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Ceasefire? >> well, peter, there is not a shred of coherence to any of this stuff. he is making it up. you had a phone call. he absolutely directly allowed the turks to start their offensive. had he said i am going to send 200 more soldiers to the border, u.s. troops, i am going to mass air power, they wouldnt have done it. so he green-lighted the thing. it happened. now these statements are coming out that literally have no bearing on reality. >> general, he calls them my generals, everybody is...

She also left the administration in august, and so she is free to give testimony and to give it freely. another thing about her, according to a source, is that she was unaware, however, of much of the dealings and the controversy the on going controversy regarding the ukraine scandal, but what democrats are going to want to know is what would be the impact of holding up that military aid to ukraine, being in a proxy war with russia? what was -- who was mind the decision-making process going into...

The clinton and obama administrations, whether you worked for president reagan, bush 1, bush 2, clinton, obama, there was a national security decision making process that we all tried to adhere to where tough issues were worked from the bottom up with facts, with analysis, with intelligence with policy options that were debated and assessed on their merits, recommendations made from principals to the president of the united states in a thoughtful and accountable way and when the president makes ...

National security decision-making process is completely broken down. as i discuss in my book, which is as much a personal story as it is about my time in the clinton and obama administrations, whether you work for president reagan, bush 1, bush 2, clinton, obama, there was a national security decision-making process that we all tried to adhere to from the bottom up with facts, analysis, with intelligence, with policy options that were debated, you know, and assessed on their merits, recommendati...

10,000 terrorists. >> well discuss trumps infamous phone call with ukraine and why rice wasnt satisfied when obama offered her the u.n. ambassadorship. then david miliband on the consequences on the ground in syria. and ill ask our trump so-called china whisperer, billionaire stephen schwarzman when he thinks the trade war between the two worlds largest economies will end. and a novel idea to put a divided america back together and get the two sides talking, really talking. but first, heres ...

Policy in general. do you feel as though -- i mean, i watched this syria business and the president makes an announcement one day and then he realizes that maybe hes been too soft on the turks and he says im going to obliterate turkeys economy, which i can do in my great wisdom. great and unmatched wisdom. >> right. >> then he feels like maybe hes been too hard on the turks and invites him for a white house meeting in 72 hours. >> and then he says he told the turks not to cross into syria. >> wh...

During the legal process. the bbc reports that the head of indias ruling hindu nationalist party promised to repeat the registry process in the neighboring state of west bengal. and "reuters" reports he has called such undocumented people infi infiltrators and termites who must be thrown into the bay. thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. i will see you next week.

Wants to translate into policy like get out of the middle east. the policy people around him think its kind of difficult to do if not unwise so they slow walk a lot of it. so it seemed like the pentagon had been -- trump had announced were getting out of syria months ago. they slow walk it and then he realizes or has a phone call with a leader, my god, we still have troops in syria and then explodes. have you ever seen a process like that? >> there is no process. i wish i could call this the pro...

May. so you have this very clear contrast between an area where the ring was being held by american troops and an area where its the wild west. >> what is the larger point about american foreign policy here from your point of view? >> its summed up in a simple word. vacuum. theres no american diplomatic presence of a significant kind in trying to bring the syrian conflict to an end and establish stability. its a genuine crisis of diplomacy because american is in retreat. britain is ca there is n...

Trump administration were trying to accomplish in ukraine. watch a new episode of on assignment at 10:00 p.m. eastern only on msnbc. for more on the presidents decision making process on this and the backlash in congress, talking about syria, im joined by washington correspondent for the daily beast, eleanor clift. also back with me, andrew. welcome back for both of you. eleanor, let me talk with you. lets start with you. last night, the president said that hes on an island of one on this. is he...