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Interagency process. >> it's a traditional statement of u.s. foreign policy toward russia. joe, my sense this last two weeks has been a little bit of a journey and eventually getting to its goal. the president needs to have one person in the white house who controls access, who maintains order. right now, we have got five different centers of would-be authority around the president. that is not good for him. he is going to have to decide is reince priebus the person who controls access? bill clinton's presidency was a mess when he first came in in 1993 and only when he got leon panetta as a st...

Our military demonstrates incredible professionalism and care but things sometimes go wrong, which is why you have to have a deliberate process leading up to this. my understanding based on what i've read and heard from folks still in the government is that in essence general mattis and the new secretary of defense and general dumford briefed president trump over dinner on this on wednesday and it was approved without any interagency process. with the consequence that it probably wasn't vetted with the care it deserved. >> tell us what would be missing without the so-called interagency process...

We had a navy s.e.a.l. killed. there were civilians caught in the crossfire. our military demonstrates incredible professionalism and care but things sometimes go wrong, which is why you have to have a deliberate process leading up to this. my uerstanding based on what i've read and heard from folks still in the government is that in essence general mattis and the new secretary of defense and general dumford briefed president trump over dinner on this on wednesday and it was approved without any interagency process. with the consequence that it probably wasn't vetted with the care it deserved....

To do. >> what would be the chances of wrapping other countries? >> i think the europeans in particular. a decent chance. and i think it makes it a little bit tougher. then also one other thing. interesting that this happened, joe, on the same day that rex tillerson became secretary of state. what it says again is what we used to call the interagency process. shall we say it is not up and running. >> you get the sense, mark halpern, you're going to have a lot of competition within these agencies between these agency heads in terms of -- this is a jolt in some ways. but you would think that you...

Things are not perhaps working as smoothly as they will be. despite what i heard in the press conferences, i know from talking to people in the agencies that there could have been more advanced information so that they could fulfill their law enforcement responsibilitie responsibilities. while an interagency process was used, it was not really the full process that i hope we will see in the future. the white house can learn from this. you own the agencies, you own the interagency process, you should use it because it will keep you out of trouble, and it will perhaps keep the federal courts out...