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President, we wouldn't live in the white house. we were independent adults and so they stuck to that. i think when the historians do look back at my father's presidency they're going to see a remarkable pattern of success in everything he did. on the domestic side and on the foreign policy side, the tearing down of the berlin wall. you know, he dealt with the tiananmen crisis in china, and dealt with it with a diplomatic savvy, obviously, when saddam attacked kuwait, my father dealt with that in exactly the right way. gave saddam every chance in the world to right his wrong. and then when he s...

What's your reaction to what you read in the new york time yesterday? >> well, i've taken some flack for voting for some of those nominees particularly on the foreign policy side. that was the driving piece of my decision. i wanted to be sure there were people who could provide some rational argument, some resistance, some as they say resistance to what otherwise might be impulsive acts. if this person came forward and said who they were they would be fired immediately and would have lost a restraint, a rail if you will guardrail. i think some of they people in this administration, particularl...

Get behind, i do believe europe will follow on this. but really the question i think is how does this affect the iran discussion and how do the gulf states come out. >> so to that point, jonathan, politically speaking does it make sense for a president who has been somewhat challenged on the foreign policy side, doesn't have a lot of successes -- he will argue he has successes with north korea and russia. now you have the jcpoa being torn up. does it make sense for the president to release this plan or announce this plan before the midterms or wait post-midterms? >> i think it makes sense befo...

Team was about zero. so i haven't gotten any indication that it's true that the trump team is reaching out to people. it's clear that the president is dissatisfied with his legal team, unclear that he's having much success, joe digenova aside, bringing in heavy hitters. >> they would be heavy hitters. >> it mirrors what's happening inside where people are leaving, but i think it's hard bringing people in. >> if you're a lawyer and you can't ever figure out what your client is going to do, if he'll follow your advice or if your client will start an all-out nuclear war with the special counsel, ...

Ambassador stuff. specifically against nato and specifically against military. >> i want to end on this. intelligence agency saying russians wanted trump to win the election and their tampering was an effort to make that happen. have they gotten anything tangible from this aside from a kids glove approach from tampering itself? >> i say would two things. on one hand, that president trump would deliver all kinds of things like lifting sanctions, dismantling nato, even at one point talking about recognizing crimea when he was a candidate. they are very disappointed in that. i saw lot of senior r...