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And working under nine presidents, i've never seen a situation like this. jon: gillian turner has more. >> reporter: the latest member of president trump's national security team to resign in protest over the decision to withdraw american troops from the ongoing syrian civil war is brett mcgurk. foreign policy leaders from president trump's own party say they don't blame him for leaving. >> i would not be surprised if they have not had a immediating. he was leaving -- meeting. he was leaving in february, but as mattis just did, one of the greats patriots i've ever met in my public service, gen...

They are with us. don't worry. don't be scared of them. is the nra going to come around? so far they are not, raising the age for buying a weapon. >> the nra has spoken clearly for a number of years as to what they support and don't. they have been for stronger background checks for individuals. they talked about making sure. penalties for committing a crime with a firearm illegally. the president has brought them to the table. he said yesterday he met with the democrat and republican governors at the white house. he had lunch with members of the nra, top brass. when he says they will come aro...

Of the fbi, that is why he lost his job, we need to know when this memo is revealed whether or not there are serious -- there's credible allegations and evidence that the deputy attorney general actually abused the fisa warrant process in a way that also should cost him his job. if they have that evidence, it needs to come out. you're not allowed to break laws when you're at the top law enforcement agency of the fbi. i questioned what hillary clinton did with her server. i really believed everything she did was deliberate and illegal with regards to that. but the investigation with hillary cli...

Top brass who should be informing him on what we should be doing with our diplomacy. >> and bob costa, let's talk about the steve bannon part of the story, because as frank wrote this weekend, this guy doesn't appear to be wanting to reform the republican party. his moves make him seem like he wants to destroy the republican party. you have a guy in alabama that got stripped of his judgeship twice. the excon in new york that bannon is meeting with that he wants to get in kocongress. talk about the head of black water he's trying to get to move to wyoming to run against a person. and word i hea...

Here recently that he expects them to -- these are his top brass, he's expecting them to provide him with a broad range of military options when needed at a much faster pace. there is a all be it somewhat slow process as you know as options even sometimes trickle over to the white house, part of that is to call out perhaps the bad options and sometimes you could argue it means the president doesn't get all of the options. but when you see him asking for that, what would the effects of that be? >> well, first of all, i think that we do need our senior politicians to have a better grasp of the w...