why we have a brand-new secretary of state and national security advisor today. h.r. mcmaster came in as a natural ally and partner of former general marine general john kelly, the white house chief of staff, former general mattis, now the defense secretary. what happened? they fell out with each other. and my reporting suggests that they actually did so really over the question of president trump and how accommodating or not to be to his sometimes arbitrary demands for military action. there s a lot of reporting, a lot of rumors in the air that kelly isn t long for the inner circle. there is some suggestion he isn t in the inner circle at this point, that he s like the 6th sense, he s dead he may not know it yet. that s been true for a while. the white house is a magic place. you talked about it being old-fashioned, it was an honor to serve there. i ll be a little more cynical
up tarnished or with permanent friendships and relationships destroyed. that s basically what happened inside president trump s national security team, which is why we have a brand-new secretary of state and national security advisor today. h.r. mcmaster came in as a natural ally and partner of former general marine general john kelly, the white house chief of staff, former general mattis, now the defense secretary. what happened? they fell out with each other. and my reporting suggests that they actually did so really over the question of president trump and how accommodating or not to be to his sometimes arbitrary demands for military action. there s a lot of reporting, a lot of rumors in the air that kelly isn t long for the inner circle. there is some suggestion he isn t in the inner circle at this point, that he s like the 6th sense, he s dead he may not know it yet. that s been true for a while. the white house is a magic place. you talked about it being