mattis: it was. now you have an enemy that says, look on the rains were stuck deep inside the city i did put one copy out. i said ok i'm going to do it. caveat. e that's why they're called orders, not likes. deep inside the city the campaign the enemy amounts stops us eventually after negotiating we had to pull back. now they could say besides these bad, very bad things that happened at grape, which we should be held -- at abu ghraib, which we should be held accountable for. it would also show that they had stopped the u.s. marines. so much later when we had to attack again, the enemy now had time to fortify the houses, put ammunition in and we lost a lot of good boys, army, navy, marine going in there. taking it back. dr. bradburn: it is very powerful chapter. let's flash flowered -- flashforward tear time at central command. to your time at central command. you felt him eat range and did not have a unified strategy? -- you felt the region did not have a unified strategy? gen. mattis: this is starti

you write in the book that trump had directed mattis to screw amazon by locking them out, and mattis "we are not going to do that." mattissame time, you say aligned the military to achieve the outcomes that trump wanted to achieve. does that mean that legally, president mattis carried out trump's directions to make sure that amazon did not get that contract? guy: as you know, that contract was awarded on friday, so close to a year after general mattis' departure. when you have a president who wants to make sure that his actions are being followed up, that is the role that somebody like mattis, tillerson, and others in the administration have done a nice job with. making sure they meet the amountnt's intent to the possible but also running those ethical guardrails. there are numerous passages in the book that talk about his experiences that we had behind closed doors. david: there is one chapter, chapter 15, called "last adult standing." you talk about secretary matti'' others in theith administration and as they were when on down, he was sort of the last adult standing. is there some

philip, general mattis has been very quiet since he left office.s willing to put himself out there tonight and take on the president in this way? >> i'm not surprised from the standpoint it's the dinner where you do this. he's the guest so he's going to have some of these but i think it's sort of incongruous for him to get up there and take these side jabs at trump without having said anything publicly. he then goes onto say all this stuff about pipartisanshbiparti this is the first time i've heard him say anything about the situation where he could have a powerful voice. donald trump has built this really effective fortification around himself. and part of that fortification is republican politicians worried about an energized republican base. if mattis were to dip his toe in the water here but it seems diss disingenuous to take those initial steps without saying the last things for the last year he was concerned about. >> in a serious moment you referenced threats in democracy throughout history coming from the corrosion within, what he called th

having known secretary mattis, general mattis who has been a mentor to me.n years older than i am. he is an individual of sterling quality and reputation for the president of the united states to even remotely impugn his reputation is truly shocking, and lastly this comment that i defeated isis is just beyond the pale. isis was defeated by the work of the obama administration to begin with and them the trump administration, but above all, it was the work of our allies,r region. it was the kurds from whom we are now walking away. so it is correct to say this is a tactical failure of u.s. policy and a significant strategic failure. >> so we have this letter which i mean, i literally, david gergen said he had to have someone check to see if it was real and i had the same sentiment and no doubt you did, as well. he sent it to president erdogan last week before erdogan starts with his attack and the sign off is don't be a tough guy. don't be a fool, exclamation point. i will call you letter after he threatens to destroy the turkish economy. your new book "sailing

. >>> mattis fires back. the former defense secretary has a stinging response to being mocked by mr. trump after holding back for months. should general mattis have chosen a more serious forum to finally speak out. >>> and kim's high-rise cover-up. a bizarre sight in north korea where the windows of many skyscrapers have been covered up. is it new evidence of kim jong-un's paranoia and his pen chant for secrecy. i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> we're following breaking news. on a staunch gop ally of the president speaking out against him tonight. in a new op-ed the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is calling the decision to withdraw troops from sear, and i'm quoting now, a grave strategic mistake. the president is facing new fallout on multiple fronts tonight. he's trying to downplay the mick mulvaney debacle saying the comments have been clarified but privately we're learning mr. trump hasn't gotten over it. a source suggests he's fuming

