and she has been a very valuable cabinet member. and now while they may put out the public word this was just a little get together to say hi, none of us believes that. we all honestly are wondering just how deep into planning ahead for 2016 are they, because he as the incumbent, his endorsements will be very important. his support if she gets the nomination will be very important. now maria, five years ago, would you have guessed that this kind of lunch would happen? would you? is it working in the trenches together that has brought them closer? i think that basically the fact that they did their exit interview on a live 60 minutes tape, you actually saw they had mutual admiration and respect for each other. and i think what clarence is saying they re absolutely laying the groundwork. what they don t want to do is that if hillary runs tomorrow, they don t want to do a repeat of what happens with al gore and
on friday he sat down with me for an exit interview. tom donilon, pleasure to have you on. thank you, fareed, good to see you. i ve got to ask you first the news of the moment. okay. do you have assurances from the russian government that edward snowden is not going to be allowed to stay in russia and that he will have to go somewhere else? i ll say a few things about that. number one, the view of the united states and the position of the united states that we ve been pursuing is that snowden should be returned to the united states. he is not he has a revoked passport, he s not traveling on valid papers and he should be returned to the united states because he s wanted here for a crime. we ve been in discussions through law enforcement channels with the russian government on a regular basis about this issue. and i have to agree with president putin when he said the other day that it would be better for mr. snowden to decide when he s leaving, sooner rather than later. we ag
and we are back. more now of my exit interview with the president s national security adviser, tom donilon. this is his last day in office. let me ask you about syria. the president has seemed to have a disciplined attitude about whether or not to get involved in syria and not commit the united states, and then a couple of weeks ago, it seemed like that shifted and all of a sudden there was a determination that because there had been a use of some chemical weapons at one point on the battlefield, the united states was now suddenly much more deeply and actively engaged. is that the appropriate yard stick by which the united states should determine whether or not to commit itself? we ve had a skpichconsistenty in syria in terms of supporting the opposition. the president did say that the use of chemical weapons would cause us to take changes, and
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meeting every morning is with tom donilon, the national security adviser. donilon briefs president obama on his portfolio, which the president has said is literally the entire world. henry kissinger said he believed on this program that donilon fulfilled his job superbly. on friday he sat down with me for an exit interview. tom donilon, pleasure to have you on. thank you, fareed, good to see you. i ve got to ask you first the news of the moment. okay. do you have assurances from the russian government that edward snowden is not going to be allowed to stay in russia and that he will have to go somewhere else? i ll say a few things about that. number one, the view of the united states and the position of the united states that we ve been pursuing is that snowden should be returned to the united states. he is not he has a revoked passport, he s not traveling on valid papers and he should be returned to the united states because he s wanted here for a crime.