mcmaster, mattis, kelly.e'll talk to the author of a new book on the relationship between trump and the generals who once advised him. >>> mr. president, are you concerned about north korea at all right now, the developments? >> we're watching it. we'll see. i'd be disappointed if something would be in the works, and if it is, we'll take care of it, but we'll see. we're watching it very closely. >> the north koreans say they've conducted two more tests in recent days aimed at countering any nuclear threat from the u.s. today in seoul, the top u.s. envoy on north korea warned that if the north conducts a major weapons test in the coming days, it would be, quote, most unhelpful in the effort to resume peace talks. the north has said the u.s. has until the end of the year to make concessions in these nuclear negotiations. and mind you, this is all happening just as we are hearing a devastating story about president trump's unique perspective, shall we call it, on north korea. in peter bergen's new book, "trump a

mattis refused to provide military options. house began to realize the pentagon was slow rolling, which the pentagon does with all sorts of things. in this case, it was clear. tis was concerned about getting into a war with iran and the middle east. even though he had been an iran skeptic, he thought the iran nuclear deal should stay in place not only because it was working but because we negotiated with her allies. the french and the germans, we should keep our word as united states. similarly with north korea, it is a fact that wars can happen inadvertently. a small incident can spiral into something much bigger and he did not want to take the risk. host: on iran, the planes were leaving when the president called off the mission. the president tweeting 10 minutes before a strike, i stopped it. brinkpulling off from the of conflict okayed by john bolton. guest: i think this is where jim mattis might have misunderstood the president. we were close to using force against iran. iran is not iraq. the population is three times larg

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so i don't anticipate either mattis or mcmaster getting out there and criticizing the president.obviously we have had bill mcraven and also stan mcchrystal, two of the leading military officers of their generation, both publicly taking a stands against trump, but neither of them served for trump. one of the stories i have in the book is general mcchrystal was offered secretary of defense on november 16, 2016, and he turned that down because he didn't think donald trump would make a good commander in chief. that has remained his view. >> you start with a, quote, from dr. strange love, those are the first words in the book. and the last chapter deals with a glittering washington book party. which do you think best describes where we are as a country right now? >> well, you know, i start with a scene in the war room at the pentagon where there is a great debate between steve bannon on one side and jim mattis advertise and rex tillerson on the other side and they're laying out to president trump how the united states is operating in the world and the intent on the bannon side to show

>> well, sadly, secretary of state jim mattis, i quo him directly in the book. said, we have to make sure that reason trump's impulse. jim mattis was very concerned about this, but in president trump's defense, i think trump has proven less impulsive than certainly his rhetoric would allow us to believe. he's actually proven to be somewhat reluctant to use american military power, pulling down in afghanistan as we speak. you know, going back and forth about having troops in syria, calling back a military operation against iran, and dialing back the rhetoric on north korea. now, the one thing that he's also been kind of lucky unlike every president since fdr, he hasn't had a major foreign policy crisis on his watch to react to. the interesting question is how would he react in a major foreign policy crisis? we haven't had one. he hasn't had a 9/11 or a global financial crisis or a saddam invading kuwait or the kinds of crises other modern presidents have had. and he's only got another year left on the clock or potentially another five years. by the law of average

is not the person i think secretary mattis thought.to happen at camp david and mcmaster wanted options oconee n north korea. you can't have a war game. he called back military operations against iran and we are pullingstantly trying to withdraw from north korea and dialing back and north korea rhetoric. we are almost in a war at 2017 and now we were not. he's lucky, he has not had a major foreign crisis. every president had a missile crisis or 9/11 or some big thing. trump has not had that yet. he may have that next year or may not or second term or should he get one. how he react in that crisis is an interesting question. >> he has been impulse sive in terms of the withdrawal of syria and erdogan and ignoring all the advices here. what are the implications though of the generals ignoring what the president really wants and how would we feel about it as some suggested if it were president commander in cheer, elizabeth warren or some other democratic commander in chief who does not have military experience and have the generals basicall

