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This kind of been a slow process? >> because what you dont see there, bret, two different things. the decision-making process of what fills the slots and then the clearance process. the clearance process is a process that we cant control. we have hundreds of people in the decision-making process, which is already done. so for example, you could have all of your undersecretaries at hss already picked. the president signed off on them, been interviewed, ready to go. once you get that person, you h...

People to fill out. when people are looking at those rates, going from seven or eight to something like zero, ten, 25, 35, people can look at that, and i think it makes a lot of sense. and then you take the business rate, you go from 35%, one of the highest tax countries in the world, and president trump takes that right down to 15%, companies are not going to have to leave our country any more, and theyll make more money, and people across the country and my neighbors in kenosha, wisconsin can ...

This kind of been a slow process? >> because what you dont see there, bret, two different things. the decision-making process of what fills the slots and then the clearance process. the clearance process is a process that we cant control. we have hundreds of people in the decision-making process, which is already done. so for example, you could have all of your undersecretaries at hss already picked. the president signed off on them, been interviewed, ready to go. once you get that person, you h...

E-mails possibly pertinent to the clinton investigation which had been closed once before. comeys letter to congress violated about not commenting on investigations that close to election. described the decision-making process this way, im quoting here. in my mind at the time clinton is likely to win, its pretty apparent, how do we say to the american public, we found some things that might be problematic, we didnt tell you about it before you voted? the damage would have been irreparable. despi...

Comey and the run up to presidential election. the decisions that hurt hillary clinton and hurt donald trump. it led mr. comey to inform congress that fbi learned of e-mails possibly pertinent to the clinton investigation which had been closed once before. comeys letter to congress violated about not commenting on investigations that close to election. described the decision-making process this way, im quoting here. in my mind at the time clinton is likely to win, its pretty apparent, how do we ...

Friction. >> it looks like a lot of national security issues the hard lined views the president is accepting some of them. >> i wouldnt have described them hard lined, but more mainstream or traditional republican. when he gets into house and has to govern, hes not as far from mccain and graham as he may have thought he was. >> its a good idea for the president to be meeting with these senators. >> sure. i think the president should meet with as many folks on who l capitol hill as he can, especi...

Letting up. if anything, they seem to be intensifying. under what circumstances, congressman, would you support u.s. military action against north korea? >> well, i think, wolf, before you even talk about that, we have to do all that we can to really deescalate this potential conflict. what i think is really happening here is symptomatic of a larger problem. the lack of staffing with hundreds of positions remaining unfilled at the state and defense department, important positions and the absence...

Seoul just a month ago. he made a lot of headlines for that trip, declaring that the era of strategic patience was over, that 20 years of diplomacy had failed and that washington would be looking at all options, including even a military option when it comes to dealing with the north korean nuclear threat. that was something that raised a lot of eyebrows here in south korea, to say the very least. it left south koreans with a question. what role would south korea play, and would they be at the t...

>> ive spoken to a number of foreign diplomats who make the point that they dont know what the actual policy is. they dont even know sometimes who to speak with in the trump administration or which public proclamation to believe. from your seat, at least in the last week, and i dont want to exaggerate a short period of time, but as you begin to see some policy moves here, are you beginning to see the outlines, at least, of a trump doctrine, if not a trump doctrine, at least a trump foreign polic...

>> i think the big picture is that were seeing reversals in president trump. in terms of what he thought he would be doing as president. hed be very, you know -- that he would be close to russia and that china would wind up being potentially a long-term enemy. but hes now -- in reversing his positions hes actually coming back to a lot of positions that president obama and his predecessors held. hes much more in conventional places. i think what is surprising, and we have not seen the degree were...