general mattis has been very quiet since left office.mself out there tonight and take on president? >> i'm not surprised from the standpoint it's the dinner where you do this. he's the guest. it's sort of for him to get up and take sly jabs at trump. which is the nature of the efbt. without having said anything publicly. he says everything about bipartisan and make this comment about the people serving with the kurds. this is the first time that we have heard him say anything about the situation. he could have a powerful voice. it's a reminder donald trump fortification around himself. republican politicians are worried about an energized republican base and members of the establishment who out of tradition don't say things critical of someone who they have critiques about. not publicly. he dipped his toe in the water. it seemed disengeneralous. >> in a serious moment he referenced threats to democracy throughout history the from corrosion within. what he called the rot the viciousness and ignorance. and talk about the possible consequen

anything less would imperil mattis's reputation.omebody like secretary mattis in that case? >> it's a challenging situation but i thought the secretary handled those kinds of situation as well. we'd be on international travel traveling on the e4b and you would have press gagless. he'd be hit with a challenging question or caught off guard. i liked his response which i recall in the book which is if you ask me what's going to happen, if the president says 6 and i say half a dozen, they're going to say there's a violent disagreement. he knew to say circumspect. >> one of the very telling moments that you chronicle is president trump's visit to the pentagon to receive his first briefing on all the locations around the world with u.s. forces and embassies. very important meeting, mattis had been preparing for it very carefully. he wanted to convey the importance of both allies and a strategic presence. explain how the president reacted through the whole presentation and what he brought up? >> anderson, this is something we had spent wee

through your eyes and also i think explaining to us what you think secretary mattis was seeing.tions now about why doesn't or if secretary mattis will go public with his true feelings about president trump, will he do youthink? and what would he say? >> i think he said all he has to say at this point in time. obviously this is up to secretary mattis and he and i have not talked about whether he decides tomorrow could out and say any more than he already has. that's why i think the book is so important because it brings your readers, brings the viewers behind the scenes for those major moments of national security and things that have worldwide implication. there is no doubt we live in a very tumultuous period of time, our international aligliances a partnerships are at stake, that erosion of trust that has occurred, the sporadic hasty withdrawal from syria and suddenly we're putting forces back in. that has long reaching and lasting implications. to be able to bring the reader inside the book, to bring them into that moment when the president walks in and he's scowling and does

explain how secretary mattis navigated that. >> you bet. thanks again for having me on.was something we saw quite frequently. there was a lot of breakdown in communication between the white house and the pentagon and it could have been any decision. in the book i recount several such as the creation of the space force and the fact that we only received a call notifying us of the creation of the space force about 15 minutes after the president had announced it on live television. did. >> 15 minutes after? >> 15 minutes after, that's right. as you looked over at the telephone and you saw the caller i.d. of who was calling from the white house to give us the heads-up, it was chief of staff general john kelly. and we had asked the white house about 15 minutes prior to the speech if there was any news being made and they said, no, there wasn't. >> you said it would be political suicide to admit trump was catching us off guard but any less than complete honesty with the press would imperil mattis' reputation as an ethically spotless leader. it's certainly a no-win situation fo

when secretary mattis was there, he said we're pulling out. secretary mattis said i'm out of here.e're pulling out. he gets more criticism and now all of a sudden, well, we're not quite out yet. so i don't know what the composition is, christi, but it certainly appears to me that the president has changed his mind and we're going to stay in certain areas of northern syria. >> you know, sir, it's not just that he changed his mind, he changed the makeup of the force. when you start using mechanized units here, that's a different kind of fight you're anticipating. >> not necessarily, martin. and the secretary of defense was very elliptical about that. i certainly hope it includes artillery and motortars, but th exact composition we don't really know but it will be a lethal, lethal package out there. >> it appears they're in an area where there's oil production. they're trying to prevent it from falling back in the hands of isis for trying to prevent syria from getting access to its own oil fields. which is it? >> how about both? it seems to me to a certain extent that perhaps some peo

