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Appointment. he can put whoever he wants at national security adviser. susan rice is the national security adviser and waiting arguably off and on for more than two years. while there had been some chatter about her as secretary of state, there is still -- it was always still thought of that if not there, then she would be brought into the west wing and arguably she is going to be more influential and always this divide. tom donilan always sat in the middle of the jen racial divide. sometimes siding with the guard how to handle mubarak or what to do in libya. others have been the heart and sou...

Just sent tom donilon to prepare for this china summit. he was in china last week doing the prep work with his counterparts in china for the summit that is taking place at the ends of the week, yet they are doing this switch today so donilon is not involved. it's susan rice. that part of it seems a little whiplashing. >> robert gibbs, what do you think is i didn't understand the announcement now behind the timing? >> tom has been there a long time and been in this administration the first term and first as national security adviser and head of the national security adviser. i agree with chuck,...

President called qatar, he thanked qatar to the very important contribution to the international coalition. >> all right, you're listening to an audio only briefing that's live aboard air force one. what we can glean from that is that the president learned last night at 7:45 p.m. local time in chile from his national security advisor tom donilan that an f-15 fighter jet had gone down over libya. it's not believed to have been shot down, in fact it was a mechanical failure and both pilots have been recovered. criticism coming from all sides about the u.s. mission in libya. some say the missio...

Installing a system of government that's democratic and responsive to the will of the people. second thing i'll do is just walk through the president's notification related to the situation with our two pilots, detail is going to have to come from the pentagon as they're the ones who of course have been tracking this situation. but last night at 7:30 our time here in chile, admiral mullens spoke to tom donilan to speak to him about the situation that the plane was down. tom donilan notified the president at 7:45 yesterday evening in his hotel suite. he further updated him when the president wa...

Recovery effort was underway and that we again were in touch with the pilots on the ground further details will come from the ground in terms of further -- after dinner, we had the secure lines of chief of staff bill -- tom donlian skipped the dinner and stayed back at the hotel. tom provided two updates to bill daly during dinner that bill daly replayed to the president. last night when the president was back at the hotel, he had a secure call with admiral mullen in which admiral mullen communicated to him that both of the pilots were safe. that was again the review of the president's engagem...