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Direct assault on our national security of the past five years. go back to 9/11. since 9/11. the country was attacked. we've talked about this a million times. within the white house, at the very top and, therefore, as you know, when the top, the president of the united states is not interested in getting to the bottom of something, others may or may not be interested but no one really works on getting to the bottom of it, especially if it's hard to get to the bottom of it. what the president has done from day one is sent the signal to anyone around him who has any political connection to him ...

Organizing principle for our reporting. we wanted to understand what are the real implications across the government of this position that trump has taken on election interference, on his refusal to accept it, and it radiates across the country and affects every agency, the cia, the state department and the fbi as well. in two ways, really, as you said, they have to tiptoe around this and can't talk to the president about it, and they have to find work arounds to make things happen. and also because of trump's impulses, the administration tried to undo some of the punishments the obama adminis...

One, as you said, they have to tip toe around this. they can't talk to the president about it. so they have to find work-arounds to make things happen. also the administration largely because of trump's impulses, have tried to undue some of the punishments the obama administration put in place. >> there's that. and also this involving russia this morning. russian president vladimir putin has had a lot to say about the u.s. from trump's performance as a president to intelligence assessments russia med lds in the election and the current tensions between the u.s. and north korea. to moscow, phil...

The president and his chief of staff? >> that's at really good point. the first week mr. kelly was on the job i did a report on some of these rules. remember, kerry fired anthony scaramucchi within a minute of taking the job. the oval office had become a free range of senior and junior staffers all vying for the president's attention. kelly closed the door. so, we had one trump confidant saying that kelly would last maybe four months. that the president would buck at this kind of discipline that kelly wanted to institute. it's been four months. we're now in the fifth month of the john kelly er...

Never be friends. right? john kelly is a four star marine general. and donald trump say free-wheeling former real estate executive. just different personalities. they've adapted and figured out how to work together. even the folks who know about the work-arounds are telling me that they won't be surprised if john kelly lasts quiets a lo s time. >> he doesn't read the tweets though. kelly says i don't follow the tweets which i find interesting. go ahead. >> okay. thank you. i was amazed, when trump tweeted that kim jong-un was short and fat. when we asked john kelly on that trip about the tweet...