>> there's no doubt that mattis is a patriot.e served for four decades in the marine corps and as a general and as secretary of defense. when you think about the service he played maybe the first six months to a year in the administration, the president relied more heavily on those national security experts. unfortunately, the president has certainly relied more on his confidence and his misplaced confidence than he had on his own competence. that's dangerous. >> thank you so much. we can check out your new book "holding the line". >>> a former trump campaign advisor who was jailed for lying to the fbi is running for congress in the swing district just vacated by katie hill. plus why mitch mcconnell went to extraordinary lengths. [ referee whistle sounds ] [ cheering ] when you need the fuel to be your nephew's number one fan. holiday inn express. we're there. so you can be too. $$9.95? no way.? $9.95? that's impossible. hi, i'm jonathan, a manager here at colonial penn life insurance company, to tell you it is possible. if you'r

general mattis had a lot to say and joked about president trump. james clapper is the former direct tr to have national intelligence. joining us now. mick mulvaney conceded there was a quid pro quo. only to come out later denying what we heard him say. the white house has a huge truth problem. >> this is another example of what some months ago the corporation aptly and correctly characterize as bad case of truth decay. this started the very first day of the administration with sean spicer lying about the size of the crowd in the mall. and that has continued and gotten more brazen and more frequent. and this assault on the truth is a bad thing for our democracy or any democracy. >> well, it started officially as the administration but started long before with donald trump and his whole, you know, conspiracy theory about the former president, the lie about where he was born. i mean that's probably the origin of it, you know, when it comes to politics. in his businesses it goes back much longer than that reported. mr. clapper, let me just ask you abou

harsh words for the commander in chief. >> well, i know both mattis and mcraven, mattis the warrior monkectual very cerebral guy. the mad dog, he is a very aggressive commander, but basically he's a defense intellectual. mcraven, again, these two guys probably have the best reputation of any two senior military officers who we have produced since world war ii. mcraven's very high integrity, very much focused on doing what's right, patriotism, chancellor university of texas, just a remarkable man. so i think mattis is reluctant to get down in the mud with his former boss the commander in chief and is trying to stay out of the fray. but mckrachb looks back at it as an american patriot and says we are in serious trouble. by the way we think i are in syria's trouble with the president of the united states. >> yeah, doug, obviously that doesn't satisfy a lot of critics that james mattis hasn't gone further on this. they think he's uniquely positioned to sort of criticize this president. he left because of this syria policy, in effect. >> i think he's probably going a little bit slow. but what

you bet. >> bill: james mattis put out a statement.e writes about you saying, i haven't read the book, don't intend to. his choice to write a book reveals an absence of character. he may have received a few brief moments of attention but those moments will be greatly outweighed by the fact that to get them, he surrendered his honor, end quote. your reaction? >> i have always believed for a very long time the way i was raised and my two decades of service that your honor and character are about making the difficult decisions when there's a thousand reasons not to. it's not doing it when the political winds are in your favor. >> bill: do you believe mattis enjoyed his job working for president trump? >> i think mattis enjoyed the opportunity to work alongside some of the greatest men and women this country has to offer. >> bill: what about the commander in chief? >> i think it was a challenging relationship. president trump has very high standards. he's very demanding. he wants to respond to his needs. >> bill: what do you think about th

general mattis seemed to be having fun there.ing to be read between the laugh lines of why he's doing this and saying all of this. i think it's pretty clear he's pushing back. that he was an overrated general. directly criticized even in his book. a lot of the folks saying syria policy, that's one thing to resign over. call it out. this is a charity dinner. and it's a roast type speech. the humor is an assumption. those were pointed critiques of the president. there was a part where he criticized the allies. >> first of all, white ties should be banned. second of all, hennessey our security analyst, she wrote this last night. i know he mattis speaking at a dinner is speaking at a dinner meant for jokes, but this is just an absurd and undignified way for mattis to make his first public critiques of the president. this will surely undercut the gravity of any future words he might have on the subject. suggesting if mattis has a gripe, he should be out there speaking much more publicly than he is rather than cracking the line. >> i t

mattis said mattis said it would take two years. i captured them in one month. the contention meeting was the first time trump and pelosi have been in the same room since she declared an official launch of the impeachment inquiry. the house speaker says that issue did not come up. here's some of what the democrats had to say after the meeting. >> on the part of the president was a meltdown. sad to say. >> he was insulting. particularly to the speaker. she kept her cool completely. but he called her a third rate politician. this was not a dialogue, it was sort of a diatribe, a nasty diatribe. >> what did the president say that got this meeting on the wrong foot? leader schumer said he called you a third rate politician? >> no, no, a third grade. >> a third grade. >> thank you for clarifying. >> i said i wish he were a politician. >> let me stop right there. you know, willie, it's just so remarkable, you just look at the president's tweets and you hear what he said yesterday. this is a man who is isolated and by himself. the pentagon disagrees with him. the state