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that mattis apparently didn't like.ity adviser that he never listened to. jim mattis' resignation letter, my views in treating allies with respect and ago being clear-eyed about both malign actor and strategic comberts aexperts are held. one of the things that was notable about trump's administration is how many people came in with outside people saying that's going to be a good leveling influence on him, and then not having any influence on him. very few people resigning in protest. even after they've left, jim mattis has been reluctant to say anything about him. >> yeah. >> what do these generals generally think of him? do they have respect for him do they think he's dangerous? >> well, that letter you read from mattis i think has a very interesting clause in there. he said i have four decades of immersion in these issue which is is a not so subtle dig to reference to the fact that this is the first president in american history who has never served in office or in the military. the generals that came in after mattis,

but that has been the challenge for his own general secretary mattis on trying to convince the president to have a more robust international presence throughout the globe. whether that is in south korea or syria. so maybe he has modified a little bit based on -- and we're seeing something new with the president where he is modifying his behavior and his rhetoric. there may be some credence to that because as tom was mentioning, the last 24 hours we've seen -- restraint is the wrong word, but a lightly restrained president trump at least as it relates to the election process spepspects of n doctor s son. he has been briefed that the nhs is an explosive issue here in the uk. the president was noticeably restrained is yesterday as it related to the latest upcoming election. i think that we see boris johnson arriving now. you know, the secretary-general of nato, he and trump have actually come a long way. and so i'll reverse myself and say when you look at leaders in nato, he has managed to massage the president and move and direct and shunt his rhetoric a little bit more towards a pan nato

snodgrass and richard spencer were mattis guys.attis was one of the biggest problems in the trump administration. the president honoring the wound dog who chased abu bakr al-baghdadi to his death during a military raid. president trump: he's incredible. and so brilliant and so start. the what it was with the special forces. people who worked with him for obvious reasons. they did a fantastic job, conan did a fantastic job. lou: nadler and schiff, both with credibility issues. writing to the president saying he's committed to a fair process, just like the radical dimms attempt to overthrow the government. the president is committed to making america great. record high stock markets. the u.s. military securing the border and remaining steadfast in his demand that china end its decade long unfair trade practices and the theft of american technology. lou: not only do the democrats want to impeach this historic president of ours, no one has accomplished more than he has in the first three years of a presidency. and the media research ce

general mattis was here he talked about leadership i'm going to talk about character. leadership is what we do to influence others and to be out there influencing millions of people as a nato commander but that door swings on a very small hinge of human character you cannot unless it allows that to swing. i set out to write a book about character we are a wash of a lot of books about leadership i want to know about how we lead ourselves with character write about what you know about and using a framework of admirals so we will set back in history 2500 years and pull it up to the present to talk about ten dynamic admirals there has to be a great american 2500 years ago athens faces a existential threat by the persian empire the persians are the iranians of today they are about to conquer athens the city state with the power of persuasion and convinces his captains to fight a battle in which they are outnumbered ten / one with the captains of that day here's the advantage they had all of the rowers were free men that persian fleet was five times the size was run by slave

coming out on a vent we are out with george washington university joint venture also to bring jim mattis in conversation tonight. first a few other exciting events coming up in partnership with gw september 11 we have an event with malcolm gladwell it is a live recording of a podcast on npr on september 12 and james comey on september 16 septembe september 24 we will discuss the year of the marquis. we hope to see you at some of them this month. secretary jim mattis a pacific northwest nave it is serving for decades at the marine infantry officer following two years of secretary of defense he returned to the northwest and is now distinguished fellow at the hoover institution at stanford. callsign chaos is the account of his career through wide ranging leadership roles in three worst ultimately commanding a quarter of a million troops across the middle east. along the way he recounts the foundational experiences as a leader exacting the lessons he has learned about the nature of war fighting and peacemaking and allies and the strategic dilemmas now facing our nation. he makes it clear why

mattis refused to provide military options.ouse began to realize the pentagon was slow rolling, which the pentagon does with all sorts of things. in this case, it was clear. tis was concerned about getting into a war with iran and the middle east. even though he had been an iran skeptic, he thought the iran nuclear deal should stay in place not only because it was working but because we negotiated with her allies. the french and the germans, we should keep our word as united states. similarly with north korea, it is a fact that wars can happen inadvertently. a small incident can spiral into something much bigger and he did not want to take the risk. host: on iran, the planes were leaving when the president called off the mission. the president tweeting 10 minutes before a strike, i stopped it. brinkpulling off from the of conflict okayed by john bolton. guest: i think this is where jim mattis might have misunderstood the president. we were close to using force against iran. iran is not iraq. the population is three times larger

i didn't know general mattis at all. now i'm working for general goldstein. : general goldstein is not there, general mattis is there. i worked extra hard to quickly build the trust. i never ever felt that people didn't trust me, but i wanted to earn that very quickly just because i was different. i'll tell you a story. i went to china and met the chinese air chief. and -- i was a four-star. again, it was a different culture. how do you build that trust as quickly as you can? i'm here as the commander of pacific air forces. again, i just happened to be a woman. so, because of his different and in different services and countries, i put a lot of pressure on myself to make sure i kept everything on an even playing field and i'm here to do a job. michael: as air battle manager, i'd like to explore what that means for the crowd on television and here watching and learning about the military. you were involved not only in the air to air element, but the air to ground element. you and your colleagues were mapping the entire or

