we need to be honest with the american people that we are going to be engaged there for a long time, maybe even generations in fighting this war against islamic extremism just like we have 30,000 troops in south korea, 25,000 in japan fighting the communists from the cold war, after shift and fight islamic extremists. dana: i have 45 seconds left with you. i was wondering based on your expense in the past both on the battlefield and as an advisor, do support the idea the strategy of president trump delegating to secretary mattis troop levels? do you think that will work i rather than micromanaging for the white house? i think that s correct andd long overdue. the white house need to be sitting there with you and is in bush and vice president cheney, the white house needs to be focused on what does success look w like? what is in america s national interests? the whole of government and the pentagon decides how to resources.
the circumstances i had, and as you said, i became a vice president at goldman sachs and later became a director. so you had no choice but to work at goldman sachs. i guess it sounds to me like andd congratulations on your success in this country. i think he would be a little bit more grateful to the opportunities this country brought you. it sounds like you are blaming the country for the laws that you don t like. you had to violate our laws because they weree unjust laws. why did you have to violate our laws? what i am saying is that there are laws that are unjust. but i am not blaming anybody for the circumstances that i was in. i m incredibly grateful to this country, which is why i became an american citizen. that was one of the best days of my life to finally be recognized by country that i have called home since i was 11 years old. so i m incredibly grateful for the opportunity. so now, what i am doing is
he s much freer to appoint the kinds of people that reflect the scalia legacy. paul: the list of 20 with neil gorsuch off the list, are you going to pond that list andd fiddle with it? leo: i think the president promised during the campaign he will pick from the list. but i don t see a reason why hee can t refresh and expand the list it s been a year since the list was developed. he has some running room to refresh and expand it if he wants. paul: neil gorsuch going monday to the supreme court. he will start hearing cases right away. what kind of justice should we expect him to be? how is he going to change the court? leo: what you gets is what you saw, paul. this is a man who really cares very deeply about the traditional judicial role,
they be unmasked. president trump this morning tweeted the revelation was amazing. of course, it has not yet been confirmed as true. joining us now, brit hume. you might tell everybody the fox news report is based on anonymous sources. that makes me uneasy, but housley is a good reporter. now john roberts is getting the same information. is that where we are? that s correct. also eli lake at bloomberg, a good reporter, has the story as well. i think we can safely assume there is something to this. moreover, susan rice has not responded. if this were not the case, one senses she would be quick to say so. we can t conclude definitely that this is the real deal but i think there is real evidence. it certainly confirms this whole thing about the surveillance of people, picking up of trump associates and the unmasking of their names andd identities is a legitimate thread for these
an american and a foreigner, they are supposed to block out the identity of the american ani yet here his name is known. the transcript was shown. this is a terrible thing. our government is spying on us and as susan yates said, can then blackmail us. ed: 30 seconds, you acknowledged at the beginning of this campaign, you call donald trump a rodeo clown. he proved to you and a lot of other critics wrong. today he comes out, and you have reporters, supposedly nonpartisan reporter saying he is unhitched, this is a freak show, andd, i wonder whetr he is being misjudged again, and his supporters are going to see what he did today and say he is going back on offense. it s no secret that i did not think he should have won. the nomination or the presidency. but he is now our president. trump is the president. everybody who loves america wants the country to succeed, that means you want him to