i was at the dinner where mattis dinner where he spoke.one speaks and cracks jokes and is expected to. it was surprising to hear mattis talk this way. why do you think he did now? >> it was surprising to me too kate when when i heard the clip. truthfully it's the two generals you're talking about it's a tale of two different approaches. one admiral mcravens in my view was professional and pointed, outlining the strategic issues involved in national security in a thought provoking piece in "the new york times" which i thought knowing bill as i do, he probably struggled with. that's a hard thing to do to step out and say something like that about the commander in chief, the elected president. on the other hand, secretary mattis -- i'm using that word specifically is no longer a general. he is a former cabinet member primarily. and people are waiting to hear from him. he has refused to do that as he has gone on the book tour where he touts his life, good for him to do this, touting his career in the military, lessons learned from that. but he

that general mattis was weak. and of course i was, you know, struck by the fact, i'm looking around the table to the secretary of defense, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and others, who did not utter a word in defense of general mattis. general mattis, as we all know, is an extraordinary service member in our country, a storied history. the president always touted him as "mad dog mattis" and all of a sudden he was weak. the problem, the reason general mattis left is the president tried to do what he did in syria before, and general mattis knew the consequences of it and made it very clear he could not support that. so this was the president's response, to denigrate a storied general who has served his country with exceptional valor and distinction. >> we'll hear shortly from vice president pence and secretary pompeo who are in ankara right now meeting with erdogan, they'll come out and speak, we hope. but this is right after we released -- they released a letter from the white house showing what the pre

for jim mattis. the occasion called for humor. and i thought he threw some real jabs at president trump. and serious comment the lincoln quote. was clearly directly towards the current situation we find ourselves in as a country and specifically at the present. this was a very significant event and i think we're probably going to hear more from jim mattis. >> if he thought this was the best venue. you know him better than all of us. knowing him as you do, do you think it was the right venue. it's significant this way with humor? >> yeah. well -- it was a natural fit for him. he felt comfortable doing it this way. you can people might take issue with it. he hasn't come out with some bold statement before. but i think this was his putting his toe in the public water. so to speak. and i think it was done in a venue he was comfortable making the point the way he made it. for my part, just me personally speaking, it was significant. >> interesting the white house correspondent dinner when president obama criticized him. jokingly. many

mattis has not wanted to attack trump.ongest thing we heard from mattis when he resigned last december, he did it after trump said he wanted to move out of syria and mattis sent a letter in which he said that he disagreed with trump, particularly in his approach to america's friends and america's foes. that the united states needs to be very clear-eyed, that the president needs to be clear-eyed who are our friend and who are the maligned influences in the world. that lines up much more closely to what mcraven said. the united states is taking sides with the wrong people. we need to stand on the side of good, we did in the past and not doing it anymore. >> right. free frid fre frida, thank you for joining us. >>> and the president asked rick perry to work with rudy giuliani on a pressure campaign. here's the president's tweet today. i want to thank secretary of energy rick perry for the outstanding job he has done. he's leaving end of the year to pursue other interests. rick was a great governor of text and a great secretar

and i think that's what secretary mattis warned him about.place the blame at someone else's feet. and it's probably not going to work. >> i want to put a picture up on the screen for you and our viewers to see here. this was inside the white house yesterday during that meeting with congressional leaders. you see the confrontation there. sitting next to the president is mark milley there. and you see, i think, the strain that this has put on the military as the president makes this case about withdrawing u.s. troops from syria. i wonder if you have any guess of what general milley was thinking there or just the overall morale inside the military as the president has chosen to take these actions and mount this strange defense he has saying it's not our border. >> mark milley is a good soldier. he's been in the military in the army for over 30 years. he's served in various positions both in peacetime and a significant amount of time i think in combat situations. he understands the implications of this. he knows how dumb it is. he knows that he a

