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An honest broker, to make this implicated interagency process of our foreign policy work and you cannot do that unless youre trusted and your colleagues feel youre a straight shooter and youre going to tell them the truth and carry their messages forward. the problem for flynn, after this revelation that he was not straightforward with vice president pence about what he talked about with the russian ambassador at the time that u.s. sanctions were imposed, this is something he has to speak about ...

Like that. >> i know trump is stubborn, he doesnt want to be there, if it werent for trumps stubbornness, he would be in a lot of trouble. >> yes. he was removed from the defense intelligence agency because he was a bad manager. all of input, interagency process, he is not doing that. he was with him from the beginning, its not going to easy to give him the heave hoe. i think theres going to be plenty -- >> im stunned by the blabbiness of this white house. why did they talk to freely about the g...

No matter whos in your chain of command, youre putting a lot of faith in the idea that everybody along the way in the process has done everything that can be done to make your mission successful and to make sure that you could be as safe as possible. none of this is safe. whether youre a navy s.e.a.l. or a sergeant in a motor pool, you put faith in that idea. and so what we definitely know about this situation is that the president didnt go through an interagency process. we also know that this ...

All, the biggest operation since the bin laden raid, this is a very big deal that obviously has been slightly overshadowed by a lot of other big deals in the news. put this in context for us on number one, the operation, and number two, these reports about the way the president was briefed. >> the way that i received this is from the perspective of somebody who as you mentioned served on the ground overseas and one of the aspects of being on the ground overseas is that youre putting a lot of fai...

A lot of thought had actually gone into that and that wasnt just him doing an al haig taking over the microphone. the same with nikki haley yesterday. that wasnt just her scribbling notes down. you can tell that went through state, that went through the interagency process. yesterday seemed to be the first day on foreign policy, maybe its because tillerson is at state now and everybody is finally in place, but some order seemed to be coming to our foreign policy team. >> some normalcy, perhaps, ...

Interagency process. >> its a traditional statement of u.s. foreign policy toward russia. joe, my sense this last two weeks has been a little bit of a journey and eventually getting to its goal. the president needs to have one person in the white house who controls access, who maintains order. right now, we have got five different centers of would-be authority around the president. that is not good for him. he is going to have to decide is reince priebus the person who controls access? bill clin...

Our military demonstrates incredible professionalism and care but things sometimes go wrong, which is why you have to have a deliberate process leading up to this. my understanding based on what ive read and heard from folks still in the government is that in essence general mattis and the new secretary of defense and general dumford briefed president trump over dinner on this on wednesday and it was approved without any interagency process. with the consequence that it probably wasnt vetted wit...

We had a navy s.e.a.l. killed. there were civilians caught in the crossfire. our military demonstrates incredible professionalism and care but things sometimes go wrong, which is why you have to have a deliberate process leading up to this. my uerstanding based on what ive read and heard from folks still in the government is that in essence general mattis and the new secretary of defense and general dumford briefed president trump over dinner on this on wednesday and it was approved without any ...

To do. >> what would be the chances of wrapping other countries? >> i think the europeans in particular. a decent chance. and i think it makes it a little bit tougher. then also one other thing. interesting that this happened, joe, on the same day that rex tillerson became secretary of state. what it says again is what we used to call the interagency process. shall we say it is not up and running. >> you get the sense, mark halpern, youre going to have a lot of competition within these agencies ...

Things are not perhaps working as smoothly as they will be. despite what i heard in the press conferences, i know from talking to people in the agencies that there could have been more advanced information so that they could fulfill their law enforcement responsibilitie responsibilities. while an interagency process was used, it was not really the full process that i hope we will see in the future. the white house can learn from this. you own the agencies, you own the interagency process, you sh...