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Sticking around for questions in the white house press briefing. we did hear a lot on what exactly donald trump will be doing in his overseas trip. remember, he will be going to asia visiting china, south korea, japan and visiting the philippines, his first big trip into that region. he was asked about a lot of things including the strategy of north korea and was asked by one reporter about why he can't answer how donald trump treats venezuela different from other regimes, why does he condemn venezuela but not condemn those regimes. mcmaster didn't have a great answer for that. we are at the w...

Having answers for what's going on is not just a disdain for press. on this trip not having any formal press briefings, not doing anything on camera. the president himself not speaking. it also shows a lack of preparedness and awareness of this back channel and the ability to answer what it was for, why was it necessary? h.r. mcmaster didn't have an answer, refused to talk about it. i'm sure they have already had lawyers go out on behalf of jared kushner. if this was above board and something that the entire administration had been in support of, including intel and diplomatic communities, the...

Donald trump on a separate track consistently. house republicans on a third track, sort of everyone trying to pretend that the other one didn't talk or they didn't hear it. so, i think you will see h.r. mcmaster talk about what he talked about last night, that this information was available to the public, that he was in the meeting, that he saw it. now, there's obviously going to be questions about the seeming contradiction offered by the president's tweets. >> right. >> i don't know how he squares that circle. >> to be clear, the president said things that general mcmaster didn't. >> that's r...

People who know him say don't expect him to change. >> if general mcmaster not only understands his role but accepts his role as the lead to the national security council staff, and he also serves as the lead policy maker in essence for the white house and the administration, then he will have a chance to succeed. >> reporter: still, he may find his biggest challenge is dealing with steve bannon, the president's close political adviser who now has a seat on the national security council. >> if steve bannon understands his role as basically being the political adviser to the national security c...

>> if general mcmaster not only understands his role and accepts it as it lead to the national security counsel staff and serves as the lead policy maker for the white house and the administration, then he will have a chance to succeed. >> reporter: still he made find his biggest challenge is dealing with stephen bannon, the political advisor who has a seat on the national security counsel. >> if steve bannon understands his role as being the political advisor and nothing more than that, then it has a chance to succeed as well. if mr. bannon goes beyond that, then it could very well not only i...