mattis raised questions with it. recall question is sent to congress, saying if we did this, we may as well move for submarine force for another option. in fact between then and now. you said you were in favor of it. >> one thing the president has the opportunity to do is the power of the presidency. say this is important for the country to focus on. and we will move forward and make sure we're not suck -- denied the use of space. same powerse the the presidency that the white house has. by saying we will do some do it in across effective way, the president has made this kitchen table conversation. he has made it a central element of what he wants to do. kudos to him for bringing this to the floor in a way that was not before. >> next week will be a summit between the north american and american leaders. i am wondering if in the context of the air force, exercises with a long history in the area, whether there is room to change or reduce those exercises. the air force strategic presence in the region without diminish

mattis told the president that he would get right on it.o do any of that.'" [ laughter ] it is amazing that you can just ignore the president of the united states, and he'll probably forget what he asked you to do. he's like a dog who really wants a tennis ball. if you just fake throw it and then put it in a drawer, he'll forget about it. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: seth meyers, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] "late night" has a live show tuesday after the state of the union. don't miss that special episode. danai gurira joins us after the break. stick around, everybody. seth, thank you buddy. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ -we're doing karaoke later, and you're gonna sing. -jamie, this is your house? -i know, it's not much, but it's home. right, kids? -kids? -papa, papa! -[ laughs ] -you didn't tell me your friends were coming. -oh, yeah. -this one is tiny like a child. -yeah, she is. oh, but seriously, it's good to be surrounded by what matters most -- a home and auto bundle from progressive. -oh, sweetie, please, play for us. -oh, no, i couldn'

jim mattis resigned because he objected to president trump's decision to start pulling troops out of syria we don't know what his position is on afghanistan but there are questions still around about how this process will go mr khalilzad who's leading the peace negotiations for the americans is quite optimistic he's saying there could be some kind of deal by july that is worrying some people because after eighteen years of conflict with many complications here they're worried that that's going to quickly and perhaps one of the complications tony is that there are many splinter groups now in afghanistan so one can't really be sure that the taliban will be speaking for all groups during the talks. no we can't go there as you say many spencer groups or the haqqani network for example which you carried out many attacks many bloody attacks in afghanistan we don't know if they're on board and also there's a factor of i so i saw now a lot. eastern afghanistan they got a foothold it causing problems there are concerns also that if isis eisel is pushed out of syria those fighters will come he

i was doing that myself and i am glad to see it continue under jim mattis and the acting secretary. >> we will open up for questions but before we do, one of the predominant questions, two big questions. general dunford, chairman of the joint chiefs, eric lander, someone else you know well, have both said from a military and scientific point of view we risk losing our place as the leading technology country because of the breakdown of the innovation triangle. jennifer -- general dunford, the speed with which ai, machine learning, quantum communication, are proceeding means our current platforms could be obsolete in the generation ahead and we could lose the race for military superiority. that is everything to us for those of us who think about american foreign and defense policy. do you agree? >> we are great, we are inventive, we have a great installed base, this is a competitive world. nobody has a birthright. these guys, our enemies are hungry and focused on us. we say we have russia, china, north korea, iran and we do. but they all have just us, they are looking just at us. it is

mattie, there was also some criticism from folks who weren't only progressives.s criticism over corporate welfare, corporate cronyism, just the idea that you would have to incentivize a company this large with that kind of a tax break when it is indeed the small businesses, the mid-size businesses that create jobs and never get offered those kind of deals? >> this is something that capri and i agree on. no reason as a state as successful in new york needs to hand out corporate welfare to a company like amazon but that is true of any company. it is not just amazon. the most amazing thing to my, governor cuomo was in d.c. earlier in the week pleading with president trump to repeal the cap on the state and local tax deduction, he needed to be able to tax job creators more in new york. the thing that is incredible, policymakers don't reflect on the ecosystem they created in their own state. rather than lowering barriers, creating a better environment for people to compete, they carve out narrow being tax situations a gets progressives and conservatives all riled up a