and that was a point in which it was pretty obvious that mattis was going to leave. >> general mattisweeks, when he joked about being called the most overrated general. what were his true feelings about donald trump as a commander in chief? >> you know, i think americans would be pleased to know that he's a very stoic individual. what you see in the public eye is very much how secretary mattis was behind the scenes. he was never an individual who would kpom bacome back into the or on the airplane as we were flying from location to location and say something disparaging against the president. his take was, we are where we are. how do we make the best of the situation and make sure that the u.s. military is accomplishing the policy directives that the president is looking to achieve. >> so as you know, general mattis isn't pleased about this book. he said of you, his choice to write a book reveals a true absence of character. he was appointed to a position of trust at the department of defense and surreptitiously taking notes without authorization for a self-promoting personal project i

but general mattis?ou know, one of the most decorated military men of his generation. >> who, by the way, he made a lot of political hay out of calling him mad dog mattis. he would announce him in front of rallies. he would praise him to the heavens. it is just yet another example of there is nobody who this president will not throw under the bus as soon as they leave the room. >> but, you know, there was such -- the implications for the military here are really profound. i think we've read about what the special forces there felt about their removal, essentially having to abandon their kurdish allies. and that sends a reverberating force around the military. but to diss mattis now adds to it. he is estranging himself from every institution of government, from all of our allies in the world, and it is a horrifying situation. >> carrie, president trump opened his meeting with congressional leaders today bragging about his, quote, nasty letter to erdogan. it seems like he's proud of this letter. there's ce

but to diss mattis now adds to it. he is estranging himself from every institution of government, from all of our allies in the world, and it is a horrifying situation. >> carrie, president trump opened his meeting with congressional leaders today bragging about his, quote, nasty letter to erdogan. it seems as if he's proud of this letter. there's certainly a lot of people when they first saw this letter thought it was a joke. they thought it was actually kind of a fake like a hoax letter that had been pretending to be signed by the president. but it's actually apparently what the president sent or, you know, at least it's dated three days after the call, the day turkey invaded. >> right. the letter is insane. i wondered if it was a real letter and i saw reporters that had to confirm that it actually was because it's not anything that we've ever seen come out before. >> why do you say that? for people who haven't seen the letter, what about it is so weird? >> well, because it's written in a way that it is -- it is writ

go back to mattis.tty tough stuff from him, from somebody who everyone considers to be reserved. trump gave him the opening with his comments, but i think you're going to see more and more of these military people say, you know what? i've had enough. i need to say something. >> how they do it strategically sort of matters. mcraven has been out for months in terms of his open criticism of president trump, and trump has been able to some extent marginalize mcraven, saying he's an opponent of mine. if you see a nonpartisan republican serving defense chiefs, joint chiefs of staff. so far in the letters that have been critical of trump, you might see some who have served democrats. it doesn't make that point but it's easy to put them in that box. if you see a more robust and higher level strategic coming together, that will be a sign that the defense establishment is trying to message to republican members of the senate that thing have changed. >> that has influence on those numbers. >> we're not quite there

it's not just mattis. it's also these former diplomats this week that have decided now is the time it's safe to start to bail on the president. the fiona hills. the gordon sondlands. the people like that. that also has to be troubling to this administration because in the past, those folks would not have fallen out of lock step with the president. they see their own self-interest tied up in the president's -- >> i don't feel this way about the diplomats but when you see generals speaking in such a critical way of the president or the op-ed that mcraven wrote. do we have a precedent in recent history where generals are so involved in making a case against a president of the united states? >> not since the iraq war. >> during the actual fighting of the iraq war saying that the bush policy was wrong. and, yeah, i think it is slightly harmful to civil military relations. i would say this. it's interesting about mattis. he is kind of using a trump tactic. which is trump loves you until you insult him. well, tha

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we need insights on his fitness from mattis, kelly and others. now. first of all, congress suspend you and for to try to find out what you knew about decision-making pros sayss, when it came to ukraine or other things. would you cooperate? >> well, i'd have to know specifically what it was about. i moon i owe ba i the law. i've obeyed the law my entire life so that's not the issue. but again, remember that the defense department stays outside of politics for a reason. there is a long-standing tradition why you do not want the military to be engaged in politics. i realize some individuals have done so. but again, only in washington could i resign publicly over a matter of policy. >> you feel -- >> principle. >> you feel your resignation is pretty clear what you think. what more do you need to add is what you are saying? >> it's a page-and-a-half long. it talks about our security, we are tied inextricably to our alliance, i don't know what more i can say about how we should treat allies and those who are adversaries. >> is america safer today because of

