from mattie? my heartsong. >> thank you all for coming tonight. >> reporter: mattie poured his heartsongs, as he called them, into five books of poetry and peace essays, selling millions of copies. his uplifting spirit attracted a worldwide following, including fellow poet and president jimmy carter. he joined us on the set at abc for a chance to meet the boy poet. >> of all the people i've met in my life he was the most remarkable human being i think that has lived in my lifetime. >> reporter: i broke a very important rule as a journalist. i let mattie in. i couldn't help it. i loved that kid. and when he was finally gone, i could not handle it. >> i need a hope. a new hope. a hope that reaches for the stars. >> hello. how are you? >> i'm good. thank you. i've missed you. >> reporter: it has been 15 years. mattie's mom jeni is battling the same rare disease that claimed her kids. her days are devoted to her role as chief peace officer of the mattie j.t. stepanek foundation. >> nobody has ever aff

mattie said unity is strength.ons, but that unity is so important. >> young lady, to the people at home, your decision to come here and be about this, what did it mean for them? >> i believe that i am here because i am a change maker. because we believe that we are the change that the world needs. so that's why i am crying because this is an amazing opportunity for me. >> these kids. this would have never happened without you and without him. >> it empowers me and gives my purpose amplification. i'm living with a sense of urgency. i want to develop sustainability for mattie's foundation so that if my stopwatch went done, that mattie's foundation survives. >> i think everybody that knows a little bit about him, have been inspired to look at themselves and say i make the decision about what kind of person i'm going to be. i shape my own character and we use mattie as an inspirational example of what each one of us can do to live a better life. >> he's now been gone longer than he was here which for me as a mom is ver

mattie said unity is strength.rse is so important. >> young lady, to the people at home, your decision to come here and to be about this, what did it mean for them? >> i believe that i am here because i am a change maker, because we believe that we are the change that the world needs. so that's why i'm crying. because -- >> these kids, this would have never happened without you and without him. >> it empowers me and gives my purpose amplification. i'm living with this sense of urgency. i want to develop sustainability for mattie's foundation so that if my stopwatch went done, that mattie's foundation survives. >> i think everybody that knows about him have been inspired to look at him and say i make the decision about what kind of person i'm going to be. i shape my own charity, and we use mattie as an inspirational example of what each one of us can could to live a better life. >> he has now been gone longer than he was here, which for me as a mom is very, very difficult. what a beautiful gift to look out in the wo

i let mattie in. i couldn't help it. that kid and when he was finally gone i could not handle it. >> i need a hope. a new hope. a hope that reaches for the stars. >> hello. how are you? >> i'm good, thank you. i've missed you. >> it has been 15 years. mattie's mom jenny is battling the same rare disease that claimed her kids. her days are devoted to her role as chief peace officer of the mattie stepanik foundation. nobody has ever affected me the way your son did. >> when he said god places messages in my heart. i never didn't believe him but i didn't understand nor did i understand the impact, the ripple effect that was having on people in the world. >> how important is it to you to have your message get out? >> i think it's very important so that we can stop fighting and talk. our war on terrorism should be won with words and not with bombs. >> on september 11th, mattie watched the events unfold and he said i don't know how to pray. i don't know what to do. and i said just start speaking and he spoke what became the po

like mattie they had a lot to say. >> the message i really take away most from mattie and what he embodiedg boy as it does in a world leader. >> and he spoke to us about the reality of what it feels like to be alive. he didn't let his disease limit that. >> mattie said unity is strength. we may have differing opinions, but that unity, to be able to have that positive discourse, is so important. >> young lady, to the people at home your decision to come here and to be about this, what did it mean for them? >> i believe that i am here because i am a change maker. because we believe that we are the change that the world needs. so that's why i'm crying. >> these kids. this would have never happened without you and without him. >> it empowers me and gives my purpose amplification. i'm living with a sense of urgency. i want to develop sustainability for mattie's foundation so that if my stopwatch went, done, that mattie's foundation survives. >> i think -- make that decision about what kind of person i'm going to be, i shape my own character, and we use mattie as an inspirational example of what

