changes at this point. so general ordierno said no. same with former cia director general david petraeus. multiple sources saying that general petraeus made it clear he would only take the job if he could pick his own staff. the white house was apparently not okay with that, apparently wanted to keep on the people who started with mike flynn. effectively, that s general petraeus also saying no. in harward s case, he was offered the post and then he overtly declined it amid reports that he was not happy about what he would be inheriting from flynn on the national security council. and interestingly, amid reports that the admiral was not psyched by what he saw at the president s strange first solo press conference last week. so general ordierno, how do you say it, so did admiral harward. but then today, the president finally did talk somebody into
people into allies. that s very different from thinking you can bomb people into submission. it is. and the question becomes sort of whose strategy will win out when you ve got the president s right hand steve bannon sitting on the national security counsel that mcmaster will now head up. it is. and it s very different because mcmaster, he s got on the ground experience. and whereas you have other people, bannon is seen as an ideologue. he was in the navy, but he s not spent time on the ground deal with these insurgencies. that s the question and the president makes the decision who will he listen to? is it going to be mcmaster? some of the reporting that cnn has around why general harward turned down the offer from the president last week on this is because he didn t think he could bring in his own team. but now here s what s the president s chief of staff reince priebus is saying. the president has said very clearly that the new nsa director will have total and
challenge will be how does he get along with the political side of this equation if he can just stick to the national security and bolster that, and i think we will inbound good shape. i think he s the right guy. you bring up a good point, and being active duty, he could not say no to the president. i was surprised admiral harward refused the position and i think it had something to do with the convoluted structure with the politics intruding into national security decisions. nice to have you on. still to come for us, a town hall in virginia beach gets loud as protesters shout at their local lawmakers, and that s nothing compared to what happened outside. at panera, 100% of our food is 100% clean. no artificial preservatives, sweeteners, flavors, or colors. panera. food as it should be. and i finally found our big idaho potato truck.
he s very happy with the work that he s doing not being trump s national security adviser. he told nbc he, quote, had no plans to make any significant changes at this point. so general ordierno said no. same with former cia director general david petraeus. multiple sources saying that general petraeus made it clear he would only take the job if he could pick his own staff. the white house was apparently not okay with that, apparently wanted to keep on the people who started with mike flynn. effectively, that s general petraeus also saying no. in harward s case, he was offered the post and then he overtly declined it amid reports that he was not happy about what he would be inheriting from flynn on the national security council. and interestingly, amid reports that the admiral was not psyched by what he saw at the president s strange first solo press conference last week. so general ordierno, how do you
complete say over the makeup of the nsc and all of the components of the nsc. and there is no demand made by president trump on any nsa director. how important for mcmaster to bring in his own team? it s critical. the decision by admiral harward maybe gave mcmaster more leverage. one of the first things to watch is who he brings in and does he change some of the people brought in by general flynn. let s listen to something that general mcmaster did say. he did this video with the army about developing talent. here is the general in his own words. oftentimes we can confuse activity with progress if we re not thinking critically about what we re doing. so you want you need officers who can think, really, about those first order questions. how they relate to what we re doing. who can frame problems from the outside and look at it