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That's a perfectly legitimate subject for a democracy to debate and argue about, but there was no process here. there was no evidence of any kind of advice, no interagency process. the president basically got on the phone apparently, from what we can reconstruct of this mess, that the president got on the phone with the president of turkey and said, okay, i'm out. and even the president of turkey at that point said, well, wait, don't do anything precipitous, don't do anything crazy here, while the president is apparently thinking he's agreeing with him and giving him what he wants. we can't ma...

I can tell you, juan, that the mood here at the pentagon at the senior level is one of great frustration. that their views are not being considered. that the interagency process is not being followed. that the is tweeting out policy rather than going through the normal process of sending over orders as commander in chief. it's a very disorganized process in which they are getting word from the white house as to how to proceed and move troops around. >> juan: let me ask some of my colleagues, beginning with greg gutfeld. >> greg: thank you. i don't really have a question but i do have a comment...

But done without any interagency process. catching his closest advisers, off-guard and coming just a few days after this branding deal apparently was cut in indonesia with the chinese government, funneling potentially $500 million into this project that will directly benefit trump. do you see a connection? does congress have any plans to look into whether there is a connection? >> i think it's awfully suspicious and it's happening time and time again, where president trump is trying to represent or posing to represent the interests of the united states but there's always some kind of business ...

Jump on this. this is the product of the president speaking out loud on what he wants to see happen. >> it has been pointed out, george w. bush and barack obama at different times sent thousands of national guardsmen to the border. there was communication with mexico and an interagency process. not the way this is being done. >> and there was a mission. any time you're deploying troops, that is necessary. to her point, i'm not sure there's a mission there that is clearly defined and would it need to be. there's plenty you can do at the border if that's what you want to do. going through proces...

A consensus builder. now we have someone close to the president whose instincts are very much is like the president's. >> to your point there, one of the things we are hearing is he has made clear to john bolton and he has said to these terms that it is the president's words. he will say, yes, you're my adviser, but i'm not necessarily bringing in h.r. mcmaster anymore to perhaps offer different viewpoints to give me a better sense of what's out there. we are going with my way or the highway. >> isn't that the scary part, erica? the reason you have national security counsel staff, interagency ...