james mattis did a disservice to his chief and the american people.t allowing medication between the president and his combat and commander in afghanistan as part of his effort to keep us in afghanistan for even longer. what are we going to accomplish in 18 that we did not accomplish in one through 17? in particular with the southern border, the military is often his adventures in iraq and syria in afghanistan and we are facing invasion on the southern border. we could have done creative things with the military, we could've taken asylum-seekers to guantcamo bay which we actually did before when they were not fit for entry into the united states. because of these other establishment creatures the dod seems never to have joined the trump administration. they really left the -- let the president down. lou: assumes externally, 320 of our troops being sent, drivers and cooks and lawyers to what purpose? either this is a national emergency or it isn't. and either the commander-in-chief has called for the help of our troops and the pentagon command has deci

as far as shanahan, that worked well when mattis was secretary of defense because you had mattis at theop for experience and strategy and i technocrat, shanahan, the engineer handling budget and i thought that was a good team. i don't think shanahan would be a disaster, but i worry he will not be influential at all when it comes to policy discussions in this administration and i think trump is happy with that. trump seems to think he is the be-all and end all and he can provide the military strategy or maybe john bolton can. i think he is happy having a technocrat and say, shanahan, these are your areas. don't talk about strategy and how we deal with adversaries because i will do that. i think that is why he wants shanahan -- host: what about that team of shanahan and dunford? a team that would -- at least through october when on for his whented step down -- dunford is expected to step down? caller: the uniform service chief could only sit at the table and give one voice. it is helpful to have another defense secretary who is the top guy, the civilian chief to say this is where i think

secretary mattis who has fought iranians said no, we're not going to get into a war. this is chicken hawks in the administration. i mean, if you saw a definition of chicken hawks in the dictionary, it would be john bolton and donald trump. and by the way, i think we all know who is the hawk and who is the chicken.

jim mattis said they were co complying and trump said they weren't. we have pattern of them not just making reference to intelligence we can't see, we have a pattern of them lying about it and our closest ally is saying this intelligence doesn't exist. it appears as if john bolton is determined to put this country on a collision course with iran which would be devastating in the middle east. we're having no real debate about it. we're seeing these leaks and references to intelligence that's not being shared with the united states congress. there's no thorauthorization fr congress. all of the threats have come from washington. not from tehran. we should be very concerned about where this is headed. >> we're all trying to be as responsible in our reporting. a lot of us lived through the 2003 wmd false claims and very concerned about now being caught up in something like that ever again. we have cabinet secretaries, colin powell, also determined not to ever go through anything like that again. he was mislead by the intelligence community. courtney, you a

mattie, i know you want to get in.at mattie duppler look. >> we'll talk about eu trade soon. charles: thank you. stocks heading into the long weekend. a lot of uncertainty lingering out there. if you missed our town hall, capitalism versus socialism again. you are in luck, we'll reair it this monday 2:00 p.m. eastern and 6:00 p.m. eastern. be sure you tune in. ♪ termites, feasting on homes 24/7. we're on the move. roger. hey rick, all good? oh yeah, we're good. we're good. termites never stop trying to get in, we never stop working to keep them out. terminix. defenders of home. charles: stocks clinging to a rebound today. investors grappling with the myriad of issues. but with the third straight week of losses, buyers trying to look for opportunity here. meanwhile president trump himself, well, turns these markets around, albeit slightly, still hopes to meet with china's president xi next month in japan and that he might consider lifting the ban on huawei as part of a trade deal. take a listen. >> huawei is something t

so you have people like jim mattis who are doing the right thing. then you have people like john bolton, who know the same thing about the president and are taking advantage of it. john bolton's goal is to get us into a war with iran. so he's using the president's untrustworthiness and his fundamental weakness to push us into war with iran in a way that's frighteningly reminisce en ent how john bolton pushed a draft dodger george w. bush into a war with iraq. it's so dangerous. that's why i'm in this campaign talking about national security as an issue, talking about why we as democrats have got to take trump on as commander in chief. this is what makes him the most dangerous as the president of the united states right now. >> i appreciate your time. thank you very much. >>> coming up next, more on the political and geopolitical ramifications of siding with a dictator over a former vice president and john bolton and the allies. >>> plus take a look at this incredible picture. deadly traffic jam. a human traffic jam on the way up to mt. everest to su

