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Smaller level. the publisher in this case is expecting this to be a huge best seller and there are high expectations for comey at the publishing house and i think all the more reason there is a sense of dread about this book at the white house. >> i want to point out a point that nate silver made. here it is. if comeys decision to release the letter on october 28th was influenced by the interpretation at the polls that really ought to cut against his image as an honorable, principled decision ma...

Patterns they like. more importantly, the colors and patterns they dont like, because that can be more telling. >> her primary concern is giving clients what they want and not what she thinks they might want. liz also trying to identify the decision maker in her client interviews. theres nothing worse than dealing with people who cant agree. >> sometimes it is a tug-of-war in a balancing act between a husband and wife to say, she really likes this, i dont like that. so whos opinion is going to w...

The president has and then tweets out, we thought this attack was happening last night. it didnt happen and then he says it may never happen at all. there is a challenge here. i think what the president has to do, just as a matter -- not talking about tactics but strategy. the president has got to decide okay i want to deliver more than just an empty message. for him this is a big red line moment. >> the question is, what should the objective be? right? you have got to define the objective? is i...

>> it was most unsettling to me about the video that you just showed. heres the president speaking through clenched teeth, rage, evident on his face as he talks about this prosecution surrounded by generals, admirals, all of the senior military leadership as he contemplate taking military action following the syrian use of chemical weapons. i was reminded of the situation after the watergate crisis began rolling, during the october 1973 war. and there was great concern, in the administration at ...

>> that is true. that is r.t. but domestic russian channels, they keep open the possibility and they keep this separation, it is the good czar and the bad boy -- it is the good trump versus the evil deep state and most certainly that is the signaling. but there is another signal that comes from this that when i talk to russians and including those close to the kremlin, it also makes president trump look really weak. and it makes it look like hes not in charge of his foreign policy and by the way...

Hes a great decision maker. if he doesnt like something, he doesnt complain about it, he mixes it up. some of the personnel changes are beyond his control, whether its a personal information with a staffer or confirmation clog, or anything like that, we see a president thats unafraid to make change and thats what hes doing. ronald reagan did the same. he made changes early on in his presidency. thats something thats not new to the white house. >> thats good historical perspective. theres not a s...

Taught to speak truth to power and give people their honest military judgment. at times thats not going to work for the president if he doesnt agree. its not surprising that hes moving away from the generals approach. he still has secretary mattis there, obviously a very robust general with long experience in this space. well see how that plays out. at the end of the day, the president is the decision maker here. its important hes given all the options and that he understands all the various tha...

Draining the swamp, and can he make the argument that he is draining his own swamp? >> well, certainly republicans are wondering or some of the base the that voted for trump and the passionate are starting to become a little cynical that the swam subpoena going to go away. obviously, he is draining the swamp a little bit, but he created it, and he fill lted it, and this is a problem that was created by the president. the buck stops with him. >> right. and amy, we will obviously have john bolton ...

Responding given that he responds to pretty much everything that dominates media. whether that comes from his lawyers or he doesnt have anything to say, i dont know. the stormy daniels thing, the census questions that kristin was talking about. this press briefing is a lot of deflection there. the commerce department doesnt have an on camera briefing. when shes answering those questions that could have huge consequences on the country and the representation of people all across the country, no a...

Cabinet sectors and the cabinet who is finally the decision maker the model is always thought to be brent psycscowcro john bolton couldnt be farther from that honestmodel. comments like north koreans are lying, if their lips are moving. thats not the sort of person who brokers a coherent conversation about policy. so i think the fear is that bolton, through his career, has been something whose tentative to have his thumb on the scale in favor of something helps. not somebody that listens, weighs...