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What is your sense of this situation? is he frustrated there? >> well, i've talked to a lot of people up there. most of them are frustrated. i think for anyone try to staff the trying to play the role of the consigliere which is what mcmaster is supposed to do, it is an impossible position. you have a president that doesn't listen to advise and changes his mind and i'm not surprised there is a lack of clarity out of the white house on what may or may not happen on a major personnel move. >> what has his role been in this administration. >> he plays two roles. the first is to be the adviser to ...

Elements of things he was working on that were relevant out of the pdb. so i wouldn't completely fault the president or the process for that, but now that he's no longer -- >> let me interrupt you. >> -- cleared -- then you have to reconsider this. >> juan, how do you defend a process that had the most sensitive intelligence that exists in the united states of america in the hands of someone who not only hadn't cleared an fbi background check but was informed he likely wouldn't? if the rob porter scandal hadn't been made public, the white house never would have told us who was on -- i mean, we...

North korea has expectedly condemned the latest round of u.s. sanctions, adding that the new plan reportedly by the u.s. and its allies to widen the crackdown on ships suspected of violating sanctions would be considered, quote, an act of war. now, curiously it was the president's daughter and adviser ivanka who briefed president moon on the sanctions despite prevailing questions on her own security clearance status and her background in korean diplomacy. >> first let me say, ivanka trump has been briefed on this. she's been part of the team. she had dinner with president moon. they had a priv...

Steve mnuchin saying that ivanka trump was briefed. >> ivanka trump has been briefed on this, part of the team. she had dinner with president moon. they had a private discussion in advance about this occurring. this has been an interagency process. >> now, the sanctions target the shipping industry and try to crack down on the vessel-to-vessel activity that allows north korea to engage in shipping activities. at the press conference, president trump was asked, well, what happens if the new round of sanctions don't necessarily move the needle? the president saying, we'll have to see, we will ha...

Would presume he has no attorney-client privilege and that would be fought out before a judge. it's not uncommon for anybody in the white house when there's an investigation ongoing to claim some kind of privilege to get out of the hassle and the risk of talking about it. but we'll to see -- he wanted his attorney -- why do you think he needed that kind of protection? >> that's a great question. someone should ask him. maybe that's in that new michael wolf book. i don't know. the point is that the attorney general is not supposed to be a person who protects any particular individual, whether t...