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Contractors instead. that was a strategy that hr mcmaster was opposed to and the new chief of staff. this marks a new thinking inside this administration and also a departure from some of what we heard from candidate trump on the campaign trail who ran as a noninterventionist. thats not the reality in the white house. >> let me play for you defense secretary jim mattis on the topic. maybe foreshadowing of what well hear tonight. here he is. >> i would not -- i was not willing to make significant...

Not quite fox news, but they matter. we have full anticipation their targets are not even democrats or establishment republicans but some in the white house. >> do you know what would stop them? make them stop, president trump, you call breitbart and tell them to not to attack your security adviser. it doesnt go down like that unless the president want it to. >> but steve bannon has signalled that jared kushner, ivanka trump, gary cohn, mcmaster theyll see negative story about them. steve bannon...

>> steve bannon was a very strong voice against u.s. interventionism, i suppose, is what he would call it. i dont know if there is another voice as strong representing that point of view within the circle of his top advisers. do you think that could hurt him with the base? >> no, i dont, because i think what the base wants to see is that a process was followed here to get to a good decision. and thats exactly what it looks like. general mcmaster, general kelly led a process to get the president ...

To risk our treasure, our men and women at war, that certainly is a sentiment that a lot of americans feel. i think its a sentiment that his two predecessors felt, but presidents bush and obama understood that only a reluctant commander in chief took the country to war. i understand the policy reviews were almost derailed by almost a petulant refusal to see no good options. >> thats right. in some ways trump has been channeling the views of the american people. the country itself is wary of war ...

Pretty significant that the presidents having more and more senators speak out against him. he flies into arizona and has two senators, two united states senators who are republicans from arizona who are openly hostile to his actions since charlottesville, and have been more hostile than most. >> thats right. and to follow up on congressman fords point, you think about the response tonight. if the president strikes traditionally hawkish tones on his rhetoric in afghanistan, youll see some applau...

Tell us about conversations hes had with the allies? with nato? with all of the other countries that have been working with the united states on afghanistan. you know -- >> i think he will be able to say that nato is going to match the troop increase. i think thats been reported. so to be fair, tillerson and mcmaster and those guys they have been trying to do some due diligence and work. >> are we talking about parallel presidenci presidencies? meanwhile, trump is trolling them on twitter. >> it...

Ally of the trump presidency may be a thorn in the side. the latest attack was on hr mcmaster, it has to do with the embarrassing moment for the president where he was asked about the navy destroyers collision with an oil tanker that left five sailors injured and ten missing. >> thats too bad. thats too bad. >> saying it was mcmaster who failed to brief the president and that he and general kelly are responsible for the mistake, the story in breitbart includes a quote from an anonymous source th...

What i know and were about to rev that machine up and rev it up we will do. joining me now is reporter oliver darcy. even though he was forced out, bannon saying hes going to go to war for the president. what are you learning now about the plans he and breitbart may have moving forward? >> one person at breitbart told me theyre already starting the motion of going to war for trump as steve bannon says by basically targeting the individuals that bannon clashed within the oval office. youre lookin...

Expected, so that was with steve bannon there. >> steve bannon wanted to pull back, he was against any possible involvement on the korean peninsula. anything in europe, steve bannon was basically antigloballist. melissa: it was, but it didnt seem like the president was listening on that front. >> we dont need the chief strategists for the president of the united states to be somebody articulating isolationist message. thank goodness the president is talking today at camp david about how we could...

Am morally made about nazis and the protestors, then youre stained with this for all time. you will live with this for the rest of your career. and i predict ten, 15 years from now we will have nobody in the national leadership of this country who has been complicit with and positively gist for this presidents most extreme statements. be on the right side of history. these are not difficult decisions. this is not an ambiguous moment. >> the position is that drt puts his senior staffers in, h.r. ...