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Of john bolton. weve had two administrations and ten years of relative american disengagement. were all proud of the 2000 soldiers there. but that is somewhat less than the new jersey state police. america has disengaged. meanwhile, the iranians have consolidated, making iran -- making syria into a client state. and putin in a bold and historic move. moving the russian army and air force into syria made it now more than a client state. its a base of operations. syria is now an away game for the ...

That my next guest held under president obama. tom donovan. tom, you know the job better than anyone, what do you think is driving these changes? what is donald trump unhappy about that he thinks changing this pivotal person, really the first person he talks to about national security and literally the last person he talks to every day. why is he doing it? >> theres been an unprecedented change over during the first year plus of the trump administration. i think the turnover among senior jobs is...

And his military will pay a heavy price. do you expect there will be in the near term military action there in syria? >> i think if its verified that this was an action of assad and probably is verified, i think we will take some steps to retaliate as chris said in a proportional manner. i think the big challenge here is the administration, as was the obama administration, is used working off of, i guess, 2001 use of -- of military force. i would love to see congress step up to the plate and say...

Security adviser from 2010 to 2013. tom, you know the job almost better than anyone. what is it, do you think, thats driving these changes? what is donald trump unhappy about that he thinks changing this pivotal person, really the first person he talks to about national security and the last person he talks to every day. why is he doing it? >> fareed, theres been unprecedented changeover during the first year-plus of the trump administration. i think the turnover among senior jobs is about 50%. ...

Of the most successful technology companies, foreign banks often have to operate with local partner who is add zero value, its essentially a tax on foreign companies, foreign manufacturers are forced to share their technology with local companies that reverse engineer their products and compete against their -- the targets are american companies whose secrets and intellectual property are shared with chinese competitors. the trump administration may not have chosen the wisest course forward, ali...

For more than 20 years. despite the fact weve had varying administrations, some more intentionally than others, everyone has been trying to put their finger on the scales of justice. >> in what way? >> not by telling judges how to do their cases, but deciding which cases should be heard first, by putting pressure on judges to move cases more quickly. those are things which do not happen in judicial courts. were in administrative court and that leaves us vulnerable to those kinds of politically-b...

Pushing for these tariffs today. listen. >> we want fair and reciprocal trade. we want him to stop stealing our stuff, we want him to guard intellectual property, not take it from us, and in your monologue at the beginning of this, you played a clip from the president. he said we had already lost the trade war. well, bush and obama, over the course of 16 years, basically stood by while we lost over 70,000 factories, millions of manufacturing jobs and much of our traditional manufacturing base. >...

>> the general picture of chaos being painted by the media. the president imposing tariffs on china. larry kudlow says its preliminary, they may not take effect, these are negotiations. the president said he wants to send troops to the syria and walked it back. he said the daca deal is dead. does donald trumps style justify the media saying hes an erratic president? mollie: instead of fixing what they were doing, they continued as they are. its not just the way they cover trump. its the way they...

They rip up intellectual property, they force transfers to go to the things that have got to stop and those will be i think the key things that need to be in any negotiated agreement. >> perhaps, some public big footing and grandstanding by the president was necessary to set the tone. show the world that he means business. but is it time to take the tough talk away from twitter and tried to strike a deal the old-fashioned way? >> the tweets i find highly amusing that they also drive me nuts.i th...

So right now, i know that china has like 10 industries out there that they are off limits to foreigners. you cant even get 49% and if you do end up getting a position in a foothold in china you can only own 49% of a joint venture. is that the kind of restrictions you want to see in the u.s. because i know youre a free markets guy so how much of the government bite do you want to see here? >> well i think we have to have some reciprocal relations which means if they put a tariff of 25 % on our ca...