. >> mattie, mattie and alex, thank you, almost a triple mattie night. >> president trump just landinghe big rally in pennsylvania, he is descendings steps. the maroon tie flapping in gentle late may breeze, coat is unbuttoned, he is being met by a bench of friends, a bunch of pals, coming up, espn is a sports network, how did they get political? get it! get that butterfly! you know those butterflies aren't actually in the room? hey, that baker lady's on tv again. she's not a baker. she wears that apron to sell insurance. nobody knows why. she's the progressive insurance lady. they cover pets if your owner gets into a car accident. covers us with what? you got me. [ scoffs ] she's an insurance lady. and i suppose this baker sells insurance, too? progressive protects your pets like you do. you can see "the secret life of pets 2" only in theaters. "the secret life of pets 2" ano.you an ocean? are you edible? no. ♪ ♪ can't sleep. me neither. woo! number one! ♪ ahhhh! [laughter] ahhhh! ♪ we're here. ♪ ♪ in the unstoppable john deere gator™ xuv835. and be prepared to go the extra mile. beca

without general mattis at the pentagon you lose that check to slow role the president's ideas and thatjust concerning because you can see the back and forth this week if it is a good idea or a bad idea but the administration is not on the same page. if the president said i will sign the au mf and we will do that because he's the president. i say that with all integrity it seems that they are not listening to his intent. >> good morning. and with us military policy in those military numbers, those statements from the white house claim members were in line shortly thereafter and the former commandant of the coast guard said she was not consulte consulted. it seems to highlight the conflict betweenfl statements made by senior leaders and the white house with a trend that the current administration claims and those actions were they seem to be. can you comment? . >> on transgender i know what the president initially said that i will ban them again then mattis slow role that. who thinks the transgender members should serve openly? transgender are buried in arlington cemetery. they served ou

mattie's mom says the law goes too far. >> there is no justice right now. we won this round which is fantastic. >> reporter: the legal battle is likely to land in front of the california supreme court. he will have to decide if lawmakers made a mistake with me altered prop 57. stripping judges of the ability to decide what should happen to kids who commit adult crimes. >> it is, the court found, absolutely inconsistent with what the voters of the state of california did. and that the legislature cannot undo what the voters d i unnd say this crime is so horrendous this person can never be redeemed but that is not supported by science. >> both sides seem to understand the judge's ruling the likely to be the final say on this matter but unlike in other areas where we have seen judges wring their hands and say they don't like this new law but feel bound by it, this judge says he thinks it's unconstitutional and so therefore isn't following it at all. >>> see that old sound system there? that might be making a comeback. . >>> another big day strike is looming bu

brian: general mattis reached out to you and said i like you to be my deputy.ts? did yo you have reservations? >> if your country calls you, you answer. moving to washington, d.c. that serve the country was not a difficult decision for me. brian: general mattis somebody who liked to go out in the field and trafl and meet with world leaders. leaving you to make a lot of those decisions, how did that get you ready for taking the job. >> secretary mattis really did give me these responsibilities to be the chief operating officer. my role was really broader than being a deputy. it was to run the operations of the pentagon. that's what i did before stepping into this assignment. brian: you've already had the experience of hostile questions at the hearings. and one of which was about the reappropriating of funds from defense to homeland security to the border. what's your reaction to critics who said you shouldn't be doing that? we gave you $700 billion to rebuild the defense department not to do this. >> we have a crisis at the border. a national emergency declared

