for weeks. trump is throwing his weight behind mcmaster. >> today. >> exactly. it's been for a few days. he put out a statement in support of mcmaster. general kelly is a friend of mcmaster. he respects him. bannon, who lost an ally in reince priebus, he's become isolated. it's important because they are hashing out the afghanistan strategy. we are going to hear which way the president plans to go. will he go with mcmaster or pull back? >> is this the kelly influence, who is gracing the cover of "time" magazine this week? >> uncomfortable place to be. in the jungle warfare of the trump white house, you have a lot of contending factions. you laid them out nicely. tara has written about them. it's really unclear who is going to win or if president trump wants any side to win. he likes the tension. in his life he talked about it all the time. he writes about it in books.