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Spokesman, but it's pretty unusual to be this long not hearing from the state department? >> it is, and it takes an important mega phone out of our hands. this is the way to explain policy and clarify policy, i think there's probably good reason for it and that's that it's unclear what the police is, it's hard to know what to say when there's this dysfunction in the national security process. to date the right people haven't been brought around the table in the situation room, secretary of state, chairman of joint chiefs and others normally when you have a normal process everyone gets around t...

>> so, this is a major break from decades of bipartisan policy. what's going on here with that response? >> i think what you're seeing there is basically the breakdown of the national security process where the president was obviously not briefed. he either doesn't want to do the briefings, we know he doesn't get the daily intelligence briefing any more. maybe there's nobody in the national security council who can brief him. but it sounded so bizarre, so casual, so frankly irresponsible. it would be like, i don't know, at the end of the soviet era saying, you know, if poland want to be indepe...

Negotiations. here to discuss, fareed zakaria. the president hosted israeli prime minister and they talked about this critical issue, two state solution to peace between israel and palestinian. looking at this. >> i'm looking at two state and one state, and i like the one that both parties like. i'm very happy with the one that both parties like. >> so -- this is a major break from decades of bipartisan policy. what is going on here with that response? >> i think what you're seeing there is basically the breakdown of the national security process. the president was obviously not briefed. he ei...

China, benign on russia. are we willing to make good on remilitarization of russia, push back middle east. raises. >> in for policy community, are there concerns russia has something on this president? >> no one can explain why there has baseball a benign take on russia's role in the world. >> in the campaign, going back to december 2015 on this show when it basically took about five follow-up questions to get him to condemn vladimir putin for assassinating germans. >> no one can explain why this has been a consistent strategic perspective of this first candidate now president. that's a real i...

They have never seen anything like this. they are confused about how the government will work going forward. will we re-establish the normal national security process, will the agencies get input in to policy. remains to be seen. >> any sense of when they might be al to full proverbial get all the ducks in a row now that they are working on this? >> reporter: well, people are scrambling to interpret and -- >> days and weeks, any sense? or too tough to say? >> reporter: it's impossible to say. weeks more likely than days. >> all right. thank you for reporting. great stuff in getting that sense ...