mattis resigned last december after president trump announced he was withdrawing all u.s.om syria. up next a radical member of congress claims america is to blame for violence in venezuela. you will never guess who -- caylee joins us from the trump 2020 campaign. jason joins us right after the break. stay with us. we'll be right back. i can't tell you who i am or what i witnessed, but i can tell you liberty mutual customized my car insurance so i only pay for what i need. oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no... only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >> it was founded after 9/11, because dave recognized that some people did something. this was not going to be the country of white people. [inaudible conversations] in this country that says it is okay for people to push for allegiance of foreign countries. >> rad call dem congresswoman omar adding to her list of greatest hits. she now says that trump administration is partly to blame for crisis in venezuela telling pbs they made it worse through their bullying. and applying sanctions against the regime. jo

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mattis to avoid the damage because trump eats your soul in small bites." believe the president of the united states is eating peoples' souls and how that process takes place. >> yeah. it doesn't make me happy to write that, but it's what i believe. this president because he's an amoral leader shapes those around him. and that shaping sometimes pushes out someone that is a strong person of integrity that stands up and says not going to have it but far more often it shapes and bends and pulls in weaker souls and he does it. it has happened to me. the man lies constantly. in public you've seen it and in private it happened. he talks constantly. so i sat there at dinner with him and he went on about how he had the largest inauguration crowd in history. made fun of a disabled reporter. and you're sitting there thinking that's not true. that's not true. that's not what, but you don't interrupt and say mr. president i saw the tape, you made fun of a disabled reporter. instead it washes over you and all of a sudden you realize i'm part of a silent circle of assent

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the other part is they feel like they have a purpose and secretary mattis came in he talked about great power competition, he talked about war fighting, we fully embrace that and believe in the national defense strategy is a pretty good description of a maritime century. we feel we are conveying that you are still on - - sailors who have accompanists who are being treated and now we start to see the retention and recruitment that comes with that. that said the world can change overnight to use incentives like we have always used this is where good data can help to be more precise using those compensation measures that makes us little sharper. do we still have gaps at sea? yes. we are at 6100 spreading that across the ships that is a very small percentage that we would consider within the tolerances of what we talk about. >> so one of the things that was another tough piece of this you have been a pioneer with the ready relevant learning. we do better. >> we have the first rating starting their piloting effort this week. that is an important milestone for the learning transformation. in

>> everyone is going to compare him to jim mattis who was considered this cult icon really in the marine corps. you really laid out one of secretary shanahan's big challenges going forward and that's that he's a career boeing official. he was an executive. he knows research and development, acquisitions, the business side of the building but he doesn't have a lot of experience when it comes to national security and foreign policy and he's coming into an administration where we have seen, you know -- his predecessor, jim mattis, really get -- tried to get sideways with the trump administration about policy issues. patrick shanahan is going to have old a firm ground if he wants to force the administration to see the pentagon -- what's in the best interest of the pentagon. and as someone with a very shallow resume when it comes to those issues, to foreign policy, u.s. military, he's going to have a tough time backing that up. >> we heard it right there in his quote. he didn't talk about policy. he talked about equipment and equipment is exactly what he knows about. he spent 30 years at boei

guest: mattis played a role in the transistor -- transgender issue. we think transgender member of the military should be able to serve openly. transgender troops are buried in arlington cemetery and have served our country and it is on america not allow them to participate -- un-american not to allow them to participate as who they are. i feel terrible for the community. the military went through training to prepare for this. the obama administration. members of the military that were transgender were able to come out and say they are transgender. ofputs them in a conundrum knowing there are transgender members but having a policy and it is disgraceful of the trap administration as they are desktop administration -- the trump administration. the military is not always in a position to say what they want. it is a huge issue for our country when you openly discriminate against a group. guest: we have not taken a position on this issue. we are not supposed -- opposing or supporting it. messages,is the mixed that is never good for a military force, parti