and jim mattis, it earned taking the x away. but i didn't look that way at first. we stumbled in a few ways at first and we -- a few things that didn't work and we had to start over again. and we were trying to meet the valley, or boston, or austin, i would have done dayton and a few others, halfway. these are people who like me when i started out, when i did that mx thing, i didn't want to be in government. i wanted to stay doing what i was doing which was physics. i was happy to give it a try, but i didn't want to live in washington. it turns out it struck more to me than it will to most people. but that's okay. and that means meeting people both ways. this was the time when we had edward snoweden, so you can imagine what i think of edward snoweden, but you had to agree to disagree about certain things in order to reach a point where -- you could say to someone come on and give it a try. overwhelmingly, and i had people in the pentagon, who had their hoodies on, their glasses on their head, their earrings and it was difficult for us for those of us who look like

both you and secretary mattis had issues with it, raised issues with it. i recall a letter you sent saying if we did this, we may as well basically move for a submarine force as another option. what has happened between then and now? you have said more recently you are in favor of it. heather: one of the things presidents have the opportunity to do is highlight issues and make sure they move forward. they have the power of the presidency to say this is important, it is important for the country to focus on, and we are going to move forward and make sure we are not denied the use of space in crisis or war. i am the secretary of the air force. i don't have the same kind of power of the presidency that the white house has. by bringing this forward and saying we going to do something different, we are going to create a new force, do it in a cost-effective way, the president has made this kitchen table conversation and made it a central element of what he wants to do as president of the united states. kudos to him for bringing this to the floor in a way it was

have to be signed off by the defense secretary we know that the previous defense secretary james mattis was rather dubious about that as well despite these reservations donald trump is known for holding on to the blame if you think it's the right one all we know one step closer to terrorists on u.s. car imports i wouldn't necessarily say that we've got ninety days now to see what president trump does with the recommendations from that report but i would say is that the stage has been set for the next round of negotiations between ited states and the european union with each side's now having their weapons their chosen weapons drawn so for the united states this is the threat of up to twenty five percent increase on vehicle for the european union this is an increase in tariffs on liquefied gas and soybeans but of course with president trump caution is a was advised don't use home a home for you reporting from washington thank you very much and of course. the birthday. thank you very much. now to some of today's other business headlines around the world british lawmakers have slammed face

perhaps the worst of the lot a breakdown in cover and communication between osgar vent and center back matty s. after vul spodes arran brutes won his head a far too easily and mehdi grabs his second of the game. with me from the storm we failed to score them in that situation meaning to defend from play and make sure you keep a clean sheet we didn't manage to win him that's two three nil defeats in a row for cut back at home fortress brucey a park is a thing of the past and the next guests by meeting. with five well matched a two. three has matched up several of the teams battling for survival in the bundesliga and the rumble in the relegation zone kicked off on friday night with lowly stuttgart visiting mid table verger braman and the home fans were shocked when steven slotted in the opener after just two minutes on the clock at bremen supporters have to wait until the stroke of half time for the equaliser i gave the class and hammered home an unstoppable shot one all the final score. lovely stuff there now let's see how the other strugglers fared first up is docile dorf against bottom of t

>> it's not just general mattis who fundamentally disagreed with president trump. most of the president's generals have made it publicly, they have said it publicly that the fight goes on. isis is not defeated. the second phase is very complex. the insurgency, the counter insurgency phase. this president was all humility. he doesn't care about facts. in fact, he has mastered the art of falsehood and he does not listen to anyone. he does not care about nuances. he does not care about distinctions. again, what he cares about is his political base, a now political base. he tries to tell his political face, president barack obama failed to defeat isis, i did it. isis is not defeated. american generals, everyone in the civilian, basically community, myself included. i have written a book on isis two years ago. i know not only isis is not defeated, you have between 30 and 40,000 al qaeda affiliates in syria. american generals estimate there are 50,000 isis in iraq, not to mention the sign up in egypt, yemen, africa and other places. we have to show humility and say, yes,

