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reporter: after forced retirement, flynn appeared to change. two senior military officers who served with him tell cnn. they describe a somewhat bitter officer who adamantly believes president obama isn t paying enough attention to the isis threat. we must regain our ability to truly crush our enemies! reporter: the question now can he operate on a global scale? he s going to have to expand his skillset after a 30-plus year career of dealing primarily in the military element of national security. reporter: flynn will have to work well with the rest of the trump team. there s a whole lot of pieces of input that come in to decision-making rather than just the one you re providing. reporter: ultimately, the new commander in chief will still set the tone in national security. but just what is trump still trying to tell the pentagon? we have great generals. ....
Cia himself. something that i think will give republicans a lot of confidence, especially someone like flynn picked as national security advisers who some people are a little more skeptical of. in light of this pick, donald trump has expressed so much criticism over the intelligence community. the generals, too, but the insell communitinsetel community. what does this tell us what his plans are as what he campaigned on actually doing? who knows? he is essentially a black box on this stuff, or orange box, whatever you want to call it. the issue here is a lot of the people he is appointing to these positions have world views that are somewhat at variance to his. i mean, pompeo i think would be considered to be a little more hawkish than trump is. i mean, trump essentially ran on barack obama s position on iraq. even though there was some controversy. to the left of hillary clinton on foreign policy. absolutely. another issue we ll deal with, particularly with flanigan, ....
Trump, and he is a bigger hot head than donald trump. leave it there, gentlemen. i could go on for hours with you. let s do it. there are differing, certainly, no surprise, differing narratives coming from flynn, coming from people who are opposed to flynn about what he was fired. so just putting that out there as well. bill press, thank you so much for being with us. good to see you. mike shields, thank you guys so much. president-elect trump made a lot of proms during his campaign. one of them is keeping jobs in america. that promise really translated into votes. now that he won, do manufacturing workers still believe trump is going to save them? you may be surprised by the answer. ....
Benghazi committee investigating the 2012 attack. one thing, he s a lot more conservative than some of his members and on the benghazi committee did not like the direction the republican-led committee was going or the findings it came up with and issued a separate report along with congressman jim jordan laying the blame on the benghazi attacks on hillary clinton, on barack obama, and the rest of the obama administration. now, his views are much in line with donald trump on issues about immigration. he wants to expand domestic surveillance, like donald trump has called on the campaign trail, but does not necessaryly have that much of a personal relationship with donald trump. in fact, he supported marco rubio in the primaries. and even when he endorsed donald trump, or said he would support him, it seemed kind of indirect from a spokesman. seemed luke warm. he wasn t on the stump campaigning for him or anything like that. unlike the mike flynn and jeff sessions appointments, donald ....
Far to the rule in terms of reaching outside his loyal bloc of supporters with steve bannon and jeff sessions and mike flynn and the others. so maybe this is a good trend, but it s the first one. can we talk about mike flynn? i think this is so important to discuss, because this is someone who does not need to be confirmed. so there s not the full airing we are going to see with a jeff sessions, for instance. okay. so i want listen to or i want to take a look at what the house minority whip steny hoyer said, very much against this. not one of the more liberal democrats certainly on the hill but said it should alarm all americans. in particular serious questions about general flynn s competence and composure. his ongoing lobbying on behalf the turkish government and links to russia. he also said that he fears, says we ve learned many lessons since 9/11. one of which not provide our enemies with fodder to fuel anti-american hatred. appoints this individual to a ....