h.r. mcmaster.ld we expect from a second trump term, and what does he think of the people surrounding the former president? also, the british prime minister in rome today to see how the italians are tackling illegal migration. and why is microsoft designing ai for the oil and gas giants? is their technology really force for good or a step in the wrong direction? good evening. welcome to the program. vice president kamala harris says she is deeply disturbed that there has been another attempt to kill her opponent, donald trump. the former president was on the for whole of his golf course at west palm beach sunday when a man was spotted pointing a gun through the fence 500 yards from where he was playing. the suspect, ryan routh, has en charged today with two gun offenses. so phone records showed he had spent nearly 12 hours in the tree line of the golf course and he had previously been convicted in north carolina. there will be a review of donald trump's security as we head into the final weeks of th

h.r. mcmaster was fired by donald trump. and now he's telling his inside story of the dysfunction and the reality of the trump white house today. i was with general mcmaster at the commonwealth club in san francisco. really a fascinating fireside chat about getting fired by president trump, but also the strengths of the former president. mcmaster has written a new book. it's called at war with ourselves. it documents the warring factions inside the white house and his role advising mr. trump. this isn't necessarily a book blasting the former president, but it certainly points out many of his shortcomings. you're a leader. you're a combat veteran. you're a patriot. is donald trump a patriot? raj, i would say yes. i believe that he wants what's best for the country. you know, his his brand of patriotism is different from others. it's more maybe overstated. you know, he's not a big hugger of people, but he is known occasionally to hug a flag. if anybody's noticed that, you know, on stage, but but i believe in my time serving hi

h.r. mcmaster and plus we'll hear from stanley mcchrystal about why he's supporting vice president harris.aryland republican senate candidate larry hogan will also join us as we preview tuesday's cbs news vice presidential debate. >>> plus, we'll get the latest on the flooding and devastation following hurricane helene. the monster storm that swept through the south from fema administrator deanne criswell. it is all just ahead on "face the nation." ♪ >>> good morning, i'm robert costa. margaret is preparing for tuesday's vice presidential debate that could be last time this season that national candidates face off in person. and with just over a month until election day, the spotlight is now on how the next administration will deal with challenges across the board. coming up, we'll look at the aftermath of hurricane helene. but we begin with mounting fears of an all out war in the middle east. our imtiaz tyab reports from lebanon. >> reporter: in this just released hezbollah video, the burial shroud of hassan nasrallah. as grief gripped supporters of the hezbollah leader, many went among t

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h.r. mcmaster joining us next. more coming up. stay with us.drea mitchell reports" on msnbc. long time ago. and year after year, you weathered the storm and just lived with the damage that was left behind. but even after all this time your thyroid eye disease could still change. restoration is still possible. learn how you could give your eyes a fresh start at tedhelp.com. >>> vladimir putin accused just yesterday by the justice department of trying to help the trump campaign. today said he is supporting none other than kamala harris. explaining he likes her, quote, infectius and expressive laugh. of course, donald trump has ridiculed harris' laugh. u.s. intelligence agencies say the kremlin prefers trump because of his skepticism of supporting ukraine. the u.s. accused russia of trying to help the trump campaign. the justice and treasury department also accusing two rt employees of bankrolling an online russian propaganda campaign. rt's press office wrote -- joining me now is retired lieutenant general h.r. mcmaster, former national security a

h.r. mcmaster is here hey general, how are you? >> great to see you. great to meet you. >> thanks for having me. >> sure okay. >> well, i never saw you smile like that when you were in the trump white house. >> i didn't know you. and first off, thank you for your service. truly, i mean, that you have been. you were in pretty much every war in my lifetime. well, not in vietnam. we were both too young for that. but desert storm back in the early 90s. then you went back to iraq for the iraq war, and then afghanistan. wow. three wars in one lifetime. do you think america gets in so many wars, or is that just part of that comes with the territory when you're a superpower? should we have been in all those or any of them answer any of these questions. yeah well, i'll tell you, i think one of the themes that goes through the book is really what a privilege it is to serve and defend the country. and i got to i really you know you know, i got to be i got to be part of teams where the man or woman next to you is willing to give everything, including their own liv

h.r. mcmaster. i remind you all that h.r. is the is the, uh, fouad and michele ajami, senior fellow at the hoover institution. he's also a fellow at the freeman spogli institute for international at stanford and a lecturer, the graduate school of business at stanford. he graduated in 1984 from the united states military academy for. i will not ask other graduates to raise their hands. but some will. thank you all for your service. he spent 34 years as a commissioned officer in the united states army. somehow, amid all that, he also earned a ph.d. in history from university of north carolina. and i feel compelled to add he spent a year as a mid-career officer as a fellow at the hoover institution. he retired in june, went to 18, as a lieutenant general, having served as the 25th assistant to the president for national security affairs. he's the author of two bestsellers as in the meantime, only two for another week two. those two bestsellers are. first battlegrounds, the fight to defend the free world, and a book called dereli

