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Ambassador, sergey kyliak and lavrov. he was already under criticism because of the optics of it. now bb the national security adviser to the president, hr mcmaster, did walk by reporters within the last hour inside the west wing. he was peppered with questions about this washington post story and according to reporters who were there if the room and heard hr mcmaster respond to all of this, the only thing they heard him say is this the last place i want to be. and then he surreyed away from rep...

Interesting is sort of definitely this week leading up to the foreign trip and even last week, basically if you saw blocked off the presidents schedule b and the goal was to have a lot of briefers, a lot of deputies, a lot of senior administration officials, coming in and preparing him for this trip. and then, of course, the comey news kind of took over and it occupied as we all saw a huge portion of the presidents sort of mind space, but my reporting does show that they have been sort of squeez...

All made by donald trump trump itself. he prides himself in making these decisions himself. i wrote on the story sunday, its almost like hes the pilot choosing to fly into heavy turbulence and blaming the flight attendants when the passengers are screaming. >> youve been skeptical of trump, likely so. what do you think is going to happen here. the white house seems to be a catastrop catastrophe. its confusing craziness. and now you have president blaming his staff for saying ha he told him to sa...

Jared kushner, powell, mcmaster. is this a real test for them? >> oh, my goodness, is it a real test. has the group of people that have lionized before they have accomplished a single thing. >> they would say what they accomplished was to present policy options for the syria strike. >> probably president obama would have gotten and arguably he would have made exactly the same move on that. but this is an entirely untested group of people. we have imputed to jared kushner, ivanka, gair cohen and ...

Today? >> i think he looked tired. >> president trump is getting ready to leave on friday, hes got to replace fbi director, now he has this mess, all these changes may be a foot. >> they tried to put out this fire by saying the washington -- president never gave away sources from this intelligence, never gave away methods, nobody said it in the article. somebody is trying to b.s. the press with this denial. its not a denial. somebody told the president that was a denial, it was not. they used mc...

It was a smoke screen. and he is one of the very last people that has any claim on credibility and its interesting to me -- >> youre wasting the guy. >> the deputy attorney general is the degree to which these people in proximity to this president, they put their reputations on the line to such a degree that in an instant a career of integrity can be completely unwound, extraordinary to watch. >> you know, he came out like a coo coo clock. he had nothing -- he had no denial of the isil storys co...

Good afternoon, its good to be back with you. apparently im a little missed. we were one week out from the presidents first foreign trip. i wanted to make sure as we prepare, theyre bringing up our national security adviser general mcmaster to give you a preview of what the president has been doing for his trip. our goal is to start that process now and next week bring the general area. we additionally have background briefings as well to give them logistical updates. without further ado, genera...

Of leaders in the middle east. most of whom hes met here. we have another coming on monday as well. >> steve. >> general mcmaster, at the beginning of the week we were hearing speculation that the president was expecting thousands more troops being sent to afghanistan. when he goes to brussels next week, what is the message to the nato partners and their expectations? >> the key is we all have to be. the mass murder against our own country on september 11th, 2001, ended with a base in afghanista...

Diplomatic engage manhattan that hes been engaged with since he has taken over as president and the trip is going to be a tremendous way to solidify the gains and advance them further. thanks very much. >> all right. thank you, general mcmaster. im going to go through a couple of updates before i get to your questions and jeff will get the first one. first up secretary ross was up here last night to talk about the developments and general mcmaster has talked about the advances. the ten commitmen...

Or by phone certainly. and we have the crown prince benzi on monday as well. >> general mcmaster at the beginning of this very long week we were hearing speculation that the president was considering thousands more troops for afghanistan. when he goes to brus else on thursday of next week what is the message to the nato partners with respect to their commitment? >> well, the key is all of us have to be committed, to achieving our fundamental objectives in ofgs. i mean, americans know better than...