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Obama. h.r. mcmaster didnt like a number of things obama had done in terms of not responding to the use of chemical weapons in syria and putting a withdrawal date on afghanistan. so there was a combination of factors why they said yes. >> and you make the point when it comes to foreign policy, president trump has more in common with president obama, what do you mean? >> the rhetoric, both of them come outside of the traditional app rat russ. er not machine candidates and they saw themselves gett...

They had a lot of conversations, a lot of meetings, but mcmaster didnt necessarily have the confidence of the president. the gold standard when you talk to foreign policy issues on both sides of the aisle is on how he ran the national security council for the first bush administration, 1988, 1989 to 1993. when you talk to officials that know this, they really want to get the process right so that you can have a full vetting and airing of different views, no surprises at the last second and get t...

About his administration president trumps other big announcement of this week was the appointment of a new national security advisor with notably hard line views it was well known that trump and his former national security advisor h.r. mcmaster didnt always see eye to eye so it was no great surprise when he announced that john bolton would take over the role now he will be trumps third national security adviser in fourteen months. even in a crowded field john boltons provocative views have long...

A foreign policy realist like all those persons that i mentioned who believe that some problems can be solved by military means but not necessarily but who didnt necessarily believe in military action against north korea and iran i am afraid that in a worst case scenario we will see major military conflict between the united states and these two nations lets break it down now because we have the situation with north korea and we have the situation with iran how do you see those two potentially p...

Donald trump lets read that tweet again that natasha referred to. he tweeted this. general mcmaster forgot to say that the results of the 2016 election were not impacted or changed by the russians and that the only collusion was between russia and the crooked h. remember the dirty dossier. he rollsous his conspiracy theories. did mcmaster forget to say that or is that just not true >> mcmaster didnt forget to say that. mcmaster forgot to read the cue card that the white house handed to him that ...

Sticking around for questions in the white house press briefing. we did hear a lot on what exactly donald trump will be doing in his overseas trip. remember, he will be going to asia visiting china, south korea, japan and visiting the philippines, his first big trip into that region. he was asked about a lot of things including the strategy of north korea and was asked by one reporter about why he cant answer how donald trump treats venezuela different from other regimes, why does he condemn ven...

Having answers for whats going on is not just a disdain for press. on this trip not having any formal press briefings, not doing anything on camera. the president himself not speaking. it also shows a lack of preparedness and awareness of this back channel and the ability to answer what it was for, why was it necessary? h.r. mcmaster didnt have an answer, refused to talk about it. im sure they have already had lawyers go out on behalf of jared kushner. if this was above board and something that ...

Donald trump on a separate track consistently. house republicans on a third track, sort of everyone trying to pretend that the other one didnt talk or they didnt hear it. so, i think you will see h.r. mcmaster talk about what he talked about last night, that this information was available to the public, that he was in the meeting, that he saw it. now, theres obviously going to be questions about the seeming contradiction offered by the presidents tweets. >> right. >> i dont know how he squares t...

People who know him say dont expect him to change. >> if general mcmaster not only understands his role but accepts his role as the lead to the national security council staff, and he also serves as the lead policy maker in essence for the white house and the administration, then he will have a chance to succeed. >> reporter: still, he may find his biggest challenge is dealing with steve bannon, the presidents close political adviser who now has a seat on the national security council. >> if ste...

>> if general mcmaster not only understands his role and accepts it as it lead to the national security counsel staff and serves as the lead policy maker for the white house and the administration, then he will have a chance to succeed. >> reporter: still he made find his biggest challenge is dealing with stephen bannon, the political advisor who has a seat on the national security counsel. >> if steve bannon understands his role as being the political advisor and nothing more than that, then it...