people wanted the back story why jim mattis left.have been told recently by other republicans that soon more establishment republicans would start speak out and it sounds like this morning jim mattis is doing that. >> i met with jim mattis about three weeks after he resigned as secretary of defense in arlington to sort of wrap up his affairs. and we talked about an hour. it was off the record. i'm not going to obviously violate that at all except to say that i think a lot of reporting focused on syria and particular disagreements jim mattis had with the president, i think the impression i got from mattis and i gather that's what people get from this piece is he had much more fundamental doubts about this president's fitness to govern really. he thought he had done a lot of good in helping steer policy in the right direction, prevent an awful lot of things from happening that shouldn't have happened, prevent illegalities. also we talked about the policies going in the right direction, others not so much. but the degree to which someon

when it got to mattis he said, "mr. president, i'm just proud to represent the men and women of the armed forces." this guy is a very tough man, very balanced guy. i don't think he has any political ambitions. i hope this book is helpful in understanding the incredible chaotic dysfunctional system now in place to deal with national security issues. so mattis needs to give us a warning for the future. >> it's interesting reading this essay and curious to read the book. obviously, you can look for all the veiled references to the current commander in chief. there was also sort of a broader critique of the current political climate as well. we can put this up on the screen from mattis's essay. he wrote, "all americans need to recognize that our democracy is an experiment and one that can be reversed. we all know that we're better than our current politics. tribalism must not be allowed to destroy our experiment. jon meacham, picking up on something general mccaffrey just said, he said he doesn't think there's a future in p

it sounds like jim mattis is doing that. >> this is a warning.s is not simply an interesting story but a warning. it's time for 2020. >> laura: he said the iraq war would last 2 or 3 months. okay? sitting among the first thoughts we heard on that new jim mattis book was from bill crystal who is always wrong and never in doubt. the anti-trump zealots were referring to this passage where mattis is writing using every skill i learned during by decades as a marine i did as well as i could for as long as is i could. joining me now is daniel davis and retired army colonel doug mcgregor. what is mattis really trying to do here other than sell his book? >> he is trying to convince the audience he is a heorric figure. it's a tough sell. for 2 years in the administration he did everything to subvert the president. now he is discussing things he talked to the president in confidence about. he is trying to emphasize his courage and devotion. where was that for 18 years of self-defeating warfare that cost trillion dollars and thousands of lives and accomplish

that's not enough for jim mattis. he thinks we should have doubled it and things would have worked out. the christians will still have their place in mosul.we wouldn'e crisis. iran would not have pointed those devices our guys stepped on.what about that. >> it is interesting, because normally failed generals point to troops. i didn't have enough soldiers.ie solders, things would have worked out better. this is the first time i have ever heard a general officer say i didn't have enough money.part, if you look at what happened with rumsfeld became the secretary of defense. rumsfeld and bush told the generals you can have as much money as you want. what i can't provide you is hundreds of thousands of additional troops.they said tha. we just don't have them to sends as you want, as much money as you want. no constraint. where does this come from? if anything he had too much money. thoughts a huge part of the problem for us. we had too many people in the military swimming in oceans of cash. you don't have to make hard deci

what's your reaction when you hear that from someone as respected as general mattis? mine of decades-long standing, and i really admire him, and i think he's right. america solves any problems, we can deal with anything as long as we can get together and deal with it. but right now i think the environment in washington is just tribal toxicity on steroids. now, aye spent the -- i've spent the last year thinking about this stuff, and i've written a book which'll come out in the winter, but it's to talk about why have we gotten to this point. is there something different about america today? i don't think so. i think we go through these political revolutions every 40 years, and they're caustic, and we get at each other's throats. sometimes we even fight each other in the streets. but at the end of the day, somebody wins, somebody loses, and then we go on, and i think that's how we recreate ourselves. is so as miserable as this is, and jim mattis is right -- the biggest threat right now is what's happening inside of washington, d.c -- but at the end of the day, i think th

what do you make of mattis coming forward? and is he speaking loudly enough to get people's attention? >> i find the most interesting question here why he left when he did. he does try to explain in the excerpt we were looking at yesterday. there's certainly an ambience around goldberg's piece that gets to that. and a lot of people and i think john's point is well made. a lot of them in the military believe they have the sense of duty and need good people in government. it can't be the case you disagree with your boss, you resign. no one agrees 100% of the time. but at what point do you leave? mattis picked a specific point, but we should assume there were many points before that he didn't agree with the president. how long do you serve for and when do you leave? i think that's a version of what we're all trying to get at that perhaps general mattis would be helping the country if he discussed his philosophy on that might get to this. >> do you think he will, sarah? >> i think that we've seen about as much leg as we're going t

