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Happened. >> so among the folks involved, max booth, sort of a conservative national security commentator. james clapper, former director of national intelligence. cherry sikes, conservative commentator, msnbc contributor, among others. what role are they playing? what are you asking them to do? >> were looking for advice. on the advisory board and were asking for their direction. a number of russian experts also that are helping us out with this. >> are you hiring a staff? >> yeah. we have a st...

Heres how the u.n. ambassador from the u.s. described the presidents role as being serious and tough this week, take a listen. >> the speech the president gives, i think you can see it for yourself. he hugs the right people and he comes out with the u.s. being very strong in the end. >> so to be clear, that speech by the president is scheduled for tomorrow, tuesday. this obviously is the presidents united nations debut. its not just the world thats going to be watching but is going to be listeni...

Thing -- >> i think everyone shares that commitment. i think the president shares that commitment. he wants to do this right. he wants to address climate change in a way -- >> really? does scott pruitt support that? the president clearly believings that climate change exists -- >> i dont know a member of congress or anyone in washington, d.c. that says we want to pollute our air and water more. what were all united on is reducing the negative impacts on our environment. thats common ground. when...

Complicit, i guarantee you, if you have any sense of history, 50 years from now, everybody will think this was a bad thing to have happened. >> yes. >> and they will sit on your lap and grandchildren will ask you and youll have to have an answer and right now that entire party leadership is unprepared to answer their grandchildren. >> i think more than that. i think they are prepared to aggressively move in donald trumps direction in terms of his views on russia. tucker krrlsan on exchange inter...

Thats more closely attuned to his background, where as you suggest, odni has normally been a job for a nonpartisan intelligence official. by the way, i think that mike pompeo, the appointment at the cia is a very good appointment. ive met with congressman pompeo, and i think he is extremely thoughtful, well informed, has a deep knowledge of national security. i think hes a great choice. and i would hope that whoever is appointed to odni would be a similar type of person. >> max booth, thanks so ...

James madisons name picked up steam with the secretary of defense. the "wall street journal" reporting that he will likely be trumps choice. the journal also reporting that mitt romney is the leading candidate for the state department and nikki haley is the lead candidate for un ambassador. there are those that support rudy giuliani to head the state department. senior fellow is max booth. good to see you. what do we know as you look at mike flynn for adviser and the likelihood of general mattis...

Arab power on the other. mastery of the arcane details of the shia-sunni schism may not be american specialty but over the last few years this president and his advisors placed u.s. on the side of iran and sat traps in lebanon and now iraq. we have max booth, senior fellow from the u.n. security council of foreign relation, author of "invisible army" as well. max, how do you see it? were looking at as iraq issue but it is part of a bigger issue in the middle east? >> i think its a bigger battle ...

Country. but also completely focused on this notion of what kind of compensation should there be for these elite special forces. everyone acknowledged that theyre called special for a reason. they do a kind of job, they go on missions that are unique to them, but there is also a great deal of respect, of course, for all veterans and not wanting to kind of diss veterans who arent members of special forces. but everyone, every member we visited had read the article. i will say as the author of the...

There? >>brian: you are one of the most respected war historians in this country. how concerned are you about the cuts coming our way to the defense industry? >> im very concerned because if you listen to what the joint chiefs of staff are saying, they are warning we could see another hollow army like we be saw in the 1970s with a lack of readiness, a lack of training; a military that cannot perform all the tasks it is asked to do. that is what is going to happen if the skwefrt -- success ter ta...