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CNNW Erin Burnett OutFront February 21, 2017

The streets today marking the president s day with not my president s day demonstrations. We saw it from los angeles to chicago to new york. The president was silent, be speaki, not speaking or tweeting about it. Waving but saying nothing but b the perhaps. Perhaps uncharacteristically. He did speak about something so totally different. Before boarding air force one, you see him introducing his pick for National Security adviser. Alone general h. R. Mcmaster. General kellogg. He will remain as the chief of staff. Jeff, this was a surprise announcement from the president today. It was indeed. There was a sense the president wanted to get this announcement after the fallout of resignation michael flynn. He wanted to start his second month in office on a smoother foot. Naming a new National Security adviser tonight, general h. R. Mcmaster. A tremendous experience. I watched and read over the last two days. He is highly respected by everybody in the military. And we are very honored to have him of. The president making his announcement. General flynn was forced to resign after misleading the president. Mcmaster a soldier rising through ranks to become a chief strategist. I look forward to joining the team to do everything i can to advance and protect the interests of the american people. The president refig tstarts second month in office. In brussels, Vice President pence speaking about the resignation for the first time. I can tell you that i was disappointed to learn that the facts that have been conveyed to me by general flynn were inaccurate. The Vice President gave his opinion while he sought insurances from his allies. Who should they listen to . Can they be sure it wont be triktd at a press conference. We look forward to working across the channel in the sears ahead. The president s defensive comments reverdict braigt around the world. Rest assured, the president and i strongly support a free and independent press. You can anticipate that the president and all of us will continue to call out the media when they play fast and loose with the facts. So so far the reaction tonight to the new National Security advise soriano positive across the board from capitol hill and military officials as well. And as for the Vice President there, he was asked, the president was asked if he played a role in the selection of this National Security adviser, of course, given his role with Michael Flynns depart you. The president and maralago. He did. I want to go to our pentagon correspondent. Youve been talking to your sources. What are they saying may be general mcmasters toughest challenge in. He is a very competent military officer. Now he wads inwads into politic. It may be one of the biggest challenges. Mr. Bannon now has a permanent seat on the National Security council. So mcmaster will have to deal with him. Who will be the one that has the president s ear when there is a National Security crisis . Who goes to brief the president when there might be something from north korea, russia or iran that President Trump has to deal with . General mcmaster is known to be very precise, very organized with National Security strategy. Very, very experienced in all of this. Tours in iraq, afghanistan, and his military career. Mr. Bannon perhaps looking or the at the policies. So he tried to bring calm and take complete charge of it. Thats a big question. Up next, rick santorum, the correspondent for the daily beast who has interviewed general mcmaster and our senior political analyst. Let me start with you. You know Lieutenant General h. R. Mcmaster. What do you think . I think he is a stabilizing pick. As he smart guy. Strategic. He is forward thinking. I think the big issue for him will be whether he can wrap his arms around an extraordinarily dysfunctional process. As barbara alluded to, whether he can establish a degree of trust with the president himself and push back against some of the crazy and chaos coming out of this white house. Of interest, h. R. Mcmasters book really talks a lot about how the white house at the time of the vietnam war was too insular. Youve interviewed general mcmasters. General flynn was trumps close adviser. Trump trusted him. He had a lot of influence. Do you think mcmaster will have the power that flynn did or not . Well, mcmaster has the military experience that trump respects. Hes fought on the fwro kungrou. He tackled corruption in afghanistan. Hes been political enough that hes made to it his third star but contrary enough, spoken back to enough people that it was tough getting there. He got passed over for promotion a couple of times. So he has in the past criticized his superiors, criticized Army Doctrine and you have to think he will bring that into the white house. He is active duty. Not allowed to turn down an order from the president. I want to ask you this here is donald trump. I watched and read a lot oh the last two days, were very honored to have him. He said he watched and read a lot. What he didnt say is that he knows mcmaster. He is not part of trumps ener circle. Wh what insurances are there, if he disagrees with the others who have no National Security experience but the president has made clear will have big National Security roles . Because he put him in as the senior guy. You dont put someone in and dont have a lot of responsibility. He surrounded himself with generals for a reason. I think he has a lot of respect for the work that theyve done. All three of these general whos are in major positions in the administration. I take issue, this is a dysfunctional. I dont think theres evidence that it is dysfunctional. This president is trying to take the country in a different course. I dont think it is a bad thing. I think general mcmaster would be a good steady hand to guide the process. What about the president out there, active duty. He says you will do it and he will do it. Is it possible because of that obligation that he is not . I dont think so. Weve seen that he has bucked the system. As kimberly noted, for not necessarily being the golong get along guy which programs caused him to wait a little while to get his star. What i think is interesting, can we see some kind of military order brought to this administration. If you look at who is running, general mattis, if you look at general kelly running Homeland Security. Now you have somebody right next to donald trump, President Trump and general mcmaster. You have to wonder if those three, and one who is not known for being outside box to try to bring some stability to our foreign policy. So aides to President Trump have been reluctant to talk about his golf habit. It is a serious issue because hes made it one in the past. His white house spokesperson said, i know he played a