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i think jim mattis just disagrees with those ideas vehemently.foreign policy and national security is just transactional, that we don't owe anything to allies, we shouldn't have permanent allies and permanent treatietreaties. and that's of course where this all fell apart. but i guess that counts as a big idea. it's not an ideology, it's an ideology of extreme pragmatism. but it certainly is not the way jim mattis looks at the world. >> but it's tracnsactional in terms of what affects trump, not to a big purpose. >> i'm sure trump would disagree with that and say i'm looking out for the best economic interests of america, i'm not going to have allies rip us off anymore. but that was an area -- look, the mattis/trump relationship was never going to work in the extreme long term because jim mattis came in valuing alliances, allies and friends. we know pretty clearly, the evidence is there, that donald trump does not value friends, does not value allies, does not value treaties. >> jeffrey, i guess the counterargument to keeping his silence, which h

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i want to give you the last word here on james mattis. is this enough? if he disagrees with the president as much as he's hinting at, is it the type of thing he should make clear when he was in the pentagon or maybe name names now? >> this has been a long-standing issue. if you are on active duty you are not permitted to criticize the commander in chief. but he was the civilian secretary in defense. what we do know about him is he was very reluctant to say anything that the president or the white house at the time might perceive at criticism because he thought he would be side lined and in the end he was. so perhaps that's the most telling lesson of all. how do you speak up when you don't agree with the commander in chief? >> barbara, thank you very much for your reporting and insight. >> the other big story we're following is that people are in harms way because of tropical storm dorian which is expected to grow and strengthen into a hurricane, into a category 2 hurricane or above. >> as millions prepare to be affected by a hurricane the president seems

what jim did is circumspect as he has been, is classic jim mattis.hen he and the president elect were standing on the doorstep there at bedminster and i had two thoughts. thank god that jim is going to take this job on as secretary of defense, but it won't last. jim is a man of principle. and he stayed as he said. he did as well as he could for as long as he could. truth in advertising, he's a friend and someone i greatly admire. >> on the subject of it won't last, in the same interview we're talking about, general mattis says, quote, there is a period in which i owe meisei lens. it's not eternal. it's not going to be forever. so when do you think this grace period might end for him? >> you know, i don't know, john. and i thought that statement was very intriguing. i think jim is -- not to be an amateur psychologist here, but internally conflicted. i would be very surprised if he doesn't speak out more explicitly about the president as the election draws nigh. i can't put, obviously, a date and time. but i think we'll hear more from jim and i hope we

jim mattis couldn't. he decided to resign and leave. he has to decide how silent -- how long he wants to be silent. i think the fundamental question right now for him and for others who are deciding whether they want to speak out is their silence actually perceived to be acquiescence to what the trump administration is doing? and maybe that's one of the key questions he's addressing. >> you don't endanger the country by attacking the elected commander in chief. i may not like a commander in chief one freaking bit, but our system puts the commander in chief there. general hertling, i'll pose this question to you. does he owe his duty to the president now to be silent? or does he owe a duty to the american people to tell us what he really thinks? >> i'm going answer that, john, by saying he owes his duty to the constitution. and this is a constitutionally elected president. and the people that he used to serve in the defense department. i'm going to add a couple more words that are a part, i'm sure, of the consideration by mattis. loyalty

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>> well, you know, mattis is essentially apolitical.tary guy, has been very careful to never declare for one party or another. they are sort of imbeaued with that constitutional requirement. so, it's going to be interesting to see to me to what extent he describes the obvious almost complete dysfunction of the white house for national security affairs. the syrian effort went over a weekend essentially president trump in conversation with ergodan with turkey immediately decided to withdraw all of our forces leaving the allies who have done the fighting for us at risk. it's the impulsive nature of defense planning and strategic guidance of trump. will he talk about that bluntly in his book? personally i think he owes it to us, and it'll be helpful analysis to where we got to go in the future. >> to your point about most military leaders, mattis himself says he's not about the politics of washington. but clearly his opinions do matter. they are respected on both sides of the aisle. i wonder if you think this is it for him. is he gone from

