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Cases where they had a lack of trust, spicer didnt engage with the question. so yesterday flynn is this kind of untrustworthy dishonest guy, and flynns own statement in his resignation statement was sort of contrite and admitting mistakes, and then today trump comes out guns blazing. it feels schizophrenic and shoot from the hip and made up as you into. for people who are used to an extremely different style in the american presidency, its unnerving. >> and allie, on the subject of russia, there...

Theres so much discrepancy here. >> chris, there are two people in this government who have the power and will to address those questions and get answers under subpoena. and they are jim comey, the head of the fbi, and senator john mccain, the last cold warrior left standing in the senate. >> well, were watching mccain. tonight mccain is out there. well see how far he goes. i agree with you, if mccain stays on this front, things are going to break open. thank you, malcolm nance and tim weiner. ...

Unbelievable, but russia has penetrated american politics. having said that, i want to show you an exchange that happened today. casey hunt and john mccain who lets remember, was a cold warrior, a hot warrior, gave five and a half years of his life as a prisoner of war. she asked him today about the foreign policy shop in the white house. >> are the trump administration competent to handle our national security? >> well, the president, you have to assume that since the president was elected by m...

>> 1980. >> you left in the heap of the cold war. dana was on your side in 1980. he thought tyranny was a bad thing back then. >> yeah. that was his go to, right? i was a speech writer for ronald reagan. dont you know who i was? i was a cold warrior and things are different now. things are different with vladimir putin. he was just like gorbachev. i think a lot of people would question that thought process. >> it was fascinating. i dont get that, by the way. because he was such a cold warrior. i...

The medical and educational services. but i think its his brother who carried out those economic reforms. and by agreeing to the political reforms -- well, not the reforms because there is still a human rights legacy, human rights abuses and continues privations in terms of free speech and communication there. but the gradual change that his brother raul permitted in agreement with the united states has meant some lessening of the tight controls. the internet, airline travel is now being normali...

I think -- >> how about a new game? >> well, no this is -- you get to voice the game on air on joes show. why am i wrong? i think this president, like a lot of presidents in their seventh and eighth year are so desperate for the big deal that sometimes, you know, reagan finally went from cold warrior to getting one nuke deal after another in the seventh and deal. >> but i fear and i think a lot of conservatives and some democrats fear that this president is so desperate for a deal he will even t...

And when he comes back, it amazes how he is invited on sunday television, as if he didnt take us into catastrophe. its as if he is still fighting the iraq war, as if we were winning, it was a brilliant idea. there. >> are so many marks against him as an expert to be called in, i almost dont know where to start. >> yeah. >> lets go back even before 9/11. the early bush/cheney administration was asleep at the switch in the months leading up to 9/11, ignoring warnings all over the place. one thing ...

Saying this is not east-west and this is not the 19th century. its a failure to understand vladmir putin who is an old colonel, kgb who wants to restore the russian empire. it was vladmir putin who said the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century was the breakup of the soviet union. this constant idea that somehow he can be dealt with as friends or, you know, friday, a week ago, as russian troops were going into crimea, our secretary of state talked to lavrov, another old cold warrior, and lavr...

On the table. it has to be emphasized this is the guy responsible for the iraq war largely, something that caused the deaths of at least 186,000 people. according to the group iraq body count. all together nearly 5,000 americans were killed in that campaign, and 32,000 americans were wounded. howard, dick cheney doesnt seem to want to go away. and when he comes back, it amazes how he is invited on sunday television, as if he didnt take us into catastrophe. its as if he is still fighting the iraq...

Was referring to in the gates book. a quote, i think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades. the former defense secretary talking about vice president biden. what about all this? lets bring in our panel, george will, juan williams, and steve hayes. george? creating quite a stir here in washington. >> well, bob gates is one of the great public figures of the last 50 years. may not be a great author, because he seems to have pr...