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Papadopoulos the know nothing coffee boy who by the way has a homeboy who is an ambassador who can set you up with putin? how many baristas are getting you a meeting with putin? >> ty cobb is referring to him as this low level aide. the trump plan is to take this one day at a time and they don't realize it's all going to come out. to go back to jonathan's point this is all about who trump surrounds himself with. and guess what, trump surrounds himself with some of the shadyist people imaginable at this level of state craft. so it's all going to come out. you would think there would be some mor...

Tillerson. what are your take aways. >> the same, got overshadowed by his speech, of course. have the twoer secretary of state one from each party giving aitu tutorial on the nature of state craft to nikki haley. talked to her about nation building not being a four-letter word and putting forward the virtus of international cooperation, not just the disadvantages of it. about the importance of a state department budget that can sustain american diplomacy around the world. these are things that both parties agreed on over the years and that this president seems to disagree with. so what they se...

Skr secretary of state secretary of sta state, the confidence the world has that he's speaking for the president. if he's not, it's making it difficult. >> when he says on a visit to china, i'm working on the diplomatic back channels to ease the north korea crisis and the president tweets, don't waist your time, what does that say to you. >> that was after he spent most of the day with the chinese leadership. the president is going 10 days to asia beginning november 3rd, working with the chinese who are critical in the north korean strategy, he comes out and is undercut by the president. it's ...

If you look at what's happening in north korea, we need to have an intensive diplomatic effort. that requires people who know the culture, the history, the languages that are involved. i don't see that happening. and then you can pick anywhere else in the world and draw the same conclusion. so we are not engaging in state craft the way we need to. it's not that individuals can't be part of teams who may have different expertise or perspectives. that's fine. but teams need to be led by people who understand the history and how we got to where we are in order to make progress. >> in the book you...

An intensive diplomatic effort. that requires people who know the culture, the history, the languages that are involved. i don't see that happening. and then you can pick anywhere else in the world and draw the same conclusion. so we are not engaging in state craft the way we need to. it's not that individuals can't be part of team who may have different expertise or perspectives. that's fine. but teams need to be led by people who understand the history and how we got to where we are in order to make progress. >> in the book you make no attempt to hide your displeasure about the electoral col...