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Some of us doubted it. maybe we learned our lesson. its time for us to take a closer look at this particular assessment. >> joe, the sort of common windows about the structure of how these decisions are being made within this administration in this white house is that while the president might be unpredictable and might be sort of freelancing on these and issues saying things that come to mind for whatever reason, there are adults on national security matters, h.r. mcmaster, secretary mattis at ...

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 and saying things that come to mind for whatever reasons, ...

Adapt to the office. hes demeaning to the career diplomats. someone else is always to blame. and he doesnt stick up for us against a number one adversary that we have in the world and theres the russian government. its inexplicable that he gets away with this. and i hope the press doesnt normalize this behavior because it ought to be criticized. >> well, were not going to do that here. i want to put you on the spot with one more question and this might be uncomfortable but for all of those peopl...

Women. >> obamacare. >> no. >> repeal and replace. >> he did that really in secret. he was not forthcoming until the very end of the vary processes with what was in the bills. and he also got caught by a lot of reporting playing both ends against the middle telling some moderate senators that, oh, these medicaid cuts that youre worried about in eight years, theyll never take place. theyll be a whole different congress then. so he lost the trust of both sides. that was bad. but thats not really w...

Almost -- youve got the most fleshed out picture of what general kelly prioritized. it was the processes and having worked in the white house. its a big part of it. but it seems like if its an 80-20 problem, that the white house has, the problems that have driven this president to historically low poll numbers he sits at about 33% in most of the public opinion polls, what give people pause who were in his camp are outside of that 20% that general kelly seems to be solving by addressing the proce...

Something, youve just eliminated the thing that the leader wants most of all, and thats various options to deal with the problem. >> its also interesting, general marks, during the campaign the president talked a lot about not tell graphic what youre going to do and not tell graphing your strategy. this does seem to be tell graphing a strategy or at least a threat. what kind of measures, general marks, could the u.s. military now take to, in terms of guams protection or even south koreas protect...

What kind of measures, general marks, could the u.s. military now take to, in terms of guams protection or even south koreas protection, what could they take? >> anderson, bear in mind that the united states and south korea have had a coalition that has been in place for years, over 60 years. its very strong. its exercised as a matter of routine. processes are in place. forces are allocated, forces are assigned, in order theyre on the peninsula. forces are designated to arrive at the peninsula. ...

Mcconnell was talking about. hey, one of the reasons we couldnt end up getting health care passed, there was some artificial deadlines coming from the white house, and from a white house that was pretty inexperienced in this. and craig, ended up having mitch mcconnell not understanding some of the senate processes. take a listen from mcconnell. >> part of the reason i think people feel like were underperforming is because too many kind of artificial deadlines, unrelated to the reality of the com...

Away from north korea, jon. the west coast, california, san francisco, los angeles up to portland, more like 6,000 miles away. so still well out of reach. but cities on the west coast are not taking any chances. in fact, los angeles right now, they say is better prepared for a limited nuclear strike today because of our processes for post 9/11 terrorist attack. better prepared today than it was during the run-up and the midst of the cold war because they have vehicles, boats, and trucks that are...

Ill tell you, general kelly, i know very well and he is doing exactly what i would expect him to do in terms of processes and procedures there. but i dont even think he believes its in his mandate or capability to try to change the president and his twitter habit. >> everybody stick around. there is more coming up. were going to talk about the vice-president mike pence and his heated denial that hes launching whats called a shadow presidential campaign for 2020. did he protest, though, too much?...