rex tillerson, by rupert murdoch, by hr mcmaster. ..cmaster... a couple of others as well. these people have all said this already, we know this. it is confirmation of something that should be quite worrying, yes, but i don't think there is anything new in it but it will sell a lot of books. when you come to talk about amendment 25 and the removal of a president or you are talking about impeachment, you are into a com pletely impeachment, you are into a completely different thing, it takes a long time, it is primarily a political process, involving a vote of congress. we are not there at the moment. but it is interesting to have the confirmation of something that we have been discussing on this programme for quite a long time. does it have any long—term impact? gees it. have'any goiter-"a. l'f'paeli has got things through that he he has got things through that he promised, tax cuts mentioned, that was a promise, paris climate accord, supporters will say, he is delivering on what he promised on the campaign trail. the tax bill you referr

but it was about north korea over the week, involving hr mcmaster, we get into that. senators trying to hammer out a bipartisan immigration deal, senator schumer is appearing on late night television, calling the president's racist. we have a guest coming on who does not think that necessarily helps his cause, we'll talk about that and more after this break. if you've been diagnosed with cancer, searching for answers may feel overwhelming. so start your search with our teams of specialists at cancer treatment centers of america. the evolution of cancer care is here. learn more at cancercenter.com/experts >> are you saying that president did not use word that is so widely reported. >> i am telling you he did not use that word, this is not first time senator durbin has done it. >> i don't recall him using that phrase. the president the continue to use strong language with this issue. >> i didn't hear it, i stat sat no further away from him than dick durbin was. senator durbin has misrepresented what happened in white house meetings before, he was corrected by white hous

people like hr mcmaster, people like secretary of defense mattis, like secretary of state rex tillerson are providing advice, but i think the open on question is the president listening to their advice and most importantly is he digesting that advice? this book and other accounts suggest that the president may sit there stone faced and really not take it in. and that includes in his morning intelligence briefing, in the pdb briefing. there is the notion that he doesn't actually read the document that is prepared for him. he may listen to the briefer, but how much he actually internalized is an open question and that question itself, it speaks to the dangers and threats that this president's inattention to issues including issues of national security really presents to us. >> and this is something that the white house press secretary has been asked about a few times here. the president's mental fitness. let's take a listen to an exchange between sarah huckabee sanders and members of the white house press kcorps. >> should the americans be concerned about his mental fitness that he appear

health have been said by, whether on or off the record, by rex tillerson, by rupert murdoch, by hr mcmasterow this. it's confirmation of something that should be quite worrying i suppose, yes, but i don't think there's anything new in it, but it'll sell a lot of books. when you come to talk about amendment 25 and the removal of a president, or you're talking about impeachment, i think you're into a completely different thing. it takes a long time, it is primarily a political process because it involves a vote of congress and so on. i don't think we're anywhere near there at the moment. but it's interesting to have the confirmation of something that we've been discussing on this programme for quite a long time. but does it have any long—term impact? he has got things through that he promised to. the tax cuts have already been mentioned, that was a promise. the paris climate accord, that was a promise, and his supporters will say, he is delivering on what he promised on the campaign trail. yes. i mean, the tax bill you refer to, that's a plus for achieving something, despite having a white ho

. >> hr mcmaster met secretly with japan and south korea last week agreeing that the north's participation all the pics next month is just the divergent. a few hours, former republican senator bob dole will receive the congressional gold medal, the highest honor congress has. congresswoman lynn jenkins will present the award to the world war ii veteran who served the state of kansas for 35 years before winning the 1996 republican presidential nomination. donald trump and mike pence will both be there. and congratulations to him. it is 11 minutes after the top of the hour. a threat from a group of college students to set police on fire. how officers are responding. whose fault will that be if the government shuts down? republicans, democrats, the president, we debated. escaping an inferno, a desperate family pulls their child out of a third story window as their apartment goes up in flames. meet the hero firefighters who cut that child right there. ♪ i need a hero ♪ holding on for a hero ♪ jillian: donald trump hammering democrats over their refusal to cut a deal to keep the government fund