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james mattis and jim comey.ey would not pledge his loyalty and james mattis walked away. >> he walked away because lives were at risk with the syria decision. what happens to these other men and women? >> it's incredible we know someone, a good friend of ours, who walked away from the administration, the highest ranking person in the justice department who left after the president suggested it was appropriate for law enforcement agents to rough up defendants as he was arresting them. he sent a letter to his employees worldwide, chuck rosenberg did, saying this is not what we do, and then he resigned. chuck rosenbergs are in short supply in this administration. >> you're kind to say that. it's not as uncommon as we imagine. i like to think there are lots of folks who have done or would do it. >> call me if you're out there and chuck is right, we'll put you at the table next to him. >> three quick quotes. >> please. >> donald trump is not a conservative republican. he's an opportunist, he's not fit to be the presi

secretary mattis, myself, my team has a very strong relationship with the u.n. special envoy martin griffith. we support him and his team, particularly the lieutenant general who is the man on the ground. they're pushing for the stockholm agreement to be implemented. i think a lot of us would have liked to have seen that happen faster. there's a lot of concern that they haven't lived up to their agreements that they made specifically in stockholm, but they keep pushing and we hope that they see that it's in their best interest to relieve the stress and to make sure that there's never a cutting off of humanitarian aid that goes through that main port into the northern parts of the country. i would say we certainly spent a lot of time discussing the issues with the satellite coalition. and i'll talk a little bit about ct. but we will start with huthie issues. they are supported by iran, they provide them weapons. iran make your display right here on one of our bases. explaine analysts that exactly why we know they come from iran. we're very confident and clear tha

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guess we can speak for richardson since he is not here, our job when we came on board the secretary mattisave to the three of us at the time was to restore the readiness of the force for any fight at any time. and we have seen because of the increase in support and budgets from the congress and the request in the president's budgets over the last three years, we have seen a significant improvement and for readiness for the force. for us, it is first and foremost about the people. ago, we were 4000 maintainers short in the united states air force. our active duty is not short of maintainers anymore. pilot shortage, spare parts, we are starting to turn the corner on logistics, training hours, all those things matter for a ready force. ms. starr: is it correct b-52s at the have moment, and notb-1s? sec. wilson: i don't talk about things are and what readiness levels are in general. ms. starr: okay. the air force made a public announcement, the level of readiness and availability that you want. 5, we focus: thatf-3 on the operational squadrons when we assess readiness, not the proprietary airc

speak for richard since he's not here, is, you know, our job when we came on board that secretary mattis gave to us at the time was to restore the readiness of the fourth any fight anytime. we've seen, because of the increase in support and budgets on the congress and the request in the president budgets over the last three years, we've seen a significant improvement and readiness of the force. for us it is first and foremost about people. two years ago we were 4000 maintainers short and the united states air force and we have now close that gap. our active is not shortage of maintainers anymore. we're starting to turn the corner on the pilot shortage. so spare parts, logistics, training hours, all of those things matter for a ready force. >> is a correct you only have the b-52s deployable at the moment for this type of moment? >> i don't talk about where things are, what are readiness levels are in general. >> give us your sense of the f-35 now. the air force make a very public announcement it was there. is it operating to the level of readiness and availability that you want? >> the f-

. >> shepard: it was general mattis that pulled this carrier group out to focus on china. you pointed to his legacy and that move. >> yeah, i was supportive of secretary mattis doing that. i think when you're in this kind of situation where you have plausible intelligence, you have to remind people in the middle east that we're not losing our interest in that region altogether. because we're not going to be on station every minute doesn't mean we can't bring in bombers very first, doesn't mean we can't get there in a couple weeks even from a u.s. port if we decide to carry out a reprisal. it's better to be sending ships over soon. jennifer gave the breakdown in your report about how some ships might get there within a couple days, the carrier itself maybe need closer to a week defending on just where it is and what the backlog may be at the suez canal. they usually make room for us fast. the point is, it's okay to be unpredictable as long as you can muscle up when you need to. that's why i welcome this announcement. >> shepard: you noted as well as is always the case that

