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Conventional, very conservative again jen da. and a populace in the country youre rooting for trump because you voted for him. if youre a conservative populace. the long-term question can is, does that work politically for trump or do people look at that swath and say, at some point, hey like you were going to drain the swamp and the swamp is still full and youve become a conventional republican president. >> mike, im just looking at my computer and, you know, why does trump keep surviving? beca...

What hes done over the past five years. >> no. and thats the central question. i agree that was -- thats huge news if theyre going to be -- the u.s. administered or created safe zones in syria, how is that going to work. one presumes that this evolves, number one, some sort of accord or agreement or working together with russia, and that -- that, to me, presumes an acceptance of assad. assads continuance as president of whats left of his part of syria at the very least because i dont think you g...

Actually in the coverage, donnie, that they actually didnt talk to anybody outside of manhattan? >> there you go. >> i mean, with we could talk about wikileaks, we can talk about hillarys e-mails, they never saw this coming because they never looked outside of their bubble. and so now theyre so angry, so angry that they missed it over the past year, theyve got to explain why they were blind. >> joe, i think there are two different issues. >> let me read this again. half stability is no guarantee...

>> that is with actually -- that is the big news out of last night. john heilemann you were asking what does his future policy look like, that is -- and sometimes when we get distracted by the bright shiny objects we miss that. if that is, in fact, his new policy on syria, probably pushed by mattis and conversations with the president-elect, that is a significant change and it suggests a regional alliance to bring some sort of relief to refugees across the globe. >> and hugely important thing, i...

Sitting in that chair that seems to play in his own band, versus the normal confines of that office. i think that -- >> but donnie, hes hired people who have been talking to -- talking to mitt romney, whos extremely critical. thats a false question. if theyre asking you that question, donnie, are you scared someone youre so against is our president -- >> thats a gutteral response to what they see out there. >> have they been watching this transition. >> what do you mean, what would he do with mi...

Politically. he couldnt be seen as trying to tip the scales in favor of hillary clinton. in any public way, but thats -- thats a question. >> yeah. >> okay. thats a whole different argument. >> but we also -- >> i know. we have to get going. >> just one last thing. >> five seconds. >> the other important thing last night obama saying there would be some kind of reprisal against russia and that was news last night and there could be action taken between now and when barack obama leaves office aga...

Relationships. a big putin question. but a lot of pragmatic choices. you know where i come down on trump but mostly the -- i like theyre not cronies and i like theyre outsiders and i like that -- like him or not he stayed true to what he said he was going to do. >> john heilemann, what has -- whats been official washingtons view of the people hes selected so far? >> look, i think everybody has fallen in line. this goes to the central political question, right. he has appointed a guy that ran as ...

I dont think anybody does right now. >> no. i mean nobody knows. just to donnies point, my hair cant be on fire. i dont have much hair. look, i think there has to be a change in the president-elects mindset. there does have to be that change from, you know, whats good for donald trump to whats good for the country and sometimes those will be in conflict and hes going to have to choose the country. and if he doesnt, then yeah, were going to be in big trouble and were just going to have to see how...

Just suggested. >> go ahead and getting it out. mika, the republicans have to investigate this aggressively. what happens four years from now if we dont do enough, dont find out what happens, so we can protect against future safeguards and north koreas hacks the rnc. >> right. >> yeah. >> its going to happen. >> it was already attacked it. >> can i ask a quick question here, this goes to our earlier discussion about campaigning versus being president. should we not be gravely concerned, gravely ...

Elements of assads air force and they chose not even to do that. >> while the civilians were being bombed and killed and the french were saying well get involved, barack obama pushed back even on that. >> i want to look forward and ask you this question, at this moment, given everything weve seen over trumps candidacy and foreign policy, i dont have a clue what his instincts are or what his world view is and this is going to be his war in 30 days, 35 days, what do you think hes going to do. wher...