built for years before he came into office he's not getting the concrete wall >> do you like it, mattie? >> i haven't seen it exactly yet. but which chamber goes first, and how high the margin is by which it happens now remember, too, we heard a lot from mick mulvaney, repurposing other monies to accomplish this building of the wall that i think will also be very important to watch it's been suggested that make the path forward was for the republicans and the senate, more the democrats in the house, what do you think about that? >> well, republicans in the senate, by striking this deal, richard shelby, and by mitch mcconnell saying he's going to put it on the floor and have the senate act on it, they're essential dollars a bit of independence from the president. you know, mitch mcconnell during the negotiations, that the president is going to sign he's not waiting now mitch mcconnell has been consistently against it. president trump will have to deal with the embarrassment, i think republicans are going forward, then as allyian right now. what about the politics of this? to piggyback on

ma matty was just tried to show pride in her country.d she could not wear the hat because it was not a school hat or from a school club or activity. they said our dress code is silent to political attire. with me is matty. they say the rules about hats -- don't like hats indoors. i am not a big fan of it. they said this has nothing to do with stifling your political beliefs. do you believe that? >> i disagree. >> laura: what evidence do you have have that the school is discriminating against your political beliefs? >> currently on campus as of today, i checked today, i saw 4 hillary clinton t-shirts, one obama shirt, a bernie sanders hat, and 7 lgbtq rainbow hats on campus today. >> laura: were they in class rooms? >> yes. >> laura: okay. that's pretty good evidence. if that's accurate, then people can just wear what they want to wear. i see kids coming out of schools wearing short-shorts. they are wearing lots of stuff including hats. i see a lot of political symbols on shirts. kids are encouraged to be mini-activists. but if you are a

from american soldiers that welcome customers here at the washington restaurant owner to moto to mattie has filled the menu with american favorites so his patrons can feel at home he's been waiting years for the air base to be relocated to the area. if the base doesn't get built here to free up the other location then there's nothing you can do about it i personally would welcome it an airport like that could also be used commercially one day that would really help the local economy well it would mean. the world. once again there's a fight over the island's future this time with words not weapons the names of those who died in the battle of okinawa in one thousand nine hundred forty five are listed here both americans and japanese as a symbol of reconciliation but it seems the us military and or can our locals are still far from living in peace with each other. the excitement is definitely building in vietnam ahead of next week's much anticipated summit between u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un and we got a little preview of what's to come earlier today whe

troops from syria this led to the resignation of defense secretary james mattis along with the u.s. envoy to the global coalition who has not been replaced the u.s. secretary of state offered words of reassurance the drawdown of troops is essentially a tactical change it is not a change in the mission. it does not change the structure design or authorities on which the campaign has been based it simply represents a new stage in an old fight president trump argued at the time that eisel had been defeated at position he continues to hold insisting a formal announcement to the subject will be made soon the united states military our coalition partners and the syrian democratic forces have liberated virtually all of the territory previously held by isis and syria and iraq it should be formally announced some time probably next week that we will have one hundred percent of the caliphate many members of the coalition warned that this may not mean an end to the fight and then he added while alum and i call on all countries of the world to help iraq fight sleeper cells all over the country

and the world of ski—jumping mourns, as four—time olympic gold medallist matti nykanan dies at the ageish premier league, where the leaders liverpool have been held to a 1—1 draw at west ham, which now leaves the door open for manchester city to go top of the table when they play later in the week. jurgen klopp was disappointed at the end,

