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>> reporter: russia is aware of what the president plans to do. him talking about missiles, but talking about missiles that are smart. of course, possibly telegraphing what kind of weapons the u.s. might use. but wolf, also the russians -- and youre right, ive been here on the ground several times. they have a lot more military hardware and personnel. but in this country and around this country, they have their big airfields with about 50 means on it and they have a port. thats also a russian de...

Right now about the president? what is he thinking? >> reporter: despite the president saying in the past that he wasnt going to telegraph any moves he was going to make with the military, he seems to be doing just that on twitter with that statement saying, get ready, russia, the missiles are coming for syria. thats remarkable, because this was a president who mocked and criticized his predecessor, president barack obama, for showing his hand too much and telegraphing what moves he was going to...

>> it gets worse. that had been on a saturday in september and i was on my way to maine to see the 41st president of the united states and mrs. bush. and i was feeling rather sorry for myself. and i told this story and mrs. bush looked across the table, looked me in the eye, and i was thinking here comes some motherly sympathy. [laughte [laughter] >> its called telegraphing. here it comes, and she said, well, how do you think poor john grisham would feel? [laughter] >> hes a very handsome man. s...

>> well, bannon, himself, spoke to the "washington post" to kind of put some meat on the bones of this he spoke to the "washington post" and gave this indication is a real indicator of a couple things. number one, hes likely having some trouble getting to the guy at the top who he used to serve very closely with, that is the president of the united states, but also that he understands president trump so incredibly well because that hes telegraphing probably exactly what president trump wants to ...

Real self-inflicted legal problems. it feels like theyre telegraphing something that they may not want -- have wanted to telegraph at a time when they are trying to recruit, as your paper reported last week, there was an effort to recruit someone like ted olson into the legal team which went nowhere, as you guys reported. but it seems like they stepped in it by announcing counsel that ultimately wouldnt be able to represent them. >> sure. i would argue this is sort of actually a long self-inflic...

Launch 59 tomkowiak missiles. the question is as the dawn is up here now and people piece through exactly what was hit, what level of damage was inflicted? yes of course buildings destroyed were they empty, people inside? did the days ahead of telegraphing of the u.s. intentions provide syria enough scope to get people out of the buildings or have other things been hit too we havent been told about at this particular stage. there are signs on syrian state media and from syrian regime loyalists t...

And more partisan and political that the reason he was fired has nothing to do with anything he did. his statement was very compelling. but as has been said, we need to see the ig report. maybe there is something there thats so egregious and he didnt address in his statement last night that we would agree that he should be fired. but at this point, i would say in the context of all weve heard, would not think that was the appropriate action less than 50 hours before he would have been fully vest...

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What the shared project between the donald trump white house and the republican party is and that gives trump kind of leeway to just follow his instincts wherever they take him. >> thats a good point. one of the interesting things were seeing on the congressional side of this whole story is that mitch mcconnell is telegraphing that the single thing he caress about for the indefinite future is confirming judges which obviously, that takes nominations from the white house but were not talking abou...

Totally protected president obama. that was his characterization of how that worked. and he said, he, trump, had great respect for that. >> yeah, theres a lot that was packed into that short little bite there from the new york times interview. and look, i think what hes telegraphing, again, is that hes very unhappy with jeff sessions. we have heard it before. and i think he knows that what jeff sessions, or he believes, rather, jeff sessions did by recusing himself in the russia investigation, w...