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Balancing effect on the president. he will be reinforcing. >> do you think he's dangerous? >> i wouldn't say dangerous. i mean, we just had what i would call the federal bureaucracy do something with regard to the russians that we wouldn't have expected from the president. you've got this big body of professionals, only about the best of america inside the national security establishment. what i suspect is, we're going to see a lot of sparks fly between the national security adviser and the government. >> michael hayden, always great to get your perspective. thank you very much for being here....

President obama is holding steady at 49%. it's remained at the same level for most of the year. what do you make of that? >> the president's approval rating has had an interesting balancing effect on either side. i think that in general with the economy improving, housing prices are up, the stock market's doing well, you know, things seem to be rolling along a little bit so one would expect his approval ratings to go up, but i think that there have been factors that have had a dampening effect. the nsa scandals, the irs scandals. all of those have had a counter acting effect. you've seen the e...