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As i mentioned already, we don't say what's classified, what's not classified. what i will tell you, again, is sth that what the president shared was wholly appropriate. the story, the story combined what was leaked with other information and then insinuated about sources and methods. so i wanted to take clear to everybody that the president in no way compromised any sources or methods in the course of this conversation. >> that was h.r. mcmaster, national security adviser, three-star general in the u.s. army, held in the highest regard in military and intelligence circles. trump's critics hop...

Rearmament of nazi germany. orwell got in a lot of trouble with communists because he broke with stalinism, said, no, stalinism is close to fascism and i'm opposed to both. what i'm looking for today is people like them who are willing to stand out and criticize their own side. >> thomas ricks, only people like you have the ability when you go back and start writing a book that many months ago as it takes to write a book that matches the moment as yours does. thank you so much for talking to us. the book is called "churchill & orwell." we're happy to have you. >> you're welcome. >> i've heard ...

Jacobs himself saying he grabbed greg's wrist and his aggressive behavior create add scene. joining me now a former deputy assistant secretary of defense msnbc national security analyst and tom ricks who writes the best defense and a new book called "churchill and orwell -- the fight for freedom." you said you had some thoughts. >> watching this, listening to the tape, brings me back to the 1930s, the use of political violence to subdue people and the vocabulary word today is un-american. it is un-american for a political candidate to knock down a reporter asking an uncomfortable question. it'...

Greg's wrist and his aggressive behavior create add scene. joining me now a former deputy assistant secretary of defense msnbc national security analyst and tom ricks who writes the best defense and a new book called "churchill and orwell -- the fight for freedom." you said you had some thoughts. >> watching this, listening to the tape, brings me back to the 1930s, the use of political violence to subdue people and the vocabulary word today is un-american. it is un-american for a political candidate to knock down a reporter asking an uncomfortable question. it's also un-american for a presiden...

A long time correspondent, over the past decade of war not a single army general has been relieved of duty for combat ineffectiveness. how much of a failure is that? >> i think it is a failure. if we think of military history, some people do well and some people do less well and institutions thrive and succeed only if that distinction is made. but over the last -- in the civil war, abraham lincoln was removing generals and world war ii and i they were saying this general is good and that general is bad. and in this era of classifying all troops and leaders as heroes who we won't look at in too...