the room is set up, freshman members sit close to the witnesses part i was as close to secretary mattis as we are to the people in the front row. he said to the committee that no enemy in the field has done more damage to our military's capability that the united states congress because of our inability to provide sufficient resources on time. that also contributes to inefficiencies and waste at the pentagon. when you have programs where people have to constantly be thinking, how are we going to allocate our money? are we going to have a sequester? fundamental is a advocate should of our most important allegation of elected members of the house of representatives. it certainly contributes to inefficiencies. as does the overall bureaucracy. there is no question. i think the commander of streck, senate most recently when he was asked what he fears the most. he fears our inability to go fast. we are facing a situation or adversaries have been able to go fast and we to make sure we overcome them that requires figuring out new ways of procurement, new ways we are rewarding risk-taking at a r

general mattis gave the first public comments about iran since leaving the pentagon. states should buy time to keep peace and stability. he added eye reason's behavior my change. the military must work to buy time for diplomats to work magic. he seems to be cautioning anybody that might be with a weak trigger finger against military acts. what do you think? >> i would never disagree with jim mattis. he did a great job as the secretary of defense. i think he's spot on. the fact is we have been confronting iran for decades. we know how to do that. if there is a threat against troops in iraq or troops in bahrain or wherever they may be we know how to deal with that and increase the pos sure. the ships coming through the straits of hormuz, the navy knows how to deal with the threats. i think the biggest concern and secretary shanahan said it, miscalculation. we want to make sure they don't miscalculate and dwoent miscalculate. >> "the new york times" was first to report that president trump is considering pardoning several service members accused or convicted of war crime

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joining me now national taxpayer s union mattie duppler. what is your take on all of this?gest it has been in quite some time and the president is in good position to run on that. something that bears repeating when we talk about the economy is the wage number. one of the most pervasive parts of the economy under obama people didn't see wages rise or paychecks get any bigger. we're entering ninth straight month of wages rising over 3% of the those increases going most steadily to the bottom part of income ladder. the economy is working not just the top but the bottom as well. liz: democrat have a hard time to figure out how to take on trump in the battle ground states, record unemployment numbers, record low unemployment numbers. the economy created 1.2 million goods produces jobs, durable goods, mining, logging. that was twice as much created in obama's last 27 months. strong wage gains there. when people compare the economies president is seeing lower number of government workers jobs being created. your take on all of that? >> to compare the obama administration, the tru

one, two former intelligence officials likened this move to the one that put secretary mattis over the edge. ultimately a lot of officials believed secretary mattis finally resigned not because he disagreed with the president's syria policy but he feared people's lives were at risk. they said that there might be a parallel concern in the intelligence community, that allies, informants, intelligence sharing agreements could be at risk if the attorney general, who has staked out ground for himself as an ally of the fringeiest kind of beliefs that the president and his allies and conservative media voice about the intelligence community. do you share that concern? >> i do. it's a bad thing, but it's one thing to politicize intelligence analysis to say the analysis of what happened with regard to the iraq war should lead to this policy outcome, war or peace or what have you. it's a completely different thing to politicize the use of intelligence sources, human sources, assets, confidential sources of the united states that operate in very dangerous situations over seas risking their lives

i worry that now there's not a secretary mattis in the administration to hold trump back.e got a bunch of chicken hawks. people who have no idea what it's like to fight on the ground who are pushing america into a war. >> why do you surmise this administration would pick a fight with iran? >> because it's good for the president's poll numbers. you know, wars are -- >> start a war to lift his poll numbers. >> you know, look, i'm just saying that what we see happening, sending 120,000 american troops into the region, at least planning on that, sending a carrier group to just raise tensions with iran -- what else are they trying to do? iran is now talking about restarting its nuclear weapons program. because president trump pulled out of the deal. president trump pulled out of the iranian nuclear deal. it wasn't a perfect deal, but iran wasn't producing nukes when they were in the deal. the president pulled us out without any alternative and they're ratcheting up their nuclear weapons program. >> let's talk about your campaign. you announced on april 22nd. first quarter fund