strategy in the region we know that troops are going to be withdrawn as defense secretary jim mattis essentially resigned over this decision on their fear is that whatever gains have been made over the past year or two might be completely lost. and there are those fears and people have been saying this could happen at the problem for the united states is that they don't want their nato partner turkey to move into north syria and take over the american job because they would cut down the white peachy that's the main ally the united states a kurdish ally the united states in northern syria which turkey considers a terrorist organization and equally the united states is unwilling to organize with the syrian government in the russians that they should move back in because behind them is iran and the united states this is a political third rail in washington everybody iran is a major enemy of the united states in the end the state department national security by they're at really sworn themselves to cut your run down to size so they cannot organize with syria in order to take over this jo

a teenager accused of the rape and murder of mattie middleton is due in court. adrian gonzalez who is now 19 years old used ice cream to where the little girl to his mother's apartment three years ago then raped and stabbed her. gonzalez was 15 at the time but is being tried as an adult. he has waited not guilty. if convicted, he could get life in prison with no chance of parole.>> a police officer is now on administrative leave after detaining a man for recording him from his front porch. david mclaughlin is the same officer shown drawing his gun on a man in a busy shopping center last august. it all started as a minor argument.>> candace first brought you the story on friday and she describes the internal investigation now underway. >> in the white t-shirt, police officer david mclaughlin is seen throwing punches and elbows. this is ought to you friday. it shows officers rushing in to help. >> he grabbed my head and started shoving it down to the concrete. >> i got stitches, back pain and face pain. >> the incident happened on august 11. hutchins did not only

daley‘s new diving partner matty lee finished sixth.py with a gold medal but there was a lot that could be improved on. i'm a perfectionist and i won't fully be happy until i gets perfect tens on everything. for this time in the season, i'm happy with where i'm at. looking to the world series event and then challenge it later. and there was a shock result in the women's three—metre final as millie fowler won herfirst individual national title. commonwealth gold medallist and european champion and there was a shock result in the women's three—metre final as millie fowler won herfirst individual national title. commonwealth gold medallist and european champion grace reid finished last, while kat torrance came fifth. dustin johnson has won the european tour's saudi international. the american shot back to back birdies and finished with a final—round 67 to hold off china's haotong li by two strokes. england's tom lewis was a further shot behind in third. there has been british medal success at the freestyle skiing and snowboard world champi

acting secretary of defense after james mattis left the white house claiming his views did not alignhe president's and acting chief of staff after president trump announced john kelly was leaving, source told cnn that kelly and trump were not on speaking terms and their relationship was no longer tinable and ryan zinke resigned and scott pruitt's resignation over ethics concerns well and acting fema administrative after brock long is scheduled to leave soon because of questions he misused government vehicles. trump has six positions unfilled or with acting chiefs. >> thanks for laying that out, victor. joining me is julian zeleny, and siraj hasmi. good morning. you heard victor lay out six positions in the administration unstaffed or filled with an acting head. president trump has tried to put a positive spin on the situation saying that acting department heads give him more flexibility. siraj, what downside to see to this situation and resolving door that keeps spinning? >> right now, the main situation is finding people who alie with president trump on his agenda and that, obviousl

the reason mattis left was not because he got fired but he was upset. to withdraw troops from syria. you see those kinds of naive foreign policy decisions taken place across the map. the intelligence officer is saying iran is like a kindergarten class. intelligence officer was telling him that was the case. he's setting this superficial construct out there or in his term as a bunch of killers and the reality is a lot more complicated than what the president believed and what he's presenting to the public. >> a withdraw from syria came up from this interview, listen to what he said whether we may need to go back there. >> your intelligence chief that you can see a resurgence of i.c.e. and al-qaida. >> we have fast airplanes and cargo planes and we can come back quickly. >> eli, is he serious? >> i am not sure -- it is really hard to know, katy. it does not sound like a serious discussion of military policy taking a commercial flight back and forth at the ocean. that's not the same way they're looking at it. the way the president talks about this in such

