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Ambassador, giving trump away to respond. my winner is george w. bush. even democrats are starting to miss that guy. >> my loser is the russian ambassador of the united states, the loneliest diplomat in washington, d.c. im sure he is schedule is open right now. the winner is president trumps speech on tuesday. the one night in a very long time that both conservatives and liberal pundits would agree is an exceptional speech. >> 24 hours ago. >> may be 27. >> mine is the flip. my winner is vladimi...

Launch a raid and consider there is operations in a place like yemen, its important to understand the ground truth and thats one of the values of the intelligence community is to help understand what youre getting yourself into. >> one more question which has been raised, we are hearing from the trump white house and trump white house officials they inherited this. this was handed to them, launched days after they took office. you are a witness to this, was this a green lighted finished mission ...

Syrians and iraqis in particular they can wait many, many years and go through extensive interviews, sometimes more than one interview with a dhs officer for that matter. so i would actually say that the vetting procedures have become even stricter over the years, and weve developed additional vetting questions and additional vetting procedures as time has gone on and theres been absolutely no need to put an entire stop to the resettlement procedure or the program or to take families offiy ies o...

People? >> this should actually be concerning to the american people. no one should be laughing at this. im afraid to say im getting very alarmed just over the last 48 hours. okay, my world where ideal in is called ground truth where we collect intelligence fact, we lay it out, it puts together a mosaic of a picture that gives you the actual broad truth as to what an opponent is doing. what im seeing here is a propaganda machine. this is straight out of the russian playbook, the authoritarian pl...

>> im not. for one thing, the president is about to put his intelligence team together. pompeo from the house is well respected. he is someone that i have had conversations with and, of course, all of us in the senate, republican and democrat, know dan coats well. hes a three term veteran. hes a grown-up and hes honest. and so i think the president-elect will soon be listening to people that will be able to advise him on ground truth and so i expect based on that were going to be just fine when ...

Obvious reason. that increasingly, most american firms, the lions share of their business is overseas. for an oil company, obviously, the lions share of their business is overseas because thats where the oil happens to be. their dna is international. >> this choice seems credible. i dont know whats going to happen on capitol hill, but hes got full support of some pretty credible people. >> condi rice. bob gates. >> you reported yesterday that the idea was raised to donald trump by bob gates, con...

The russia connections, but more to the point, they think that donald trump needs a season ed foreign policy pro. talk about your experiences dealing with rex tillerson and other ceos. what are the upsides, what are the downsides? >> the upside is people like rex tillerson have an extraordinary amount of what i would call ground truth. the people who run these big oil companies, theyre all over the world. they have dealt with all sorts of complicated local conditions and situations. they have de...

Decision about sending in heavy u.s. forces to help them take that city. >> in terms of the fight, not only against isis and iraq, but the fight against isis overall, is it time to begin talking about committing u.s. troops into syria and into these kinds of places? i know youve written about this heavily. at some level, the pentagon brass seems scared to even offer that proposal. >> you know, theres an old soldier saying called ground truth. you can strip out the politics. you can strip out the...

Bob gates before him, to complain of interference by the white house. he said, quote, meetings in the white house were not effective. we cekept deferring the tough decisions. you get an idea they have no idea what theyre doing, and we have another secretary of defense confirming that. >> thats three in a row, tucker. i talked to several senior uniformed officials in the pentagon and they tell me the same thing. theres this buffer between sound military advice and what the president hears. the pr...

Bob gates before him, to complain of interference by the white house. he said, quote, meetings in the white house were not effective. we cekept deferring the tough decisions. you get an idea they have no idea what theyre doing, and we have another secretary of defense confirming that. >> thats three in a row, tucker. i talked to several senior uniformed officials in the pentagon and they tell me the same thing. theres this buffer between sound military advice and what the president hears. the pr...