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Little wilder than normal. there is a writer who agrees with you saying there was something different about this week's spafl of sudden policy lurches. graceless personal insults, oozing scandals, it is the starkest example to date that president trump's executive style, looking untenable not merely from the outside but the inside too. in light of everything we've seen and at times become accustomed to. our friend eugene robinson says this. none of what's happening is normal, made for television his tronnics. constant back stabbing and major characters periodically getting booted out. we welco...

In this government who didn't have a pre-existing relationship with donald trump. >> the og guys right from the very beginning. >> so he is isolated. the president is in a moment of extreme crisis right now and he doesn't have as many close people around him. >> and one of the things that is so striking to me about hope hicks is the extent to which she has floated above the fray in a trump orbit that has had back stabbing and leaks. she had a proximity to the president. she had his trust. she is not someone who craved the spotlight. she wasn't really on tv selling the white house's message. bu...

I think he's considering his options. i think there is a desire inside the white house to place him somewhere sort of give him a nice landing spot somewhere and have a smooth transition here. but the tension with mcmaster is not only with the president, but also general mattis and secretary tillerson and other officials. they don't always see eye to eye with mcmaster and that's been a subject of some discord inside the administration as they look at these issues. and that discord, as you know, nicolle, is throughout the administration, throughout the white house. there is so much chaos. the do...

By this point, a year into a new administration, anybody who has had a problem with the security clearance, it would have already been cleared up a long time ago. we wouldn't have a senior serious top level official whose security clearance was still in doubt. that combined with the kind of back stabbing and warfare that characterized the trump administration leads to the situation we're in right now. jared kushner is not a beloved figure among the people that you were citing earlier, people who were former white house officials, nor among many senior white house officials that are in the whit...

Of this about jared kushner. >> well, right. that's true, lawrence. the first unusual thing is it's not just that the white house leaks more than prior white houses is that of course it leaks more about security clearances because in general, in white houses, security clearances are not an issue about which there is much to leak. by this point, a year into a new administration, anybody who has had a problem with the security clearance, it would have already been cleared up a long time ago. we wouldn't have a senior serious top level official whose security clearance was still in doubt. that co...