mattis resigned just before the end of the year.we've been hearing this is secretary shanahan's job to lose. and he's been auditioning for it. he went on his first big international trip last week going to iraq, afghanistan, brussels to nato and to munich for the security conference. this was seen across the pentagon as the last step in his audition to be secretary of defense. the fact there were -- with someone like lindsey graham and there were other senior congressional members, lawmakers there that he didn't make a good impression on. that doesn't bode well for him. we're starting to hear about some other names who might be in the hopper to actually get the official nomination to be the secretary of defense. >> thank you. >> thanks. >>> a woman married into isis now making a plea to be allowed back into the united states with her child. p. when your flight gets in late, it's never too early for coffee. oh no no no. your new boss seems cool, but she might not be sweatpants cool. who is that ready this early? it's only 7 am. someb

troops from syria this led to the resignation of defense secretary james mattis along with the u.s. envoy to the global coalition who has might be replaced the u.s. secretary of state's office will of reassurance the drawdown of troops is essentially a tactical change it is not a change in the mission it does not change the structure design or authorities on which the campaign has been based. it simply represents a new stage in an old fight president trump argued at the time that eisel had been defeated a position he continues to hold insisting a formal announcement to the subject will be made soon the united states military our coalition partners and the syrian democratic forces have liberated virtually all of the territory previously held by isis and syria and iraq it should be formally announced some time probably next week that we will have one hundred percent of the caliphate many members of the coalition warned that this may not mean an end to the fight and then he had. a drama and i call on all countries of the world to help iraq fight sleeper cells all over the country and t

we have ryan payne with us and mattie doppler. this was time when this was news. >> i would argue that politic n politicians are somewhat unnerved to the national debt. but that clip you played was right on. we're careening towards a cliff and we don't know how to stop ourselves. in some ways, it's alarming but not shocking that politicians have not started to use the national debt as an issue that they actually want to tackle. but frankly, if you look into the future, $22 trillion now, a trillion every year after that, really starts to make a dent. the reason that politicians should care about this is for both political reasons and realistic ones. it destabilizes the future for all americans. if you're a republican or conservatives, the opportunities narrow as the debt continues to squeeze out other kinds of investment. if you're a democrat and you think the federal government should be spending a lot on different programs, the priorities will be undermined that the debt will take up a greater part of the federal budget. >> in the green new deal, that's -- this $

troops from syria this led to the resignation of defense secretary james mattis along with the u.s. envoy to the global coalition who has not been replaced the u.s. secretary of state offered words of reassurance the drawdown of troops is essentially a tactical change it is not a change in the mission it does not change the structure design or authorities on which the campaign has been based it simply represents a new stage in an old fight president trump argued at the time that i still had been defeated a position he continues to hold insisting a formal announcement to the subject will be mates the united states military our coalition partners and the syrian democratic forces have liberated virtually all of the territory previously held by isis and syria and iraq. it should be formally announced some time probably next week that we will have one hundred percent of the caliphate many members of the coalition warned that this may not mean an end to the fight and then he adds. i call on all countries of the world to help iraq fight sleeper cells all over the country and to help iraq r

mattis resigned.ons are being made when the defense secretary who is the main person in these kinds of policies doesn't know anything about it? this is again the president making snap decisions, not listening to those around him, not listening to what should happen. someone like mattis wasn't going to stand for it. it is unprecedented that a secretary of defense would resign like this. so the 200 is better than nothing, but, you know, we are trying now to get our allies, britain and france to substitute. they don't want to substitute. if we are not going to be there and do what we need to do with them as allies, they are not going to pull our chestnuts out of the fire. it is a ridiculous decision made by the president. i would hope that he would reverse it. i don't want our troops to stay on foreign soil, but you have to take into account what the possibilities are. i think anybody who knowathize situation in syria knows that pulling out would be a disaster. >> let's see what tomorrow brings. thank yo

