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Feels broke en broken. he's under fire from the left, from the right that thinks he's too soft on things like the iran nuclear deal. he doesn't have a lot of friends left. even john kelly who defended him when secretary tillerson came under fire from the president and people around the president now has grown weary of the personnel fights between the white house and the state department. it feels to most like it's a matter of when, not whether. >> i had heard this and i'm sure you did, too, back in the summer around the blow-up at the end of the summer when it came out he called the president ...

>> it is unnerving. it's unnerving particularly with regard to foreign policy because it means our friends, allies and even our enemies in the world are just utterly puzzled at what's going on in the united states. but in the sense of my citizenship in this republic, i'm encouraged by the fact that we do have some talent and some brains and some strategic thinking and key cabinet posts, and they're not going to sit down and take this president's bali hoo and tweeting and orders and they're going to do what's best for the country. we might wind up having a constitutional crises because of that ...

I'm encouraged by the fact that we do have some talent and some brains and some strategic thinking and key cabinet posts, and they're not going to sit down and take this president's bali hoo and tweeting and orders and they're going to do what's best for the country. we might wind up having a constitutional crises because of that but i'll buy that before i buy everybody just totying up to a president who doesn't know what he's doing and carrying out his orders irrespective of the recolle te rekt tud of those orders. >> what do you mean by a constitutional crises? >> you might have key members ...

Could have picked him up wholesale and add him to the white house. does that make sense? >> not at all. that's not the way it works. we inherited many people, and they were revetted particularly for cabinet posts and what have you in a very thorough now investigation. fbi background investigations are narrow. they look at the people on the application and talk to them. they don't go in depth. when you are at the white house level and do a vetting you go in much more deeply. particularly someone like a national security adviser, you don't rely on old background investigations. that's really jus...

So when he came into our administration for a short period of time, he came in, he was already approved by the obama administration. and they had years left on that approval. >> donald trump echoing his press secretary on former national security adviser michael flynn saying the obama white house should have vetted him better. i guess besides firing him. questions about flynn continue to plague the trump white house. he is at the center of several investigations. two a $45,000 payment from rt, the kremlin-financed cable tv news channel. naira, tim, and john are still with me. john dean, would ...