The editing and questioning make the film and development of his thoughts choppy and incoherent, which is dissatisfying. Kissanger is saying that the US must accept that it won't be able to destroy CN and therefore must develop a conceptual approach (which transcends partisan feud) to co-exist with CN, the rivalry between the two parties in piling on of pressure/hostility on CN to score politically for votes cannot last (and it's chaotic and self-undermining).
This old dude is full of blood in his hands, it is sad such a mundane average human is treated as some god father in politics simply because he never dies