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Background, let's start with general john kelly specifically, he's a retired four-star general, more than 40 years of the marines, three tours in iraq and then you general mattis, four-star marine corps general, served 44 years in the military, led the central command from 2013 to 2014 rand then you were speaking about general mcmaster, his background, west point graduate, three-star general, ph.d military history, considered one of the army's top intellectuals and then finally we can go onto general kellogg, three-star general, 36 years in the military, two tours during the vietnam war, numbe...

He wants to be part of the world order. >> that's not what bannon wanted, though. >> not what bannon wanted, but he's for peace and global prosperity. he wants to get along with our allies and he wants to put a hurt on our adversaries. >> can you understand the confusion? >> i can't speak for the president. but i think what the president was trying to do was there was a sleeve of the president's agenda which is an america first agenda. it's for the middle class families, for what the president called the forgotten man or woman. wages rising. there's a sleeve of the president's personality for ...

Woman. it's for lower middle class standards rising, wages rising. there's a sleeve of the president's personality for that but there's also a sleeve of the president's personality that someone like general kelly and general mcmaster. >> but imagine if there had been no bannon. to your own theory that trump had already figured it out in the primary so he didn't need bannon for a connection to the base. i disagree with that. but even if that were true, imagine if there had been no steve bannon, where do you think the president would be today? >> let me push back for one minute. you disagree wit...

General mcmaster, the national security adviser, has been reported having called the president an idiot. he's in the book calling him a dope. the secretary of the treasury in the book calls him an idiot. reince priebus, the chief of staff calls, the president an idiot. >> i think rupert murdoch as well. >> rupert murdoch. but what's interesting is you have these wars for a president's soul. had them in the reagan white house, had them in the clinton white house, had them in the obama white house. what's different here is this isn't about policies. nobody is saying the president should move lef...

Says "oy, is that a good idea?" the book talks about people rolling their eyes. >> earlier when i was praising paul, i'm sure paul disagreed with president clinton a couple times when he worked for him over the different years but it was never -- never became a personal thing, you didn't go bash him publicly. but this goes well beyond just maybe -- >> but it seems like the methods, if somebody said to him, oh, this person did this, then he would sort of include that. now, whether that's -- >> he'll have to defend his reporting but this does jibe with everyone else's reporting. the secretary of...