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Gutting the department, that there was low morale but that doesn't appear to be why he was fired. he was apparently fired because of his differences with the president, that he was a restraining influence on the president so what do you think are the implications specifically with this deadline coming up on the iran deal and also with these negotiations coming up with north korea? what are the implications here for our foreign policy? >> well, those two are connected as you well know. i think that kim jong-un will look at the state of the iran deal, the multilateral deal that we struck under t...

Spoken. today a lot of in his words. >> elise, stand by. what did you make of the statement there by secretary tillerson? >> it can be liberating. hopefully, that's what he feels tomorrow. i've been critical of secretary tillerson for not defending adequately the budget and the personnel of the state department. but i respect him as a good, decent, civil man, as has been noted. and, more importantly, as somebody who was a restraining influence on the worst instincts of a president who is -- i don't know if the right word is unchained or unhinged. and what concerns me now is that there will not...

Secretary of defense, a pentagon chief with the nickname mad dog who is seen as a restraining influence on our president? that is a fact. >> other presidents have given this address in the middle of serious scandals. no president has done it facing this kind of scandal with these approval ratings. no president has done this facing the largest day of street protest the day after his inauguration and overseeing the shutdown of the government after his one-year anniversary taking the oath of office while his party controlled the congress and white house. it is a profound challenge for this presid...

>> the president was utterly preoccupied by the russia investigation. he had people feeding his impulses that this was a deep state coup. the other part of this, which i think is interesting is that he hasn't fired bob mueller, the one thing we haven't talked about is the influence of ty cobb. he's known bob mueller for quite a while, and he's been a restraining influence on the president. >> ty cobb was not the president's lawyer back then. >> since coming in was my point. >> that's exactly my point that there was no restraining influence on him outside of the white house, we don't know this,...

Their notebooks. >> what is your level of confidence in the advisers around the president, not just their qualifications but their ability to hold back the president's impulses on something like this? >> well, i have put a lot of faith and trust in the likes of secretary mattis, secretary tillerson, general mcmaster, general kelly, who i hope and trust would be a restraining influence, should the president act impetuously on something as serious as this. >> i was able to reach out to people inside the relevant departments including the defense department tonight, and i heard genuine concern. i...