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0 admiral and the general arent working in in a very personal way with taliban authorities outside the airport. let me go another one on the phone. tara. >> thank you for doing this, john. yesterday the president mentioned also that he was calling upon the department to create contingency plans in case the number of americans and afghans havent gotten out by the 31st. can you just explain kind of what the department is thinking about what its options might be to continue to get americans out aft...

Him. the question for me is whether its going on a foreign policy level and there are a lot republicans concerned about the policy vocations of this, the kind of thing that would make richard trunk is not a thing that makes free trade-the ares happy. there would be considered >> bret: before the holidays and everybody getting on planes to go back home, theyve got to pass a deal that keeps the government open. there is concern that there might actually be a shut down as you get closer to this cli...

House with a scathing op-ed in the "new york times." its still impossible to have a whole book anonymous. is there concern among the white house officials you speak with about what such a book might reveal, typically in an election cycle? >> reporter: well, there is concern and frustration. ever since that op-ed came out anonymously and still to this day is anonymous, it frustrated people inside the white house who thought essentially it was cowardly in their opinion this person would publish th...

That i would not have done had you not raised it. when i was in the middle of the civil war in sudan, i called you a few unministerial names for getting me out there. but we saw a lot of republicans that supported our dealing with slavery in the sudan. are there spaces on the foreign policy level that we can see? i saw recently, we saw where the republicans did kind of break rank on the saudi prince >> absolutely. >> and where they took that vote on yemen and the saudi prince. can we see more of...

Him limited to 33%? and hes also not only moving this morning to gut a lot of americans health care, richard, pause you cant say hes gutting obamacare, because hes putting nothing in its place. there is no replacement. hes actually just going after working class voters that actually supported him. now were also on foreign policy level, the president today will, of course, move to do what his own generals have told him not to do on iran. lets talk about that. >> what hes going to do is not go ahe...

Why in some of my colleagues over to the intelligence community and national security, i tripped on the first thing you said, yes, russia meddled, so do a lot of other countries. that is a thing of the president says that bothers a lot of people. what im saying is weve never seen anyone metal and election at the extent and the level that russia dead end democrats and republicans should agree thats a bad thing. no other country has ever done that. when you equate it to something else, its like yo...

>> i dont think you will get any acting award from him. he is very cool under pressure. you can imagine a day like today in new york city when it is 97 degrees, he would be in a suit and not break us way. i would not worry about that. i also think as i saw last week with james comey a lot of these people in the room, the senders know them. theyve been around him for a long time. its harder to be caustic or rude to somebody that you actually know that you may have done business within the past. t...

Get what you get and you dont get upset? >> im not saying, you dont get upset. the media will watch him. but he is going to have some conflicts. you cant help it. thats why we elected him president, stephanie. >> indonesia is a tinderbox of instability and the future of that country in that region, as you rightly identifd earlier, that whole aipac region and whats going on there, we have a project thats going on there where it snt even broken ground yet as far as building it. we have a president...

Ares going up. we cant afford an arms race. >> thats certainly the case. im really confused. disruptive for what ends? disruptive on foreign policy level but what is objective? whats the trump doctrine? whats emerging. part has to do with theres a consensus in terms of these foreign policy positions. >> i hope theres an answer to that question. >> since the first george bush, theres been a kind of consensus around the settlements. are we going to start a trade war with china? theres these issues...

States. the american people will go to that. >> mercedes, what does this say, the popularity about the type of republican voter out there right now? >> i think hes definitely, you know, striking a nerve with many of these republican voters who are very frustrated. again, this is about anti-washington. this is the fact that weve had two terms of an obama presidency that where we have seen failed policies from a domestic level to the foreign policy level. so what happens here is hes like this new ...