mr. meyer: the first four i would make is -- the first point i would make is it depends on the circumstances you take off in office. what congress looks like. aen reagan won, had democratic house and a republican senate. had clinton won, he republicans controlling b oth. much different circumstances for each one, and i would suggest that dictates the strategy as well. i remember when i was in the white house after president end of theon, at the bush administration, i got interviewed for some publication asking if i had advice for my successor, a person who had been first head of's legislative affairs. my chemical was, the job will be much different than mine. the last two years of the bush administration, to the democrats were in the majority of congress. you were dealing with a divided government, and my feeling was phil' first responsibility was getting an agendas passed. to focus on getting the democratic leadership united in congress. and people were second guessing, and you do not get thos

meyers. >> your big thing is honesty. if you had one message for mr.rump, thinking about his first 100 days in office, what do you want him to hear? >> just follow the laws, be a law and order president as he promised on the campaign trail. i have no doubt that he will be. >> i'm going to pass it back to you guys. this is an important county and people are passing this morning. this is a cardboard cutout of mr. trump. it's 6 feet tall. we'll have to show you in the next segment. >> is it normally this busy so early in the morning or are they there for you? >> you know what, i would love to take credit for it. you have been to these diners. i will say this is the biggest crowd we've had this early in the morning. we're saying how great this crowd is this morning. >> they love "fox and friends" but also the food here. it's been here a long time. if you're here, i highly recommend it. also guys, we're kind of fun. you love to hang out with us. >> what is the t-shirt about, abby? >> what is the t-shirt. >> this is the lenny's shirt. it is their logo here.

mr. president, is they want to get us to occupy afghanistan and have that the connect like meyer where theyan destroy us -- quagmire where they can destroy us as they destroyed the soviet union before us. so we need a discrete lethal response and we need at the same time to strengthen their relationships with moderate muslim countries and have to realize our enemy is extremism, is extreme jihadism and make sure it isn't perceived we're attacking the muslim world, that we're attacking everyday arabs and have to do everything we can to destroy our enemy and prevent it from growing because the wrong response will help them and they have attacked us to illicit precisely that wrong response. they have it in their minds that they are provoking us. this is the strategy of provocation. and we have to keep in our mind what they want us to do and not do it. that's what i would say. brian: did you write that before the war started? mark: no, i didn't but did do a piece for "the time's" op-ed page that said a little of that, that our response had to be discrete and wasn't quite as fully formed, and cer