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And his theory was im going to try at all cost and he tried it and failed. trump has the same disposition. where obama is academic, trump is a realist. and you are going to have behind the scenes of a u.s. campaign -- >> is it crossing the line? >> yeah. it should be redressed and i think the trump administration needs to be very careful of the first words they have on it. they will be asked on day one and they need to be very measured how they respond. >> you have been covering donald trump for...

Extreme, well, i could tell you this, chris, he will be the first american prime minister to the state of israel palestine. if youre against the two-state solution, youre for a binational state. >> lets talk a little bit more about that. his name is david friedman. no relation to you. >> no relation. >> he goes further. he has a lot of controversial ideas. not only is he not a fan. an enemy of the two-state solution, he wants to move the embassy from tell tel aviv to jerusalem. what do you see h...

The next four years? >> contingent at all. obviously what the policy is, right? >> does the aca get repealed? >> obviously, some of that is, but like with any other president, so, iflincoln, a bet example actually is grant, who does this great job during reconstruction and for the next 100 years everything is basically rolled back, right? as you say, reset. >> and his legacy is, too, in the school of the people that were the victors in that battle. >> but that was wrong. that was -- you know, th...

As you say, reset. >> and his legacy is, too, in the school of the people that were the victors in that battle. >> but that was wrong. that was -- you know, that was completely wrong. ill admit grant was actually a great president. he cant control necessarily the events that came after him. you can make the same case for barack obama. >> the thesis of your piece which i found so sort of novel and powerful is basically barack obama had a singular life and we all kind of know that because thats th...

Been hacked. thats false. why is the disposition that -- >> how do you know its false? >> because i work with intelligence agencies. hold on. michael, michael, hold on, we were willing to offer "the new york times" inside access to know what happened. we were willing to offer them proof. they chose not to engage in that conversation, not us. i sat there with senior folks from the new york times last night and said i will bring you inside, we will give you access to certain things so that you can...

Immerged himself, hed get asked a question about syria and do a monologue on political correctness. those will be a real test of his familiarity with the department he is going to run. whether he does have an agenda for hud or whether this just just general disposition and basically everyone trump is putting in government. >> the simple fact is that dr. ben carson has not shown any understanding of what hud is. he seems to talk about it as if it only houses poor people. thats what hud does. that...

Leadership that we need, and i can assure you that there are going to be many of us, democrats and republicans will be very active in regards to what we can do against russia. >> last question. reading your washington post piece, there seemed to be a little bit of a subtext that youre concerned about what trumps motivations may be with his more friendly disposition towards russia. do you really have any reason to believe that trump is compromised when it comes to russia because of political feel...

Investigation of mh 17 would wind up. the u.s. did nothing to stand against russia there. when they annexed crimea, the u.s. did nothing. this sense of urgency right now from you seems to run in the face of the disposition of the u.s. administration for the past eight years, which has been to not check russia in any real way. >> well, chris, democrats and republicans need to work together in congress. i was the leader in passing the mcnitsky accountability act where we have taken accountability ...

Team mcenany here? >> well, i think, i think that i would be more comfortable with a mitt romney. i do. i think that -- i would fall in -- and its nothing against rudy, per se, but if you look at the context of the people that donald trump has already including the national security adviser flynn, i would like to have somebody in the room who has a different world view, whos going to calm things down and say, okay, guys, what about this? i like to challenge donald trumps sort of, you know, dispo...

World view and vision in terms of foreign policy and national security? or should a president have a team of rivals, people who disagree fundamentally about big things and challenge them to sort of debate each other and make their case? and that really is what this question is. >> so are you team beinart or team mcenany here? >> well, i think, i think that i would be more comfortable with a mitt romney. i do. i think that -- i would fall in -- and its nothing against rudy, per se, but if you loo...