john, thanks for being here. you write that bannon's sidelining marks biggest victory for the current national security adviser lieutenant general h.r. mcmaster." so there was tension there. >> yeah, there was huge tension. before mcmaster even came in, some of his closest friends and colleagues were telling him as a precondition to even taking the job as national security adviser, you should sideline bannon, demand he's taken off the national security council. he obviously didn't do that at the outset. he worked sort of quietly behind the scenes and has succeeded in recent days and, of course, getting him technically off the national security council in a permanent seat, but also getting some appointments that he's wanted on the national security council. so that's an important step in terms of his power on the committee. >> does this say anything bigger? i think this is the question people are wondering here, anything bigger about bannon's role in the administration? he is known to have trump's ear. he's known to be sort of the shaper of the political philosophy, the extent trump has