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William co-ing know it's what it's like to be vetted for a key position. also a republican serving in the cabinet of a democratic president, bill clinton. secretary cohen joining us now here in washington. so thank you so much for being generous with your time here. i wonder what you think about his leading contender for defense secretary? this is retired general james mattis. he has pretty good word of mouth. what do you think? >> i am very impressed with him. known him a long time. she a great warrior and also a great scholar. so the combination of being in an intellectual and a soldier's so...

Awakening of conscious about doing something like this for such a key position. i would also say that mike flynn has been on the payroll, his intelligence firm has been on the payroll of turkey including during the trump campaign, without him disclosing that while he was working for the trump campaign. so this is just -- i know he's not going to get as much coverage as the other people who have to get confirmed over the next few days, but stick a pin in that. it's a really, really important, really worrying announcement. back to our regularly-scheduled program back in a second.

Difference between russian state television and, for example, msnbc. he will now be the closest person to the president of the united states on a day-to-day basis on all foreign policy issues, on all military issues, on all national security issues. and he is way outside anything that anybody on the left, right, or center might consider to be the mainstream either in thought or temperament in terms of national security issues. and it's done. and trump gets him unless he has some change of heart or, you know, awakening of conscience about doing something like this for such a key position. i wou...

Mike flynn calls islam a political ideology hiding behind a religion. he calls islam a malignant cancer. president putin and take money to go to a gala. he's been a frequent guest on russian state television and says he sees no difference between russian state television and for example msnbc. he will now be the closest person to the president on a day-to-day basis on all foreign policy issues, on all military issues, on all national security issues, and he is way outside anything that anybody on the consider to be the mainstream, either in thought or temperament in terms of national security ...

The campaign trail. obviously there are some differences with respect to russia, nato and a few other issues, but i think if you look at the fundamentals of where governor romney thinks america needs to go, you can make the argument that it is similar to some of the general themes donald trump sounded out during his campaign. >> paris, listen, trump called romney an elitist and a stong stone cold loser. how are trump supporters going to feel like trump entertaining an establishment time like mitt romney for a key position? >> we don't know that's what the meeting will be about, but i will tell...