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I encourage everybody to read those stories. >> it reads like a war novel, and the fact that you're involved, susannah, and your colleagues' efforts there and all the folks that got out and the administration's efforts to make sure that was the case, it is this bright spot in what's been a pretty challenging week of live events. i want to get to your reporting, michael crowley. i had seen the esper comments and i show h.r. mcmaster go even further. and i wonder why he doesn't extend support for an administration that is trying to sort of make the most of the situation that they handed him. >> ...

Would be ousted every day. the press secretary said the president had full confidence in him. there were no changes. then a week later he was replaced. so that doesn't seem to be the case. do these press secretaries have confidence in what the president is telling them? if he's telling them, i have confidence in these people or i don't, then we get these mixed messages we saw today saying there were no personnel announcements. he wouldn't say what the president's relationship was. and then earlier today, hours earlier, the other deputy press secretary, hogan gidley was on television saying tod...

$1.3 billion spending bill after everyone said he would sign it. he let h.r. mcmaster go after the white house said the president had confidence in him. the president said he had confidence in his legal team and then two people left. so he's trying to put a nice spin on it saying circumstances change. this is why we get things wrong. i remember back to the rob porter thing which wasn't that long ago where the press office was saying, we can't be sure what we're telling you is the truthful. >> essentially, yes. that's been the story. that they have a credibility problem. you can't criticize the...

Based on, quote, ties to russian allies of vladimir putin. what are you referring to there? >> john bolton i think is a disastrous pick. first, letting h.r. mcmaster go, general mcmaster is an american patriot who speaks truth to power and that's why the president didn't like him. john bolton when he was nominated to be ambassador to the u.n., by a republican president, with a republican-controlled senate, he couldn't get confirmed because of real concerns about both his rhetoric, but also about his track record of cooking intelligence to make it look other than it really was. >> you questione...

Been that macmaster was going to be replaced, potentially early of this month. this has been orchestrated by secretary mattis. the president says it's fake news. would it be a mistake to let mcmaster go? >> it would be. and um not sure this story's accurate. i've talked to several people involved and they're telling me t not strictly accurate. hr is an experienced general, leader, he's themperate, he's done a good job in the white house. but i think it would be a big mistake to let hr go for a whole series of reasons related to national security. >> i have to mention we stand by the story, i b...