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Crattic reasons why some of the letters had not gone out. most of them said they were delayed because the service member had been involved in multiple casualty incident. is that a valid excuse it makes it a volume issue, perhaps, don, to put in a crass way. but i would say, no. you have a situation where you know that something has happened, you should have procedures in place to handle it. the department of defense has procedures. each of services have procedures to deal with this. even down at...

Referencing is the well oiled machine. the white house where president trump as he has said over and time again he only hires the best. john, i want to ask you, why couldnt we expand our nuclear arsenal if the president wanted to? some might say, well, the president is about defending this country. sounds like a good idea. why isnt it one? >> well, its a horrible idea for a number of reasons. the primary one is the united states already has more nuclear weapons than the joint chiefs of staff thi...

People. >> make deals. >> and he has now fire ed most his inner circle. what does that say about him that these are the people he chose and were the best people. and were six months into his administration, and he has already gotten rid of the bulk of the people who were advising him. so -- >> well oiled machine. parts now have been removed. >> he was this great business guy with this eye for talent. >> there are some supporters of the president who are out there saying, well, you know, this hap...

There are pockets in this country that are suffering enormously. not enough room at the morgue. so making this officially declaration of emergency actually has enormous practical benefit for people and communities and states that are hurting. the larger point is its more evidence of this administration is not a well-oiled machine. there is a degree of governing. what i look forward to further reporting is on why secretary price came out and said we dont need this. what was that debate? because h...

The white house as maggie pointed out by someone who doesnt have any diplomatic experience. but at the state department its being run by somebody who doesnt have any diplomatic experience so we will see fits and starts here. this is not a well-oiled machine and people are learning on the job. >> this is the problem too. this was throughout the campaign, you try to discern where trump was on any given issue because he would often say two competing things within the same sentence or be so vague yo...

Thats not going to happen. >> they feel like it is distracting. is he being distracted because they are seeking attention or hes smart as the facts and trying to keep people focused on something else while he is behind the scenes working on his agenda. >> he is clearly smart. he makes his case pretty will but what i think he would need to try to balance right now is still be himself and shoot from the hip a little bit. americans like that. they find that refreshing. he is to get has to get his b...

Were not talking about him but the uber ceo who has had to pull out because of the controversy around the aclu. its crazy we cant have conversations in a positive way about whats happening. no question some things havent been great. no question that weve had a lot of problems and even though yesterday president trump did say that, you know, things are a fine-oiled machine in the white house, we know theres been some issues. at the same time, where is the conversation about all of the good that i...

I agree with george pataki. hes got nothing to lose. hes right. more republicans should denounce him. you know -- >> that shouldnt be the only thing to occur nothing left to lose. >> jeb is not trying to win that far right anyway. >> despite the crowded field, the equivalent of two baseball fields by people who want to be president. there are people that could be serious like jim webb getting in on the race. they deserve attention. >> he did get in the race. >> he is a fascinated character. a de...

Were in 2008. >> jackie? >> yeah. i agree with rick. when you have a secrecy and you have the clintons. you have a problem. they havent done anything to really answer these questions. in fact, they have only created more questions. and they havent stemmed the bleeding. this keeps on -- this has been, what, two weeks? >> yeah. >> two and a half weeks? we are still talking about the same story? now, whether its changing any minds, whether its reinforcing that republicans dont like her and democrat...

National geographic handed them cameras to take pictures. and they were singing. older faces showed grave stress with the uncertainty of living day-to-day. >> you have to give the u.n. credit, too. >> the u.n., get trau, they will do a good job. but what happens with the u.n. it takes a while to do it. at that takes them forever. it is a bureaucracy. it takes time. once they get moving they can do is good job. >> back in north carolina, the highly oiled machine of samaritans purse is always gear...