white house for us. tell us what you re hearing about h.r. mcmaster. reporter: there is no question that the president is ready to make some changes in his inner circle. and h.r. mcmaster is someone who has been rumored to be on his way out for several weeks now, in part because he and the president have never really fully gelled in this position. and sources tell cnn that the president has decided that he wants to move forward with moving mcmaster out and moving someone into that role. the question is when might that decision happen. now, mcmaster, with mcmaster there are several decisions that need to be made. the first of which is who replaces him, who will come in, one of the top candidates we re told is john bolton, someone simpatico with president trump on policy. he s a former u.n. ambassador and a television contributor. but also mcmaster has to find an exit strategy. there say possibility of him returning to military service, or perhaps going back into the private sector. th
iran and the path forward on the iran deal, you are sorely mistaken. this is an important moment for us to stay in the iran deal for now, find ways to improve upon it in order to have some prospect of a deal with north korea. those two are closely intertwined. chris coons, as always, thank you very much. coming up, exit strategy. we will hear from former top officials from the white house and state department on how the tillerson firing was executed. and it was an execution. stay with us.
just the general officers or are they also going down the rings where i think help us most needed is there at all an exit strategy for german troops serving in afghanistan. well if you read this report twenty six pages they don t really indicate an exit strategy what they re really saying is we need to hold on to the status quo because otherwise what we might see is even more modest migration from afghanistan which we of course also feel here in germany we have about two hundred fifty thousand africans in germany at the moment and about fifteen thousand of them are supposed to be sent back right i mean how is the government then justifying this and at the same time saying the security situation there is so dire well that s a very interesting piece in this report saying what are the main reasons for migration according to this report it s economic insecurity yes you know the economy has really taken a hard hit when about one hundred thousand soldiers where reduced at the end of the comb
guns away from people who are mentally ill and saying that he doesn t know if there should always be due process in those situations. something that certainly a lot of people probably would have paid to see the nra s reaction to the president saying that during that meeting with lawmakers, but now you know, just less than a day after the president made those points, the nra seems to say the that the president is backing off of those, and that he s more in line with their views on what to do going forward in light of that tragic school shooting in parkland, florida. so a lot of chaos and whiplash coming out of the white house here in washington. one thing that has been consistent, i should point out, in the middle of all of the stories here at the white house is that the national security adviser, h.r. mcmaster, seems to be on his way out the door and that they are planning an exit strategy. someone we know that the president has disagreed with ever since he has been the national securi
matters, from the most substantive to the most trivial. and she has been in that role at his side for three straight years. so she knows a lot. eli, let s look at another aspect of this. think of the price she has paid by dint of being in this circle. what will probably be hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees by the time this is all over. having her love life splashed across the news, around the world, really. photographers outside her apartment. is anyone drawing a straight line from yesterday s nine hours of testimony to today s departure? not a straight one. although i think look, she may have had plans for an exit strategy for a while. three years is a long time in trump world. and i think, you know, what you talked about in terms of the scrutiny of her personal relationships, i think what happened with rob porter was really traumatizing, on top of all the pressure that she already feels about the mueller probe. here is a guy that she s in a relationship with, news