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Of dollars. a huge resource. he has previously openly talked about taking the oil from iraq, which weve heard in the past. how much from what you understand does this play a role in his decision making process in regards to the strategy moving forward in afghanistan? >> its unclear how much of a role this plays. trump has obviously surrounded himself with a number of generals who have pushed for this to empower the military. im sure they also played a role, but the united states also doesnt have...

July, early august, the process had grown slow on making a decision on afghanistan. kelly as longtime member of the marine corps, he wanted to speed it up, make sure president was breeched, make sure the president went to camp david to make a final decision. he was an incity day or the of the decision-making process. >> you cant ignore opticings of this. he walks out, there are all the members of the military in the audience, clearly in uniform. theyre playing "hail to chief." hes standing and w...

Place, and we have somebody with no moral rectitude as commander in chief in the west wing of the white house. but when it comes to people outside the national command authority, outside the decision-making process and the deployment of american troops, this is rather easy. and by the way, to the argument that things could be so much worse, we saw the president of the united states yesterday talked about the good people at a torch-lit nazi parade who were simply there expressing their first amen...

Were trying to put together the infrastructure both in terms of data and electronic infrastructure, but also in terms of campaign staff to be able to allow centrist independent candidates to run and win. >> you ran so strong a campaign and ultimately garnered 43% of the vote that the "d" dropped out because they knew they had no shot and they thought maybe greg orman is the best chance in that election. what was the largest impediment, the largest institutional barrier that you faced in that rac...

Decision making process that is taking place in charlottesville. i would just tell you that we know from we have seen on tv that the first responders are there, they are working and they are seeking to contain the situation. and so we need to support the first responders. >> and it seems like several figures in the alt-right, whether david duke or richard spencer, have been outspoken supporters of the president. and we lettered on theard on th trail president trump said he disavows these group, ...

On the decision-making process on hillary clinton. the -- somehow remain redacted in the 400 pages obtain inner freedom of information act lawsuit filed by the american center for law and justice. >> when we filed this four your request back in july, the fbi quickly responded. this is the fbi under jim comey. that they didnt have any documents. >> those sections not redacted revealed the early apprehension of justice and fbi officials that the tarmac story achieve lift off and their determinatio...

Instability at the top of our national security council. so, the people around mcmaster, general kelly, et cetera, theyve got to get this under control -- >> do you think general kelly, the new white house chief of staff, retired marine corps four star general, youre thinking he can bring that order? >> he can bring discipline and order at the staff level. i dont think he can control donald trump, donald trumps intem presence. but i do think he has the capacity to bring some more order to the ov...

To do that. but i -- look, it sounds like you and i remain skeptical. >> well, i think that healthy skepticism is called for, and if you read the "wall street journal"s editorial page, shelby, heres the headline. priebus wasnt the problem. over the weekend. the reason mr. priebus wasnt as effective as he could have been was because mr. trump wouldnt listen to him and let him establish a decision-making process. perhaps hell listen more to mr. kelly. he had better, because on presidents course, h...

>> i think it could be one of the most important personnel changes president trump has made assuming hes willing to accept the discipline and a stronger chain of command. chris: thats former defense secretary leon panetta talking about the new white house chief of staff, general john kelly, who was panettas senior military adviser in the pentagon. and its time now for our sunday group, brit hume, former democratic congresswoman jane harman, director of the woodrow wilson center and gop vat gist ...

>> i think it could be one of the most important personnel changes president trump has made assuming hes willing to accept the discipline and a stronger chain of command. chris: thats former defense secretary leon panetta talking about the new white house chief of staff, general john kelly, who was panettas senior military adviser in the pentagon. and its time now for our sunday group, brit hume, former democratic congresswoman jane harman, director of the woodrow wilson center and gop vat gist ...