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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, unless you hired a kissinger or another, national security adviser is a process guy. in that job to impose discipline and methodology and order on the presidents...

Things being moved in the right direction as a result of the passage of this legislation. >> could you see a scenario where house republican leaders decide to delay this vote? to null bill and not have the vote tomorrow? >> you know what, they dont ask my advice on that stuff, but i mean one of the common -- one of the common options is, if you dont have the votes then you full back. the other one obviously is lets put the vote score board up there and see where everybody is. >> what would you l...

>> i think thats a correct statement. >> you had on monday if you had to vote vot on the next are. >> well, im a process guy. weve heard a lot of talk about regular offered and committed and stuff like that but i would just say a couple of things. one is a committee meeting without witnesses, those are stake holders, omits part of regular order. we need to hear from people who are not members of congress, who a are. youd need to hear from insurance companies, from retired people, from hospitals,...

>> is that possibly a good thing. >> in those three picks, they have picked some pretty good people. >> where is your area of concern, big picture. >> i know were talking earlier about mike flynn. mike did wonderful things in yufl but he was tactical operational guy. it remains to be seen whether he can be that process guy. the facilitator for tillerson, mattis, kelly, teeing things up, okay, rather than getting between them and the president. thats the job. >> you guys, lets open up this can ab...

And so when you have 153 republican members voting against the budget of the united states and voting against the leadership position, thats the number that the press ought to focus in. the group of 30 to 40, we put up dan webster, he doesnt have the highest conservative score. he was speaker of the florida house, and hes a process guy. and all we want -- and the whole conference was making huge progress last week after jaurn boehner stepped down in moving toward regular order. and thats not a h...

The bin laden raid, whether its the one you spend the most time on correctly, the iraq war. at the time, all of these seemed much more even-handed and then you get history and it, in a sense, tells you what the answer was. >> hes brutally blunt, john. that came through the interview and even more so in the book. >> and remember his history. worked on the national security council, cia, defense department, a holdover to the obama administration from the bush administration. he talks about his per...