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Portfolios on foreign and domestic policy. you see bannon poor advertise peytoning in trade tax, foreign discussion, national security talks and also shaping what was happening on health care and much of what the congressional relationship is for the white house. the national security principals committee is a very important group within the white house, but it's almost a think tank for security policy. and if you look at past administrations, it's been an incubator for ideas that takes real attention, whether bannon could spend that much attention on that group remains a debatable question wi...

The -- even though he says don't call it trump care. >> people are pointing out he said every american will be covered, there will be health care for everyone, access for everyone. president trump is on the record in all sorts of ways. in the public, and in the media, and on the breitbart site. >> do you think steve bannon really is disconnected from breitbart? >> that is a mystery in washington. whether bannon is ever talking with editors a breitbart, whether he's ever feeding information. there's been stories at various times bannon's been angry about the coverage on breitbart, some are sayi...

The national security council on national security issues. that is a recipe for conflict, for disfunction. i hope that part of general mcmasters' conditions for taking the job is that he's running the show and mr. bannon and the ideologues are not part of the process. >> donald trump sort of mocked some generals, saying he knew more than a lot of generals did or host of t or most of the generals did, he talked about how they were reduced to rubble. i'm not sure which generals he was talking to. but he is certainly has, as president, decided to surround himself with key generals. >> well, with ...

He's not afraid to confront orthodoxy, a first-rate pick. >> he's written a book critical of u.s. generals for not taking a tougher line with political bosses during the vietnam war. i'm wondering how that may play out. >> i think he's going to have three challenges as he assumes this job. one is to make sure all the other agencies are really around the table. the state department, joint chiefs, energy, they haven't been there to date. second, he needs to make sure that the national security council staff is looped in and listened to. they've been marginalized. but third, they need to check po...

Trump's national security council was shaping up. how do you she ee it shaping up with general mcmaster? >> i agree, give cadiredit wher credit is due, but whether this is an end of the war led by bannon or is this just replacing one general for another. in terms of having someone who respects process and is not bureaucratic mumbo jumbo, it is very important that agencies like dhs, d.o.d. have a seat at the table so they can give the best advice to the president of the united states. that is what the staff is all about. we simply don't know at this stage what deals were made to get him on boar...