united states of america has to preconditions. >> you're exactly right. be a strong second lead here and government. you share those same fierce as donald trump often talked fire it's striking to me and i pentagon official, don't you? and fury. suspect a few other people that >> well, i do. john bolton meant it, whether it it was a very good report from was north korea or iran or just today on the anniversary of the inspector general about anybody else. september 11th, we are talking he rarely met a regime he didn't about a totally dysfunctional want to change. donald trump was just the approach to foreign policy in the few allies that we have left particularly in syria. i met elisa in iraq in 2004 when opposite. inform some ways trump's whole she was working for the agency strongly in the field. and i was working for the approach is america first. what are your thoughts? it's to wind down existing wars. >> it's a great point, mike. defense department. it's amazing how long ago that i mean, this president had been it's sure as hell not to get was. when i put together the campaign lucky. our nation has been lucky. against isis, we tried to do it into new ones. >> that we haven't had a major in a way that took account after john bolton had a fundamentally different approach. crisis on the lot of a very all the lessons learned, very they didn't have a pre-existing relationship. i would just say two other chaos presidency. light foot print, limited we haven't had an attack on the things. one is john bolton did the homeland like 9/11. country any favors in terms of ammunition and a large we came close if june to having coalition, it was something that his real dismantling of the you knew you had to sustain, it a scrape with the iranians, but interagency process. every person in this job has to we avoided that, but donald wasn't over and everybody comes trump and again our nation is home. it was carefully drawn up so we balance the council role and the sort of lucky. weren't putting too many lives process role. imagine, imagine if we had to john bolton didn't balance it. at risk. make large decision about war secretary mattis was on the it was all him and his views and peace, about sending kids show. rather than giving the president we lost 16 compared to thousands into harm's way, about deploying of syrians and iraqis that had any sort of fair intellectual our military forces or been doing the fighting and the die him. honest process, and going but it's not of the. negotiating a very sensitive we have a camp in northeast forward we can sit around the table and speculate who's going syria with thousands of