mattis. they're holding a rare news conference there.t they're saying up ahead. >>> now, switching gears, in west virginia, there has been a string of 11 suspicious deaths at the same va medical center, that's under investigation. the family of an 82-year-old patient filed a wrongful death claim against the va. a medical examiner ruled that mcdermott's death last year was a homicide. renee marsh is with us now. renee, what made the medical examiner declare mcdermott's death a homicide? >> this family went to the extent of having his body exhumed. he died in april of 2019, the medical examiner was able to determine that he died from low blood pressure, which was according to the family a result of getting an insulin injection. this 82-year-old army veteran did not have diabetes. i'm quoting now that he was injected with a fatal dose of insulin either neglectly or willfully by an unidentified person. he was a patient at the medical center. it's not just this one case, there's suspicious revolving around other deaths. the va inspector gener

mattis' public criticism comes on the heels of a particularly frenetic two-week period with president trump, who referred to himself as the chosen one and canceled a trip to denmark because they refused, that country refused to sell him greenland, an island that was not for sale. the former defense secretary joins a number of former administration officials calling the adults in the room who as private citizens have been critical of the president's governing skills. take a look. >> i think part of it was obviously we are starkly different in our styles. we did not have a common value system. when the president would say well, here's what i want to do and here's how i want to do it, and i'd have to say to him, well, mr. president, i understand what you want to do, but you can't do it that way. it violates the law. it violates treaty, you know. he got really frustrated. >> when the process breaks down, then you're sort of in my mind living in chaos. i don't want to live in a chaotic organization. >> well, general manager resigned in protest after president trump announced the complete w

i don't think this is a time for jim mattis fob subtle. this is a time for him to tell the american public that this man is not fit to be president. and i know he probably thinks that's inappropriate for him as a former military leader. and i know he's been marshalling his credibility for his entire life. but this is the time to use it. >> just say that someone asked me once a week why -- same question about george w. bush. where is george w. bush? and i take your point that people who have seen him up close, but you could say the same thing about h.r. mcmaster, rex tillerson has sort of told his story. but why do so many of them stay silent at this point? >> i have no idea. i think a lot of them who think this isn't my fight. or it would be disloyal for me, but your loyalty is not supposed to be the president. it's supposed to be the country. that's who you take the oath to. >> just listening to mattis just there and reading his essay, it reminded me of what republicans used to tell me very early on in this administration, which was don't

that was the straw where general mattis said that's it.dvocate and no one's going to take this seriously he felt that was quite a blow to the u.s. standing in the world. and i think he rightly said it's time for me to go. >> so if he left, if the person, one of the people standing up for alliances, he left, the president didn't listen to him and he left, who is standing up for those alliances now in this administration if anybody? >> you know, that's a great question. i'm not sure we know. and i think he was one of the few people that could stand up in any meeting and hold his head up and have an argument why he thought a policy was right, wrong or different. it means you just dig in, you use your best arguments. at the end of the day a decision has to be made and it might not go your way. but what you see with general mattis was that over a period of time the direction he thought the united states should go for our long-term national security interests was just going in a completely different direction, and i think he came to the conclusi

go to xfinity.com/moving to get started. >>> jim mattis is taking swipes at his former boss.y and adapted from his book called signed chaos learning to lead a role is not sufficient for a leader and he goes on to say when my concrete solutions and strategy advice especially keeping faith with allies no longer resonated, it was time to resign. you may recall what general mattis resigned from the trump administration back in december after clashing with the president over the withdrawal of u.s. troops in syria and afghanistan. joining us now retired admiral john kirby and military and diplomatic analyst that served as press secretary in the obama administration. thanks for being with us. i wonder how you read these words from jim mattis because when i saw them, particularly these two quotes we just read they were not so veiled comments on the president. >> you can take away to some degree, johnny is talking about president trump, they are very much i think in accord with the words he used or at least the tone he took in the resignation letter that he submitted back in january,

mattis is obviously a very diplomatic figure here.ve it's his place to come out swinging after leaving the administration. >> right. >> but a lot of people say look, you left for a reason. we need to know a little bit more about the dysfunction internally in this administration so that people can make a more informed decision leading up to 2020. there is going to be a lot of fighting leading up to the election. but i think the choice between a president who may be unfit for the office, who is tweeting out classified images of iran from an intelligence briefing versus a democrat is a choice that mattis may be able to weigh in on, in a more significant way. >> you're right. he told cbs i will not speak ill of a sitting president. i'm not going to do t but as we get closer to the 2020 election, i mean, do you think mattis could be speaking out more? is this the beginning of something? >> well, he did say in the atlantic interview that he is not necessarily going to be this quiet forever, but it's also important to remember that his book

