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Know that she has the leadership skills and will be transparent enough with the oversight committee to make sure that we don't end up in a similar position in the future. >> if she was a nominee of president obama, would you vote yes for her. >> i would not. >> then why did you vote yes for john brennan for cia director back in 2013? this is one of the republicans' concerns. they think that just because she is a trump nominee there is a vote of no from democrats and that it is a double standard. >> i took john brennan at his word at the time. i will tell you that was a mistake. at one point i ...

But clearly this is an indication that the obama folks are getting frustrated and losing patience with president trump with these remarks about the obama administration being responsible for michael flynn. >> the obama administration fired michael flynn as the dia director back in 2014. and in early 2016 when he got his security credentials, security clearances renewed, it was the dia, his former employer at the pentagon as well as the u.s. army that gave him those security credentials. now correct me if i'm wrong, jim, he's being investigated for misleading, for not necessarily providing all ...

All of us soon. >> and back when he was a candidate, barack obama pledged to step up the mission. >> we will kill bin laden, we will crush al qaeda, that has to be our biggest national security priority. >> the focus for this administration was on getting bin laden. that was a piece of unfinished business that went to the honor as well as the security of our country. >> leon panetta was cia director back in the summer of 2010, when the first big break materialized. the cia tracked a man believed to be bin laden's courier to a walled off compound in abaao abbottabad pakistan, a tall man was tak...

A more sort of normal role here and that by putting the cia director back on it, et cetera, et cetera, it's going to be like a security council used to be in former administrations and removing the politics from it for good reason. >> and if i could, anderson, what we have too is h.r. mcmaster is working unbelievably, he's challenged right now, because he's about three months behind where the national security council should be right now. they should have come into office with some strategy, some national security policy. h.r. is actually building a plane while it's in flight, that's an old ex...

Bannon and that this general mcmaster who said i don't want him there. and i'm told mcmaster went to trump about this, and donald trump did not push back on it, that he and mcmaster clash very often i'm told, but they didn't clash over this. and i think that you now see the national security council taking a more security counsel taking a more normal role here. and by putting the cia director back on it, et cetera, et cetera, it's going to be like a security council used to be in former administrations and removing the politics from it for good reason. >> and if i could, anderson, what we have...