couple holes. We do know that hes visited his two golf courses six times since hes become president. Golfed during most of those visits. This is what he said about president obama who also liked to play golf. This guy plays more golf than people in the pga tour. Obama, it was reported today, played 250 rounds of golf and hell be in hawaii, did they say for three weeks . He played more golf last year than tiger woods. I just got back from a tour of the suffering and devastation in louisiana. Honestly, obama ought to get off the golf course and get down there. Is he realizing, it is a lot different when you actually have the job, from things like that. So easy to criticize. Now here he is doing the same thing. I dont think anyone will be critical of donald trump that he hasnt been engaged as president over the last month. Hes been one of the most active 30 days that weve seen from any president and the things hes tried accomplish. So i think what he was complaining about with president obama, in the case of louisiana and other places, he was not engaged. I dont think anyone will make that claim of trump. Is it a cheap shot to hit the president on playing golf . It was. And i think hes realizing that getting out of the white house and getting out there and swinging that golf ball is probably a good thing for his head. Thank you all very much. Next, republicans warned about their safety. One of them live. Plus. Blocked from a major republican event. What happened . And jeanie moos on the british. When we think that the man who thinks it is okay to go grab could save money on car insurance. E in fact, safe drivers who switch from geico to esurance could save hundreds. So if you switch to esurance, saving is a pretty safe bet. Auto and Home Insurance for the modern world. Esurance. An allstate company. Click or call. When youre close to the people you love, does psoriasis ever get in the way of a touching moment . 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Not being paid to show up. Town hall fury from utah, to nebraska. Chasing down congressmen at town hall events. This year aiming squarely. The gop bracing for the protests. The president even noticing. They fill up our alleys with people that you wonder how they get there. Sean spicer shared the theory. This is becoming very paid astro turf type movement. Are you making any money on this. . No. This is not a money making vent you are. Meet the team responsible for the movement. Three former congressional staffers. We had seen a very powerful local activist movement, the tea party eemergency. We knew exactly how powerful local action could be because it was used against us very effectively. Based loosely on teem tactics, this skexd out a guide for progressive on how to stop trumps agenda. When we put it out, we hoped our parents would like it. Ten people were reading it. Then 20 people, then 90 people were he had rooing it. Then it crashed. It is now viewed 15 million times. Downloaded about 1. 7 million. About 7,000 indivisible groups. There are four simple tactics. A viral video followed. They said the 10,000 video was crowd sourced from 5 to 100 donations. They have now filed with the irs as a nonprofit. This is one full Time Employee who still has not been paid. They weeks ago they put up a donation tab on the website. Only small dontations so far. Their movement growing based on a simple idea. Thats a smart move because it keeps your coalition together. I was so inspired and motivated by what they said. Do you know the people who wrote this guide . No. This is ann taylor, grandmother and founder of the indivisible 757. Their target tonight, republican congressman scott taylor. How do you feel when the gop brushes you off as someone who is paid . I think it is funny. It is a desperate attempt to delegitimize what they most definitely perceive tonight a powerful grassroots movement. What youre seeing happening here behind me is that the congressman is taking a slightly tiff tack. You can see one of his workers standing closer. What theyre trying to do is have people write down their questions and then randomly taking these questions. Trying it appears to be working. You can hear some of them giving vocal protests but so far they seem to be well see how many people are there. How many people are passionate across the country. You can see, speaking right now. Aid chance to talk to him as people were filling the seats. Whether he was worried that his town hall could be shut down tonight. Im not so much worried. I think it is important for people to have a seat at the table. Contract. Theyre passionate. Thats fine. If they shout over a bunch of people, they just call other people out to have a seat at the table. Thats the wrong they know. He know members of congress were warned. You were warned in a closed door about safety. How seriously are you taking that warning . Should very seriously. A lot of people were afraid mirgs staff is certainly concerned. Weve back up with local Law Enforcement in case we had issues. Im optimistic. Most of these folks are good people. They wont cause a ruckus and try to harm people. Some republicans, you talk about having a suit at the table. It is not these or gabbegoga movement. This is becoming very paid astro turf type movement. There was also a well organized element that came to disrupt and disrupt they did. Congressman, is that the right attitude . I think it would be naive to say these organizations are organic. They certainly are. I dont know of any paid organizations here tonight. Theyre organized from the Democrat Party which is fine. Theyre my constituents, too. Im fine with them being here. Ive heard from people who have not been involved with politics before who are here organically. I wont take that approach. I dont have of any here. Smeft spreftors are now in Congress Full term. Does the president need to do something to help the situation . They are there at your town hall because of donald trump. Listen, i think theres a little blame to go around on both sides but i will tell you. I think he needs to calm down. I think some of the rhetoric could be toned down. I think the media could toneett down as well. We can decide. Do we want to move forward . I think thats the wrong answer for the nation. Did does president have a responsibility form, to deal with it . He does. Some are calling at this time tea party of the left. The original tea party, have been, the rising of that led to the shellacking of the 2010 mid terms. Is it happening again . I think it is important that republicans will have a seat at the table. When it happened with the democrats, they didnt allow the republicans to have a seat at the table. And people were opposing everything. I think thats the wrong answer for cancer to oppose everything now. 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