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Campaign, national security adviser committee and lead adviser on the trump transition team, i think you worked closely with mr. flynn and i would like you to answer a few yes or no questions about mr. flynn and knowing that mr. flynn is under investigation, im going to stick to subject matter that predates both the special counsels investigation and your appointment as attorney general. now, the foreign policy platform at the republican national convention undertook dramatic changes. did you di...

Campaign, national security advisor committee and lead advisor on the trump transition team, i think he worked closely with mr. flynn, and i would like you to answer a few yes or no questions about mr. flynn and knowing that mr. flynn is under investigation, im going to stick to subject matters that predate both the special counsel investigation and your appointment as attorney general. the foreign policy platform at the republican national convention undertook dramatic changes made to do discus...

Unreported when mr. flynn was required to make certain disclosures by law. now, as chairman of the trump campaign, national security adviser committee and lead adviser on the trump transition team, i think you worked closely with mr. flynn and id like you to answer a few yes or no questions about mr. flynn. and knowing that mr. flynn is under investigation, im going to stick to subject matter that predates both the special counsel investigation and your appointment as attorney general. now, the ...

On cnn yesterday that he had met with no government officials wild in russia, and we know hours later he admitted that we did. and that seems to follow a pattern here. stories that are changing on this russia investigation, but it also does raise the credibility of carter page. >> well, exactly. i think that are carter page is someone who has perplexed investigators for a long time because his role on the campaign has never quite been clear. hes been one of these campaign foreign policy advisers...

To put together a foreign policy platform that then the speech writers and policy people and campaign people can take out to show that this is a serious candidate for president. in march of 2016 nobody thought donald trump was a serious potential president. he was seen as somebody with obviously no political experience, no foreign policy experience, just a guy from "the apprentice" who was a joke even to republicans. the idea that he could be a serious person on foreign policy bothered donald tr...

>> well, its very easy to criticize tillerson on the foreign policy platform. he actually has no experience, other than running exxon operations in russia. but lets look at the reporting weve recently seen out of the "the new york times" this weekend, which shows that the fbi and the national security agency, the central intelligence agency and the treasury financial crimes unit actually have a fisa warrant out on members of the trump administration team, where right now we know that its possibl...

I think what president nixon and dr. kissinger did in terms of opening up negotiations with china, that was part of this. its too early to tell but that level of unpredictability is a good thing. if you look at where foreign policy has gone in the last eight years, youre seeing a reaction to that. we predicted what we would do in syria and we didnt follow through. id rather have a president that was unpredictable than predicted something and didnt follow through. this is a reaction to the last e...

Opening up negotiations with china, that was part of this. its too early to tell but that level of unpredictability is a good thing. if you look at where foreign policy has gone in the last eight years, youre seeing a reaction to that. we predicted what we would do in syria and we didnt follow through. id rather have a president that was unpredictable than predicted something and didnt follow through. this is a reaction to the last eight years in terms of what people want to see in the u.s. whic...

And president-elect trumps positions on the threat that russia presents, the importance of nato, as part of a national -- americans national security posture, trade, for example, not only an economic issue, but a diplomatic one. these are very big differences that i think governor romney would require some element of -- not concession, but an element of understanding that you have to have a much more comprehensive approach on many of these issues, if he were to try and advance a foreign policy p...

Would require some element of -- not concession, but an element of understanding that you have to have a much more comprehensive approach on many of these issues, if he were to try and advance a foreign policy platform in a trump administration. >> so cade, up until the mitt romney meeting thats happening this weekend, the meeting that raised the most eyebrows that the president-elect has had is with governor nikki haley of south carolina, who was a critic of donald trumps during the primaries, ...