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Whats your main takeaway from this extensiver ten-tenser b t had? >> he came from texas where he lived the last 50 years or so and no government experience, i think he was very reflective of the fact he had a little bit of a rocky year trying to get his sea legs and get it know how to work for this president and i think really trying to say, like, im here now, im learning the ropes, im getting to know washington, im getting to know the government interagency process. and im going build on that. ...

Serve his needs with information. i do think one of my roles is to always give him all sides of theish yus, even when i know its not the side he wants to consider, i think its part of making good decisions, i know he at least has had visibility to all aspects of the decision hes about to make. thats my role as secretary of state to provide him that full 360 visibility of what these decisions mean for our foreign affairs with allies and partners and adversaries. and i think what comes out sometim...

>> the best policy for a person sitting in the white house whether youre the president, or youre the white house counsel, to leave the justice department alone, unless youre talking about general policy matters and how to allocate resources and budget tri matters and best practices for the white house counsel, not to be directing the attorney general to do any particular thing in any particular case. and especially when you come to issues like ethics and recusal. and how things should be handled...

Thats where you have an interagency process. you have principals meetings that are run by the white house designed to sort out where theres a tension in objectives or a tension and a competition between agencies. its quite possible in this case that what you had was a debate over some of these possible designations or possible prosecutions. and the way the decision was made went against those who were on the dea side of this. and perhaps thats whats leading those who felt that they were moving a...

States with terror money. they did know that, correct? >> if you look at his tweets, he is saying thats not true. that the interagency process involves the intelligence community, state department treasury, folks like him on the sanctions policy group were monitoring this very closely. and they did not agree that the obama administration suddenly changed its policy. now, if the obama administration did, that is problematic. but the problem is this 50-page plus story with lots of details is reall...

Not true. that the interagency process involves the intelligence community, state department treasury, folks like him on the sanctions policy group were monitoring this very closely. and they did not agree that the obama administration suddenly changed its policy. now, if the obama administration did, that is problematic. but the problem is this 50-page plus story with lots of details is really just based on the testimony of just two people. and thats problematic. so it needs further investigati...

Theyre going to listen to the word that comes out of the mouth of the president. what he actually says versus whats in the printed word. this national security strategy just like all the others that i was associated with, lots of fanfare, very important interagency process, but in the end how much impact do they actually have? in this case, as i think in past administrations, there is generally a very involved interagency process to get all the interagency, all the cabinet departments that are r...

They might be able to walk you through that in a more detailed way. im not privy too. i havent been through the process myself so i cant speak to it from firsthand. >> on the tax plan, would the president ask the house and senate to stay here in washington and finish this bill even if it means bleeding into the christmas holiday? >> oh, were pretty confident were going to get there before then, but this is something that i think both the house, the senate and the president are all committed to s...

Showed this chart two months ago, chris, chris liddle, hold that up, chris, chris is not tall enough for this chart and neither is anybody else, this is the process that you had to go through to get permits for a highway. or a roadway. you had to go through this process and it would take many years, many, many years, right, chris. >> yes, sir. >> and you had to go through fine differe nine different agency, 16 decisions, under 29 different laws, it would take from 10 to 20 years and some cases l...

Unacceptably long. this chart, i love this chart, i showed this chart two months ago. chris ladell, hold that up, chris. chris is not tall enough for this chart, neither is anybody else. this is the process that you had to go through to get permits for a highway, for a roadway. you had to go through this process. and it would take many years. many, many years, right, chris? >> and you had to go through nine different agents, make 16 different decisions, under 29 different laws it would take from...