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For two weeks prior. >> if roger stone knew about that, if the trump knew about that, thats collusion, which the president needs to be very concerned. if the republican senate steps up, if theres evidence, he could be removed from office just on that basis. >> and we know robert mueller has charged 13 russians with a conspiracy to impact the 2016 election. isnt he just waiting for that one last dot to connect it to the trump orbit? >> i think so. i think before we got into the heat of the midter...

>> i couldnt believe that the fox host didnt het him keep on going. >> how long would he have gone? would he have kept on talking? >> i think several hours. this is his favorite thing to do. we had a chance to interview him in july. hope hicks kept trying to say last question last question and all he wanted to to was talk. we think he would have gone on the rest of the day if he could have. >> how long did it sound like he could have gone on this morning. >> i honestly think he would have gone o...

Usually in the real world of politics, they used to say, well, jimmys leaving but joes coming or marys coming. there will be a new economic adviser to the president. this guy leaves an empty chair literally. you cant tell me thats organized. is it. >> its not. i dont know jimmy, joe or mary but i know gary. gary cohn is a process guy. in january after tax reform got done, he went to the president and he went to general kelly and said, im only working at 20% capacity. i need something to do here....

The whole white house is haywire. >> he would make the argument taxes. im a process guy and the one thing i got done whether we like the tax reform plan or not, he came to do taxes and hangs his hat on that and gary led that process. ivanka likes to take credit for the taxes, so does everybody else. he can say im a process guy, i came to do my job and did it. now there is no job for him to do. >> in terms of the chaos that led to the tariff announce the, you had the remarkable report what led up...

Hat on that and gary led that process. ivanka likes to take credit for the taxes, so does everybody else out there. he can walk away saying im a process guy, i came to do my job and i did it. now there is no job for him to do. >> in terms of the chaos that led to the tariff announcement, you had the remarkable report what led up to the president making that announcement on thursday. theres a room full of executives. the white house as of midnight the night before didnt know who those people woul...

From free trade on balance the country has done much better from free trade and i mean, allowed what they call the butler and the royal tenenbaum, peter navarro to sneak around and get into the oval office, get the last word in and you have this circus where they brought in the steel executives, trump had this meeting and then on the way out the reporters asked him what are you going to do and he announced this policy on the way out of a meeting when there was no policy. it hadnt been through th...

Importantly, white house legal counsel. the president said this is an issue of national security. thats why we need to move forward with the tariffs and were the tariffs supposed to hit china? its about canada and mexico and we heard from mattias, tillerson potentially saying this will hurt national security. if gary cohn is in the white house to focus on economic issues and he cannot get the president to listen to all sides and we could be moving to a direction that would hurt our economy, what...

Precincts of power. i think gary cohn is going to be loyal and low key and what you lose is an enormously -- i dont agree with gary cohn with a lot of things, the tax bill and whatever, certainly i do on trade, but hes a solid guy who knew what he was doing and to have him gone and the question of whos going to go and take that job not with standing trump saying everybody wants to work in the white house, whether youre going to get someone with gary cohns caliber i think is questionable. >> its ...

Im back now with general michael hayden. i want to -- i want to talk to you before we get to north korea, lets talk about things happening at the white house. h.r. mcmaster could be out maybe by the end of the month or sometime soon. what do you make of that reporting. >> this is like a sine wave reporting from the white house. occurring every three or four weeks. i do think the relationship between h.r. and the president is not what you would want with a national security adviser. look, don, un...

A lot of reports including our own reporting that mcmaster could be out at the end of the month. we all know it has happened to michael flynn. this turnover, how does it impact national security? >> it cant be good. what were seeing is were seeing this story appear on about a 30-day sine wave. and i think thats a reflection. >> i think it might be a problem. the problem is process. unless your national security adviser is brent scowcroft, it is your process guy. he is the one who imposes order a...