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Their notebooks. >> what is your level of confidence in the advisers around the president, not just their qualifications but their ability to hold back the president's 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 defense department tonight, and i heard genuine concern. i...

Confidence in the advisers around the president, not just their qualifications but their ability to hold back the president's 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 defense department tonight, and i heard genuine concern. it's not the first concern that i've heard ...

Houses, and lashing out at foreign leaders, and creating conflict instead of creating consensus, those are not the qualifications nor the skills that we want to see in a president. >> isn't that different than incapacitation? >> if, in fact, the president is going to act impetuously because somebody says or does something, that is reason for all of us to pause and ask if he is really equipped to do the job. >> impetuous is not incapacitated, so why are you able to connect these in your mind? >> i connect them because he has his finger on the nuclear button. he's in a position to make a decisio...

The way he behaved the other night. >> well, those of us that have known director clapper for a long time, you have as well, know this is not someone who is prone to hyperbole. this is someone who served the country for over half a century, who is a really quite plain spoken, but not -- does not tend to exaggerate. so when he says things like this, gets people's attention, got the president's attention. the president tweeting that -- is he some kind of expert on donald trump. he is an expert on dangerous to the country and recognizes the dangerous bluster we have from the president and the fac...