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What does this tell you about maybe what you were expecting or the change, even, in where donald trump is going with his foreign policy? >> well, i think that now that trump is in the oval office, he has to square the circle between no more nation-building, reducing america's footprint abroad, and his pledge to go after bad guys. and the reality is that in iraq, in syria, and now in afghanistan, there are bad guys, and he has basically said i'm going to devolve to the pentagon more responsibility to go after them. to go from where we are now at about 8,500 to 10,000, 11,000, that seems sensibl...

Chance to ask questions and talk about the white house's response so far and their options going forward. so not -- and this has been a question going in -- not a major revelation in there, for instance, building support for an immediate military strike for instance but more a general conversation, in light of the fact of something that both parties agree on, democrat and republican, that the threat is very serious. it's getting more serious and you have to be inbegin to talk what you're going to do to keep japan, south korea and the u.s. safe. >> jim, there's now talk, as you know, of putting...

And that is essential. it said what democrats are doing is a strategy where they are trying to slow everybody down. some other questioning is impressive, it's not when you make a make a difference. you see interest groups within the party line to the voice of influence and the environmentalists want to take a stab at pruitt and the teachers union want their say and on and on. it is deluded their influence overall and it is all, in the end, truly going to be of little substance and he will get them all through. >> people like elaine chao who received zero pushback from democrats for transportat...

And that is essential. it said what democrats are doing is a strategy where they are trying to slow everybody down. some other questioning is impressive, it's not when you make a make a difference. you see interest groups within the party line to the voice of influence and the environmentalists want to take a stab at pruitt and the teachers union want their say and on and on. it is deluded their influence overall and it is all, in the end, truly going to be of little substance and he will get them all through. >> people like elaine chao who received zero pushback from democrats for transportat...

It was hard to imagine. a man with the reputation for bad judgment. it was a very big mistake we'll be talking about. it did make a difference in the campaign. >> what's the difference you think it made in the campaign? >> for a period of time we now know 43 million people cast their votes. most of those people voted before. after comey had said, released the letter and before he said, by the way, use software and there is nothing there. all the people voted thinking there was a smoking gun in the laptop of anthony weiner. as it turns out there was nothing there. it is unfortunate that he mudd...