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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. it's not the first concern that i've heard ...

Considerations for any individual. look, andrew's right. something that one has to weigh is one's restraining influence versus the legitimacy that one's conferring and the power of the signal one could send by resigning. i'm particularly sympathetic given all the threats to national security officials who decide to remain. but i guess when an issue that's been central for economic policy to this administration like infrastructure investment and in particular the deregulatory aspects of infrastructure investment, when a huge amount of effort directed at this issue is just entirely washed away b...

The sanctions himself. >> just today, the u.s. has refused an arms sale to saudi arabia because of yemen. what would a secretary of state tillerson do about that? >> it's usually the state department that is the restraining influence. you and i have covered a lot of these. usually the pentagon or someone who wants to sell an ally these arms. usually the state department has the role of saying, hey, let's look at how they are targeting these. let's look at the human rights abuses. let's figure out if this is a country going on the terrorist nation report. >> david sanger, congratulations on an ...

Field running with no restraining influence to move forward with the agenda and he passed healthcare, stimulus, tried to do cap and trade and all of these large spending moves. then the country said hold on, this isn't what we signed up for and they clearly said we want to move in a different direction. rather than listening to the public within the president said i don't care what the result are of the 2010 election i'm going to move forward with an agenda that seems to be more and more and more out of step. he criticizes a coequal branch of the government, the united states supreme court and...

It has come down with mubarak and suleiman. now the issue is how they respond to what i expect will be a very large demonstration in cairo friday. >> greta: i make at sum the egyptian military is close to our military there's a lot of communication going back and forth. >> i think that is almost certainly right. i think we've had a restraining influence on the egyptian military. the issue is, what the military in egypt means when they say they are with the people? is their definition the people couple hunt thousand in tahrir square or do they have a different definition? we may find out the an...