secretary mattis was a decorated four-star marine corps general who had spent a lifetime commanding men women in the armed forces in combat and commanded broad respect on the hill. it was secretary mattis who abruptly resigned after president trump made an unexpected decision to pull our troops out of syria on a call with the president of turkey, something a bipartisan group of us worked hard to reverse. it is striking that the president who recently announced an intention to pull everybody out of syria an ill considered decision is now blustering about sending possibly hundreds of thousands of american troops into the region to confront iran. where is the strategy? >> i want to talk about what happened yesterday with secretary of state mike pompeo. he met with his russian counterpart sergei lavrov and vladimir putin. secretary pompeo said he told them -- i will paraphrase him -- that interference in american elections is unacceptable and the u.s. would not tolerate that. >> good. >> are you satisfied that he's gone far enough with sending the message to them? >> it's good and construct

the guy who wrote that strategy released it was intellectual it was james mattis who could easily have been secretary clinton -- i think your talk about an area of consensus. rhetoric be different? yes it would be different. with the relations around the edge, relationships around the edge with china be different? yeah, i think until the south koreans the democrats would be much less stringent on trade and much less on the need for greater defense contributions for example. but i think that the view in washington generally is that we are at the beginning phase of a long-term global competition with the chinese. and that doesn't have to be hostile. it is not to be angry.but it is real and it exists and it will be that way for a fair amount of the next 50 to 100 years. gerry: about domestic political implications in this fight with china in particular. chinese and responding to the u.s. first round of tariffs, were very careful and canny. a lot of people thought they really, they've done their political homework.they look very carefully at the kind of product that they would hit hard and

i had enormous confidence in secretary mattis, who i think was wildly and well respected, not just inglobally. secretary mattis abruptly resigned when president trump abruptly decided to withdraw all of our troops from syria. if we had a president who now equally planning to seasoned de 120,000 troops back into the region. we don't have a secretary of defense or national security adviser with comparable leadership experience. the president did benefit from such a team in his first couple of years and he did not launch any new wars. i'm greatly concerned that we've got folks who are encouraging or tolerating his bumbling forward in a major deployment into the middle east without a clear strategy. >> senator, we've been talking about this "new york times" iran story in the context of other moves made by this administration. a year ago the president withdraw the united states from the iran deal. just last week iran said it may withdraw itself from the iran deal with the other partners around the world. we talked about moving a carrier group into the gulf. for people watching today at hom

>> clearly jim mattis felt the point at which he couldn't continue on.im is, again, a close friend, and i will tell you one of the finest officers, one of the finest men i've known in my lifetime. >> donald trump called him a democrat. >> i'm not sure i know what his political leanings are. what i can tell you is he's a true american hero. when you're in uniform, you have an obligation to follow the president unless the order is unlawful. there are a lot of orders out there that folks in the military, regardless of which party the president is from, where people in the military say why are we doing this. frankly as long as the order is lawful, you are required by law to follow him or you can resign. and frankly, there are times when you need your military leaders to follow and do so in a manner so the country moves forward in challenging times in the right direction. >> you talked about democracy around attacks on the press, calling members of the media, both these gentlemen go out to trump rallies and stand there with a notebook as their only shield to

gonzalez should be tried as an adult mike gonzales is accused of raping and killing eight -year-old mattie millington when he was 15. state law requires 14 and 15 -year-olds to be tried as juveniles even for the most serious crimes. now, the judge says that law is unconstitutional. the defense team plans to appeal. >> no one is capable of looking at one crime by 114 or 15 -year-old kid and saying to this person irredeemably corrupt . >> there is no justice right now, we won this round which is fantastic. >> tonight, several students now accused of leaving threatening graffiti at a california high school in san ramon. found on a shack near the football field earlier this month. one of four such incidents. the students face expulsion and possible criminal charges. >>> some napa residents forced to shelter-in-place this morning as crews hurried to clean up the house of the spill outside their homes. this happened when a truck hauling the hazardous material overturned on redwood road near lynn drive. officials tell us the truck was carrying canisters filled with inner gas. hazmat crews respond