himself is isolationist, protectionist, hostile to american allies and other foreign policy like hr mcmaster and professional civil servants in the white house and department of defense and so forth who believe in american international leadership. there are those who think we should work with our allies. and so for example, in the national security strategy, they could be written by the professionals, sounding a lot like previous presidents. but no previous president would possibly come out and say you know, my nuclear button is bigger than yours. that's a uniquely trumpian plug. you have this tension going on between the president and the rest of the administration. >> looking at your book here a little bit, using afghanistan and iraq as a pivot point, there is a hardy debate, you weighed in on that many times over. edward lansdale, how much genesis has to do with what he did? >> a legendary cia strategist who helped to put done a communist serve ancy in the philippines in the 1950s then went to vietnam in 1954 and helped create the fate of south vietnam p. he was a pioneer in what we call

hr mcmaster i think certainly an experienced person may come a lady, there are a lot of professional people there one of the things i think is really worth of focusing on which hasn't got enough attention with all of the initial team leaving. with the former junior passion with the national television. they just had no experience no reason under the sun to be doing the job. the essential focus is steve bannon throughout this book. the smartest person in the west wing. they wanted to push the president to do he is smarter than chewbacca. smarter than everybody. and bands gone. are you surprised given the way he comes off here. he really thinks he's smarter than he really is. are you surprised that he is no longer there and not just no longer there like excommunicated. and again was he qualified to be in the job steve is 64 years old and has never worked in politics or government before and no conventional terms was he qualified for this job. nevertheless he head at least read a few books. i have lost track of time. i'm so afraid that i'm in a to take time away from you. i'm an essay t

>> one of my favorite lines is when trump calls hr mcmaster a beer salesman. he says he looks like a beer salesman. why do i have to talk to him? and i always like that line because i have no idea what a beer salesman actually is. you know, and that's -- there is a kind of thing with trump that it is as though he is from another generation, two generations ago, three generations ago. there is something peculiarly trapped in time about him. i think this is part of the immigration debate that's been going on since yesterday. i mean he really does. and in many situations, i have found him talking about, you know, why aren't -- why do we limit immigration from europe? why do we have these other people? he says things like isn't anyone in america anymore? it's that kind of thing. so an odd thing is that trump in the end is kind of like your old grand father. >> i've tried to keep abreast of the many interviews that you've given in connection with the book release. something that you said to savannah guthrie piqued my curiosity. roll the tape. >> your former editor

while north korea is getting closer by the minute, about a month as hr mcmaster has one, it is not what they have not demonstrated the ability to hit the united states yet. although the last missile went 2300 miles into space. keep in mind that is over 10 times higher than the orbit of the international space station. >> that is a mild to high. all it takes is one to be correct and to get right. always appreciate you lucas. an annapolis ground everyone. i just had to applaud your work for the service of this country. thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> 11 people talking about what it must have felt like, sounded like and be like if you are on hawaii. we have someone with us now, allison guzman vacationing there right now. everyone wants to know, where were you, what happened, what does it feel like and what did you do? >> it was crazy! we were staying on the west side of a -- on the island. they sent that out and actually i was panicked. my boyfriend panic. we all rushed downstairs trying to find the closest stateroom to hide possibly. we went outside to see if they were neighbors up and a

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here's hr mcmaster. >> the story that came out tonight as reported is false. at no time, at no time, were intelligence sources or methods discussed. >> yet the president one day later directly contradicted admitted to sharing the information with russia. so many people willing to compromise for this president. jeff zeleny out live at the white house. what's stunning sources inside the white house admit this. they are not denying the president said s hole or s house is distinction without a difference just to be loud and clear. >> white house press briefing sarah sanders did not deny he used those words. he said, look, you know the president can be politically incorrect if you will. so certainly did not deny it erin, on the end of this day, second day of potential deal that seemed to be reached a full week ago with republicans and democrats, now is completely blown out of the water. now that government shutdown looming on friday. democrats saying they won't do a deal. so all of that conversation that hearing on capitol hill, the briefing here today, erin, leave

hr mcmaster should be coordinating with all these intel agencies reporting to the president and aur iofferingdvice on how to work with russia. >> i know he wants in. go ahead. >> from the outside, the president really has set the opposite down to fill highlights of russian interference in future elections. he views that as acknowledging interference in 2016. and too many, and when we started off the presidency, you had republicans in congress taking a more independent tone and maybe acknowledging that threat more than they are today. instead, you see more of the house republicans in particular kind of rallying around the president by raising all of these very spurious accusations against the fbi. against the cia, this deep state conspiracy and so forth and they, too seemingly have bought into this notion that preparing ourselves against this genuine national security threat is somehow casting doubting on the legitimacy of president trump who they increasingly have lashed themselves to the mast of the ship. >> everybody stand by. there's much more we need to assess. we'll be right back. ut i h

