health care out here. all right, maya, thank you very much, and thank your guests, we appreciate it. let s go to politics further. president trump coming to the defense of his national security advisers. the white house released a statement by the president tonight, saying in part, general mcmaster and i are working very well together. hays a good man and very pro-israel. i am grateful for the work he continues to do serving our country. joining me now, ceo of american majority, ned ryan, who is also a former speechwriter for president george. with w. bush. ned, big welcome. in light of the latest firing at the national security council, here s what you tweeted, if @realdonaldtrump chooses mcmaster over bannon, guarantee parts of the base walk and some of his stronger defenders fade away. so you re calling among those rather, you are among those calling for mcmaster s ouster. your reaction to the president s comments there. how do you feel? this is a very,, you know trump has
son-in-law? can you actually do that? and more broadly, in terms of the communication strategy, part of their problem is they haven t been honest. when you come out with stories that are essentially covering up the real reason you fired director comey or when you re saying you did not meet with the russians when in fact you d that s going to be a challenge to any communications staffer no matter how good they are. rick, you saw this morning the president was at arlington cemetary. big rousing round of applause. they re talking about him having morae rallies now because that the stuff he feeds off. the sword dance, the big welcome, he likes that kind of stuff. by the time he got to europe and he was not around people who think he s the second coming, he doesn t respond as well. he starts to get a little bit aggressive. that s right. i think the first part of the foreign trip was actually a great success for donald trump, and the pictures coming out of there were very good and we su