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Trump has nothing in common with mitt romney at all, nothing in common. romney was a big supporter of the iraq war, he was a hawk like the rest of them. you put him back in there, how is he going to carry out a trump foreign policy? it doesnt make sense to me. it looks nice. >> look, no appointment -- donald trump is not someone who fakes appearances, as we all know. lets dispense with that. there is no one in the cabinet that could be thought of to be, quote, window dressing or a nice piece of ...

Walking hallmark card, by the way. people elected him because hes a tough leader, so let me make that clear, too. we dont need to go all mush-mush, but at the same time, its a big responsibility when you become president. >> what i would like to see is id like to see hillary run against the hawk. number two, in the city, people are open to the deal if you can find a way to get them to the table. they want public, they want private, they want public as well as private. they want the trillions of ...

>> but it tells you who you pick. he picks john bolton whos never seen a war front he didnt want to bring our troops to. or brings in rudy, i dont know what rudys foreign policy is. hes never had to have one. and outing on mitt romney looks calm and sophisticated, but i dont know what his foreign policy is. it sounds to me its going to be trumps foreign policy, no matter who he picks. >> well, true that, chris. but if he picks bolton or mayor giuliani, it goes contrary to what president-elect sa...

Bringing in democrats, and michelle rhee, and trump on some level wants to pull in a wider coalition of people and not identify himself just as, you know, an aggressive hawk who situates himself in the right republican party. >> but the situation so far have all been to the base. even yesterday, the stuff he talked about. >> you look at mattis -- >> i would argue mattis is not a base. i would agree with you with everything else, but not mattis. >> he was pushed out of the obama administration. >...

James mattis for secretary of defense. a background on him. he is somebody who is said to be a hawk. he said in the past that its enjoyable at times to kill some people. to kill enemies at war. remember donald trump has been quite vocal about how he thinks our generals currently are n man enough. he often cited general pershing or patton as generals who would be too outspoken. he expressed his affinity for a general who is more outspoken and he would be along those lines. scott brown talking abo...

Orders from donald trump? >> exactly. so, again, the pivot, a democratic senator said this to me on the hill today, in some ways, if trump keeps going, as it looks like he is, in the same mode that he was in the campaign, hes going to make it easier for democrats to stiffen their spines and be a true opposition party. >> do you think they will? >> i will see. but there are certainly voices emerging already, elizabeth warren, bernie sanders, some of the liberal members, who really are itching to ...

To come to terms with accepting whatever the list was and so the fact that some of those names have now been pushed aside, that doesnt reflect on jeff sessions who is still there and very much a part of it and anticipated to get some cabinet-level job, but on the christie side it appears that there is an intentional blockade against governor christie and all the reporting suggests that it is personal from kushner to christie. >> robert costa, this doesnt look good for the president-elect to have...

Organization as moving along but theres no question that there is a lack of clarity about jobs. for example, kellyanne conway, successful campaign manager, we dont know what role she would play. other top officials, we dont know what role they would play, we only know priebus and bannon having official appointments to a trump white house and so theres a vacuum and people have put time, effort, and ambition into this want to make sure they have a place. >> thing, kelly odonnell, robert costa and ...

Hawk versus doves, were seeing a restructure of power and kelly nailed it when she talked about the nexus between bannon and sessions and kushner, these are the people in trumps ear. >> a little perspective here, presidents get elected. nobody elected jared kushner to be president of the united states nobody elected what seems to be a death squad knocking off people because of past abuses. >> well people elected donald trump, though, they did. i personally dont understand why but they did so you...

Place. >> let me ask robert. you know trump and his m.o. his m.o. he seem to be setting up due ats. like hell put up a real hawk against rudy, a street guy hawk. a nonintellectual hawk. thats not the way he operates. and then hell put up somebody like corker to make somebody like me thrilled. and then we find ourselves rooting for corker or hell put up reince priebus and a scary guy like bannon up and say i guess im a reince priebus guy today. is he setting it up? you always look for someone les...