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Is he the man for the job? >> i'm not sure there's anybody in this administration who could be said to have that qualification. and it's not because of ash carter's experience with nuclear weapons rather than terrorism. you could put the best counter insur engineer sin professionals in the world in, it's not going to change the obama administration's approach. i think what carter has in store for him is at best two years of frustration. >> you talk about frustration, look, some of his predecessors have complained about micro managing and the frustration of the white house inner circle. they're...

>> how do you respond to the charge the white house is too controlling on national security issues and brings micro managing and meddling to a new level in his words. said he almost resigned over it. >> as we said yesterday, the president greatly appreciates secretary gates' service to the president's administration and to the country. secretary gates was part of a team that helped bring about an end to the iraq war, helped decide upon and implement far superior and improved policy in afghanistan that was much more clear in its objectives. it had as part of that policy an end to a war which wa...

Calendar and laughing, micro managing, lets be clear, one thing the white house didn't do on this, they didn't micro manage beaurocracy enough. if we get through the end of the enrollment period -- i said this first on your show, alex. we should get through the fixing of this before we clean house. i think it will be inexplicable if we get sometime in the spring and somebody at hhs or cms or both haven't been fired. there aren't good excuses for not firing people. private sector velocity should also include the velocity of moving somebody's framed pictures out of their office and into a new jo...

This all feed into the affordable care act and the problems that they have, the insulated style you write about how they were people that saw problems coming and actually went to sebelius and said, hey, we need to bring in outside help and she said no thanks. and you said that that's indicative of the larger problem. >> i think there is an he estrangement, there is a sense of micro managing. but i think there was a sense that you kind of let everybody do what they're doing until they get trouble. the paradox of the entire obama presidency is the guy who has presided over one of the largest exp...

Personal, you know, reservoir of support that the president enjoys, not overwhelmingly, but enough to have him hold off the more serious charges that he was behind all this. is that enough? >> i think as your previous guest, my cousin, mr. brown said earlier, i would be shocked if there wasn't some type of knowledge from the top. listen, he's a nice guy, kind of guy you want to go have a beer with. when it comes to micro managing, they know exactly what's going on, know every detail. >> the question is does he? >> listen, that's the question, every time you turn around, every week there's some...