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Of cognitive dissonence and where they say theyre all friends and some say the house is on fire and others say no its not. im not sure if they can go forward like that. the political pressures on people like mitch mcconnell seem to be holding everybody in place. >> shepard: very important mid-term elections in a year. what is the read on fund-raising for the gop? >> well, there could be a significant effect. were seeing particularly -- you see the media figures, the rush limbaughs, the sean hann...

Scenarios, ill just stick with what we know here. nicole, let me suggest to you, lets think of this beyond the putin and russian problem, although thats quite easy to talk about given the events of recent case. what youve got here is a president-elect who is very, very confident in his own judgment, in his own instincts, and seems to have some very powerful knowledge and judgments about the world around us. and its very difficult for what i call the fact-based guys, the intelligence guys, to kin...

Break through those assumptions and create cognitive dissonence on the president-elect as they impose on him their view of the world. so this isnt just a russian problem, nicole, or a putin problem, its an issue as to how the new president will embrace information that doesnt -- that is not consistent with his preexistent narrative of the world. thats the big issue. >> i want to ask you a little bit about that. you ran the cia and the nsa. do you expect that tomorrow, when president-elect trump ...