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Agreement. the process, the national security -- >> i am sure there has been informal meetings and consultations, they are only three weeks in, they dont have most of their people in place. in 2001, i was deputy national security advisor, i convined a couple of meetings, there was no point, i didnt have any confirmed deputies to invite to the meeting until april or may of that first year. it takes time to get an administration staffed. particularly, if it is a kind of insurgent administration li...

So its any wonder how theyre going to accomplish those things. >> or -- and this is why i wanted to talk -- ive known you for a while because i met you -- my wife worked with you when she worked in the administration in the white house and i know that you were there for a long time, you got to see the inside of how the white house operates. what happens when a white house that is this apparently disorganized and scattered reaches its first crisis, its katrina or deepwater horizon or something th...

Character, integrity and lack of processes. >> adam, to you. what about the broader issue of the publics right and need to know what happen between this administration and russia. its not just that flynn is being investigated and -- for this call with russia and other potential communications. its also carter page, the former campaign chairman paul manafort who was pushed out with an investigation going on right now. and also one of the people that has trumps ear, roger stone. this is a larger p...

Will allow the deputies to meet, the principles to meet in the national security council in order for them to move forward recommendations to the president of the united states who makes the final decision. as far as i know, none of those processes have been put in place. were almost a month into this administration. were dealing with a number of crisis around the world. i think this is a very dangerous moment not to have those procedures in place. >> that is -- >> can i interrupt you for a seco...

And the fact that they lied for the next month make it more clear we cant trust the normal processes. we need an incommission, need to coop our eyes on that ball as we move forward. >> have you had a chance to talk with secretary clinton in last 24 hours. >> i have not. bu im glad she is tweeting again. >> she tweeted about this last night. i wondered if you had any sense what her perspective is on all of this. >> loo, we have to recognize here that mike flin joined in courses around la curette....

Back to our top story this morning. the breaking news of the resignation of national security adviser michael flynn. it follows a blockbuster story in "the new york times" about chaos in the national security council and the fitness to lead in the times of crisis. the times reported, quote, several staff members said that mr. flynn who was a career army officer was not familiar with how to call up the national guard in an emergency, for, say, a natural disaster like hurricane katrina or the deto...

This order have no constitutional rights, have no claims to anything and yet this court beyond even what the washington attorney general asked for gave an injunction against all of that. it is outrageous. >> if you were advising president trump would you say take this to the supreme court, you can win? >> no. as ive said earlier this week, rewrite this order, you have now got the set of complaints from the court basically, write a separate order for each category and the 99.99% of people i just ...

>> i think what youre seeing in this whole episode here is that we have a president who didnt go through the normal processes and didnt really consult with the justice department and didnt really consult with dhs. slapped together essentially an executive order to do his campaign promise, and it is -- it is being challenged by -- in the courts, and hes actually losing because hes done such a poor job and i think -- i think the challenge here -- you just said it. he should rewrite it. he could ha...

Last weekend in bitter cold, 22 people did forcing volunteers in town to open an emergency center. today the town made a new deal with border services and rcmp. >> they assured us that they will have the manpower to handle the influxes of refugees. >> reporter: so what about security? all those people coming over that famously unprotected border. they say they cant stop them but they are arresting them. >> those people are identified, searched, screened, those types of things, then theyre take z...

Presumably, theyve extracted as much information from snowden as they can get. they will look like they are doing a favor for the new president. the president would look strong in terms of violaprosecuting so whos violated the most secure sacket yums. so, it would be a smart ploy for putin, whos showed his ability to manipulate the new president from beginning to end. >> would americans view it as a foreign policy victory for donald trump? >> the popularity of snowden, theres lots of disagreemen...