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In the middle east, russia continues to back syrian president asad. that bloody conflict is in the seventh year. 12 russian military officers for indicted for hacking the dn ympt c, and hillary clinton's presidential campaign. nbc military analyst and general thank you for being here. i want to get your reaction to the helsinki summit and fall out. >> i have been involved with the last four president's national security. in the room or dealing with the principles. i think we no longer have a national security process. we have a one man, personality-driven, movement. the government doesn't know...

Barely on the periphery of even weird trumpian national security politics. not a high profile figure. not a heavyweight figure by any stretch of the imagination. nevertheless, after recommendations in part from maria butina's fake boyfriend, k.t. mcfarland was will bed to a very high level job in the trump white house. deputy security adviser, essentially runs the national security process in the white house. it is the operations office who runs the whole national security council and runs intelligence through the national security process. it is hundreds of people. it is the kind of job where...

Adviser should be k.t. mcfarland? that was an unusual choice. she had been involved in american politics. she had worked in earlier white houses but when i say earlier, i mean way, way, way earlier. she's been an occasional contributor to fox news but barely on the periphery of even weird trump politics. not a high profile figure. not a heavyweight figure by any stretch of the imagination. nonetheless, after the recommendations in part from maria butina's fake boyfriend, k.t. mcfarland was troemd a very high level job. deputy security adviser, essentially runs the national security process in ...

It, we spent over a trillion dollars and what have we got to show? . that's donald trump's view of these conflicts. he's very reluctant, for example, to get further involved in syria even to maintain the presence we've got there now. bolton has shown no signs of that retrospective look. bolton interestingly has been through his whole career kind of a gadfly. he's been the guy on the far right who olympics the balloons of others, he's very smart. he's good at a debate. now he's not a gadfly. now he's the person who's got to run the process and that's the challenge for him. can he make that tran...

And he goes out food in that meeting and makes this announcement. what's the purpose of the national security structure? what's the purpose of the federal bureaucracy, of the systems designed to inform the president's decision making if they don't inform the president's decision making. >> and if he won't take the advice. that's what it is there for. >> the president is the president. you carry ohio, michigan, wisconsin, you make the big decisions. but we have seen a consistent pattern where the dynamic appears to be the president blurts out something he wants to do on instinct. and the nation...