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Election, not just as to what they did, but how to prevent it. >> the meeting was originally called to talk about the tick talk. how it all went down. the firing of james comey and mr. rosenstein's role in that. did he speak to that, his responsibility and his decisionmaking process in the firering of mr. comey? >> i think he spoke to it by asserting that the record is a paper record with a chronological set of documents. what i will say, and i don't believe for a moment this is classified, is that the scope, again, of director mueller includes any questions about referrals related to any misc...

That to me is insulting. there have been a lot of people fighting hard in many theaters, just because there's been a couple of big bomb drops and tomahawk strike in syria, we're saying we're doing more in eight weeks than ever before. that's just wrong and it's incorrect. >> don, just so i can interject as martin knows me well. i certainly don't mean to intimate that generals are suddenly not concerned about civilian casualties by any means because i spend a lot of time with the military and i know the care they go through in the command centers to do that. if we look at the evidence, it just ...

Believe the president as these seasoned decisionmaker and talking about syria, he has those financial minds in there. how can they help them. >> he's thinking decisionmaking and leadership. from trump's perspective, leadership qualities transfer, he's not about as much of the expertise of foreign affairs but how is this going to work for me. he's sending a signal he's not yet committed to a policy and again, that might be -- i want to make the right decision in this moment and a week from now i'll have to make a different decision. everybody should remember this is his natural way. we don't kn...

Been, i think, worrying about the new administration is the way their national security council has been so much influx. the role of the national security council is to coordinate, bring about a whole of government effort, unified message and a stable message, particularly on volatile issues in national security. and for whatever reason, we really haven't seen that. we saw over the course of one week, rex tillerson the secretary of state, we saw him turn 180 degrees on whether or not the fate of bashar al assad should be decided by the syrian people or whether it should be something that the u...

Plussing to getting that through the congress, and a congress that didn't want to have to vote on it. a few of us have been trying, tim kaine, myself and a handful of others, but we've never been able to generate sufficient political will to actually force a vote on this. >> congressman, let me ask you to go back to the initial point that you raised which is the decisionmaking process that led to this. obviously, this does represent a major shift in course by the administration. not just to escalate to military force, but to strike against the syrian regime at all. as you mentioned last week, ...