we're hearing mattis speak out.t's all the more revealing about what he won't say because here's an example. this is a period in which i owe my silence. it's not eternal, it's not going to be forever. this is interesting, is it his duty to remain silent about the president or is it his duty to americans to say something if he feels the president isn't adhering to the constitution? >> i think he's done both in this interview. if read the interview, it's a very good piece, and he has remained faithful to his duty to serve the nation. i think secretary mattis will probably say the reason i'm not speaking out is because anything i might say now would cause more churn within the department of defense that i so love, the military i so love and cause further divisions. that's the problem that i think he's conflicted with, brianna. i thought a lot about this. and whereas you would want to speak out when you see someone violating the elements of the constitution or doing dumb things in terms of national security strategy, yo

james mattis with criticism of his former boss.en america doesn't embrace its allies, it puts us in increased risk in the world. the book is called "call sign chaos, learning to lead." remember, the retired marine general announced his resignation after policy agreements with president trump. he said that all americans need to recognize our democracy is an experiment and one that can be reversed. we all know that we're better than our current politics. tribalism must not be allowed to destroy our experiment. jennifer griffin reporting live. jennifer? >> shep, former defense secretary jim mattis quit when the president announced that he was pulling all u.s. troops out of syria. breaking his silence, mattis addressed his decision in an except from his upcoming back. he said -- >> his successor, mark esper, would not weigh-in on mattis saying the internal divisiveness posed the greatest threat to american democracy. chairman dunford a month from retirement, went a step further. >> i will not now, nor will i take off the uniform make j

thank you very much, mattie. time for a look at the weather forecast, here mattie.herforecast, here is susan powell. good evening, it is like summer powell. good evening, it is like summer is playing hide and seek. when do you see it, the next you don't. today we had sun, tomorrow we are back into the sunshine. but for how long? not very long, this is wednesday's rain cover this area of low pressure pulling away. this area of low pressure is set to sweep across the atlantic for friday. then we are back into wet and windy conditions. but for thursday, a largely dry outlook. some cloud first thing, misty and murky in some places, but much milder overnight towards the northeast than it has been of late, figures and the double figures. we could see a few isolated showers, most of the cloud burns back as plenty of sunshine to come on thursday. something a cloud for northern ireland late in the day, we may get some isolate showers. but isolated winds, feeling up to 23 celsius in the southeast of england. you're watching beyond 100 days. no respite from the civil war in th

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secretary mattis has been very reserved.e pieces in the op-ed were similar to what we heard from him in his resignation letter that he released the same day he resigned last disease. it is not particularly surprising. in it he said once it seemed that president trump was not going to listen to his policy advice, that they were moving in divergent areas, i had was time for him to resign. what was interesting was, to me, reading this of someone who covered general mattis as a marine corps. general and secretary of defense, was for him to be very candid about the process of the day that he went to meet then president-elect stkprufpl vice president elect mike pence and how the conversation went. he said there's no way they are going to hire me because i disagree on the importance of nato, on the issue of torture. but, in fact, president-elect trump walked him out to the front and said, hey, this guy is the real deal. that is a story we never heard secretary mattis tell in public. >> but it is interesting as to why that ability t

. >>> former defense secretary james mattis is giving his version of events since his tumultuous departure from the trump administration. is the stage set? new 2020 polls suggest half the candidates won't qualify for the next democratic presidential debate. steve bullock is one of them. he says he's not sweating it. >> these debates, people go up, people go down. we have a long way to go still. any opportunity to be speaking to voters or getting our message out, we'll sure take a look at. i do think this early on, it's missing something by not having my voice but, you know, again it is what it is. >> we begin this hour with clarity from two new polls about what the next democratic debate will likely look like. we say debate singular because unless another poll drops before midnight that the dnc uses for candidates to qualify, it will be a one-night only stage, set with ten podiums. you see the names there on your screen. tom steyer, as of this moment, will miss the cut. he needs one more poll at 2% to qualify. so will tulsi gabbard. the dnc's criteria have now effectively cut the field in

