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Control of the national security council in the past, thank you for being with us. >> thank you rachel. >> i realize it was a provocative comparison in talking about iran, talking about north korea. and global fears about nations like that getting access to nuclear nations, comparing a nuclear armed nations to those rogue states. but it's a provocative claim to make. that said, russia is in effect acting as a rogue state now while referencing its access to nuclear weapons in a way that makes it seem like he is threatening to use them that is how it seems to me to me as a lay observer. as someo...

Pick one or the other. howie: yeah, it would have been one thing, everybody expected a privately chris cuomo would be helping his brother or advising his brother, they are very close, i covered their father and both clears but then to be in effect acting as a source gathering material, gathering material -- go ahead, charlie. charlie: i was going to say we knew a lot of that early on. i'm baffled stuff -- he was in strategy meetings. that was really bad. we dead opo research and everybody says i'm shocked, i'm shocked. that is insane. jeff zucker, why wasn't he monitoring this from day one? wh...

This administration's actions? >> i think they have suffered greatly. their economy was ailing anyway because the chinese ruler's maoist policies of state domination. r also, just too much debt. but what trump's tariffs have done is to cause the loss of confidence. so i think that that is in a sense a good thing because they are waging this trade war against us, we have to protect ourselves and we really have no choice. so we are not driving this, tucker. the chinese are driving this. we've got to respond. >> tucker: when you see political figures on television or news anchors in effect acting...

Chaos management. it is just chaos. every president who has tried to govern without a white house chief, by the way, has failed. and so the only thing worse than a flawed -- trying to run a white house with a flawed chief of staff is to run one without a chief of staff at all. and there are reports that trump is thinking about doing that. >> so, i was going to raise the reports. we have conversations with associates of the president, the president has privately mused about this idea, basically become the ceo and in effect acting as his own chief of staff. is there any, a, precedent, b, a way t...

Sincerely has based on my limited interaction with the director, i think he also did as well but last year when he made that announcement in july about the clinton email case, he felt that he was in effect acting like the shining knight who is coming in to rescue the day because his boss he felt was compromised after the meeting with bill clinton on the tarmac in arizona just before hillary clinton was interviewed, so he felt that he was stepping up and trying to save the day but what we now see in the assessment of the new deputy attorney general, it was that decision which really put the nai...