it's no secret that mattis and navy secretary spencer were closed, were friends and were thinking in i think the secretary in his extraordinary op-ed in the "washington post" was far more harsh than secretary mattis had been when he resigned. i think the issue is one and you are talking about a former marine, or at least i guess you are always agreeing but he felt what the president had done was so untoward ends so out of line with naval procedures and tradition that it couldn't be accepted. he also acknowledged that he had made a mistake in going around the secretary of defense. he had not told the secretary of defense mr. esper that he was negotiating with the white house to try and do a separate deal for eddie gallagher, the navy s.e.a.l. and he said he had made a mistake. once again yet another high-level trump administration official resigning or being fired just points to the chaos that has gone on in the administration since the very beginning of president trump's term. his unwillingness and inability to settle things amicably and in a graceful way. jon: judy thanks. impeachme

jim mattis would agree it is a troubling development. reason we are weak is because we are not unified at all. we should have a 100% vote of the united states senate to deter future russia interference in our elections. it is a crazy, very, very disturbing place when we can't get that. >> senator, good to see you. senator chris van hollen of maryland. we got details of president trump's new executive. a halt in the president's trade war with china. what it means for you and the economy next? you are watching "velshi & ruhle" on msnbc. xt you are watching "velshi & ruhle" on msnbc. outback is making your holidays even better! for a limited time, get a 4-course meal starting at $15.99. treat yourself to the perfect gift today, because the aussie 4-course won't last long! and try our everyday lunch combo starting at $7.99! so chantix can help you quit slow turkey. along with support, chantix is proven to help you quit. with chantix you can keep smoking at first and ease into quitting so when the day arrives, you'll be more ready to kiss cig

it appeared to be the last straw for defense secretary jim mattis who resigned in protest. trump later backtracked agreeing to leave some 1,000 troops on the ground, but in october he decided he had had enough. he announced he was pulling those remaining troops. the effect was not just bipartisan backlash but also strong, strong rebukes from american troops on the ground who felt that we as a nation had betrayed our kurdish allies in that country. one soldier told "the times," quote, they trusted us and we broke that trust. it's a stain on the american conscience. while it was widely assumed president trump had the broad backing of his troops a new poll conducted by the military times shows that half of active duty military personnel now hold an unfavorable view of the president. while the president may not always see eye to eye with his military leaders or even members of the rank and file, a lot of times those disagreements were over huge policy issues, matters of war and peace. but the story of retired navy s.e.a.l. eddie gallagher is very different. this is case that th

>> jim mattis was constantly slow-rolling any kind of military option.rth korea, and it was a source of great frustration at the white house. it turns out, i think, that jim mattis kind of misunderstood trump a little bit, because it turns out trump is actually quite reluctant to use military force. he called back the military operation on iran, he pulled troops out of afghanistan, out of syria. he has tamped down tensions with north korea after amping them up. but certainly these generals saw their role as to kind of sort of fence him in a little bit, and also they disagreed with him. >> did they think it was dangerous, unpredictable? why did they need to fence him in? >> we know he's measurcurial an that was their view. >> if you look at the joint chiefs and the entire members of the joint chiefs, they report to the charommander in chief. if the commander in chief donald trump told them he wanted them to dress up as big bird, they would do it. given the sources in this book and the revelations in this book, you have something like eddie gallagher, the

antigovernment protests which have led to the resignation of the prime minister abdullah abdullah mattiesimona fulton is following the story from baghdad and there are reports of katyusha rockets being fired in this attack on the k one base any update on. those who have been injured from this. well we're getting reports that there were 2 casualties as part of this latest attack one of whom is a member of the iraqi police and one of whom is the u.s. contractor in this particular base in kirkuk houses both u.s. forces as well as iraqi forces that it is used to conduct operations in the area against this is an area that is surrounded by many mountains and it has been used by aczel to stage an insurgency so this base is particularly important for those operations and this particular attack is just one in a series of several such incidents over the past month or so in fact there have been a statement issued by the u.s. on the semper 7 basically listing the attacks and also unusually attribute in responsibility for some of these attacks a particular one such attack. took a type as ball which i