i'm sure you saw today, sir, that secretary mattis wrote in a quote, we are divided into hostile tribes, cheering against each other, fueled on emotion and mutual disdain. because you are the president's he advisor on the threat to democracy -- key advisor on the threat to democracy, do you agree with secretary mattis, who you've known for so many years? do you believe there is a tribalism in this country that essentially threatens democracy, and to ask you to also reflect, as best you can, on how you see president trump changing over the last couple of years in his role as commander-in-chief? we will know you don't like to talk about the president but , this may be our last opportunity to ask you. gen. dunford: barbara, as you know, i have worked hard to remain apolitical and not make political judgments. your first question is not in my lane. i have worked hard to provide military advice to the secretary, military advice to the president, other members of the national security council, and make sure that our men and women in uniform have the wherewithal to do their job. i'm going to s

i want to ask about former defense secretary james mattis. you a fellow former marine.out firstif are for the first time since leefrpg the trump administration. telling cbs news i will not speak ill of a sitting president. he is an unusual president, our president is. and i think that especially with just the rab i had nature of politics today we have to be careful. we could tear this country apart. as you know mattis resigned in 2018 over trump tweeting the u.s. withdrawal from syria. i wonder, he is taking subtle criticism here of the president. but he is not going so far as to say the president has made clear mistakes. the president is unfit. i wonder if you think that's a mistake. if he has something to say should he say it if. >> well, he can make his own decisions. i think unfortunately emts it beth ways where he gets to say what he likes to say about the president. but not take criticism for speaking out against the president. but the one thing that disturbs me about secretary mattis and see, you know, we can tear the country apart. this president is tearing the

. >>> plus, why is the former defense secretary james mattis, who resigned in september over the president's policy moves, publicly expressing concerns about the state of america's strategic alliances around the world and the state of our democracy? >>> we're going to get to all of that in a moment, but we're going to begin with the new forecast out for hurricane dorian. it is getting stronger. our meteorologist derek van dam is at the cnn weather center with the very latest. the forecast just came out. what do you know about the forecast's path and strength? >> don, i'm going to be honest with you, it is difficult to envision a labor day weekend without significant impacts along the southeast coast of the united states. sustained winds, 85 miles per hour. it is moving away from puerto rico as we speak. very quickly as well, at a northwesterly pace, about 13 miles per hour. leaving the british virgin islands and nothing between here and the southeast coast of the u.s., specifically florida between it. so there is no land interaction to help slow the storm or help disorganize this storm. so a

david martin has his story. >> reporter: mattis quit as defense secretary right after president trumpis advice and ordered u.s. troops out of syria. "i did as well as i could for as long as i could," mattis writes in excerpts from his new book "call sign chaos" published in "the wall street journal." "when my concrete solutions and strategic advice, especially keeping faith with our allies no longer resonated, it was time to resign." just a few months before, he had been a favorite of the president's. >> i think he is a terrific person. he is doing a fantastic job as secretary of defense. >> reporter: in his resign strongly held views on treating with respect. apparent reference to president trump's complaints about the angered by the blunt letter, the president fired him. >> what's he done for me? how has he done in afghanistan? not too good. not too good. >> reporter: the retired four-star general does not criticize president trump directly, saying he will not speak ill of the commander in chief. but there is little doubt when he writes a polemicist's role is not sufficient for a le

speed of patriotism former defense secretary general's mad dog mattis is rejoining weapons contractor general dynamics you'll recall this is the defense secretary who left because trump was not bombing syria enough so you know good guy all around. and i can't believe he went to a weapons contractor i really would have thought he would a left the pentagon to join the board of maybe my little pony. or perhaps some sort of casual yoga pants for men you know. the type of yoga pants where you aren't doing yoga but you just wear them at like the grocery store to make others think you might break into a happy baby pose at any moment. but instead total shock mad dog joins general john dynamics understand it so so he went straight from weapons contractor to leading the pentagon back to weapons contractor you know this is the type of thing that was considered illegal in the past until we realized we weren't deep enough in satans. nowadays for the corps now to totally cause i mean they haven't been tough day for jim mattis way when he woke up cold sweat and realized trump wasn't killing enough p

. >>> james mattis taking a jab at president trump and his leadership.is successor had little to say. here's barbara starr at the pentagon. >> it was a dire warning from former defense secretary james mattis. he wrote in "the wall street journal" we are dividing into hostile tribes cheering against each other, fuelled by emotion and a mutual disdain that jeopardizes our future. this came on the very same day that the current defense secretary and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, another four star marine and friend of mattis, came out for a pentagon press conference for the first time in a year. both men said they wanted to have a good relationship with the media, so they were coming out to answer questions. but one of the things dunford did not want to talk about is what mattis had written. he was adamant that he would not talk about politics and not talk ever in uniform or retierped about president trump and how he performs as commander-in-chief. this is one of the big issues in the military right now. if there is so much political churn in th

