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About what will happen. >> well, steve, i think the best way to look at it is where are there potential areas of disagreement and where are there going to be significant frixz points where there is likely to be no agreement at all. in the areas of agreement, obviously fighting international terrorism, there has been some successful communication between us and the russians before in that effort. and nuclear nonproliferation. are we going to get any kind of a consensus opinion on those issues here? probably not. but, even some kind of communique or commitment to fighting that would be interesti...

Those who would disagree with countercharges about lying, media intelligence, so-called judges, fake news, washington insiders and the deep state. talk to me more about that. >> so the friction points -- i can just do this as an observer. the friction points of the trump campaign and the trump administration, all right, have been mostly with intelligence, law enforcement, the courts, science, scholarship, and you, journalism. what do those six approaches have in common? they're evidence-based. they're fact-based. we know intelligence can get it wrong, journalism can get it wrong, science can g...

So when we move into post truth world, a post-truth environment where decisions are more made on preference, emotion or tribalism, we are threatening the very foundations of who we are. >> so let me read this in your book. you write in your book, i think it's fair to say that the trump campaign normalized lying to an unprecedented degree and when pressed on spcecifics it routinely tried to delegitimize so-called judges, fake news, washington insiders and the deep state. talk to me more about that. >> so the friction points -- i can just do this as an observer. the friction points have been mos...

They probably leave it at this. given the strikes while fairly spectacular were tightly limited. we heard had not even involved firing up the responses let alone a missile. from the russian air defense. that was going to be one of the most important friction points. >> russia has never admitted that the regime had chemical weapons on their own people. what's the stake in syria? >> their stake in syria is multi-layered. on the first level they have a strategic port. a position they have held many years. a major backer traditionally since the soviet days in terms of arms and training to the syri...

H.r. mcmaster could be out maybe by the end of the month or sometime soon. what do you make of that reporting. >> this is like a sine wave reporting from the white house. occurring every three or four weeks. i do think the relationship between h.r. and the president is not what you would want with a national security adviser. look, don, unless you hired a kissinger or another, national security adviser is a process guy. in that job to impose discipline and methodology and order on the president's decision making. and we have a president here who is not comfortable with any of those virtues. i ...