. >> i want to play jonah mattis of what he said. i want to get reaction from you.> if we start unifying by understanding each other's point of view instead of calling people names or enemy of the state or terrorist or anything else. i would be very alarmed and i am less concerned right now with foreign enemies than i am of what we are doing ourselves. >> joel payne, the biggest threat to america ourselves. >> yeah, another threat is people like jonah mattgeneral m rex tillerson who are not talking about their experiences at the trump's white house and not call truth to power. with all respect to the general, i understand that's something he takes seriously as a uniformed member of our armed services. he held the responsibility to the republic to report on what he saw and to share what he saw. i think that's a cop out. general mattis had been taking a pass and propping up the trump administration and allowing a lot of the things we are debating today to happen and go forward. >> i wish jonah mattis will use his voice and speak up. >> we are talking about debbie ding

not when secretary mattis resigned. i'm talking about the one after that. >> when we pulled troops out? >> when we pulled troops out. >> i believe that tweet happened after we talked. i'm in the sure. i can go back and check. my point is this. there was coordination and there was discussion between senior advisors and the president prior to him making a decision. so the senior advisors know but none of our allies, mr. crow was talking about his discussion with allies right before that week, had no idea that was coming. many people in the pentagon had no idea that was coming. but you all discussed it and decided to do it? >> the deliberations were done by members to have national squounl the president of the united states. >> did you recommend? >> i recommended that we pulled out 28 special forces soldiers in the face of 15,000 turks that were going to invade. >> the gentleman yield for one quick second. >> in december, you were doing n a different job at the time. >> a year ago? talking about october? this past october?

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when we talk about heather's big decisions on the world stage affect military leaders, mattis himself and others have said that when we cut money from the state department budget, when we don't invest in diplomacy and aid, we are saying we are going to buy more bullets and employ foru.s. military to step in the reasons that the situation surrounding impeachment and with the president in ukraine is so problematic. because we use military aid, and diplomacy, to make sure the u.s. military does not have to get engaged in those conflicts. that is something mayor pete has talked about, restoring america's role in the world. and other democratic candidates have done the same. we need to get back to the place where we value our allies, and where the president demands enough respect that he's not being left out of overseas conferences like we saw just last week in europe. that restoration of american leadership on the world stage is important and has a direct impact on the lives of people like you were serving our country, and the families who serve with you. thank you. host: let's talk to to

political panorama that was even that is in italy right now and particularly the messages spread by mattie was salvini and so today we saw fiat's essential valley here in italy which is a massive piazza packed to the brim and organizers say they've reached the object if they wanted to see the p.x. up hat and they want to see that this is an expression of a change of the perception of politics here in the city. but is there any intention to have the movement become an organized political force in the way the 5 star movement began as a sort of protest and then became a political party now in government. well the difference perhaps between this movement and the 5 star movement is that it's not about populous ideas and there's no use as such in the way that the 5 star movement had big real comedian turned politician. so in that sense it's different and gives very categorically they don't want any representation of any political party no banners no flags of any party is allowed at any of these gatherings but i think a lot of political observers as well are looking at this and wondering well thi

look at the disruptions, fireings, mattis resigning.nd in this particular instance, the gallagher case, i think will have serious repercussions beyond the united states military. it's going to have a major role in the way in which military personnel are viewed in the middle east. where this incident took place and now the controversy, the statements being made or have been made by this other s.e.a.l. team members, you just know that is going to be blasted all over the middle east media, isis and others that use it. probably a very dangerous situation into the future. but, yes, the president has clearly politicized this particular issue, along with many others before. >> let me put on the screen to see the poll conducted by military times. this was conducted among 1,630 members of the active duty force from october 23 to december 2nd. and the question is how favorable or unfavorable is your view of the president? 45% very unfavorably. 4.8% unfavorable. so that's almost about half. when you look at a poll like that and, if you're currentl

be honest, be straight. >> i'm being honest. >> and secretary mattis was as straight as they come. be honest. >> miss slotkin, i'm sorry, if you have a statement to make, you may make a statement, i will give you more time in a second. >> does it make it easier or harder. >> yield for just a moment. if you have a statement to make, you may make the statement. i don't want witnesses badgered up here. you asked him a question, you have to give him a chance to answer. if you want to make a statement, perfectly within your right, but don't badger him when he's trying to answer the question. >> thank you, mr. chairman. the handshake with the kurds, with the sdf in particular, was a handshake that we would defeat isis, it's not a handshake that said, yes, we would help you establish an autonomous kurdish state or fight turkey for you. that's the difference there i'm trying to make, the point we're trying to make. so whenever we make these hand shakes, by with and through, which is our strategy, i think we need to be clearer going forward as to what the extent of that relationship actuall

