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those positions not confirmed by senate, as national security adviser is, he s had an unfailing insixty for people who shouldn t be in government giving them atop jobs. this is someone who should be in top job although not confirmed by the senate. this is someone who will not fit in with the rest of the trump white house. lucky for us, but strange for him. let me turn to joel benenson here as someone who sat across the table, i guess you could say, from donald trump during the course of the campaign. you saw the type of picks he had early on in his administration, failed pick of lieutenant general michael flynn here. when you see he picked someone, even david frum is shocked by coming into the administration, what is the first thing that comes to mind? first of all, about this first pick, it s the first two orchestrated minutes since he took the oath of office. it was not chaotic. it was straightforward. not taking questions was smart. i believe they coughed up the

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follow-up meetings. i think now we can presume that the follow-up meetings were today. the president earlier tweeted that he was meeting with some generals. and we now see how profound the influence of flag officers has been for donald trump. when you have mattis and kelly, now members of the cabinet as secretaries, retired generals. now you have a three-star in h.r. mcmaster, who will serve as national security adviser. and kellogg, keith kellogg, also a three off-star, as chief of staff for that important national security council, which is really not as well known to the general public about how large that staff can be, how expert they are on different regions of the world and different threats to the united states. and it will be mcmaster s role to sift through that, to help advise the president, to be in on all the important meetings. it is really a role that is close to the president. one where there s often a very close bond of trust and friendship that builds up

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guidance. apparently his work is done. he s ready to get back after a weekend that was in part business, meetings not only on this but obamacare, as we were told, staff meetings and some time for golf. jacob? kelly o donnell, stay with us. as kelly said, our guidance was the president was going to head back to the washington, d.c., area in the next hour but he seems to have accelerated that departure after making his national security adviser pick. for more on the president s pick for national security adviser, i want to bring in colonel jack jacobs. what else can you tell us about lieutenant general mcmaster? it s kind of a surprising pick. i ll tell you why. h.r. mcmaster is one of the clearest, most logical thinking people you will run across anywhere. he thinks outside the box. he s extremely creative. he s very, very articulate, both in writing and in speech. he s a great leader. has a great deal of leadership

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i mean, he s that kind of personality. and it s difficult to envision somebody with that kind of personality and experience being in an environment in which things are very tightly controlled from 1600 pennsylvania avenue, jacob. so, colonel jacobs, do you think that mcmaster in this situation was able to extract some exceptions from the trump administration with regard to staffing? we do know general petraeus as well as robert harward were said to have not been picked for that position because of issues regarding staffing and being able to pick their own staff as national security adviser? yeah, great point. i think, yes, he probably was able to extract some kind some measure of independence because i think the white house has come to the conclusion it was not going to get a first-class mind who can act as the honest broker in developing national security strategy and

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