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Bigger things that suggests that this is just the beginning of something much bigger, not the end of a process. >> general, when you read his statement, this is a guy who signed up to fight for his country and did, saying now that hes going to do whats right for his country. do you think this is a guy capable of getting back on true north and truly serving the muller staff and rooting out what went wrong? >> i think part of the answer is yes. emphatical emphatically. add something i said at the ...

U.s. abstain from that. what are you looking for as that goes forward? is it quid pro quo or ideological determination by members of the transition team? >> i think you are looking at two tracks of legality if you will. so i think the call to kislyak related to sanctions is something you could tie into the election interference and potential liability. i think the issue around the vote in the u.n. security council on the other hand relates much more to this, at least norm, if not legal requireme...

Eisenhower. weve worried about wars. thats what the other administrations have done, get us to warses needlessly. he does want the convey his seriousness with north korea. the tweets are not so much directed to north korea but china and getting china to take it seriously. his rhetoric could use improvement. but people observing it need to separate that rhetoric from the reality of the presidency and from the reality, hes operating as a pretty mainstream president with a lot of accomplishments to...

Early administrations before policies are released. now, clearly in fairness to the other side, there is a lot of interactions here with russians. a surprising degree. and i think people want to know the truth about all of this. whether well get more of this. >> bill: thats a very interesting answer. you have to think about how the trump policy may have been different from the obama policy as it relates to russia. general flynn was a man who went to the white house who believed if you can peel m...

And then president-elect trump did not heed that advice. so there are some former obama administration officials who are seething a little bit this afternoon, jake, as the white house is trying to use them to shield the president from this michael flynn case. >> its astounding. in terms of whether or not flynn was authorized to talk to kislyak, were going to have jim clapper, the former director of national intelligence, on in just a second. we can ask him about it. but i hear that the obama adm...

Theres no evidence in history of an errant word causing a war. we have had a lot of rhetoric from the previous administrations warning north korea about destruction if they continued with their nuclear capabilities. nothing has stopped them. absolutely nothing. everything about our posture for the last several decades has done nothing to keep them from the path theyre on. >> laura: what is crazy. this is crazy. its happening on republican and democrat administrations. i think leaving the border ...

Your father and henry kissinger and he can go all the way back what we have been doing in the entire post world to try to minimize the influence of countries like russia and china and here we see ten, 11 months in, the impact of donald trumps retreat, his neoisolationism. he talks big, guess what, hes let the russians go in and basically invade space they havent been in since 73 in syria now in egypt a company pivotal to your father obviously under president jimmy carter did in the camp david ac...

President trump elect trump did not take that advice. and it appears he is now paying the price for that. former obama administration official reached out to me earlier today to say listen, michael flynn worked in multiple administrations and was fired by barack obama who tried to warn president elect trump to stay away from michael flynn. he didnt take that advice. >> thanks very much. so of the multitude of questions that all of us have, one is who was michael flynn actually getting this direc...

Eisenhower. weve worried about wars. thats what the other administrations have done, get us to warses needlessly. he does want the convey his seriousness with north korea. the tweets are not so much directed to north korea but china and getting china to take it seriously. his rhetoric could use improvement. but people observing it need to separate that rhetoric from the reality of the presidency and from the reality, hes operating as a pretty mainstream president with a lot of accomplishments to...

Simple. >> military historians say theres no evidence in history of an errant word causing a war. we have had a lot of rhetoric from the previous administrations warning north korea about destruction if they continued with their nuclear capabilities. nothing has stopped them. absolutely nothing. everything about our posture for the last several decades has done nothing to keep them from the path theyre on. >> laura: what is crazy. this is crazy. its happening on republican and democrat administr...