about who is sitting at the table with the president's security council meetings. watch this. >> the president also signed a memorandum modernizing the structure of the national security council and the homeland security council. there's been a lot of misreporting this week about what this memo does and does not do. so let me walk you through this real quick. there's two issues at hand. one is the makeup of the nsc and the other is the makeup of the principles committee. the principle committee is merely the nsc minus the president. the idea is that the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the dna are being downgrade ordinary removed is utter nonsense. >> utter nonsense. chris is political director, what did you make of that reaction? >> well, here's an interesting situation. if you're the white house press secretary and you're out there talking, the subject at hand isn't just that they have discuss excused these members of the security council from meeting.