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And phil here. we have been watching this develop. you have been sitting here with me on set as we're looking at our e-mails deurg the bre s durd former chairman of the white house counsel of economic advisors and lonnie chen, also served as policy director for the romney 2012 campaign. we have 4 a seconds before we get to senator schumer. you have sort of informally advised mitch mcconnell and the senators on the first draft of this bill from what i understand. from your insider perspective, what went wrong here? >> well, it comes down to policy differences, hallie. that is what this is about...

Look a little bit better than it was, but that could have been done a lot sooner, and you wouldn't have had the same situation that you have right now in syria. that was a big mistake. but i think we'll just take a look at what happens over the coming weeks and months with respect to north korea. it's a shame that they're behaving this way, but they are behaving in a very, very dangerous manner, and something will have to be done about it. >> joining us now, david ruth cough, columnist for "the washington post." also with us, max boot, senior fellow for national security studies and a former d...

Studies and a former defense policy adviser for romney 2012. david, where to begin? in fact, please begin wherever you want on the president's public comments today working from what we just heard about north korea on back to -- everything we heard today. >> well, you're absolutely right. we heard a lot of outrageous things. we heard another bumbling, inarticulate performance that was unleaderly, attacked our press, attacked our intelligence community. but i think something bigger is happening here in this 24-hour period we should look at because the president is systematically dismantling the...

Just asked how many campaign veterans had in their campaign. romney 2012 stuart stephens responded simply, nyet. joining me now, a former ambassador to nato, and malcolm nance, msnbc trim analyst. as someone who is familiar with diplomacy, familiar with international relations, and the protocols by which governments talk to each other, perhaps incoming governments may talk to each other, what do you make of this story? >> well, it's a remarkable story, and as the press and the investigators figure out what was happening, we will get to the bottom of it. it is true that during transitions, i wa...

Jeff sessions met twice with the sim russian ambassador, sergey kislyak, who keeps popping up, last year. sessions didn't disclose those meetings and had to recuse himself from the russia investigation after they became public. michael flynn had repeated and largely undisclosed contacts with the same russian ambassador last year. he was eventually fired for lying about the content of their conversations. and jared kushner met with both the russian ambassador and a russian banker named sergey gorkov, a graduate of russia's spy school, whose bank is controlled by members of vladimir putin's gove...