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>> it was a mistake. he said, look, he's had a very good trip. >> laura: but he has apologized and clarified. >> he has done good things overall. trump is a little bit like a baseball player who strikes out but also hits a lot of home runs but there's some balance in there. that's part of his style. >> laura: and he is relatively new, a year and a half into this and still a lot of successes. and still lots of successes. the criticism of the president and i have to play this, tom donalan today on cnn former security adviser for president barack obama. today on cnn. >> i think you would tell him...

Know what was going on. the video tory proved to be plain false. i think tom donalan made a decision to isolate the president. we heard that that's effectively what happened. >> this was a purely political calculation. this took place weeks before the presidential elect. their whole campaign slogan was bin laden is dead. they could not have this on their plate because it ruined their entire political calculations going into the election. >> i talked to the president at the end of the day, but i had been in constant communication with the national security advisor, i had been on secure

As evil. they refer to him as a liar. i've got to believe it's ethnic with these people. they got a problem with this guy being president, is there any other evidence to justify why they keep calling him a bad man? that's what they do. >> on benghazi, they're up against a desperate to believe that barack obama doesn't take terrorism seriously. it plays into that narrative. i think that's why benghazi is so appealing for them. because it plays into a larger narrative. despite the fact that he killed bin laden that actually he's a guy who is a typical liberal who doesn't recognize terrorism when...

Happen, how dynamic the situation is throughout the world, it's important to have somebody that's running a process for the president to make the types of decisions that he has to make with a broad amount of input. tom donalan, dennis mcdonough, they teed up a process so that everybody would be involved in being able to have a say before the president made all of these important decisions. >> very briefly, robert. doesn't she now have more power than john kerry? >> i don't think that's true. look, if this apparatus works as it should, they have to be partners. and secretary kerry will have inp...

Security team. to keep our nation strong and safe. >> reporter: rice, a tough, no-nonsense policy wonk is replacing tom donalan resigning from the post. the president seemed ready to nominate rice to replace hillary clinton as secretary of state. block her nomination because of comments on sunday talk shows about the deadly attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya. replacing her samantha power, former assistant to the president and director at national security council. power will need senate confirmation. >> ensure we have the principal leadership we need at the united nations, i would...