mattis resigning at the end of december when the announcement was made.e was not consulted on all of this. as the general testified today on capitol hill, more and more emerged about his view of isis, the threat it poses and what he thinks is going on. >> general, were you aware of the president's intention to order the withdrawal of our troops from syria before that was publically announced? >> i was not aware of the specific announcement. certainly, we are aware that he expressed a desire and intent in the past to depart iraq. >> you weren't consulted before that decision was announced? >> we were not -- i was not consulted. >> reporter: the president might have wanted to consult him because his view is that isis is not defeated. he has a lot of evidence to back that up. the physical caliphate almost gone, isis down to 20 square miles. look, the intelligence community says there are thousands of isis fighters still out there. . >>> clan december tin-- staging attacks, this is an organization very far from gone, regardless of what the president says. >>

hearing all of this, wouldn't perhaps this explain the unilateral decision like this why general mattisesign? >> he put it in his letter that it was a big reason why he decided to resign. there were other things building to it, but i think the syria decision was sort of the straw that broke the camel's back. luckily, we've got -- folks like general votel still in the fight and trying to make this work. he said something very interesting today, votel, the decision was not time or conditions based. in other words, he hasn't been given any direct orders about when or under what circumstances to remove those troops. it sounds like the pentagon has sort of been able to convince the president, let's not do this in a too rapid fashion or precipitous way. let's keep the pressure on isis. we'll see where it goes. >> that's significant that you heard that as well. admiral, thank you very much. >>> now to this as the president gets ready to focus in on immigration in his state of the union address this evening. the trump organization firing more and more undocumented workers and that includes one

mcmaster was there in his last year -- last days, and general mattis or defense secretary mattis, hisnse secretary, and they sort of let out a fairly normal we want to build up with the allies, we want to work with the allies speeches that led people to say, well, don't worry the adults in the room will take care of this. this year they basically said we're finished with this, we're just going to wait out the next two years. but there was no effort to try to sort of make amends with the trump administration. >> but as someone who has seen the arc through the years in covering this, how worrisome, how dangerous is the direction in which we're all going? >> it's dangerous because we've forgotten who our closest allies coming out of world war ii were, and it was notable that mike pompeo, secretary of state pompeo, ended up holding that iran conference in warsaw, a new member of nato, an increasingly authoritarian democracy, if that doesn't sound too jarring, and one that is not invested in the iran deal. he could not have held that conference in london, in paris, or in berlin. that reall

i think that goes through james mattis' firing. the president said he fired me and mattis resigned.around the comey firing, where the white house blows anything out of proportion. >> on this broadcast, any meeting in your family office that you have to have a russian translator present for should maybe set off alarm bells. >>> anyway, shannon and aaron have agreed to stick around a bit longer. coming up, we'll talk about what the president has said just this week. just this week -driverless cars... -all ground personnel... ...or trips to mars. $4.95. delivery drones or the latest phones. $4.95. no matter what you trade, at fidelity it's just $4.95 per online u.s. equity trade. no matter what you trade, at fidelity if your moderate to severeor crohn's symptoms are holding you back, and your current treatment hasn't worked well enough it may be time for a change. ask your doctor about entyvio®, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohn's. entyvio® works at the site of inflammation in the gi tract, and is clinically proven to help many patients achieve both symptom

troops from syria this led to the resignation of defense secretary james mattis along with the u.s. envoy to the global coalition who has not been replaced the u.s. secretary of state offered words of reassurance the drawdown of troops is essentially a tactical change it is not a change in the mission it does not change the structure design or authorities on which the campaign has been based it simply represents a new stage in an old fight president trump argued at the time that eisel had been defeated a position he continues to hold insisting a formal announcement to the subject will be made soon the united states military our coalition partners and the syrian democratic forces have liberated virtually all of the territory previously held by isis and syria and iraq it should be formally announced some time probably next week that we will have one hundred percent of the caliphate. many members of the coalition warned that this may not mean an end to the fight and then he added well alum and i call on all countries of the world to help iraq fight sleeper cells all over the country an