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Fine with having this released. >> they are delivering those memos to congress later tonight. et we should hopefully get access fairly soon. what's your reaction to the giuliani news? >> it's clearly, as you were talking about, it's a big pr move in one realm because here's a big player who can command attention, talk to reporters, get out in front of stories. and there's a behind the scenes aspect to see what the lay of the land is. but before we go down the road of thinking that bob mueller and remove get giuliani are best of friends, they are not. there's been a lot of tension points in tha...

Cost her. joining me now jonathan allen, head of content at sidewire, and amy parns, senior white house correspondent for the hill. and they are the co-authors of "shattered," inside hillary clinton's doomed campaign. thank you both for being here. amy, i'll go with you first. your book shows the clinton team internal wrangling about why they lost the michigan primary. what did they believe cost them michigan? >> you know, that's an interesting little anecdote that we have in the book. post michigan we have a story where secretary clinton comes in the room and she's really frustrated about wha...

Message didn't get through. we need to do a better job with that. and that was one of the big tension points in the primary, as explained to us by her aides. that she didn't quite understand what was happening there, why she couldn't really penetrate and get through that particular message. >> but specifically a question of whether or not they were going after enough white working class voters versus voters of color, right? >> right. that's exactly it. and there was always this tension. they relied a lot on -- our book reveals this. they relied a lot on data and analytics. and kind of gave up ...

Obama has to reverse it. but this is what we see out of the homeland security department is the dismantling of a system that theoretically could be the basis for a muslim ban, a muslim ban, importantly, that just yesterday president-elect trump talked about as it seemed like a good idea that he's been right all along in the context of speaking about that attack in germany. so it does seem like there is a wariness to give the incoming administration tools to do some of the things that the outgoing administration really doesn't agree with. >> just today i think the transition team spoke very hig...

Syrian arab groups that had been fighting bashar al assad. we are dropping this crazy notion of vetting people. we are dealing with people who are fighting on the ground. one of the really interesting tension points is that many fighting groups against bashar al assad and syria do not want to cooperate. we have a problem that the opposition is highly fragmented and not want toing to come together. >> last night former ambassador sat with me here on this set and said he thinks there should have been a much more aggressive approach. based on what we see is there some sort of middle ground that w...