Page 14 - Director Position News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

National security council veteran, national security advisor to vice president biden, thanks for helping us understand this. appreciate you being here tonight. >> thanks. >> professor kahl may have made news talking about h.r. mcmaster, we heard he was going to do this all hands meeting with the national security council staff today. we just heard he told the staff today he does not think they should be using the term radical islamic terrorism. that, of course, was a campaign touchstone for this president and has been since he's been in office. we'll see if that conflict emerges in public. sta...

So we've been following a story on this show in the last couple of days and weeks, i guess, that's basically the definition of haste makes waste. it involves a member of the new president's cabinet, a confirmed cabinet secretary, who right now is perched uncomfortably between having this big high-profile new job as the head of a big high-profile new agency, and he's also facing the mounting detritus of mounting questions and possible scandal from the job he had before. not the kind of predicament you want to have in your first week in a big high-profile new federal job. but they rushed this jo...

Federal job. but they rushed this job into place and now they are paying for it. and we've got some exclusive news next on what might be about to hit the guy. that's next. stay with us.

Unusual. we have found no press reporting to indicate anything like this has happened before. why are all these people failing their fbi background checks already working in the white house? why did this white house hire such an unusually large number of people who can't pass fbi back ground checks. ? is that nefarious? is that stupid? is this an indication of something really, really, wrong and worrying or is it an indication of incompetence and stupidity? you tell me. which do you prefer? this follows news that before michael flynn was fired as national security adviser, one of the top level...

Removing him isn't going to be easy. >> reporter: donald trump and republicans are planning big changes for the consumer financial protection bureau. created after the 2008 financial collapse to protect borrowers, arguing it has stifled growth with overzealous government relation. >> this is an agency that is taking a very wide stance on its power. really trying to expand its authority. you have this one person at the head of it who is running all of it. >> reporter: president obama named richard cordre. republicans want to dump him. a possible replacement is a staunch critic. some republicans...