Listen to the following NPR news report and decide which three statements

are true:

1. _____ President Trump intends to nominate Patrick Shanahan to be

his next defense secretary, to replace Jim Mattis.

2. _____ Jim Mattis resigned back in November. As NPR's Tom Bowman

reports, Shanahan will be far different than Mattis.

3. _____ Shanahan brings strong execution skills with a background in

technology, development and business management.

4. _____ The former engineer spent nearly his entire adult life at The
Boeing Company building airplanes. Now he'll be the principal military
adviser to President Trump, overseeing more than a million active duty
service members, ongoing military operations and any crisis that may
pop up.

5. _____ Mattis resigned over Trump's decision to remove all U.S. troops
from Afghanistan, a move the top general in the region said he would
not have recommended.

6. _____ Russia and China have not yet caught up to the technological
advantage that we (the USA) had in most areas.

7. _____ National Security Adviser John and Secretary of State Mike

Pompeo have very strong views, and they are struggling because they
don’t have the president's ear on many issues ranging from North
Korea to Iran.

8. _____ Defense analyst Michael O'Hanlon says Shanahan has been

under Mattis' wing, learning about the geostrategic issues of the day.
But what concerns O'Hanlon is a possibility of a new and more
dangerous challenge under Shanahan's watch, something far more
dire than the Islamic State and involving North Korea, China or Russia.