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Crattic reasons why some of the letters had not gone out. most of them said they were delayed because the service member had been involved in multiple casualty incident. is that a valid excuse it makes it a volume issue, perhaps, don, to put in a crass way. but i would say, no. you have a situation where you know that something has happened, you should have procedures in place to handle it. the department of defense has procedures. each of services have procedures to deal with this. even down at the unit level they have procedures. so everything should really be running like a smoothly oiled m...

Referencing is the well oiled machine. the white house where president trump as he has said over and time again he only hires the best. john, i want to ask you, why couldn't we expand our nuclear arsenal if the president wanted to? some might say, well, the president is about defending this country. sounds like a good idea. why isn't it one? >> well, it's a horrible idea for a number of reasons. the primary one is the united states already has more nuclear weapons than the joint chiefs of staff think we need under president obama. they agree we would go lower if we talk about negotiations with...

People. >> make deals. >> and he has now fire ed most his inner circle. what does that say about him that these are the people he chose and were the best people. and we're six months into his administration, and he has already gotten rid of the bulk of the people who were advising him. so -- >> well oiled machine. parts now have been removed. >> he was this great business guy with this eye for talent. >> there are some supporters of the president who are out there saying, well, you know, this happens. you have shake-ups. . no no. we have not seen anything like this, at least in recent history....

There are pockets in this country that are suffering enormously. not enough room at the morgue. so making this officially declaration of emergency actually has enormous practical benefit for people and communities and states that are hurting. the larger point is it's more evidence of this administration is not a well-oiled machine. there is a degree of governing. what i look forward to further reporting is on why secretary price came out and said we don't need this. what was that debate? because his opioid commission disagreed and said it should be. this decision was made a bit on the cuff wit...

The white house as maggie pointed out by someone who doesn't have any diplomatic experience. but at the state department it's being run by somebody who doesn't have any diplomatic experience so we will see fits and starts here. this is not a well-oiled machine and people are learning on the job. >> this is the problem too. this was throughout the campaign, you try to discern where trump was on any given issue because he would often say two competing things within the same sentence or be so vague you would have to present him with a menu of option about what he my be talking about. you are stil...