Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis defended his reluctance to openly criticize the Trump administration but also did not rule out speaking candidly before the 2020 election
Washington Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis defended his reluctance to openly criticize the Trump administration Tuesday but also did not rule out speaking candidly before the 2020 election, telling CNN's Christiane Amanpour that"there will come a time when it is right" for him to do so.
In his first CNN interview since resigning eight months ago, Mattis suggested that he continues to weigh a responsibility to speak out with a duty of silence he believes he owes current officials as they navigate a myriad of geopolitical challenges, raging from Iran to Syria to North Korea.
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