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His chief of staff and other advisors. if youre looking at national security and i think john would agree with this. >> yeah. >> jimmy carter came in, did not have that kind of experience. same with george w. bush. they appointed strong people and approached it from a position of modesty. they said this is something i dont know that much about, i want to learn, i want to lean on people who have had experience for years. you dont see that kind of modesty in donald trump to make the understatement...

By their leadership, calling for a special prosecutor and now some republicans are joining that call. >> it is an understatement to say that many are not buying the idea that the president fired the fbi director because he was unfair to hillary clinton and it happened, by the way, on the same day that cnn learned a grand jury has issued subpoenas in their russia investigation. all of this is happening as president trump will meet this morning with russias foreign minister, certain guy lab rov wh...

Be thanking me. amid calls for a special congressional committee to look into so-called ties between russia and the trump camp. very calm, quiet day at the white house ahead, bill. >> bill: an understatement. we have not seen him or little of the president the past several days. will we this morning, kevin? >> my gut says no. but then again you never know. the unpredictability of this administration is what makes it so provocative to cover. now its not scheduled but again you never know. well se...

And let director comey go. >> tucker: swift and decisive is an understatement. is it true that the then fbi director had no idea he was being canned and learned about it to the television screen in the room? and if so, why do it that way? >> i believe he was notified. and a letter was hand-delivered to the fbi as well as electronic communications were sent notifying him of his dismissal. but when you make a decision like that well, frankly, why sit on it? if you know somebody is incapable of doi...

Before it became public. on capitol hill there is going to be fallout and one of the questions is did this come about in part because of the increasing pressure of the investigation, that kind of thing. so the president using twitter when were all here waiting happy to talk to him if he has any comment, angst for him to come before cameras. >> happy to talk to him is an understatement. lets get over to the hill. kelly referenced the action going on there. you just spoke with tim kaine. what have...

Made a swift and decisive action and let director, go. >> tucker: swift and decisive as an understatement. is it true that the then fbi director had no idea he was being canned and learned about it to the television screen in the room? and if so, why do it that way? >> i believe he was notified of. and of the letter was hand-delivered to the fbi as well as electronic communications were sent notifying him of his dismissal. but when you make a decision like that will, frankly, why sit on it? if y...

And let director, go. >> tucker: swift and decisive as an understatement. is it true that the then fbi director had no idea he was being canned and learned about it to the television screen in the room? and if so, why do it that way? >> i believe he was notified of. and of the letter was hand-delivered to the fbi as well as electronic communications were sent notifying him of his dismissal. but when you make a decision like that will, frankly, why sit on it? if you know somebody is incapable of ...

Because, again, there is such a divergence in the two systems. i think it is very important that two great powers, such as are the united states and russia, have a relationship based on trust and based on mutual understanding. >> i would agree with that. i just want to do a quick question because were running out of time because we spent so much time in breaking news. matthew, when you saw that piece of video and kind of the laughing dismissal by sergey lavrov to what is a very obviously incredi...

Dont talk about that publically. suffice to say that general flynn and i didnt necessarily see eye to eye on certain things. >> that may be the understatement of the century. there arent a lot of people lining up as general michael flynn fans right now. >> of course theyre not lining up now because more is being exposed. you know, and you have to think about this. this is a real issue. this is -- and people are talking about, other, when is this going to stop? we havent seen collusion as of yet....

We owe a degree of confidentiality about our plans. but we will work it out to our nato allies and our best way forward. war sometimes doesnt give you all good options. its the nature of war. its not a good situation. >> understatement there from the defense secretary james mattis. nato secretary general was standing with him. nato is disposed to send more troops to afghanistan. thats part of the equation. this is i think one of the examples and you see this from any new president of how being p...