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If Possible, To Be In A Position To Announce Who Is Going To Step In As The Interim Immediately. And If Possible, To Announce Who You're Going To Nominate To Replace That Person. For That To Be Somebody Of Impeccable Integrity And Reputation Disarms A Lot Of The Worst Criticism That It's Some Kind Of A Power Play. It's A Professional Approach To Replacing A Senior Official, Which Is Always Going To Get A Lot Of Attention.

I Don't Know General Michael Flynn Well, But It's Hard For Me To Believe Anybody Would Allow Themselves To Be Blackmailed By The Russians Because They Didn't Tell The Full Story Or Didn't Tell The Truth To The Vice President Of The United States Who Works 50 Feet Down The Hall.

Even When I Was At Cia, I'd Go To Visit Foreign Leaders And I'd Say, 'you Know, I'm Not A Diplomat. I'm Just An Old Cia Guy'... I Said, 'if I Wanted To Be Diplomatic, I'd Have Been A Diplomat.'

I Read In The Press, And Therefore It Must Be True, That No Secretary Of Defense Had Ever Been Quoted As Arguing For A Bigger Budget For State.

On The Foreign Policy Side, There's The Risk Of Being Too Spontaneous And Too Disruptive Where You End Up Doing More Harm Than Damage. And Figuring Out That Balance Is Where Having Strong People Around You Matters.