Look, the president has a perfect right after winning an election to put together whatever team he wants.

The president has a perfect right after winning an election to put together whatever team he wants.

She's been in charge -- directly, the president's put her directly in charge of the management of the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq, which has been a colossal debacle, the biggest foreign policy debacle since 9/11, which also…

I mean, she just didn't get things wrong, she misled them. She told them things that were simply factually false.

No, no, she'll be overwhelmingly confirmed, and I think that's a tragedy. Again, what I come back to is the stunning incompetence.

No, no, she'll be overwhelming confirmed, and I think that's a tragedy. Again, what I come back to is the stunning incompetence.

but I don't think Democrats should give this president a blank check to go off on any more foreign misadventures given how desperately he has blotched it in Iraq.

If the Democrats just sort of say, please, Mr. President, work with me, he's going to crush them.

He's going to come right at the Democrats and roll right over them, and the only thing he's going to respect is strength.

It depends on where and how he prosecutes it. A whole lot of American, I think the majority, certainly in the exit polls, not very accurate exit polls but you get a sense that at least half the country, we were going in the wrong direction…

He did win fair and square, and I never said that after 2000.