John F. Kelly: “It stuns me that a member of Congress would have listened in on a conversation. Absolutely stuns me. And I thought at…”

Nothing approaching an order that foolish was ever given. And I can't imagine anyone that worked at the White House after me that would have simply shrugged their shoulders and allowed that order to go forward without dying in the ditch…

I think this decision was over using the military to go after American citizens is one of those things I think is a very, very bad thing even to say it for political purposes to get elected I think is a very, very bad thing, let alone…

A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, or shot down or seriously wounded in combat or spend years being tortured as POWs are all suckers, because there is nothing in it for them.

What you just described does not sound very nice. It doesn't sound to be the kind of principles that the United States wants to stand for.