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Dara. >> kelly, thanks for that report. joining me now, nbc news national security analyst jeremy bash. he's also the former chief of staff at the cia and pentagon under president obama. great you have to this morning. >> good morning, dara. >> tell me, what influence did china have on north korea? kelly was just talking about it. can if u.s. really rely on it? >> well, china does have enormous influence in pyongyang, the north korean capital. and so an objective of american foreign policy really for the last generation has been to use our influence to get china to use itself influence with ...

Civilian adviser at the pentagon under president obama, has written a fascinating book. how everything became war and the military it became everything. it describes how u.s. policy has been contorted by a military that keeps expanding while all other agencies wither. one of the blushes on the back of the book says one of the most thought provoking books i have ever read. it's as if we have been sleep walking into this new world and rosa turned on a flashlight. that commendation comes from it jim mattis, now the secretary of defense. perhaps he should give that book to his boss. for more, go t...

Trump's pick for national security adviser, who will be obviously her superior, just tweeted, so proud and honored to have k.t. mcfarland as part of our national security team. she will help us make america great again, and anthony, as you know, k.t. mcfarland is no stranger in washington. served as a white house aide under presidents nixon, fornd a ford and reagan, a spokeswoman at the pentagon under president reagan. again, we talked about, you're more the domestic side of things, but tell us about what you can about this appointment, and how this fits into, i guess the foreign policy world ...

Hetrogenus group, largely secular, win of was decried al-qaeda as a perversion of islam. they've pursued social ends, betterment of the political order in egypt, etc., and then the other -- >> i'm interested in their nonviolent side, which is what i was talking about. >> and they -- in other countries, there are chapters or franchises of the muslim brotherhood, but there is no overarching agenda, particularly in pursuit of violence, at least internationally. megyn: deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs at the pentagon under president reagan, your reaction? >> i'm stunned. i ...

I do it better and i do it differently. >> so admiral kirby, president trump doubled down today. you know, on president obama. look, in the first year of president obama's presidency in iraq and afghanistan, there were 466 military fatalities. so far this year, there have been 25. you were at the pentagon under president obama. how did you feel when you heard what president trump said? >> i was really sad to hear that, erin. really, really disappointed. of all the things a president does, the last thing that should be politicized is talking about the families of the fallen and how and when and...