Mcmaster Leave News Today

>> mm-hmm. >> and you saw h.r. mcmaster leave the white house a couple weeks ago. i mean, h.r. spent a year trying to connect the processes of government to the decision-making of the white house, and it just doesnt seem to have worked. >> thats a frightening statement that the decision-making is just divorced from the -- from the actual intelligence. >> so, for example, and this may be a minor issue, but its current that. press release tonight. in my life experience would have had the white hou...

Is "american national security in an age of lies." >> yeah. >> how does intelligence adapt to this age that were in? >> its really hard. so weve seen a pattern from the white house of saying things that intelligence just cant back up, and im being kind here, so you try to convince the president in closed sessions with regard to what you believe objective reality is. its not so much that youre not winning the argument in the process. its that the decisions seem to be separated from the process. >...

He has no over averaging strategy or vision for what our policy is. syria is complicated because there are other state actors that will fight us for terrain. one of the reasons we opposed president obama striking in 2013 was the shear fact we never felt the russians would apply for the toppling of bashar al assad. i think the larger problem for the president is he doesnt know what he wants to do in syria and now as weve seen mcmaster leave, outside of general mattis, i mean, general mattis -- hi...