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Classified information. a senior administration official says current national security adviser h.r. mcmaster wrote to all his predecessors in that job, extending their security clearances. >> the official calls this common practice and says it doesnt mean rice or other ex-national security advisers now have open access to any classified data that they want. some house republicans, theyve criticized rice for improperly unmasking trump associates in intelligence reports, a claim rice has repeated...

And yes, the jobs numbers are good. but the problem is they have been good so its not really as newsworthy as something like what he said last night. >> and were get -- and they were getting better under his predecessors. its unclear who deserves credit. up next, it was exactly a week ago. only one week ago that reince priebus left the white house. now another key member of president trumps team has reportedly taken the spot as his most vulnerable player. ♪ (music plays throughout) ♪ ♪ ♪...

Economically. but, again, it sort of drags this out. this is a problem that the last three presidents -- this president and his previous two successors -- or predecessors had to deal with because there arent any good options and theres no good way to go all the way in and if gu all the way out that creates a whole set of new problems. >> a member of the foreign relations committee on "morning joe" discussing this particular story. >> a military only solution in afghanistan will never work unless...

Kelly discovers that donald trump doesnt think his judgment is so great? >> possibly minutes. i think, you know, the issue here is that he acts and thinks ep sodically, and the main thing driving, i think, his lashing out on afghanistan is he said he would figure it out. he said he would go in there and solve a problem no one else can solve. now i think weve been in afghanistan for 16 years. its traveled as an issue across two administrations, and hes not going to find it any easier to solve tha...

His predecessors were unable, trump was so quickly willing to concede that one of his primary campaign promises was, in fact, bluster, that it doesnt really matter who pays for the wall. hes much more focused on the perception and on a political win versus a loss and how it would be received if he was unable to meet a campaign promise and also this assumption that the president of mexico is going to adopt one of trumps most controversial campaign positions, which he had repeatedly criticized all...

Is so great? >> possibly minutes. i think, you know, the issue here is that he acts and thinks ep sodically, and the main thing driving, i think, his lashing out on afghanistan is he said he would figure it out. he said he would go in there and solve a problem no one else can solve. now i think weve been in afghanistan for 16 years. its traveled as an issue across two administrations, and hes not going to find it any easier to solve than his predecessors. so the first thing hell do is say the re...

That goes with the executive secretary and the other ones a press document. so thats the difference. >> i wanted to bring up some unfinished business. when you were named press secretary, because there was so much focus on the other announcement, that you only had a chance to talk about the job in one question. so i wanted to give you a chance to answer two questions that all of your predecessors have faced. the first one is, what is your overall approach to the job, especially in terms of balan...

Always been interested in probably a little bit more to the left than the previous predecessors in engaging north korea. that may be a potential first step. but this is a complicated part of the world, and we need to make sure that we are engaging all of our allies that has this impact because, you know, again, south korea and japan are closer threats than anyone. and, so, they should be -- everything we do should be in concert together. >> lets not forget there are 28,000 u.s. troops along the ...

Reporter. every time i would walk through the gates i would feel a sense of awe that i was somehow, you know, representing the american people by covering this white house. ronald reagan used to put on his suit coat before walk ing into the oval office just to show respect. some of his predecessors and successors did not. >> ronald reagan had his personally imposed dress code to counteract what he thought was the disrespect shown by certain casual people from plains, georgia, and thereabouts. bu...

Press document. thats the difference. >> i wanted to bring up unfinished business. when you were named press secretary because there was some much focus on the other announcement, you had a chance to talk about the job and one question. i wanted to give you a chance to answer two questions of all of your predecessors have faced. what is your approach of the job, whether serving the president or the public and secondly, do you see any circumstances where you see its appropriate to lie from the po...