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Than anything that i can think of. >> plresident obama had as i recall a grand total of three national security advisers over the eight years with you serving the longest in that office. president trump has now gone through three. he'll be starting his fourth, he promises, next week. so they could be on track to getting close to eight even in the first term. what does that do to the national security processes within the administration? >> it's extraordinarily disruptive. and it's irresponsible, quite frankly. to illustrate the point, when i was named national security adviser in early june of...

Security adviser from 2010 to 2013. tom, you know the job almost better than anyone. what is it, do you think, that's driving these changes? what is donald trump unhappy about that he thinks changing this pivotal person, really the first person he talks to about national security and the last person he talks to every day. why is he doing it? >> fareed, there's been unprecedented changeover during the first year-plus of the trump administration. i think the turnover among senior jobs is about 50%. that's about three times the turnover in the obama first year, year and a half, and many times the...

All the perspectives. mostly about 30% of the job is getting the right policy decision, about 70% of it is implementation. most importantly that you have an implementation plan. i think in most cases you outlined, the travel ban at the beginning of the administration, and certainly a number of these decisions which have been taken with respect to china and economics, by the way, which were real important structural issues, certainly could have been implemented better and we would have had better achievement of u.s. interests. >> oyou've written, tom, about one particular issue which is russia....

House national security adviser tom donnellin said they made a good case for extradition based on the treaty between the united states and hong kong. the white house fully expected hong kong to comply with their treaty in the case of edward snowden. the hong kong government said they already let american authorities know they let snowden go. two weeks ago today the former nsa contractor revealed himself as the leaks about the surveillance program. he went to hong kong because they had the legal framework in place to prevent his immediate arrest. it appears at this hour that he was right. back ...

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