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About what will happen. >> well, steve, i think the best way to look at it is where are there potential areas of disagreement and where are there going to be significant frixz points where there is likely to be no agreement at all. in the areas of agreement, obviously fighting international terrorism, there has been some successful communication between us and the russians before in that effort. and nuclear nonproliferation. are we going to get any kind of a consensus opinion on those issues her...

Those who would disagree with countercharges about lying, media intelligence, so-called judges, fake news, washington insiders and the deep state. talk to me more about that. >> so the friction points -- i can just do this as an observer. the friction points of the trump campaign and the trump administration, all right, have been mostly with intelligence, law enforcement, the courts, science, scholarship, and you, journalism. what do those six approaches have in common? theyre evidence-based. th...

So when we move into post truth world, a post-truth environment where decisions are more made on preference, emotion or tribalism, we are threatening the very foundations of who we are. >> so let me read this in your book. you write in your book, i think its fair to say that the trump campaign normalized lying to an unprecedented degree and when pressed on spcecifics it routinely tried to delegitimize so-called judges, fake news, washington insiders and the deep state. talk to me more about that...

They probably leave it at this. given the strikes while fairly spectacular were tightly limited. we heard had not even involved firing up the responses let alone a missile. from the russian air defense. that was going to be one of the most important friction points. >> russia has never admitted that the regime had chemical weapons on their own people. whats the stake in syria? >> their stake in syria is multi-layered. on the first level they have a strategic port. a position they have held many ...

H.r. mcmaster could be out maybe by the end of the month or sometime soon. what do you make of that reporting. >> this is like a sine wave reporting from the white house. occurring every three or four weeks. i do think the relationship between h.r. and the president is not what you would want with a national security adviser. look, don, unless you hired a kissinger or another, national security adviser is a process guy. in that job to impose discipline and methodology and order on the presidents...

Someone else brought in you have the same president. and the same task. order, discipline, methodology. and you still have the same friction points. >> you tell me nothing -- there is one person who would have to change or at least. >> yes. look, put it in the most positive sense possible. the president is instinctive, spontaneous and prone to action. the job of the national security adviser is to fight the instincts in any president. >> do you worry the turnover affects national security, espec...

>> theyre going to get some changes that will be announced pretty soon that i think will be substantial. nobody gets what they want. but as i worry about the tweets today, the president was masterful yesterday. thats the best performance i have ever seen. >> in the senate lunch yesterday. >> yes. he was very informed about the content, the friction points. he had a sense of humor. the meeting with senator collins. it was a very good meeting. so you see a president who is trying to close the deal...

But from our understanding with reporting there remains some tension between these two men. there two individuals with very different styles of doing their work. and there have been friction points over the last few months, and those friction points remain. there are a lot of crises going on around the world and in this white house. and kelly has to deal with that. and trump made a comment over the weekend that kelly would be there for the full seven years. i cannot imagine that kelly attempts t...

At it! do you think he just lets trump be trump? >> i think it is consistent with the that bannon has brought. >> what are the dangers for standing on a world stage? if you have somebody like steve bannon, he came back after the first stop and worked to rally support for what i think he knew trump probably wanted to do. what are the dangers and where do you see sort of the friction points with national security team? >> well, all of the hard things we have to do around the world, whether its pro...

Friction points into our intelligence do allow our threats and our enemies to get into the homeland. >> the argument is there has to be some balance between security and civil liberties, thats not a new one, it goes back centuries. this is the central question for people who are opposing this. >> victor no question. but we also have to realize that technology and everything else continues to move and if we do this just trancesnationally here and sometimes these programs have become revolutionary...