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Targeting those believed to have been disloyal to president trump. those who have leaked about the president to the media, his predecessors team and those who came in under obama. nbc news has not verified this report. well bring inner r erin delmod jonathan allen. >> i think john bolton is going to want to get rid of everybody he can and bring in as many people loyal to him, not just the president. one thing that is interesting, i talked to somebody in the room the other day, h.r. mcmaster gave...

Obamacare. >> and there are some things not addressed. whether its gun legislation. whether its the dreamers. whether its health care. again, the president -- >> the v.a. >> right. the president will have to go to voters and say i can get deals. i can get things done in a way no one else could. yet he has had to avoid even areas where he could have had these deals, the most difficult things, because he cant force the agreement, which looks a lot like his predecessors. >> still a lot to hash out....

Phone call to congratulate him on his reelection, attacking his predecessors and insisting that getting along with russia is a good thing amid criticism from his party. >> i wouldnt have a conversation a criminal. >> reporter: his briefing materials included a warning a in capital letters, do not congratulate. some republicans on the hill echoing that frustration. >> whoever did that ought to be fired immediately. and i think they ought to be prosecuted. >> reporter: well, turning to tariffs tod...

To have. you cant have funding from now to september be 2,200 pages. i could barely even lift it and that is remarkable. i didnt say i was smart. i said i was strong. >> thanks chris. >> you are welcome to have this conversation any time you want. >> well take you up on it. >> erica. president trump taunting joe biden in a tweet this morning attacking his predecessors as well while defending his call to congratulate vladimir putin. the big question why? thats in "the bottom line" next. ♪

Essentially a green light to vladimir putin to keep going, to keep doing these things. and the only thing i point out about this leak issue, brian, is that i think there may be a lot of people in the staff who are upset about it. im not sure the president is upset about it. in his tweet today, he didnt say against the leak. he proudly embraced the policy of a pro-russian foreign policy. hes not covert about this. hes overt. this is an overt plain sight happening in the light of day activity by t...

Happening in the light of day activity by the president of the united states. >> yeah, in his tweet, in trolling his predecessors, he favored the leader of russia over two past u.s. presidents. so general, you also recommend a course of action for this president provided it isnt too late, that would require this president to go into his chief of staffs office, close the door, and have a conversation with him. and what was that that was part of your recommendation? >> well, look. were speculating...

Happening in the light of day activity by the president of the united states. >> yeah, in his tweet, in trolling his predecessors, he favored the leader of russia over two past u.s. presidents. so general, you also recommend a course of action for this president provided it isnt too late, that would require this president to go into his chief of staffs office, close the door, and have a conversation with him. and what was that that was part of your recommendation? >> well, look. were speculating...

The united states and we dont want that to happen. were not going to let that happen. its probably one of the reasons i was elected, maybe one of the main reasons, but were not going to let that happen. >> oh, hes definitely not doing what his predecessors have done in the past. in just the past 24 hours, the republican party has had to reconcile itself to a president completely, utterly, totally out of sync with what the gop has traditionally stood for. to wit, trump slapped $60 billion on chin...

So it leads many administration officials here to believe is there sort of a sense in the national security apparatus trying to undermine this president. we know the president made the phone call from the residence of the white house yesterday morning. not many people were around at all. but it was certainly a small set of people involved in the briefing. but erin, i can tell you on a day when the government was shut down, white house was pretty quiet today except for this. people were on the lo...

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