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trump called mattis, quote, the world's most overrated general. the white house responded to the democrats portrayal of the meeting saying in a statement, quote, the president was measured, factual and decisive in the meeting. i'm joined now by jonathan lemire, white house reporter for associated press and shar lei sykes, editor at large for the bullwork. this meeting set the scene here, pelosi, schumer, hoyer, there were some other democrats there meeting with the white house. the subject here was syria, was foreign policy and what happened? >> well, we've now had a few rather eventful meetings between the president and speaker pelosi and leader schumer at the white house. some of it ended rather abruptly like this one. yes, you're right, the topic was syria. but as they got in there the president sort of bitterly started complaining about the impeachment proceedings and that is something that's really come to light in recent weeks. we've seen the president's rage on this topic. there's a political calculation here being made pie the white house

. >>> an upcoming book on jim mattis's tenure as secretary of defense claims president trump told mattisrew amazon out of a $10 billion cloud contract for the pentagon. the joint enterprise defense infrastructure contract was awarded to microsoft on friday evening sending its stock up 3%. the contract is capped at 10 billion over the next ten years. if it ends up being worth that much it would likely be a bigger deal to microsoft than it would have been to amazon. the account was written by mattis's speech writer in the forthcoming book entitled "holding the line, inside trump's pentagon with secretary mattis." mattis said he wasn't going to follow through with the president's demands. quote, this will be done by book legally and ethicalically. in a statement general mattis said he does not intend to read the book and said mr. snodgrass was a junior staff who took notes in some meetings. he was appointed to a position of trust at the department of defense and surreptitiously taking notes without authorization for a self-promoting personal project is a clear violation of that trust. he ma

well, general mattis is the offer of a new book "call sign chaos, learning to lead."m before we learned of the alleged atrocities richard engel is reporting on. i began to ask him his assessment of northern syria. >> no what we see is the continued reliance we have on allies. the fight against isis was fought largely by the syrian democratic forces. we have lost during several years of fighting in syria, for example, less than a dozen troops. each one a tragedy, but the syrian democratic forces, primarily the kurds have lost well over 11,000 killed, over 23,000 wounded. so you see how we are fating this enemy doing it in a way by, with, and through allies that spreads the load, so it's not just the american people, the american taxpayer, the american troops carrying the full load. >> do you feel as if -- are we still doing this fight now? or we have pulled back and it's now up to the kurds on their own? >> well, it's -- it's in a situation of disarray right now. obviously, the kurds are adapting to the turkish attacks. we have to see if they'll maintain the fight agai

kfc jokes coming from mattis. hot. mattis did get serious about the bitter partisan divide in d.c.ion. and he quoted abraham lincoln to drive home his point. >> lincoln went on. it was not the foreign aggressor we must fear. it was corrosion from within, the rot, a viciousness, the ignorance. anarchy is one potential consequence of all this. another is the rise of an ambitious leader, unfettered by conscience or precedent or decency, who would make themselves supreme. if destruction be our lot, lincoln warned, we must, ourselves, be its author and finisher. >> mattis resigned last december after president trump indicated he wanted to pull u.s. troops out of syria. >> he is getting criticism for coming out now. he's been so quiet. and now, you know, he's coming out joking instead of being serious. >>> let's get a check on cnn business this morning. looking at global markets. asian stocks closed lower on friday. chinese markets fell, after china released worst-than-expected gdp numbers. on wall street we saw stocks end in the green. the dow rose 25 points. looks like ibm dragged it d

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those forces were put there by secretary mattis. that was the right thing to do.nd he resigned when president trump told us to leave because i think secretary mattis recognized, as did i, that that just ceded all of our leverage and influence, with americans on the ground in harms way. it's very serious. >> as you pointed out, all roads lead to vladimir putin, which is where we go next. brett mcgurk, thank you very much. >> thank you, andrea. >>> and with all roads leading to putin, the common thread in all of president trump's most controversial decisions becomes much more clear. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports." ♪ ♪ applebee's new pasta and grill combos. choose from up to 12 combinations starting at $9.99. billions of problems. sore gums? bleeding gums? painful flossing? there's a therabreath for you. therabreath healthy gums oral rinse fights gingivitis and plaque and prevents gum disease for 24 hours. so you can... breathe easy, there's therabreath at walmart. driven each day to pursue bioplife-changing cures...ers. in a country built on fostering inn

