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Into resign after charlottesville and donald trump called him a traitor. you traitor. again, fascinating moment that, again, gary is doing this because of his belief that donald trump gave aid and comfort to neo-nazis and it was unworkable after that and donald trump's only response was tratder. >> yeah. it's worth remembering that we do not owe the president or any government official our loyalty. they're elected. they owe us their loyalty. that's the way the system is designed. i think about the revelations in bob woodward's reveal are the disconnect between donald trump's understanding of h...

>> but something i found interesting is that -- >> he's not fit. >> you look at national security and you see there are these stories of mattis intervening and economic and trade policy you have gary kohn. who is doing that with domestic policy? who is doing that with the child separation? who was doing that with puerto rico? no one seemed to be intervening in those areas where it was so desperate. >> there was some sort of setup belief or narrative that that was supposed to be ivanka. >> right. we haven't seen that unfortunately. joshua, if the president already thought because of the special...

Papers from piles on his desk to try to avoid literally things from happening. this is not how a presidency should run. there are dangers to this type of thing happening. and yet it seems like everybody around the president is staying in there to try and save the country from him. >> that's right, mika. it's a really chilling portrait in wood ward's book. you're right. there are colorful descriptions to describe the president, idiot, moron, fifth and sixth grader and all sorts of examples of aides coming into the oval office to snatch papers from his desk to keep him from signing things such a...

President. there clearly is a tug-of-war. you had gary kohn, who is now gone. gary kudlow goes back to the reagan days. steve mnuchin understands the president but he's more of an establishment guy. you have peter navarro telling the president no. the question is, 15 months in, if he's the great deal maker, why hasn't he been able to renegotiate any of these trade deals he thinks is horrible. instead he's doing this. but everybody involved gets the politics. the europeans say they're going to have retaliation. motorcycles made in wisconsin, bourbon made in kentucky, orange juice, to babacco an...

You had gary kohn, who is a moderating influence, a bunch of other people, h.r. mcmaster was certainly one. and he is, one by one, replacing them with people who are going to make things less hard for him. and i think that is the significance. >> and that's by design. that's not an accident. >> that's by his design. look, he -- he -- and i wrote about this the other day. he began -- whether he would ever acknowledge it or not, he had a lot of anxiety heading into this job. he knew it was something you cannot play at, he had not thought about it at all. he needed other people for a long time, b...