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Decoding the Mystery of Jim Mattis

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to the New Yorker’s Susan Glasser about dropping in on Jim Mattis’ book tour, the worldviews of figures like Mattis and Rod Rosenstein, and not taking the reality stars of the Trump administration seriously. Finally, what Trump did in August. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

One thing we can all agree on, no one wants another energy crisis.

0:07.1

But just talking about it won't make it go away.

0:09.7

Here's what we're actually doing at British Gas.

0:12.2

We're increasing the UK's gas storage so that we can help make energy prices more predictable

0:16.9

for everyone.

0:18.3

And so the 8 million homes and businesses who rely on us for their energy today can rely

0:23.1

on us tomorrow too.

0:25.4

That's enough talking.

0:26.4

Let's get on with the doing.

0:28.2

British Gas.

0:30.5

When you leave an administration or a government over matters of policy, you state what they are,

0:36.2

what those matters are.

0:37.5

I did so at the president.

0:38.8

He was straightforward with me.

0:40.7

I was straightforward with him.

0:42.4

And then you owe a period of silence as the president, the Secretary of State, Secretary

0:46.2

of Defense carry on the duty of preserving and protecting this country.

0:50.4

And I'm not going to sit now in what I consider to be the cheap seats having just left the

0:55.4

administration and comment or make political assessments.

1:01.0

Before it was the axis of adults, right?

1:03.9

It was Kelly, Mattis, Tillerson and HR.

1:06.3

They kept the president from doing all these crazy things.

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