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Commodity, somebody who is disciplined and buttoned down. is there a reason to hope that maybe he understands that his chaos has led to historically low ratings? >> well, trump was generals well. he had an eye for mattis, appointed him. its been probably his most successful appointment. its interesting that jared kushner is the special advisor, also defers to those generals, and interestingly, mattis has insisted that rex tillerson will be united with mattis on every policy issue. so i think you...

Debate. i left off general mcmaster as the national security adviser. the question in addition to this, world view, is enough non-military world view going to get through to the president as what looks like a war cabinet to me. were about to talk about north korea which is heavy through sea power. is this a war cabinet thats forming up? >> i know all of these officers extremely well. take john kelly as an example, his principle four-star command was u.s. southern command, everything south of the...

Into the establishment but actually i think when they count the pounds and pence in their pockets from the friends they have thats not going to matter very much. thats going to undermine. >> with john kelly in the spot, given his military background, do you expect him to bring a new level of stablgt to the white house? >> its very difficult to say that because there are many people with military backgrounds which are close and appointed to this white house. general mattis, you look to find a ste...

Believe in a national security for this country. he has fought for it. he spots a very tough battles. its great to have people like john kelly, general mcmaster, general jim mattis, to have that trio working for the president -- i think its a real plus when it comes to national security. >> bret: as defense secretary, he was an aid for you, working on both sides of the aisle up on capitol hill? >> thats correct. he was my military aid. the person in touch with the military establishment and dod ...

Believe in a national security for this country. he has fought for it. he spots a very tough battles. its great to have people like john kelly, general mcmaster, general jim mattis, to have that trio working for the president -- i think its a real plus when it comes to national security. >> bret: as defense secretary, he was an aid for you, working on both sides of the aisle up on capitol hill? >> thats correct. he was my military aid. the person in touch with the military establishment and dod ...

Get some direction from general mcmaster and the president. im going to go this way. im going to do everything i can to get to every person in the room. >> would you encourage president trump to have a press conference with us in the near future? >> ill talk to him, absolutely. i mean, listen, the presidents phenomenal with the press, okay, and hes a great communicator. he won this election -- i used to know the math a lot better when i was in the campaign and during the transition, but i think ...

Ville to get back to you on that so i can get direction from general mcmaster and the president. >> blake, i will get to you i promise, i will do everything i can to get to everyone in the room. >> are you encouraging president troump have a press conference with us in the near future? >> ill talk to him, listen. the president is phenomenal with the press, okay? she he is a great communicator. he won the election, i used to know the math better, but we spent like 60% of the money with one-third ...

General mcmaster. im going to do everything i can to get to every person in this room. >> president have a press conference with us in the near future? >> i will talk to them about it. absolutely. listen, i mean, the president is phenomenal with the press. hes a great communicator. he won the selection, i used to know him a lot better when we were in the campaign and transition, i think we spent 60% of the money and we had one-third of the personnel. we won the presidency because of donald j. tr...

Would realize, a lot of people know about this and word is going to get out. >> there were reports that others around them and other world leaders were just as surprised to see the two men huddled for nearly an hour. this conversation, hour long conversation started coming out yesterday afternoon and now obviously we have confirmation from the white house about it. but once again, wolf, it shows that the president obviously knowing the optics of what this would appear to be and how this would ap...

Cnn senior political analyst ron brownstein, as balanced as they could. cnn political analyst david drucker and a.b. stoddard. david, i dont know where to begin. what did you hear you would like to talk about? >> all of it. lets hone in on a couple of things here. i dont know that they even go together. as a matter of u.s. foreign policy, kellyanne conway did comment on how this white house views russia and its ability to work with vladimir putin. its confusing because the presidents national se...