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Standard? >> its the tone. me and the cia guy, we are trying to each others cell phones. the law is a living, breathing thing. tone, its no different in any other business. whats the tone you want to set for the operation? >> eric: the tone is, the manchester bombing, after the areata ground a concert, the mayor said business as usual ret happens? a couple days later, the london mayor, there is a terror attack. they mowed down some people on the street, exactly what isis plans and tells people t...

Be very destabilizing and be a direct threat to us. its important for the united states not to overreact. its important for our allies not to overreact. it appears from the statement from the pentagon this evening thats the approach being taken by the administration. in if eeffect this statement al with the statement from secretary of state rex tillerson gives a silent statement. its out of step with the presidents statements on north korea as your viewers undoubtedly recall on april 11th at 8:0...

We have the statement i was mentioning, but what other potential military gaming that might be going on. the pentagon has put together every potential response for just about every military operation in such cases as north kor korea, but we had a simple response coming out of the pentagon here and the defense secretary. >> yeah. i wouldnt -- if i were in that seat, i wouldnt be in the business of trying to antagonize north korea getting them to test more missiles. i think a minimal response is t...

You know, they call it deconflicting. its certainly known that the russians who are backing assad would have alerted the syrians to this and allowed the syrians to get out of place before these airstrikes happened. so while you can on the one hand say yes, president trump did send a strong message. at the same time its a message where the consequences for the russians and the syrians were reduced. thats for sure. >> yeah, and david corn, they used weapons that wont harm the runways of that airfi...

As soon as this person lost the presidents trust, the president asked for resignation and that was the right thing to do. i wont prejudge until we have the information. >> should there be a broader bipartisan independent investigation into the administrations ties to russia? >> i think that situation has taken care of itself. >> is your committee going to take any action on this? >> well, when we get into sources and methods, it really is the per view of the intelligence committee. its not somet...

About it, were going to get into office soon, dont overreact. youre okay with that? >> you and the press -- >> thats undercutting -- >> youre writing words into the mouth -- youre writing words into the mouth of general flynn. we dont have a dratranscript a dont have an allegation that we shade dont worry about it, we have a presumption that he said dont worry about it. we dont know how general it might have been or how specific is might have been. its important to learn first, how did these lea...

Evaluated, his role. stunning. >> its pretty stunning, and to go back to the point that you and david were discussing. just imagine a circumstance where essentially the incoming national security adviser, michael flynn is confronting this issue of russian sanctions, the obama administration put sanctions on. what is the chance that he would freelance on that and reach out to a foreign above the agovernme contact and promises about sanctions without checking with the president-elect? >> it seems ...

General flynn? did he just decide to call the russians up one day and say, you know, were going to have a different, you know, sanctions dont worry about it or did it come from somebody else in the white house. if general flynn was directed by somebody to contact the russians, dont overreact here, we may change policy, thats not a crime. i think thats bad form. its probably inappropriate, violates the president tradition but theres no use lying about it. i mean, what will get you in trouble when...