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Coming out of washington. >> thank you. we're also hearing from michael hayden, the former director of the cia and the national security agency. he tells our michael smerconish that a back channel like the one kushner allegedly talked about with the ambassador that that would have been, quote, off the map. >> general hayden, is this nefarious or naivete? >> right now i'm going with naivete, and that's not technically very comforting for me. what manner of ignorance, chaos, hubris, suspicion, contempt would you have to have to think that doing this with the russian ambassador was a good or an...

For a few people and they put israel at the top of the list but you look at the actors, at the groups and the states surrounding israel who really just want to wipe the place off the map. you look at hamas alone, that is not a charitable organization. i don't care what nancy pelosi says. >> right. and you think this is what they are really thinking about in venezuela. let's figure out what is going on in the middle east and push back on israeli settlements. >> eric, it was a push by egypt. they backed off when donald trump asked them to and came back with this on friday. merry christmas, every...

Donald trump, the tweeting about israel, the tweeting about new nuclear arms race, the interference with syria. i think you can go on down the line. telling the chinese to keep the drone they found off the shore. so, i think there's an erratic nature that disturbs a lot of people, including thoughtful people on the republican side. >> i think it's important -- it's important not to confuse erratic versus unpredictable. unpredictable has been donald trump's strategy. that's not something that's wishy-washy off the map. that's a strategy he's been using since he he ran for president. >> i have t...

Correction for it. but it's not something that's ever happened before by a mile. >> this extends across the spectrum, right? conflicts are the sort of theme of the week in the last week. jared kushner, the son-in-law, may be getting security clearance to sit in. >> and the other person that trump asked to sit in. >> maybe he and ivanka go out and talk about what trump organizations, all of this again off the map, off the map. we've never been in this territory before. and we're a week in and we've never been in this territory before. >> one of the things who people who have been through this, ...

Jared kushner, the son-in-law, may be getting security clearance to sit in. >> and the other person that trump asked to sit in. >> maybe he and ivanka go out and talk about what trump organizations, all of this again off the map, off the map. we've never been in this territory before. and we're a week in and we've never been in this territory before. >> one of the things who people who have been through this, people take a very like 50,000-foot view of this. and i've been thinking about a lot recently. that transitions are a vulnerable time for us in terms of national security. the trump campa...