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In "politico" about the fact that donald trump didn't give the speech that his advisers thought he was going to give. during watergate, henry kissenger and al haig felt they were keeping things steady although as you rightly say, nixon was drinking to some extent. he was not in a great mental state. and kissinger later said, al haig saved the country and i saved the world. with donald trump, you and i have both heard people say donald trump may be unpredictable and mercurial may be in a scary way in national security but it's got this great national security staff, tillerson and mcmaster and m...

Talk about reince priebus and his lack of influence. typically to chiefs of staff are they drawn from a pool of people who are dependent on the president or that independents to be able to tell the president hard truths? is he unusual? >> he is. you're absolutely right. you want a chief of staff with the stature to be able to say to the president here's something you're not going to want to hear, and if you're angry at me and fire me, that's fine. jim baker had that under ronald reagan. al haig had that during the last year under richard nixon. ed independent stature of his own and kept nixon ...

More money for the investigation. is the fbi going to get that money? is somebody going to try to change what's going on by the probes at the fbi? that's what we have to watch for, and if that happens this is a direct parallel. right now what we see is terrible optics and a man, president trump, who is acting nixonian and acting as if he were guilty but there's no evidence that he's guilty of anything. >> in 1973, ultimately cox was fired and then give me the tapes, give me the tapes and then the ag and deputy ag resigned and a new special prosecutor was brought on and ultimately, we note end....

Is what the president says the law is. >> that was only after defrost. >> so he wasn't even president th then. can you think of a time when any person on national television has claimed that sort of power for the president? >> no. al haig tried to do it for himse himself. i've been reminded of rabbi korff. >> i woke up at 4:00 for a valentine's day lesson on them. >> that's why children hate you. >> many reasons. kellyanne conway is sort of becoming that. rabbi korff was the last

A lot of thought had actually gone into that and that wasn't just him doing an al haig taking over the microphone. the same with nikki haley yesterday. that wasn't just her scribbling notes down. you can tell that went through state, that went through the interagency process. yesterday seemed to be the first day on foreign policy, maybe it's because tillerson is at state now and everybody is finally in place, but some order seemed to be coming to our foreign policy team. >> some normalcy, perhaps, in terms of how people here in the beltway and in new york are used to seeing things go and i thi...