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Background, lets start with general john kelly specifically, hes a retired four-star general, more than 40 years of the marines, three tours in iraq and then you general mattis, four-star marine corps general, served 44 years in the military, led the central command from 2013 to 2014 rand then you were speaking about general mcmaster, his background, west point graduate, three-star general, ph.d military history, considered one of the armys top intellectuals and then finally we can go onto gener...

He wants to be part of the world order. >> thats not what bannon wanted, though. >> not what bannon wanted, but hes for peace and global prosperity. he wants to get along with our allies and he wants to put a hurt on our adversaries. >> can you understand the confusion? >> i cant speak for the president. but i think what the president was trying to do was there was a sleeve of the presidents agenda which is an america first agenda. its for the middle class families, for what the president called...

Woman. its for lower middle class standards rising, wages rising. theres a sleeve of the presidents personality for that but theres also a sleeve of the presidents personality that someone like general kelly and general mcmaster. >> but imagine if there had been no bannon. to your own theory that trump had already figured it out in the primary so he didnt need bannon for a connection to the base. i disagree with that. but even if that were true, imagine if there had been no steve bannon, where d...

General mcmaster, the national security adviser, has been reported having called the president an idiot. hes in the book calling him a dope. the secretary of the treasury in the book calls him an idiot. reince priebus, the chief of staff calls, the president an idiot. >> i think rupert murdoch as well. >> rupert murdoch. but whats interesting is you have these wars for a presidents soul. had them in the reagan white house, had them in the clinton white house, had them in the obama white house. w...

Says "oy, is that a good idea?" the book talks about people rolling their eyes. >> earlier when i was praising paul, im sure paul disagreed with president clinton a couple times when he worked for him over the different years but it was never -- never became a personal thing, you didnt go bash him publicly. but this goes well beyond just maybe -- >> but it seems like the methods, if somebody said to him, oh, this person did this, then he would sort of include that. now, whether thats -- >> hell ...

Their notebooks. >> what is your level of confidence in the advisers around the president, not just their qualifications but their ability to hold back the presidents impulses on something like this? >> well, i have put a lot of faith and trust in the likes of secretary mattis, secretary tillerson, general mcmaster, general kelly, who i hope and trust would be a restraining influence, should the president act impetuously on something as serious as this. >> i was able to reach out to people insid...

Confidence in the advisers around the president, not just their qualifications but their ability to hold back the presidents impulses on something like this? >> well, i have put a lot of faith and trust in the likes of secretary mattis, secretary tillerson, general mcmaster, general kelly, who i hope and trust would be a restraining influence, should the president act impetuously on something as serious as this. >> i was able to reach out to people inside the relevant departments including the d...

Left. >> national security adviser general h.r. mcmaster speakering earlier last month. joining us editor of the washington post and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson, he is out with a new post, we need to change the way we talk about north korea. eugene, you are pointing a finger at the generals saying they need to tone down the rhetoric. >> yeah, happy new 84, by the way. >> you too, lets hope its a nice calm peaceful one nothing much happens. >> reporter: yeah, like thats going to happe...

Negotiated approach also total dede-nuclearization and second of all, generals in my experience have the best understanding of how awful war is, at times more than civilians, do you think these generals, mcmaster in particular, are not so pessimistic, degrees of optimism how a war with north korea could unfold in a way that would not be catastrophic? >> reporter: well, to your second point, thats kind of what worries me is that generals do know what war is like and they have a real understanding...

He said, no, im being practical. i dont think im changing. and then he says, im always moving. im moving in both directions. which would seem to be -- maybe perhaps admission but, again, to davids point on the neediness, he says in the interview, ambassador, that he is knows the tax deal better than the greatest cpa with regard to congressmen and senators. i love them and they love me. >> yeah. its quite an interview as you say, ari. building on davids point, this -- the other piece of this is a...