gary cohen, his chief economic idiot calls him dumb as blank, poop hr mcmasters calling him a dope.we know rex tillerson would not deny when asked whether he called the president a blanking moron. this is not just he's too liberal or conservative. this is people close to him screaming he is unfit to be our president. >> that's what fundamentally distinguishes this white house from previous white houses. it's difficult to compare the trump white house to the bush or clinton white house. when you talk about the president being surrounded by people who have contempt for him or don't feel loyalty to him, one of the problems is the president isn't loyal to his staffers either. there's not a feeling of mutual loyalty in the white house. when you think about the obama white house or the george w. bush white house, there are people to this day who worked grueling hours because they felt a real sense of personal loyalty and a sense of mission and who still now talk about their deep love and respect for barack obama or george w. bush. i don't think you would find a single person in the trump

two of the most senior names on the list, hr mcmaster and white house counsel don mcgahn.ose are very big names. an official telling cnn all white house aides have been told to make a decision. make a decision, stay or go, before the end of january. whether they intend to leave the administration or stay through the november midterm elections. jeff zeleny broke the story. he's "outfront" in washington. this is a big story. you have to make a decision now. you're in or you're out. and mcmaster and mcgan are two big names. >> no question. good evening. the reality is the white house, there's going to be some type of staffing exodus. some type of a shift here happening in the coming days, the coming weeks. the question is who is going to be on that. two people being discussed as part of that, don mcgahn, the white house general counsel. he's of course someone who has been at the president's side, giving him legal advice through the russia investigation, but that could be a reason some people watching this closely say, because he's in fact a witness in that list. he may not wa

effect and it goes to the fact the president does not recognize policy, he has some bad advisers, hr mcmasternd secretary to listen who have always been against him on the iran deal. i don't know why the president will outside with someone who has always supported him. i hope pressure ports are wrong because this is the wrong decision. charles: one of the iron he is this is a president who likes to surround himself with sycophants so someone actually commend him for having different points of view but having said that you are still optimistic that ultimately this is certified for good. >> i hope we will give congress one last chance to fix it with additional sanctions. >> can it be fixed? >> realistically it can't be fixed. to fix this deal you have to take out uranium enrichment, giving iran every active plutonium. no one is discussing that. they want to extend the deal which makes no sense, have tougher inspection the iranians won't agree to and consider congress can't renegotiate an agreement by passing a law. it has to be negotiated by international parties. fixing this deal of the fraud.

could like throw out missiles because it would again be suicidal, but because president trump, hr mcmasterlindsay graham have all been so active in talking about the military option, it does have people concerned. in addition to all the ones you just put on your screen, you also had australia, you had china, province north of north korea, russia, you have a number of people that are having these kinds of nuclear preparedness. the cdc released something earlier this week that they are making some more active measures to let people know how to respond to nuclear weapons. the threat is there, but it doesn't need to be. >> then colonel davis, you are saying that kim jong-un sees it as suicide if he were to strike first. you're also saying -- you are saying it will be more defense. you're also saying that the, you know, the powers that be here in the military and the administration, they need to tamp down their talk of possible military action. is that what i'm hearing you say? >> yes, because everybody knows north korea most pointedly understands that we have a 100 to 1 advantage on nuclear we

the president said he wanted it released, political statement but his national security people, hr mcmasterd decide is more harm than good going to come from it? if he can started being released? stuart: i don't see national security is affected by this. you can reject any names. judge napolitano: even a redacted name in the context of the rejection can be figured out who it is by people who know what is going on. you have to redact more than the names of the revelation of names of whistleblowers and spies and the means by which the government acquires its purloined data. i am in favor of releasing all of it like you. not just a memo, not just a memo. underlying data on which it is based because you have adam schiff's memo and devon nunez's memo both based on the same material and came to the opposite conclusion, let us look at this material and dry our own conclusions. stuart: there is one other developed you have not mentioned yet and that is senator johnson who had this secret society and we now know that he had three moles within the fbi telling them what is going on. judge napolitano:

hr mcmaster made his name. defining and describing.ria in which we're receding a lot of territory to a government that's not legitimate and dealing with the world as it is rather than the world we would like it to be, no? >> i think we tend to deal with the world in the way we feel most comfortable in dealing with the world. we as the united states are best at basically technological solutions to our problems. we try to have technology for everything. spy satellites and drones and killing individual fighters, but it's much more a a struggle and very, very difficult to do in places like iraq, afghanistan, syria, somali, et cetera to create stable political environments that can actually win the support and allegiance of the people. we throw up hands in despair. the point i make is we need mor weapon of war, who can go out there and engage individuals in these societies, understand those society, influence them. so we don't have to send american troops to do the fighting. so our local allies will do the fighting against our mutual enemie