, mattis' resignation essentially forced the president to back off. he did. what they're now to make him stop, right? what's there now to convince him to change his tactic here? the other question as though it is maybe too late. if it is too late then what is the clean up look like? how do we get out of it that way. i will be curious. all these republicans warned of this. now that it is happening, what do they do? >> i will be curious to see what general mattis says this morning. >> back at home, rudy giuliani's clients arrested in washington taken off a jet way there. testimonies coming up from key officials around ukraine and impeachment inquiry this week. there is a lot in the air. what does it amounts to for the white house? >> the problem for them is it is not just a lot in the air. there was always a lot in the air for mueller but we did not know it is tied together. everything that's related, it is pretty easy to understand. the picture gets uglier at times for the president, the more we learn of rudy giuliani's associates. at the same time a b

i don't see that in this president. >> reporter: as a retired officer, mattis is reluctant critic but feels strongly the president should not be abandoning america's allies lester >> andrea mitchell, thanks. >>> authorities outside seattle say they prevented a massacre after seizing a gun arsenal from a suspected leader of a neo-nazi group though the man is not charged with a crime here is nbc's pete williams. >> reporter: police in washington state took these guns and rifles, three pistols, and other components away from a man they say is the local leader of a group called the autumn wafin it advocates white supremacist violence by lone actors court documents say a seattle area man caleb cole posed a risk to public safety based on what investigators said was his participation in a race war >> this is a hate-filled human being but one that possesses really alarming numbers of weapons. >> reporter: but cole is not charged with any crime. instea prosecutors filed a lawsuit against him invoking the state's red flag law that allows authorities to take guns away for up to a year from peopl

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

speaking at a charity event in new york last night, mattis joked that he took it as a compliment.ated general but the world's most overrated. and he also said that he was honored to be considered that by mr. trump. >> he also called meryl streep an overrated actress. so i guess i'm the meryl streep of generals. [ laughter ] and frankly, that sounds pretty good to me. >> mattis also joked that he earned his spurs on the battlefield and donald trump earned his spurs in a letter from the doctor. >>> i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news." jill hassto, a heart pill at helped keep people alive and out of the hospital. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. ask your doctor about entresto. where to next? in so many ways. which cage free eggs taste fresher and more delicious? only eggland's best. which organic eggs have more vit

i know it happened with secretary mattis on a number of sues, etc. seemingly we wake up in the morning to look at what was tweeted overnight and find out thththtion plan of the day. laura: admiral mike mullen, thanks for being with us. adm. mullen: thanks, laura. laura: in other news, bolivia's election observer will convene a special meeting on wednesday following a disputed presidential vote that sparked angry protests around the country. violent otests have erupted in at least nine cities amid ongoing confusion about the result. an official rapid count of votes gave incumbent president morales enough of a lead over his rival to avoid a runoff. meanwhile, oppositionn leaders n chile have refused to meet with the president following rights -- riots that have left 15 people dead, saying that his uardrnment failed to saf the human rights of protesters. the crisis began over a hike in metro prices which have now been overturned, but have also been fueled over anger over rising living costs and high levels of inequality. in beirut, protesters have been

secretary gree with tillerson and secretary mattis? believe they were out of compliance is that what you're saying? >> no, i would have to look at both secretary tillerson and secretary mattis said that, so that is relevant because the atomic archive was discovered on the -- the jcpoa nspectors have not found that iran is out of complains and efinitely was not out of complains before donald trump took office? that hink in the reports the jcpoa -- they don't certify that iran is in compliance. that's something which the member states do. but i think that the iran deal sets such a low bar for compliance. from whether rate or not they are in compliance. is secretary pompeo correct that they were not in compliance? >> i would have to see exactly hat he said and when he said it. >> let me just say this. secretary pompeo's suggestions the consequences because crown prince of saudi arabia stated in march of 2018 that doubt, if iran developed a nuclear bomb we'll follow suit. that gets into the question of 1-2-3 agreement with saudi united in

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

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