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Happening. were less than nine months into the beginning of this presidency. and if you look back in the first year of other administrations, republican or democratic, there were complaints and there were successies and failures, but there wasnt this kind of very early questioning of the presidents own abilities, which is the second really profound difference that criticisms that people had of ronald reagan in his first time or bill clinton or barack obama or jimmy carter, when i was working for...

Trying to have discipline and keep it together. im sure when he saw the puerto rico tweet this morning he was not happy with that. but theres been reporting that general kelly is so frustrated hes going to leave. i think its fair to say general kelly is fvery frustrated, and hes not going anywhere. hes a very tough guy in this for the long haul, he sees it as a mission. >> aaron david miller, youve worked for several administrations. is this discussion and the volume of chatter right now, is it ...

Come from them. he said he has proof positive evidence that shows the campaign never colluded with russia. is it in the best interest of the country that it seems and im guessing he wants it to be left alone. >> lets leave the collusion to the investigators, but they said choice wors about julian a range. past and present administrations say wikileaks obtained those from are ushia and there is no doubt about that. why? >> its classic politics. this is why america look at the

>> the american electoral system said yes. the president can do this. they voted for him to do this, despite the warnings that you heard from robbie and the democrats during the campaignp they knew what they were getting and this is what they got. >> yeah. first of all it wasnt just the democrats. i think we can forget that extraordinary letter from dozens of former high-ranking national security officials in several republican administrations making essentially the same warning that we heard fr...

And got these folks, carried it out, and it seems wieker than the u.s. might have expected, but you heard general kelly say there that it was something the president hinted at, that they respect us more now. he can say that i believe the relationship is improving. through multiple administrations, going back to bush and obama, there has been real questions. and it was interesting to hear him fumble with the word partner. at least their services for some of these, right. right. exactly. also, i w...

Husband, josh boyle. this is great news. do you know about the release? >> we worked with it and the obama administration and now the trump administration. i think there have been different levels of interests from the administrations. each administration has been well aware advised on the situation, and doing something to secure their freedom, secure their release. >> has there been any recent change or development within the negotiation that triggered this? >> we dont, as members of congress w...

And if you look back in the first year of other administrations, republican or democratic, there were complaints and there were successes and failures, but there wasnt this kind of very early questioning of the presidents own abilities, which is the second really profound difference that criticisms that people had of ronald reagan in his first time or bill clinton or barack obama or jimmy carter, when i was working for him, they were about judgment calls that the president made or policies that ...

The policy options to give him something he could digest, he didnt really want to do. a, theres this atmosphere of chaos around these important decisions, which you really didnt see very often in past administrations even if there was internal debate, obviously. and b, its this exercise in trying to get trump to sugar coat the pill in some way, that hell swallow it. to manage him back in sort of a main stream foreign policy position from the position hes at which is way out on a limb with basica...

Normalizing unconstitutional statements. first, just to be clear, as you said, the president cant pull a license for nbc. but the idea that the president would repeatedly engage in public statements that are obviously undermining the first amendment is an alarming development. we all have to stand up in common, those of us were elected, those of us were in the media. those of us who care about our constitutional values and civil society and the pushback on this. this is not normal behavior and i...

Andrea, one thing is the numbers. but there are other issues that i think should be the real focus of attention. one is, for example, our president, the president of russia doesnt have enough decision time if information were to come, which could be erroneous. its happened in the past about an attack. we would need to work on defusing that issue. the second issue is -- >> the hair trigger. >> -- the hair trigger. certainly launch on warning. weve been very lucky to dodge bullets in the past on t...