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Trump. there is no rhyme or reason. there is no strategy. there is no proper planning. there is no organization. they think if they're just raising money that's all that needs to get done. republicans are going to be in a lot of trouble in 2018, and they need organization. something that is not there. >> i'm not using the business of defending the rnc but they are supposed to work in concert. however if you have a white house that has no actual political strategy and things get taken care of in 280 characters online in any given moment, that throws everyone for a tailspin. how can you blame th...

To pick-off a person here and there. there's some in washington that don't believe it's going to -- i told you before, i find it highy, highly unlikely russia was trying to collude with the trump campaign because it couldn't collude with the rnc. it couldn't collude with itself. he's going to have to get something to show for all this stuff they've done. so they're going to go after people, threaten them. they're going to use tactics the fbi uses all the time to get people to talk. they get one person. they say we're going to do this to you and they start unraveling and talking to other people...

Like some huge grand conspiracy they have their hands around. it sounds to me they're trying to pick-off a person here and there. there's a lot of people in washington that don't believe it's going to -- i told you before, i find it highly, highly unlikely russia was able to include with the trump campaign because it couldn't collude with the rnc. it couldn't collude with itself. that doesn't mean that one or two people in the campaign aren't going to be targets by mueller. he's going to have to get something to show for all this stuff they've done. so they're going to go after people, threate...

Versions you get from people around trump. one is a master strategy which i don't think it is. the other is that this is a sort of quick reaction to frustration. i think he likes surprising people. this is the thing about him they think is complicated to understand in part because it sounds weird, but he always does have a plan in his mind about what he is doing. it may not make sense to anyone else, but he genuinely has some map. it's not a long map that doesn't drive you far down the road, but in that oval office meeting where all of the leaders were, he did think he was doing something stra...

They are willing to do more. will they do as much as trump wants? that's really a stretch. that's i think the basic problem with this strategy. >> david ignatius, thank you so much for spending some time with us. matthew dowd, let me get you to weigh in since you're the celebrity guest today. very generously on loan. from our friends across the town. let me just ask you about the character of a president who would threaten fire and fury without having any respect for his national security adviser, for his chief of staff and for his secretary of state to give them a heads up. >> so the first th...