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this is the former defense secretary general mattis, jim mattis, in an op-ed in "the wall street journalmost is a military man is not our external adversaries. it is our internal divisiveness. we are dividing into hostile tribes cheering against each other fueled by emotion and mutual disdain. all americans need to recognize that our democracy is an experiment and one that can be reversed. we all know that we are better than our current politics. tribalism must not be allowed to destroy our experiment. big words from general mattis there. let's bring in our panel. byron york, chief political correspondent of the "washington examiner." mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist" and jeff mason, white house corresponded for writers. current secretary said he's going to do these press briefings more regularly, sort of like that defense secretary rumsfeld used to do back in the day. we will see, but on afghanistan, what about what was said? >> well, the first thing to remember is we are in the 18th year in the war in afghanistan. that's just kind of crazy on the face of it. so what y

i cover this administration, hr mcmaster, james mattis, rex tillerson.se are not people who seem like they have done anything to suggest they will go over to anthony scaramucci's side and get under and join his quest. if anything if they had something to say, they would deliver it on their own. will they deliver? tom's split seems to be different. it's a personal split between the two of him. i don't know him coming out with resonate with the average voter. the other thing shadowing all of this is everyone heard all of this before. if you're a voter in ohio or pennsylvania or wisconsin, you know all of this about the president and the president's response will be exactly the same. these people have an ax to grind. they're just mad that i fired them, that they're gone now and they have a grudge and we're back in the same eichel we have been in. >> remember the anonymous "the new york times" op-ed? more of the same. these things don't have much of an impact on him. >> there's one other name floating around now and that's mike pompeo. there's a piece in "ne

jim mattis says that leadership requires collaboration.s clearly something that donald trump has not learned. >> wendy sherman, as always, thank you so very much and victor, your analysis and your breakthroughs are so profoundly important, thank you. >> thank you. >>> and coming up, dreading dorian, as puerto rico continues to recover, tries to recover from hurricane maria. residents there are now bracing for yet another storm, one that's expected to pick up strength and speed in the next 24 hours. we'll have a live report next. stay with us. >>> a new advisory from the national hurricane center says that tropical storm dorian could potentially hit florida on monday as a category 3 hurricane. meanwhile puerto rico now is bracing for a direct hit from the tropical storm which is gaining strength in the caribbean. it's the first major storm it-to-hit the island since the devastation of hurricane maria two years ago. a massive category 4 hurricane that killed some 3,000 people, causing billions of dollars in damages. nearly 30,000 homes still

only jim mattis knows whether and when he'll ever break his silence and talk more candidly.it's a very personal decision when you're a cabinet official. when you leave office, about whether you're going to write a memoire or not. how canned it are you going to be about the administration you left? some are very candid and bob gates when he was secretary of defense wrote a candid memoire. i've worked for cabinet officials who choose to do it and i've worked for some who chose not to. one of them in fact a couple of years ago told me not only am i not going to write a memoir, but i don't think that i'm making my successor's job any easier by being out in the media space. it's a personal decision. i know we all would like to hear more from secretary mattis about his time working for president trump, but we need to respect his own prerogatives. it's not an obligation that he has to tell all. he has an opportunity to do that to the degree that he's comfortable with, and i think, knowing secretary mattis the way i do, that you're not going to see him open up very much over time, e

speak on a go b, mattie whatever her last name is. >> tucker: is he right?the danish royal palace which invited mr. trump was apparently blindsided by the cancellation and prime minister mehdi fredrickson was surprised and disappointed. look. >> i've been looking forward to the visit of in the preparations were well underway. it was an opportunity i think to celebrate denmark's close relationship to u.s. >> tucker: you are right, mattie. jesse watters, you are savage. i'm not surprised. it's just you are really on top of this stuff. >> is my button working? i don't know. >> tucker: it's possible it's not. all right, question three, which 2012 any democratic candidate promises that if elected president, she will create the first ever department of peace? jesse watters once more. it's because i was marianne williamson talker. >> tucker: marianne williamson. your person or spiritual advisor. is he a crutch? speak of the 67 euros ritualist and author is doing things her own way. >> if you make me president, we will have the united states department of impeach. >