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Announced his first key national security post. congressman mike pompeo as cia director, senator jeff sessions as attorney general and retired general michael flynn as national security adviser. all three require senate confirmation. here to discuss these picks, someone who knows a lot about these roles. nancy soderberg was deputy national security adviser for president bill clinton. thanks for coming in. my pleasure. let s talk about national security adviser. obviously that s a position you are very familiar with. put us in the room. how big of a role is the president s national security adviser? how big of a role does he or she play? first, let me just comment on the group. these are people who fed the views that we saw during the campaign to donald trump. you had pompeo, who is on the benghazi committee in the house, you had sessions who fed anti-islamic, racist comments to him but couldn t even get through the judicial committee ....

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