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Serious to deal with islamic terrorism, which is an immediate threat. what he's proposing would not have stopped what just happened. if he had a serious degree of policy knowledge or insight, he would talk about how would we improve our domestic intelligence surveillance of folks like this. how do we target these people? how do we profile in order to figure out who is going to get radicalized? >> charles -- >> he's great at the show, he's terrible at the leadership. >> before you respond, charles, all of the experts here, all the terrorism experts, all the law enforcement analysts we've had co...

>> oh, no question. in fact, went history books are written, it may well be that people think that the choice of hillary clinton, which we forget now was so surprising at the time, may have been to be one of the best strategic decisions that president obama made because he obviously eliminated a potential political rival as he went forward. you know, the way aides stay here, he always considered hillary clinton for the most basic reason, because he thought that she would be excellent in that job. and knowing how much they face domestically on their plate, he wanted somebody who was very, very ...

Slashing away their departments. what kind of government at this point are we left with, because we are talking about bolton who to frank's point is all tied up in the manipulation of american's data as the guy with the most policy knowledge and john kelly who's supposed to be helping keep things together, he seems to be just as much as disaster as trump. >> and that's the problem. you just laid it out. remember, government at those high levels under any circumstance attracts the most ambitious people. so now you have a president that they know is not someone who is a strong and talented leade...

Mcconnell. when mitch mcconnell says you have to do this way. trump wants to say his instincts are good. when steve bannon to, the xents he remains an adviser in the outer orbit or inner orbit, but not in the whourks trump wants to be able to use bannon the way he wants to use bannon but also have some things to show on the ground like a tax cut. >> nick, he wants to sort of call the shots on congress. but it was hard to do with the skants knowled scant knowledge. >> he doesn't have the capital or temperament or the depth of policy knowledge to be an effective advocate on the hill. increasingl...

Opinion polls would improve on the former president's signature initiative. so in other words, you know, this president really is not putting an effort in shaping whatever plan the senate would vote on. >> well, the president has actually said some things about health care. the problem is that they contradict each other and over contradict the things that republican leaders are working on, so he's had a pep rally at the white house after house republicans passed their bill but then came out and called it mean. he sort of pushed for the senate bill but then now he's saying forget it, scrap it, ...