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>> how does this not look like waste of time and resources? is the president in a roundabout way acknowledging that? >> i think he is, and the experts are the rest of the panel on the politics of this, but looking at it from a security perspective, immigration perspective, i dont know what the white house is thinking waiting for the democrats to take over the house. they had a deal, they ran government. he could have gotten money for the wall. all thats happened is the misery that we have seen f...

>> from a security perspective. from a humanitarian perspective theres problems, two people died in custody. >> this administration is causing them. this administration is causing the humanitarian issues, which is the challenging were not discussing. we have over 800,000 families that will not be paid for however many weeks on end. these are civil servants, people who cant afford to miss a paycheck. trying to pay rent, take care of their family, and now this shutdown in this manufactured crisis,...

The president and administration have made up. theres no evidence that anything that they suggest is going awry in the way its going awry. the thing that frustrates me. >> from a security perspective. from a humanitarian perspective theres problems, two people died in custody. >> this administration is causing them. this administration is causing the humanitarian issues, which is the challenging were not discussing. we have over 800,000 families that will not be paid for however many weeks on en...

Country? >> no. and the reason i say that is because when you look at the type of geography that the southern border has, and ive been on the southern border, particularly in the state of texas, you look at some of the areas that we have the rio grande river, really comprises almost the entire border of mexico and texas. and that particular border is generally a natural -- informed by a natural barrier. there are also areas such as the big bend national park where not only would it be ecological...

Potential of preventing the president from exercising any authorities that he may think he has to build a southern border wall. >> quick question to you. do you believe a border wall is necessary to secure this country? >> no. and the reason i say that is because when you look at the type of geography that the southern border has, and ive been on the southern border, particularly in the state of texas, you look at some of the areas that we have the rio grande river, really comprises almost the e...

Things up. its unclear who is really leading discussions on the responsible drawdown of troops on syria, what timetable theyre going to be following and where theyre going to be relocated to and who else is going to pick up pieces of the mission. >> you know, there was a sense that both general kelly and general mattis had a level of gr gravitas around the president, he respected their military service, the fact that they were generals played a big part in that. shanahan doesnt have that same le...

Time. >> hes making two december dis the decisions to pull completely out of siria be syria but also troops out of afghanistan. hes not in either of those places, hes in iraq. it probably would be difficult from a security perspective to go to syria but why there instead of afghanistan? >> not having the security information, i dont know how it would be to go to afghanistan. i think optically it would be difficult for the president to travel to afghanistan based upon his own military commanders ...

Hypocritical. if we lose 380,000 u.s. government employees, were literally entering the christmas season, which is a high-risk season anyway, with a handicap. what other government in the world is losing 380,000 members of its staff and still hoping to project power and to keep its country safe? and keep in mind, those 380,000 workers are deemed nonessential. every u.s. government employee or almost every u.s. government employee, ill leave some at the white house aside, are essential to keeping...

People in attendance and listening in. why is that protocol so important? >> fred, i spent four years atted the national security council and five years since then and i can still recite the rules in my sleep because they were so important from a security perspective. if anybody other than president trumps friends and family engage in this, there would be a counter intelligence investigation. this happened a few times while i was at the white house. they want to know why a government official wa...

Extremism entirely separately. there is something common to all of these forms that challenge us from a security perspective. the federal government should be involved in funding a charge against it. >> look. it was the reason my division was created actually. it was a reform after 9/11. it is those that victimized us after the fact may be necessary but its not success. we need to be as creative as we can based on what the intelligence shows the threat to be at preventing this loss of life in th...