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The revoking party and the policy that emanates there from is being attacked because per se doesnt include substantial diversity that looks like the country. >> tucker: so im just saying and im sure this does occur to you but if you have a political conversation where one group is starting to attack another group on the basis of its race that you could wind up with a country where all groups start attacking other groups on the basis of theirs, he could wind up with a really divided dangerously s...

Doris kerns goodwin joins me. were at the 100 day mark tomorrow. the president has no milestone legislative achievement. no real legislative achievement at all. record low approval ratings. how much of a predictor is the first 100 days for the next 1,000 days? >> i dont think that the content of the first 100 days matter as much as what has the president learned from it. think about general kjohn kenne. he had the bay of pigs and he acknowledged he made mistakes. he changed his decision making s...

And that humbling experience can make you a more focused president. >> no question. in fact, the more important thing to understand about the 100 days is not what is accomplished or what isnt accomplished but does the president learn from the experience of being there. are they self-reflective. the comments hes made about how much harder he thought it would be, more complicated, its an honesty to that understanding. if you can grow, think about j.f.k. and the bay of pigs. it was a disaster. as h...

I do believe that there is enough connection between isis and al qaeda, mesotabian al qaeda that i fought that justifies it. if youre going after assad -- the assad regime, hezbollah or any of its allies, you need to come back to congress. there is no nexus there. it makes very little sense. we need to know what the plan is. we need to know where this is going before this truly escalates to the point beyond the control of where any of us want to go. >> the point the congressman made there about ...

The assad regime, hezbollah any of its allies, you need to come back to congress. there is no nexus there. it makes very little sense. we need to know what the plan is. we need to know where this is going before this truly escalates to the point beyond the control of where any of us want to go. >> the point the congressman made there about associated forces is that. isis is a plausible way of interpreting associated forces there with assad its -- >> very difficult. >> yeah. >> what do you think ...

>> well, it is. you have multiple condutacts of people close to trump, or at least advising trump during the campaign at certain points and russians. now, it does show the risk of having what was an unformed, i suppose you could describe it, campaign structure where you had people with varying degrees of qualifications, frankly, and even also closest to the candidate himself who were meeting, at least claiming to be speaking for trump or claiming to have access to him through this campaign. and ...

Even also closest to the candidate himself who were meeting, at least claiming to be speaking for trump or claiming to have access to him through this campaign. and that shows you one of the risks of having what was a largely unformed operation even as you got into the transition period where you have a guy like eric prince doing the representation or even a son-in-law, right? this kind of thing, it makes sense to have people with experience and to have a structure, a decision-making structure, ...

Decision-making structure for foreign policy in government is a little bit directionless and whoever takes on this job needs to make sure that he or she would have a full rein over the different levers. leland: is the nsc directionless because it doesnt have a leader? obviously, you have keith kellogg, the interim nsa, but is it rudderless because you dont have a national security advisor or because you have the situation in the white house where you have competing groups, whether it be steve ba...

Obama eight years ago, when you look at those pictures, when you listen to the words, the meeting was supposed to last 15 minutes, it lasted for an hour and a half. do you feel hopeful? >> i do. and i thought they discussed a broad range of things. they discussed foreign policy issues which is a very traditional thing. but i notice he also talked about the white house staff and and setting up your white house staff early is particularly important because thats your decision making structure and ...

And some of the european reaction to bosnia in the 1990s. were seeing a replay of the lost of the inability to rally an alliance and even in this case where we have rallied an alliance an inability to have a clear decision making structure. we see the trucks going their own way, the french in some ways going their own way. its hard and i dont blim the president for this. its phenomenon little hard to rally a multilateral force especially when the goals, when the different parties have different ...