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First policy failure as secretary of state. that is not what we got today. >> thats right. it indicates the limits of his influence. its interesting too because pompeo is considered to be a hawk. hes not thought of as the moderate that rex tillerson was seen as. yet in his role as secretary of state, hes obviously taken upon the traditional position of the state department, of the chief diplomat to seek more diplomatic solutions to things rather than potentially blow up alliances. his role now a...

United states. no, were not going to war with china. in foreign relation ands foreign policy they have the specific coded language they have been seeking from the united states to show, okay, we agree. we capitulate to that idea. you do whatever you want. well stay out of it. so, its a really big deal that rex tillerson went over to china and used that coded language. he recited their script word for word exactly what they want. i mean, that we know from public reporting. but then ronan reportin...

Ill now return to private life as a private citizen. as a proud american, proud to serve my country. >> rex tillersons exit. oust steer from the state department. unsermon usually fired on twitter. that now shifts the pfocus to nw cia director. now, global affairs analyst and former under secretary of state and former cia chief of staff. wendy, first to you, from your long experience at the state department, what happens next? its a s lets assume that mike pompeo gets past this. brian hook from ...

Secretary of state. >> people say hes miserable to be around, as does his chief of staff, and hes coming from exxon where he was king of the hill, flying around the world, had his own foreign policy detail, ate in his own dining room because he didnt like to mess with the riff raff, and now look at the position hes in. can he really stay? >> i dont think he can stay. part of it is if youre not willing to trust the career national security apparatus and bring people into your state department oth...

Mattis, mcmaster, pompeo to a certain extent. i dont think he wants that dented. tillersons not doing him any political good, not doing him any diplomatic good, not doing him any diplomacy good. it just seems to me that with the exception of a guy named brian hook whos probably too low level for our people to understand watching in the audience, there arent any tools to use at state. and i think mike is right to point there and say look for some change because if hes not getting anything out of ...

Outcome will be. basically what this comes down to, carol, through all the back-and-forth is, at the end of the day, will the president-elect accept the findings of the intelligence community? thats what were waiting to find out. >> all right. jason carroll live from trump tower. im joined by former senior bush administration official brian hook, deputy director of congressional relations at the foundation for defense of democracy, boris silverman and former cia counterterrorism official phil mu...

Conversatio conversations. i dont know how she disputes that. the question is what difference does it make, if someone celebrated the victory of one candidate or the other? i want to get in the heat of the intelligence conversation to the heart of the matter. do we have solid information, whether its a human source, intercepted communication or elsewhere, that indicates the presidents office in russia was aware of, supported, condoned, backed this operation? all this other stuff is enough. i don...

Starts to govern, we wont know. its hard to extrapolate foreign policy on the basis of tweets. >> boris, final question to you. look into your crystal ball. once president-elect trump is inaugurated and becomes president of the united states, will he and congress be on the same page when it comes to russia? >> i think theyve got a long way to go. within his own team theres russia hawks on his own national security team. what they decide to do as far as steps to try to engage the russians and how...

Sworn into office and takes a view of russia from the oval office, its going to be a very different view, and i think hes going to be facing a congress that wants to get to the bottom of it. if we can get all the facts out and follow the facts to where they may lead, its good to avoid any future possibility of russian interference in an election. i think theres a lot to be said for the eight years of weakness under president obama inviting the kind of cyber aggression that we saw at the end of h...

Dealing with congressional sanctions against russia, how con fi dfident are we that puti knew? >> brian, is that just a deflection, what sean spicer said, is he trying to make us all wonder why the democrats would not turn their computers over to the fbi? >> i dont know if its a deflection. i think looking at that segment with kellyanne conway, there is a real concern that democrats are using the russia issue as a proxy to contest the election or undermine the result. i think perhaps theres some...