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Simple, then it would have been done by every previous president. im a pretty good presidential historian. ive looked at my 43 predecessors. seems like for all of them, even the best ones, that you end up confronting realities that you didnt anticipate. i think the same will happen here an thats a good thing. thats an important thing. with respect to president putin, i didnt have a meeting. we talked briefly while we were in between sessions, and the conversation i had with him was consistent wi...

Sign of the picks to come? >> frankly, i this they is appropriate. >> why? >> the president should have a team that full heartedly and proudly supports the president and thats who these people are. i understand there should be a mix of people and some may not be the full thoroughbreds others are but in the national security apparatus where donald trump says hell be different from his predecessors, he needs people who see it his way. and i think its appropriate to have those people there. >> i th...

Ranking democrat. there is i would say a likelihood he will be the next attorney general. >> on mike flynn, he tweeted fear of muslims is rational. please forward this to other. the truth fears no questions. will it be our posture to fear all muslims? >> i doubt that would be the case, but the fact is he will be the last person to speak to the president after conflicts or arguments at the national security council. he will be running a power house agency. it is a 400 person national security cou...

Right and some on the left to discredit real journalists. i get that thats their goal here. but thats what theyve created. there are some people who critique the media, who have created this fake news problem. >> and you get something where you walk up to someone and i had this so many times in the campaign trail, where they would just say that president obama wasnt enforcing immigration policies. and i would say, you know, hes deported more undocumented immigrants than his predecessors. it i do...

Outstanding secretary of state. things are changing. america is changing. you know what, we need to shake up things around the world a little bit too. only 5 of the 28 nato nations spent money on their defense. 28 should pay 2% of their defense or more. america keeps paying for these nations, they dont do it, because nobody does ever shake them up. >> this is the minor stuff that aris talking about. of course they ought to pay up. >> minor, but they never do. >> past presidents have accepted for...

Only 5 of the 28 nato nations spent 2% of their gdp on defense as they are pledged to do under their contract to nato. 28 should pay 2% of their defense or more. america keeps paying for these nations, they dont do it, because nobody does ever shake them up. >> this is the minor stuff that aris talking about. of course they ought to pay up. >> minor, but they never do. >> past presidents have accepted for the most part that when their predecessors make agreements in the international arena, they...

For the weekend. first, how realistic is that? and if he were to go back to trump towers or his business headquarters that would obviously present a conflict of interest or at least the possibility of one? >> i think thats just speculation at this point. i think donald trump will soon realize that this job entails a lot of working on the weekends. and a lot of that went be either be in d.c. or new york. it will be international as well. a lot of this reminds me at the trump tower, he made it cle...

Charge. >> wow, and this again -- not just saying donald trump, any -- any presidential candidate, i wonder if they think about that, like you know if they actually get to the office, you know, when they say your past can come back to haunt you. >> remember, don, this man, donald trump, has the least amount of experience, relg havent experience of any -- any president-elect in modern history. so that office to him is much bigger and much stranger than it would have been for any of his predecesso...

Between him and vladimir putin the russian president was a big issue in the election campaign. the two figures complimented each other. putin called trump and aa bright and colorful person, trump described putin as a strong leader. you have got the basis for some kind of closer, warmer relationship than existed between obama and putten and obamas predecessors. yes, there is a big opportunity here for that relationship to be built. of course trump comes into office under the shadow of the idea th...

A big election-day vote there as well. so waiting to see how that all pans out for the trump campaign. it was certainly something they were worried out going into today, jake. >> sara, thank you. hillary clinton will be heading out any moment now from the family home in chappaqua, new york, for perhaps, perhaps, maybe, the last time before her life changes in ways that no american womans life has ever changed. she will be spending the afternoon in a midtown manhattan hotel, a very nice one, be...