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Exposure. that said, there is international press in the meeting where they will be attending a press conference where rex tillerson will come out and speak and presumably take some questions from the assembled journalists who have traveled separately. >> ivan, i guess well wait and see if that happens. matt rivers standing by in beijing. when rex tillerson arrives there, hes going to have tough words for china when it comes to dealing with north korea and the possibility of penalties for chines...

>> no, he condemned the cia and said they were outdated. >> this is the first reflex of every policy maker, condemn the leak, condemn wikileaks. that didnt happen today. >> what did you make about chris murphy, saying theres something sinister about the timing? all of a sudden, the collaborators with the russians dump all this information out to change the subject? >> as i speak to current and former u.s. officials about this, most of them see a russian hand here somewhere. even if it was an ins...

May not have won it for him, but it certainly helped in destroying hillary clinton with all the leaks of her e-mail, the e-mails at the dnc. now, with the big document dump and the information flowing about the cia and its operations, its act to hack into peoples systems, hes taking the weird smile, refusing to criticize. i think any other president would have criticized wikileaks. >> yeah, i dont know what -- >> what side is he on? >> i dont know what we can read into the smile -- >> no, refusa...

Sequester, which another bad policy maker. >> now to former george w. bushes answering questions. >> i think its very important for all us to recognize our strengths for people to worship or not worship at all. the right to worship freelily. im for policy that upholds law. you have to take the man at his word to unify the country. >> he going to have a tough road ahead of him, at least tomorrow night. >> i would argue that trump has

People who know him say dont expect him to change. >> if general mcmaster not only understands his role but accepts his role as the lead to the national security council staff, and he also serves as the lead policy maker in essence for the white house and the administration, then he will have a chance to succeed. >> reporter: still, he may find his biggest challenge is dealing with steve bannon, the presidents close political adviser who now has a seat on the national security council. >> if ste...

>> if general mcmaster not only understands his role and accepts it as it lead to the national security counsel staff and serves as the lead policy maker for the white house and the administration, then he will have a chance to succeed. >> reporter: still he made find his biggest challenge is dealing with stephen bannon, the political advisor who has a seat on the national security counsel. >> if steve bannon understands his role as being the political advisor and nothing more than that, then it...

Policy maker in essence for the white house and the administration, then he will have a chance to succeed. >> reporter: still, he may find his biggest challenge is dealing with steve bannon, the presidents close political adviser who now has a seat on the national security council. >> if steve bannon understands his role as basically being the political adviser to the national security council and nothing more than that, then it has a chance to succeed as well. if mr. bannon goes beyond that, th...

Thank you very much. >> now he wades into white house politics and a national security council in turmoil since the firing of michael flynn. for not telling mike pence the truth about his contacts with russia. people who know him say, dont expect him to change. >> if general mcmaster not only understands his role, but accepts his role as the lead to the national security council staff, and he also serves as the lead policy maker for the white house and the administration, he will have a chance t...

When there are things that involve options that must go to the president, get those moving. it is a bit of a traffic manager job in a sense. now, under president obama, susan rice was a policy maker, if you will. i think many people would agree with that. but mcmaster will see, does he become a policy person. >> right. >> does he bring that empty expertise? because, remember, one of the presidents closest advisers, steve bannon. >> has a seat at the table. >> outspoken. itlogical. has a permanen...

Intelligence is not arithmetic. its not 2 plus 2 equals 4. intelligence is this is our best guess about the situation and were offering it to you, the policy maker, to factor it into your policy or not. he seems to think that theyre giving him facts that are indisputable as opposed to offering him guidance. thats what intelligence does. >> jeremy, what do you make of this first appearance in terms of how you can expect his interactions to go with cia? presumably once he has a cia director confir...