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>> mm-hmm. >> and you saw h.r. mcmaster leave the white house a couple weeks ago. i mean, h.r. spent a year trying to connect the processes of government to the decision-making of the white house, and it just doesn't seem to have worked. >> that's a frightening statement that the decision-making is just divorced from the -- from the actual intelligence. >> so, for example, and this may be a minor issue, but it's current that. press release tonight. in my life experience would have had the white house not ever issuing that without running it by the intel guys to make sure they could live with t...

Is "american national security in an age of lies." >> yeah. >> how does intelligence adapt to this age that we're in? >> it's really hard. so we've seen a pattern from the white house of saying things that intelligence just can't back up, and i'm being kind here, so you try to convince the president in closed sessions with regard to what you believe objective reality is. it's not so much that you're not winning the argument in the process. it's that the decisions seem to be separated from the process. >> mm-hmm. >> and you saw h.r. mcmaster leave the white house a couple weeks ago. i mean, h.r...

He has no over averaging strategy or vision for what our policy is. syria is complicated because there are other state actors that will fight us for terrain. one of the reasons we opposed president obama striking in 2013 was the shear fact we never felt the russians would apply for the toppling of bashar al assad. i think the larger problem for the president is he doesn't know what he wants to do in syria and now as we've seen mcmaster leave, outside of general mattis, i mean, general mattis -- his statement last night was different than the president's and i think the president wanted limited...