h.r. mcmaster who served as national security adviser in the trump administration but has not endorsed either candidate this time around. he's a cbs news contributor and author of a book "at war with ourselves." good morning, general. thanks for being here. >> great to be with you. >> you heard from retired general mcchrystal who has made an endorsement. you have not. why not? >> i respect his ability to make that decision, and right to make that decision, but what concerns me these days is the military is getting drug in to partisan politics and you hear really both parties trying to involve the military. of course general mcchrystal is endorsing vice president harris as an individual but sometimes it's difficult to differentiate between an individual endorsement and the military getting drug into partisan politics. you hear narrative from some on the far right the military is woke or the far left the military is extremist. the military is not woke or extremist. the military is doing its duties under the constitution and for whoever is elected commander in chief. that's been a big part of my

h.r. mcmaster. the last three were political appointees. they were retired generals. yes.olunteered to become a political appointee. and that's different. they can't leave that post and then go back and say, well i'm a retired general, and i'm now apolitical again. no. you saw things and you owe it to the american people to tell us what you saw and do you think that this man is fit to be back in the white house? you saw him and you were in a political position when you did that. i think that's a really important distinction. >> you're saying that it is -- they've already made that leap. >> absolutely. they -- you know, they're different than general milley. general milley served his entire career in the military when he got out, you know, if he doesn't want to wade into politics, hey, great. fine. okay. but the other three decided to go into political roles. chief of staff, secretary of defense, secretary of homeland security, national security adviser. those are political roles. you take your generalship off, you might have been a former general and that's how you got in

h.r. mcmaster is outcome with a sobering assessment of his time serving in the trump white house.staunch condemnation of his former boss. in his new book, which bears the title, at war with ourselves, my tour of duty in the trump white house, mcmaster depicts the current republican presidential nominee as an insecure personality, whose need for flattery and approval made him an easy target of war and adversaries bent on weakening the united states. mcmaster served as trump's national security advisor for 13 months, until he was fired in 2018. and retired army lieutenant general, a charming esther joins us now. thank you for being here, sir, congrats on the book, the trump campaign pushed back on this and said the book should be assigned to the bargain bin of fiction suggesting that nothing in it there, is worth paying attention to, but talk to us about, what we can find in this book, you-- your day-to-day experiences in his white house? >> sure, will i think it is a missed opportunity for the trump campaign, you know, because there's a lot positive about president trump in here, e

h.r. mcmaster. >> for anyone who thought he was going to pick nikki haley, guess what, if you pick laura loomer as the person to be in your ear and travel with you, you're never going to pick nikki haley. is kamala harris' campaign going to use this and show his crazy to the american people, i'm thinking about all the new yorkers who are kind of inclined to vote for him, the suburban women, how are they going to feel about his new traveling mate, laura loomer. >> it's interesting because they're not necessarily amplifying the outrageous claims that laura loomer is making that the former president is amplifying. what they're doing is speaking more broadly about what the harris campaign thinks is one of the most effective moments of that debate on tuesday night when she simply talked about turning the page. what have we seen an even recent polling is that a lot of americans do view donald trump is the change candidate in this race and a lot of americans are unhappy with the state of the race so what they are using, let's just call it crazy, to do, is get those fed up americans, those double hater

h.r. mcmaster. they owe it to america to tell us what they saw. they chose to get into politics and they should be telling us what they saw while they were -- while they were there. >> ian bassett, what keeps someone who saw everything and knows that the things that people worry about without maybe firsthand witnessing of those events, what keeps them quiet? what keeps an h.r. mcmaster silent? >> i think amy eludes to it there, which is this tradition that i think is held in very deep esteem, to sort of keep the military out of political matters. but amy explains here why there are some differences, particularly among those who have served in political roles. but i also think that we also -- they need to recognize that all the traditions that are so important that we are trying to preserve, the constitutional order that they served so honorably to defend, is at stake and frankly when you are going to hire someone for a job, any job, a job as an office worker, a job as a desk clerk, a job as a salesp

h.r. mcmaster. now go watch overtime on youtube thank you folks all right >> this is cnn breaking news hello and welcome to our viewers watching in the u.s. and all around the world. i'm lynda kincade. we're following breaking news out of the state of kentucky where a manhunt is underway after five people were shot and wounded, you are busy interstate highway. it happened saturday afternoon near interstate 75 in laurel county just north both of london, kentucky that's about 80 miles south of lexington. the london police department released a photo of who they call a person of interest in that shooting a 32-year-old white male named joseph, a couch. how she's about five foot, ten and weighs approximately 154 pounds police say he is considered armed and dangerous. the agency is urging people to contact their 911 call center with any information regarding the whereabouts or location of this individual or police closed a section of the interstate due to the active shooter situation, urging residents in

