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Does. hes someone who has a deep sense of dignity and honor in public service. and this gets to the issue of he came in and said he wasnt going to try to control the president. but it sort of begs the question of, he can put all of these structures in place and straep line all these processes but if you cant control the president, what is he really doing there? i think that is a key question everyone is focused on. >> michael, what does your party do tomorrow morning? >> the same thing they did ...

Instead he stood next to pb nick mulvaney. our reporting based on multiple sources is truly people were stunned. i dont know if its strategy people were trying to distance themselves. i think the initial reaction was what just happened? you have john kelly who spent last week at bedminister trying to institute these processes and institute some structure for an administration to apparently laid down tom plans. immediately the president did instead what he wanted to do in that moment, which was c...

It sort of gave some republicans, conservative media and staffers an iota of cover. to say, of course he condemns these people and white supremacists and the kkk and neo-nazis. youre right he undid it all today. it makes it a lot harder for his staff and his defenders to go out and credibly defend him. it also raises some questions about sort of the true power of general kelly, this new chief of staff. he was brought in not necessarily to control the president, to control the staff around him, a...

Probably appeals to trump. the question, as weve talked the entire show, whether the people around him who might think better of it can talk him out of it. >> it makes, have a substantive impact on the idea of rule of law in this country. the president has absolute power to pardon people, but this is a man who federal courts repeatedly told to do one thing and he repeatedly defied them. what hes now convicted of, refusing to follow the constitutional processes of the courts in this country and b...

If everything ive looked at, hes dependent on getting china to keep north korea from getting where they are. were almost to the point where the military option is the only way. >> trish: you think were wrong? >> i hope i am. but look at china, we see the same indicators. make sure we do something now. if we dont do anything in the next 1 to 10 years -- i say one year because it can break out any moment and be a nuclear capable country. we need to pay attention to that now. >> trish: this is thei...

Always come alongside. allies like colombia showed the crisis continue to drive greater refugee flow into colombia and neighboring countries, that being said, the president semihere with a message that the regime is experiencing change right now, and what we are witnessing is venezuela collapsing on dictatorship. to the election of the constituent assembly. the dismissal of the chief prosecutor. in venezuela, that all shows the regime is committed to using processes to change the laws and struct...

Much more palpable then than it is today. but it is not to say that this is not potentially a very incendiary situation. in fact, thats -- when i served in korea many years ago as director of intelligence u.s. forces korea, what i always worried about was an incendiary event getting out of hand. we cant know -- we dont understand exactly what the decision making mechanisms are, processes, surrounding kim jong-un in north korea, or what would set him off. and thats why i think many people, myself...

Lesson. it is certainly time for us to take a closer look at this particular assessment. >> joe, the sort of common wisdom about the structure of how these decisions are being made within this administration and this white house is that while the president might be unpredictable and might be sort of freelancing on these issues and saying things that come to mind for whatever reasons, there are adults on national security matters. h.r. mcmaster as the national security adviser. general -- or secr...

Unclassified version public that some of us doubted the intelligence, criticized this, showed the exaggerations. it didnt work to stop the war. maybe we have learned our lesson. it is certainly time for us to take a closer look at this particular assessment. >> joe, the sort of common wisdom about the structure of how these decisions are being made within the administration and this white house is that while the president might be unpredictable and might be sort of freelancing on these issues an...

Official agencies and processes of the national security and domestic policy that are churning away with policy proposals and alternatives and you have a president who kind of says things that you know seem to be completely disconnected from that. it goes to the larger point i was saying before, which is that this president i think is operating on a narrower ledge, a different situation in this kind of crisis. than we have seen from other u.s. presidents. you have so many at home and abroad, who...