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Disagreements on policy, the idea of diverse points of view coming to the president, the devil's advocate, who will play the part of a responsible critic is very, very useful in the white house. the buck stops on the president's desk. but he should be welcoming a mcmaster who disagrees with him rather than, in effect, shielding himself from that uncomfortable or inconvenient truth. and it sometimes is truth even when it is disagreeable. and so, however you characterize john bolton, he's much more of trump's view. he comes with an agenda. he is not going to be the neutral arbitor or honest brok...

When he gets through with his mad behavior, he'll be ready to apologize, get back to what he should be. >> them people ain't stupid. they knew exactly what they were doing. let's get snake down and blind side him. they had three months to tell me they was not going to put me in for a transfer. >> a few weeks later, with the transfer issue still unresolved, gilbert announced he was going on a hunger strike. >> i'm through. not eating another meal at holman. so they're going to send me closer to home if it's nothing but a graveyard. >> playing the devil's advocate, how is that going to help your...

But congress, you know, if congress doesn't want that, they can pass a clean dream act, but they're not going to do that. i don't think there is the political will right now to do that. >> would you support it if they were to do that? >> yeah. yeah. i would support it if they were to have a clean dream act. but i think in reality they are going to have to compromise and give trump something he wants. >> i think he is playing the devil's advocate. i really think trump is playing the devils advocate to propel us to do something. >> yes, yes. that's what he's doing. >> the more outrageous he gets...

Simply an opportunist wanting to get something done but they have become restriction. is. i didn't know tom cotton before he was a senator to be a severe restrictionist but some of these voices have become more austere. >> another argument, i'm being the devil's advocate tonight. another argument from president trump is, senator durbin, he's the one who sand bagged everything. he's the one who left this oval office meeting and told the press what happened in the privacy of the oval office. i asked senator durbin about that. number two, if you would play that. >> listen, i didn't take an oath o...

Is not an exaggeration to say that is what is at stake when you have someone like donald trump who believes in his own expertise, who taunts north korea on twitter and making decisions with no input and sneaks around his aides when they feel like they are getting in the way of something he wants to do. >> and let me take it from the devil's advocate angle. from a staffer who feels all of these things that wolff is describing. the option is -- one option is gow public. you say i've been on the inside and i see this and want to sound at alarm publicly. what if that person is thinking i'm on the ...