h.r. mcmaster. now go watch overtime on youtube. thank you. folks all right hey >> welcome to the whole story. i'm anderson cooper, after vice president kamala harris became the democratic nominee, she launched an aggressive campaign to re-introduce herself to the country but with the election looming, many remain undecided and are looking at where harris stands on the issues that matter to them before casting their ballots. over the next hour, cnn's audie cornish looks at harris's record and her promises on five key issues in this election reproductive rights immigration, foreign policy, the state of democracy, and one that most american side is they're our priority. the economy one day after president joe biden announced his decision to drop out of the race and endorsed his vice president, kamala harris, addressed a campaign staff at the wilmington, delaware headquarters building up the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency in her first interview as candidate, she doubled down on that commitment. >> if you are elected, what w

h.r. mcmaster, is very skeptical about. >> i don't really buy it in terms of, hey, in 24 hours.outcome without a favorable military outcome. that's never really happened in war. and so i think the right course of action is, if you want to accelerate progress toward settlement, is to convince putin that he's losing the war. i think that's the only way you get a favorable settlement. how do you do that? you demonstrate our resolve to continue to support the ukrainians as they defend themselves against this continued onslaught by the russians. that's how you get to maybe favorable conditions for negotiation. >> all right, let's bring in staff writer at "the atlantic," cohost of the podcast entitled autocracy in america, authoritarian tactics already at work in the united states, and where to look for them. david is still with us as well. >> let's start with you, and, of course, autocracy, talks about how, you know, when we talk about free trade, we talk about free trade crossing borders and enriching the world. autocracy talks about autocracy and crossing borders, and actually rein

h.r. mcmaster or john bolton or bill barr. >> and expand that to businesses, businesses who think, you knowave to -- we can, sort of, appease him. you know, appeasement is not something that works historically. and i think that it goes to this issue that we've been talking about, which is, sort of, like, why you have people who are enabling and complicit or just silent. and, you know, this is a sparticus moment where people really have to stand up. and i keep on thinking about you've had on your show cassidy hutchinson. and, you know, she had more courage in a young woman who had so much to lose starting out in her career. and the idea that other people don't show an ounce of the courage that she showed -- i don't mean to single her out as the only one. >> you're right. you're right. she did. and she's paid a price professionally and i'm sure personally. and we spoke about being worried for her security. it's a great point. you guys are sticking around a little bit longer. we have to sneak in one more break. we'll be right back. e to sneak e break. we'll be right back. >> woman: why did we

h.r. mcmaster who i've seen on the msnbc air and wrote a great book which is a warning sign about presidentd to separate the military from the civilian political process, and so i think it's hard for them. we tried to push them back in 2020. they said no. these are people like general kelly, a personal friend or secretary mattis, but they've made statements. they've made statements to the press, and they've been on the record and general kelly did hear the suckers and losers comment and general kelly himself is a gold star family member, him and his wife karen, and so it's quite disheartening to hear president trump talk like that, and i think that message is resonating. i think there's a reason why vice president harris is up in the polls. it's a combination of all these things that we're discussing, but i think tonight is the breakout opportunity for her, and i would imagine she's going to go up big and stay up big until we get to election day. >> she's also had a lot of endorsements since the last time i had a chance to talk to you from business leaders. just talk about the strength of h

h.r. mcmaster said, when he saw the absence of leadership and what that can do to our country.other national security adviser, said, "foreign leaders think he is a laughing fool." and i could go on and on. anthony scaramucci, a former communications director, "he is the domestic terrorist of the 21st century." again, go on. elaine chao quit after january 6th. at a particular point of events, it was impossible to continue given my personal values and my philosophy. so, claire mccaskill, we've been talking about -- and, you know, i think we need to do this on the monday before. we didn't plan to do this because the debate was on wednesday. we need to do it because when you see donald trump going out all weekend -- >> it's tomorrow. >> tomorrow, i mean. going out all weekend -- i'm really focused on it. the red sox lost to the white sox yesterday. how do you expect me to be? anyway, you look at what donald trump is doing on the eve of the presidential debate. talking about violence. talking about bloody deportations. we're going to have deportations, and they're going to be bloody

h.r. mcmaster, trump's national security adviser said our secretary of state, mr.ompeo, signed a surrender with the taliban. why surrender after you lose the 63 lives. withdrawals are difficult. surrender documents easier. trump signed the surrender document and left it to his successor to accomplish the withdrawal. so we're told, oh, will donald trump would have enforced these meaningless provisions? that's not what he would have done. what does john bolton, donald trump's another national security. he said he would be doing the same thing as the withdrawal from afghanistan. but don't trust his staff. what did donald trump say? donald trump said in october of 2020 after the 5,000 taliban fighters had been released because of donald trump's decision, he said, without any other conditions having been met, that he would have all those troops home by christmas 2020. those conditions were meaningless and were meaningless to donald trump and were meaningless to his national security adviser. they had no enforcement providings in them. so -- provisions in them. so why di