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This is dangerous thinking. we have been at war for almost 15 years or so in defense of islam, in attacking the enemies who were attempted to corrupt islam. if this actually expands into a story that bridges over to the middle east and it becomes very popular or becomes -- they become aware that this is the ideology of the man that is the brains of president trump, this will kill americans overseas. especially our american service members and intelligence officers who have to sit el woe bow to e...

Rednick. thanks for being with us. i want to start with what the white house press secretary was saying. it was a bad deal. was it? >> well, i think the iranians are thinking it was a bad deal for them. it robbed them of their deterrence capacity to have this question about whether they could have nuclear weapons. without that theyre pretty vulnerable to whatever the united states may want to do to them under the trump administration. >> so bad deal for iran, bad deal for the u.s. then? >> we ha...

Washington that it could have been handled better, it could have waited, could have crossed the ts and dotted the eyes before rolling it out, as they say, first impressions are very important, right? >> i think that theres two perceptions here, theres a washington establishment -- one president comes to mind and youll be shocked, its not ronald reagan, firing the air traffic controller. andrew jackson is often compared. >> garner him support? people who are out there, that gets him re-elected. >...

Defer to defense secretary james mattis who said torture doesnt work. >> i dont necessarily agree, but i will tell you he will override because im giving him that power. >> there will be times we disagree and issues on which we disagree. >> this is the original in many ways. >> reporter: even though they were talking up relations between the u.s. and britain there was some distance evident over the sanctions on russia over ukraine. >> well see what happens as the sanctions. very early to be talk...

Demonstration, charles. it is not based on reality as the 60s were. go. >> i mean, you are talking about perceptions here. are you aware of how many communist groups there were for the march on washington? how many there were in the vietnam movement? you know all of these, a lot of them were funded by unsavory sorts. look, what they are protesting, to the extent that they actually have an ideology, and there were all kinds of groups with a lot of weird causes in there, it was more amusing to me ...

>> i mean, you are talking abour perceptions here. are you aware of how many communist groups there were for the march on washington? how many there were in the vietnam movement? you know all of these, a lot of them were funded by unsavory sorts. look, what they are protesting, to the extent that they actually have an ideology, and there were all kinds of groups with a loty of weird causes in there, it was more amusing to me than frightening, what they are protesting, if anything, is donald trum...

Trumps phone call unsettles that. you disagree. explain. >> well, number one, i dont think that one-china is an american policy. if you travel around the country or talking to people in grassroots politics or just average society, the words "one-china" dont tell you what our policy is about. the nature of china is important than the number of chinas to most americans. not everyone agrees its gone well. its gone well for people who take notes in diplomatic meetings but weve had a missile crisis i...

>> and he knows its favorable to look like things are amica e amicable, even if public perceptions of the relationship may have gone awry. >> he also wants to, i think, make the relations with the intelligence community, somewhat better, not totally better. i dont think hes going to drop the message, but i do think youre going to have more communication, because now that hes president, he needs this. >> there has to be this mending phase. >> its going to take a while. >> i think it is important ...

Gop communication and it felt like he was sent out there. in fact, this was delayed about an hour from the time that the advisory, sort of the official this is going to happen memo that went out to those of us working here at the white house today. that additional hour made us wonder, what are they working on? are they doing more research? i almost felt that perhaps the president would walk into the briefing room himself. instead, his words came through, sean spicer. that is the job of the press...

Instead his words came through sean spicer. and thats the job of the press secretary to be the voice of the president. and you could almost feel it today in the tension in that room. especially because the facts that were laid out according to sean spicer as you just in your last segment, there are disputes about those facts. those dont line up with the perceptions that people had by witnessing things and the other research theyve been able to pull together. certainly criticism of how things are...