matus was clearly in the first camp. four times a year course where you have newly rising or newly promoted one star generals and admirals. that's a constant refrain that matus would bring up during that discussion. you can walk in and immediately tell whether the person is actually in charge and running the show or the organization. he felt he knew what he wanted to accomplish as defense secretary and he needed the organization to align itself to him. now everything from restoring the budget for the military, producing the national defense strategy, defeating isis which we defeated the physical caliphate. there were a number of large ticket items he wanted to accomplish. times you refer to the phrase adult in the room. >> largely it was secretary .attis you had secretary of state tillerson. gary conan others. this gets back to what president himself both as the nominee and as president-elect, he wanted to bring the best individuals with a depth of knowledge into his administration. those were the individuals who wanted

matus and tillerson are working in concert to keep this thing on track. expand on that. could use the esperanza spencer from over the weekend. strong statements about eddie gallagher and others who have been accused of crimes to pardon them or to intercede directly to re-elevate eddie gallagher to the rank of chief petty officer and ensuring he can keep his trident pin during retirement. that's a microcosm of what i expressed in the book. communicating to voters and americans who support him. that gets conflated sometimes. it's very difficult to tell and that's where that prior coordination becomes incredibly important. if the state department receives a heads up that this is largely for political consumption that's one thing. if it was to be acted on that needs to be corneille did as well. host: how frustrated did secretary mattis get? guest: one of the things i love the most about working for him is that he is a consummate professional. he is someone who does not believe -- the saying i have always used is the emotion is enemy of good judgment. kate -- came out it was,

matus was clearly in the first camp.r times a year course where you have newly rising or newly promoted one star generals and admirals. that's a constant refrain that matus would bring up during that discussion. you can walk in and immediately tell whether the person is actually in charge and running the show or the organization. he felt he knew what he wanted to accomplish as defense secretary and he needed the organization to align itself to him. now everything from restoring the budget for the military, producing the national defense strategy, defeating isis which we defeated the physical caliphate. there were a number of large ticket items he wanted to accomplish. times you refer to the phrase adult in the room. >> largely it was secretary .attis you had secretary of state tillerson. gary conan others. this gets back to what president himself both as the nominee and as president-elect, he wanted to bring the best individuals with a depth of knowledge into his administration. those were the individuals who wanted to h

could it's my kind if there was a woman named him and she oversaw all the marriage and sexual jihad matus. she had a girls' names ages and physical descriptions. she was innocent all this with the fighters in the in me is. in me is preferred virgins. in me is not a simple fighter. how can i say this. they each had specific requests for marriage. everyone had his own requirements grab a. limit on what we went on patrol in the bus and handed the women over to the guards who took them to the torture chamber and the judge did that she did meet up there they his but commander inspected them and if you liked one he would make a marriage proposal but. if she said yes he issued the marriage papers and she went home with him if not she remained in custody and was tortured. and there's a dog i'm fucked i experienced some strange things when i worked for them. one time i asked for a midwife i went to fetch her. she was allegedly supposed to help the wives give birth. mom. once or twice i fell for the trick i want. michael but. then i discovered that the midwives did not really come for a delivery. a

in fact i recall a conversation with secretary matus back in 2018 about those issues. sooner so i did you do to dislodge the her name. nothing. what if you do to dislodge the her name. smack to dislodge the her name, i did not take personally take any action. >> did you call on me. sara had conversations about or be in my perspective wasn't there were a number of programs that were being funny was being held for including the northern triangle countries. my focus at the time in august and into september, one of the funding for the northern triangle countries. i was leaving it to our ambassador taylor and so forth. i was informed that you want to testify before the house appropriations subcommittee on northern triangle. >> i'm appreciate that, i'm focused on the position for which you are nominated. smack in there with data was told i was handed a note informing among brother things, that the ukrainian assistance i believe it was september 11th, had been, the lid been lifted. >> to the record, the undersecretary of defense directed to you as the chairman of the committe