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National security adviser, robert o'brien will be involved in another issue is the ongoing talks with the taliban and a potential peace agreement. these are three things that with his legal background, robert o'brien is providesed to play an important and essential role in those issues. >> as we mentioned, lawmakers don't get a say on who the president picks to be his national security adviser, but sheila jackson lee is talking to capitol hill, and while she haven't had a chance to review his credentials, they points out this is the fourth national security adviser inside the trump administrat...

Pompeo will want to have a better relationship with him than he did john bolton and it seems like o'brien checks that box. >> absolutely. and to a certain extent there had been rumors that secretary of state pompeo might be dual-hatd. obviously that didn't transpire. i think the president went with a separate national security adviser. but this looks a little bit like that i don't mean to be critical of robert o'brien, but he is somebody who is very close to the secretary and can align neatly with the advice and it's clear that the president relies on secretary pompeo for foreign policy advice...

To be clear, donald trump has no credibility on housing and homelessness this is just taking a shot at koe california to riel up his base he's a slumlord and he has been pushing people to homelessness, so we really don't need advice from donald trump. >> i wanted to ask you, do you think the president's offer is in good faith here to try to help california? it sounds like you don't think it is. >> not at all. donald trump is a lot of talk on these issues if he wants to actually help, he can stop slashing food assistance and affordable housing funds so that we can actually get poor people and l...

With yesterday afternoon and last evening, they said that whichever decision president trump made would show the direction he wants to go with the national security adviser. with o'brien being someone who would be more political. and look at his two most recent national security advisers, one was much more political than the other. look at o'brien's back ground. kristen mentioned his background as an attorney but he focused, much of his work was on international arbitration. so that shows the kinds of things he's going to have to do as national security adviser two of the biggest issues he wil...

It's a very interesting one in that it's really noncontroversial robert o'brien in some ways is a convention national security, foreign policy e establishment, having worked with ambassador bolton, he's worked on commissions in multiple administrations, including under secretary clinton at the state department and now he's been serving in this role as a special envoy for hostage affairs, which has put him in touch with issues related to north korea, related to iran and terrorism. so he's been touching and seeing different aspects of national security and in many ways he's a non-controversial f...