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This is our interview of the day. It usually would always be that that case but really none more than this day

after what we saw in Brussels at NATO at checkers with Prime Minister May and in Helsinki as well. We do this with a gentleman who did a

tour of duty on one platform in Haiti, Bosnia, and a Persian golf out in the real trenches of the projection of her U.S. Navy,

and that is Admiral Stravitis of the Fletcher School Tufts University.

Admiral, your Twitter feed I featured this morning.

It is the most scathing feed I have ever, ever seen in the history of what Twitter

wrought.

I like and respect Ambassador Dan Coates. I am not sure how he goes to work

tomorrow. President Trump has lost his grip on reality and by the way Mr.

Putin offering to help find the culprits in our election is like

Edward Snowden etc and then you finish up on a classy Stravita's note by saying

that the president's decision not to throw out the first pitch at tonight's baseball all-star

game in DC now seems brilliant. Admiral, this is the number one question I've

gotten on this trip. When do people start resigning and why don't they

resign discuss I'll start with Dan Coates as I said in my tweet I like Dan Coates. As I said in my tweet, I like Dan Coates. I respect him.

Former Ambassador to Germany, former senator, just a terrific person by every regard.

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