and you've ever been over there, hr mcmaster, national security adviser, he's seen it over there.f it. but if they're got an help, they're only in it for their interest. hiding bin laden itself, they're doing that so that al-qaeda wouldn't attack the government, at least not to the scale that they could. but, you know, it's very sensitive because they are a nuclear power, and they -- they're nonnato ally. steve: and they're steamed the president sent that tweet about it. >> they're mad about it. but he has the upper hand. steve: he has the checkbook. >> and he has the boot that will do it. he's doing it with the iranians and will do it with the pakistanis. it's good. happy new year. steve: you know her from the classic tv show taxi. but has literally written the book on sticking to your new year's resolution. there she is. up next, she's going to join us live to show you how to make sure you don't blow your next new year's resolution. but first, let's check in with sandra smith for a preview of what happens in nine minutes on the channel. >> good morning, steve. and happy new year

senate, it's the national security adviser hr mcmaster who has repeatedly over the last few months talked being deterrable which i see no evidence that that's actually the case but if you start saying from the executive branch that you don't think north korea can be deterred, the signal you're sending to kim jong-un is that there's no point in negotiations because the united states is intending to launch a preemptive strike at some point or what's been talked about adds a bloody nose strike and that obviously risks a larger conflict breaking out very very quickly. and the secretary .e.c -- northa missile to launch an attack against north korsouth korea an for quite some time. when i was in japan over the summer, many people were surprised by the degree to which the united states is freaking out about this, mostly because for the japanese this has been a fact of life for at least five, six years. >> ambassador nick burns, this is david ignatius, i have a question i want to put to you. we're now in a period of pause in preparation for the winter olympics in which north korea and south korea

think that most of his national security team, secretary tillerson, national security adviser, hr mcmasterst of them would like to see trump stay in the agreement. while mounting a kind of more aggressive campaign against the iranian government outside of the agreement while preserving the agreement. we've seen trump take a pretty unpredictable stance on the agreement over the last year. i don't think we could guarantee today he stays in. if i were betting, i bet he stays in when he has to sign decision in january. i don't think there are guarantees on this. clearly, if he did withdraw from the agreement, you immediately see the narrative in iran change from narrative where you say we're having protest against the government today, i think it's very heartening to see these popular vote protests against the government in tehran and the protest with the sense which being against the united states we're pulling out of the agreement, you also see a big rift between the u.s. and our closest allies on iran and european with europe leaders making very clear they want to preserve the nuclear agree

you are gary cohn and you are surrounded by children and you've run goldman sachs or if you are hr mcmaster and you have been studying this and living this your entire life or if you are general kelly and you have sacrificed a son, and you are served your entire life. this country, or if you are general mattis and you know that we could be in a nuclear war with north korea or at least a conventional war on the korean peninsula, that could kill half a million people in less than a week t. horrible choice you have to make is do i stay here and work with this wild who behaves like an ar gant fool, behaves like a baby, again, if you believe everything that's said in this book. my assertions, of course, but do you stay as a service to this country. despite the fact that it is the worst job you've ever had and it is the worst job you will ever have and i do put steve mnuchin in another category, i think he loves going to ft. knox with his bride and looking at the vernal equinox whatever they look at while she is wearing her cruella deville outfit. >> babying the money. but. it's different for coh

mcmaster, right? >> i did, heavier. before president trump announced national security strategy i was engaged with hr macmaster in a privatersation before the strategy came out and i can tell you, i've known general mcmaster for a while, he is exceptional and he oversees the national security apparatus overseeing the cries cities management having situation involving the national security issue exceptional and also what's exceptional, the professionals overseas the white house and situation room and so forth, so you mentioned those five senior leaders who are retired, active duty or retired lieutenant officers at the top of the conversation, that's a very deep bench. let me add one more that's our new secretary of homeland security kirstjen nielsen we have a very deep bench and the american people should be confidence, cabinet level but also these extraordinary professionals overseas, they are very good and like i said, it's a very deep bench. heather: as we continue to talk about that let's bring up for people at home so they can specifically see what we are talking about in terms of their background, let's start with gen