Someone who traffics in much more than what Jeff Sessions said back then will be with the president every day in the White House as his senior strategist.
Lawrence O'DonnellNational security advisors, like White House Chiefs of Staff, their job generally if they`re - if they`re competent and qualified and effective is to be honest brokers in the White House.
Lawrence O'DonnellThe incompetence of the [Donald] Trump transition team, the likes of which we`ve never seen is a bad thing.
Lawrence O'DonnellThis is someone [Michael Flynn] who is considered a loyalist and as we have watched this transition process unfold, again roiled by reports of turmoil, Donald Trump seems to be really focusing right now in this initial phase on loyalists.
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