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Question. we certainly have seen, as we're entering the second month of this presidency, a lot of dysfunction out there. we saw the president say last week things are running as a fine tuned machine, but when you look at the resignation abruptly of the national security adviser and others, people are, quite frankly, concerned about taking some positions here. all of those four finalists certainly are long time experts, are people who are dedicated to this field here. so if they have the assurances from the president that they can hire their own people and have their own sort of core team aroun...

There in melbourne, florida. wajahat, the "time" article i was referring to says, quote, little take place in the white house these days without a complication or contradiction and points to the dismal dismissal of michael flynn. kellyanne went on tv saying that flynn -- that the president had full confidence in flynn. where is the disconnect, in your view? >> well, if this is a finely tuned machine, i think that's an alternative fact, and i think it resembles more a rusted broken-down machine from "mad max: fury road." that's the presidency right now. the dysfunction starts from the top. and ...

Is saying. this is not the model of a finely tuned machine. and finally, he cannot gaslight america, the cia, and the press, which is not the enemy of the american people, but our job is to step up, report facts, and speak truth to power, which is what we're doing and it is what we're going to do, especially here on cnn. >> alice, your response? >> that is a lot, as usual, with waj, tattle a lot to unpack the let me say this. president trump says that the administration is running like a finely tuned machine. the "time" says that it's a white house in chaos. my view, it's somewhere in the midd...

Opposite. this administration is running like a fine tuned machine despite the fact i can't get my cabinet approved. i see tone. the tone is such hatred which i am really not a bad person. clayton: the press conference shook the political world and he followed up with this treat taking the story one step further, saying the fake news media, failing new york times, is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the american people. peter: a lot of reaction and that including david axelrod who said whenever a president is irritated by the news media, no other president would have described the media as the...

And he had said that his administration is a fine finely-tuned machine and sort of predicted the news coverage following that press coverage. is it safe to say he's still in the drivers seat even with the cabinet shakeups we've seen and criticism of the administration thus far? >> i think it's safer to athey're trying to get back into the drivers seat. the first couple of weeks in office it was an onslaught of executive orders, setting the tone, a remarkably brisk tone of setting their agenda in order. they've been kind of frozen basically since the immigration ban was struck down in court. si...