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Confidence in the advisers around the president, not just their qualifications but their ability to hold back the presidents impulses on something like this? >> well, i have put a lot of faith and trust in the likes of secretary mattis, secretary tillerson, general mcmaster, general kelly, who i hope and trust would be a restraining influence, should the president act impetuously on something as serious as this. >> i was able to reach out to people inside the relevant departments including the d...

Considerations for any individual. look, andrews right. something that one has to weigh is ones restraining influence versus the legitimacy that ones conferring and the power of the signal one could send by resigning. im particularly sympathetic given all the threats to national security officials who decide to remain. but i guess when an issue thats been central for economic policy to this administration like infrastructure investment and in particular the deregulatory aspects of infrastructure...

The sanctions himself. >> just today, the u.s. has refused an arms sale to saudi arabia because of yemen. what would a secretary of state tillerson do about that? >> its usually the state department that is the restraining influence. you and i have covered a lot of these. usually the pentagon or someone who wants to sell an ally these arms. usually the state department has the role of saying, hey, lets look at how they are targeting these. lets look at the human rights abuses. lets figure out if...

Field running with no restraining influence to move forward with the agenda and he passed healthcare, stimulus, tried to do cap and trade and all of these large spending moves. then the country said hold on, this isnt what we signed up for and they clearly said we want to move in a different direction. rather than listening to the public within the president said i dont care what the result are of the 2010 election im going to move forward with an agenda that seems to be more and more and more o...

It has come down with mubarak and suleiman. now the issue is how they respond to what i expect will be a very large demonstration in cairo friday. >> greta: i make at sum the egyptian military is close to our military theres a lot of communication going back and forth. >> i think that is almost certainly right. i think weve had a restraining influence on the egyptian military. the issue is, what the military in egypt means when they say they are with the people? is their definition the people co...

And suleiman. now the issue is how they respond to what i expect will be a very large demonstration in cairo friday. >> greta: i make at sum the egyptian military is close to our military theres a lot of communication going back and forth. >> i think that is almost certainly right. i think weve had a restraining influence on the egyptian military. the issue is, what the military in egypt means when they say they are with the people? is their definition the people couple hunt thousand in tahrir s...

There is really no latest from here in tripoli. the leadership has said nothing, foreign ministry has said nothing, government spokesman said nothing. talking to officials last night, they were struggling to confirm these details were true. the deputy foreign minister i met him last night insisted the deputy minister was coming back. they seem to have been caught completely by surprise. he headed intelligence here 15 years, headed secret negotiations for gadhafi, one of his main political and se...