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LEMON: “This is “CNN tonight.” I’m don lemon. I want to be plain. Okay? Whatever you’re doing, please just sit down and watch. Even if you watch just this much of the show. Because I think it’s important for our country and the world. If you are worried tonight, you should be. Because honestly, who knows what is going to happen next? I’m not being hyperbolic. I’m not being an alarmist. And here’s why. However you felt or feel about James Mattis, secretary Mattis, general James Mattis, he was the bulwark between impulse and stability in this administration. He was the last person left who could tell an impetuous president slow your roll. Hold your horses. Cool your jets. You don’t want to do that. So tonight, a political earthquake is rolling through Washington as the trump Administration sinks further into chaos. Defense secretary James Mattis, hailed as a great military leader, is resigning after the president falsely claimed ISIS is defeated and announced he is withdrawing troops from Syria. Mattis also knows that that is a false and dangerous position for the United States military to take. He is also said to be against the president’s expected order to withdraw about half of U.S. Forces from Afghanistan as well.”
