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>> the key thing is genitive because north korea has gone to the negotiating table 25 times in 25 years and we never get on anything. we need to do two things with china. first of all, mcmaster hasn't backed up his rhetoric with military action. the chinese have to believe we are serious about a possible military confrontation. or one can happen by accident. that means real steps, not flybys of airplanes. we need to reconsider the plot of tactical weapons from korea and naval vessels offshore. >> quickly, we say military action. what specifically do you mean by that? >> well, essentially makin...

Staff. >> and he doesn't listen to any of the generals. mcmaster hasn't had an easy time getting him to listen either. there's a part of your piece where you talk about the leak, potentially from allies of kelly or comey. about kelly calling jim comey after he was fired and offering him support. this is what you write in your piece. if kelly or his allies orchestrated this leak, it would suggest a serious determination on his part to use his power to protect the russia investigation. if comey or his allies were the prime movers, the motivation was to force kelly to live up to the standard that...

History, more than panetta and james baker when and could lock down the oval office so people weren't come in and out getting the president's ear, if he could fire jared kushner and ivanka trump so there wasn't family interference, at the end of the night trump goes up to the residence, he gets on the phone with his friends, wakes up in the morning, turns on the tv of fax news. he can just upend decisions that john kelly made in concert with the president on a lark because he doesn't have the discipline to be managered by any chief of staff. >> and he doesn't listen to any of the generals. mcm...

What is the mood there? what are we expecting from the national security adviser? >> chris, this is a white house that is in full damage control mode. i was here late into the night as we were discussing earlier. i can tell you top officials here in the white house were meeting late into the night, trying to determine what their next steps would be. and now, the national security adviser, h.r. mcmaster, has become really the front person in terms of dealing with this crisis. so we expect we're going to hear from him momentarilmomentarily. he will likely reiterate the comments we heard from him...

Leverage on health care and potentially tax cut cuts, whichy call tax reform. all of this obscured by the controversies. mitch mcconnell said they have to get away from the distractions. even criticizing the white house for not being well organize and had having these issues. the other thing is time loss, opportunities lost. these two weeks were supposed to be spent preparing for the foreign trip for the president. saudi arabia, visiting the pope, nato and a g 7 meeting. there are a lot of missteps potentially there for any president, envelo president. even experienced presidents get into diff...