00:00He knows how everybody made their money and what deals they made and he tells
00:04stories all the time about it it's just one after the other and one time I was
00:10during the campaign I was on the airplane with them and we were sitting
00:14across the table from each other eating McDonald's drinking Diet Coke and he we
00:25started talking about Syria and he got a placemat and he turned it on its back
00:32and then he took a sharpie and he drew a perfect map of the mid-east and then he
00:37put the troop strength of every country on every border on that map and it just
00:45it challenged a lot of the assumptions that I had been told about him he has
00:51you know he has this extraordinary depth of knowledge about what's happening in
00:55each one of the agencies my agency and the others and you know and then he has
01:01an instinct for making good choices
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