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i like general mattis. i think i know more about it than he does. gave our generals all the money they wanted. they didn't do such a great job in afghanistan. i stuck up for three great warriors against the deep state. people can sit there in air conditioned offices and complain. but you know what? doesn't matter to me whatsoever. >> this has been a hallmark of his presidency, on the one hand going after leadership, in this case generals, but also he has surrounded himself by generals in ways that other presidents hadn't. >> well, he did early on. that's certainly the case. but what we've seen is there's been steady attrition over the three years of his presidency. and people like general mattis, who was his first secretary of defense, ultimately up and left with a very strong statement saying you deserve somebody who basically has your point of view. we have not seen a lot of that, of people who have served him who have gone out with some anger, but we did see it with the navy secretary recently, who was very upset about the intervention on the edd

mcmaster, jim mattis, john kelly.tent people like mark esper the defense secretary, but they're not really going to stand up to trump and he's sort of unplugged and we've seen the results. >> what did these generals think of the president overall? because you write about moments that seem like out of body experiences. one has to do with south korea and its capital seoul and meetings the president had repeatedly about the north korea, south korea conflict. trump remarked why is seoul so close to the north korean border. trump was regularly briefed that north korea possessed -- trump saud they have to move, the officials in the oval office weren't sure if trump was joking. trump repeated they have to move. >> i think they just tuned this stuff out. trump makes a lot of these kinds of comments. is he joking? is he serious? it's hard to tell. but over time i think these things began to accumulate, and also, it wasn't just a matter of trump's kind of way of approaching things that the military wasn't happy about, they disa

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what's remarkable about this, the first two, general mattis who was in your chair a few months ago, has an appendix of 63 books to his memoir, and you both are adamant that young and old officers be reading. can you expand on that? >> i can. i had a chance to have dinner with a handful of the rotc junior cadets who are here this evening, hugh. they asked me what can i do to prepare myself for military service? i think there are a lot of things that are important, physical fitness, knowledge of ship handling, tactics, all of that, but the most important thing is to read because the day you graduate from a university is the day that you own your education, and at the end of your life, you will be the sum of what you have continued to invest in that education. read, read, read. and to practically answer the question, only through picking up a book, a novel, for example, let's take gates of fire, about the battle, by steven preston, you can put yourself in that moment. it's a simulator. it is a chance to test yourself against the highest standards. i think reading is powerful and important,

take a look at the enormous number of disruptions, firings, people moving mattis and others resigning, yes, it's clearly politicized. in this particular instance the gallagher case i think will have very serious repercussions beyond the united states military. it's going to have a major role in the way in which american military personnel are viewed in the middle east where this incident took place. and now the controversy, the statements that are being made or have been made by the other s.e.a.l. team members, you just know that is going to be blasted all over the middle east media, isis and others who will use it. and that's going to be a very unfortunate and quite probably a very dangerous situation into the future. but, yes, the president has clearly politicized this particular issue along with many, many others before. >> let me put up on the screen for you guys to see a poll that was conducted by the military times. it says that half of active duty service members are unhappy with president trump. this was conducted among 1,630 members of the active duty force from october 23 to

recently on book tv, former defense secretary jim mattis recounted his military career and offered hison leadership in a conversation with new york times columnist david brooks. his a portion of the program. >> the girl was preparing for battle, covered by their shields and they were so terrified they could hear each other's teeth chattering. have you felt that kind of fear in the course of your career either in the battlefield or someone else? >> absolutely. you're trying to overcome it. there's things you can do to overcome it. your body and mind will help you get through that. it will slow things down but the most important -- there's nothing strange about fear. it's going to be there. it's part of the fight. the first time i got shot at, i couldn't taste for three days, it scared the hell out of me. but i think you're well enough trained that what really drives you forward is because you're probably going to be very tired. i cannot even explain to me to you how tired he would get. some of you have been there and you know what i'm referring to. the fear will be the coupled with the

james w mattis, himself explains that allowing impeachment on that basis would remain the president serves at the pleasure of congress, instead of the pleasure of the american people. it would make the president a creature, a creature of congress. not the head of a separate and equal branch. so there are powerful reasons, mr. president, why congress after congress for 230 years, 230 years, required presidential impeachment to revolve around clear, recognizable crimes. even though that was not a strict limitation period powerful reasons. why for 230 years, no house, no house open the pandora's box of subjective political impeachments. that 230 year tradition died last night. no mr. president, house democrats are trying to say they had to impeach president trump on this historically thin and subjective basis because the white house challenge their request from a witness. and that brings us to the second article of impeachment. the house titled this one, obstruction of congress. :si it's a routine occurrence. separation of powers is messy. it's by design. here's what should have happen happen