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Its not going to be sufficient to do it. and, you know, the contrast between his quick trigger finger on tweeting out and comments and other context. look, this is a president who made a big theme of the fact that barack obama would not use islamic terrorism. if you cannot say it, you are not showing leadership. this standard needs to be applied to him over the next 24 hours. >> thank you for joining us. anna and betsy will stick around as we watch the top advisors get into marine one. well foll...

Question that im supposed to be talking about people that i know nothing about. >> what do you see about the biggest problem with the reform party right now? >> you have david duke just joined, a bigot, a racist, a problem. this is not exactly the people you want in your party. >> mark, how problematic is it if donald trumps defense with these issues is, well, he doesnt know, he doesnt want to be involved, its just a hands-off, and then you run the tape and see, well, in some cases he knows quit...

Sensitive, right? and words matter. when you look at north korea, this is an insecure state. theyre nervous. trigger finger, maybe. theyre talking about their survival. china, extremely nervous about u.s. military action in the region. our allies clearly made a little discomforted by the presidents comments and you can see them trying to calm their populations and south korea and japan about it and even here in the states because you have senior u.s. officials concerned about the audience and fo...

>> kind of. >> hes the boss. >> jim baker, remember, was one of three. he was chief of staff. but he had to deal with the long time friend -- >> but no one was frepd -- they were afraid of baker. >> the reason he was successful is that man was damn competent. he did a good job. he earned the presidents trust. if you say, ive got the title therefore ive got the goods and he was taken for for a test drive -- >> you have to come to work very early to be presidents chief of staff because you have do...

An incredible record. you are taking out 14 of the most wanted terrorists in iraq. >> that shows you how fast we are. we are not taking weekends off so we have to be mobile and move in. that requires our teams to operate at a different level. in this case, that was our job. they were good people american government asks us to hunt them down and we have to do it as fast as possible. >> jon: i know the responsibility and maybe the pressure can get to you and you get to this in the book. youve got ...

Charlie, let me read to you what "the new york times" reported the day before "the washington post" story hit. whether president trump may decide to fire special counsel mueller. quote people close to mr. trump say he is so volatile they cannot be sure that he will not change his mind about mr. mueller if he finds out anything to lead him to believe the investigation has been compromised. how itchy a trigger finger does the president have here, charlie. >> were going to find out because there is...

Questions over the course of several months, dana. i would certainly hear it. do you think shell ever really move? clearly she is. clearly theyve enrolled their son in school. what do you think the impact is? >> i see only upside in this. as we see in the footage on the screen there, barons shirt says "the expert," and a lot of us have been waiting for the moment when they would bring in the expert. perhaps well get a little benefit on the policy side. i think it can only be a positive distracti...

Some of it a byproduct of a hyper- partisan trigger finger. i have no loans in russia. i have any deals in russia. most notable among those controversies. his refusal to release the tax record. and criticism. his insistence on making his son-in-law and daughter major players within the ministration. still, no controversy has been more persistent or activating for the white house than the so-called russia connection. both on stage and online present trumpet view of russia in specifically the lead...

Or don you see them on a regular basis talking foreign policy. you go to dubai, trump worlds coming. >> the general public that were seeing in the approval ratings or lack there of is more concerned with the hot headedness and the twitter trigger finger and some of the more global scale gaffes like the situation with the tankers that were headed to the korean peninsula until they actually werent and that was mistelegraphed, if you will. i think the business conflicts are an issue that could bubb...

The killing of five of his sub ordinance. all sorts of things indicating problems with the top of the north korean military. this means that this guy has a low threshold of risk, a different risk calculus than he should have. >> eric: a twitchy trigger finger so to speak. what are our military options, colonel? >> theyre limited. on the 137 wide demill tarized zone, the pieces in north korea, pointing 30 miles south of them, to a 10 million populated city, seoul, korea. every war game weve done,...