h.r. mcmaster. >> brennan: we go now to president trump's former national security advisor, h.r. he has a new book out. good morning to you. >> good morning, margaret, great to be with you. >> brennan: joe biden is the president-elect, and the president has now viable legal pathway to 270 electoral results, but he continues to raise doubts. how corrosive is that to our national security? >> well, it's very corrosive, margaret. what concerns me is that the president is playing into the hands of our adversaries. what i write about in "battlegrounds" is russia doesn't care who wins our elections, as long as a large number of americans doubt the legitimacy of the result. what all of us need to do at this point is to demand better from our political leaders, especially the president, that they don't play into our adversaries' hands, and reduce our confidence in our democratic principles. >> brennan: the president fired cri kris crebs. creb called that press conference the most dangerous hour and 45 minutes in american history and possibly the craziest. is he overstating it? >> i think

h.r. mcmaster. we should note he is the author of a new book, might be worth reading at this time of transition "battleground: the fight to defend the free world." h.r., good to have you on this morning. >> jim, great to be with you. happy thanksgiving. >> thanks very much. another former colleague of yours from the trump administration, general mattis, retired general mattis, wrote a piece in foreign affairs talking about how the natiold re cooperative security over trump's america first. the president is attacking mattis this morning, calling him a failure, et cetera. but i wonder big picture if you had ten minutes with president-elect biden, would you recommend that? a return to sort of a more old school approach to the world, alliances matter, american exceptionalism, et cetera? >> i guess, i mean, the advice that i would give is let's focus on what the alliances are for and then galvanize other countries to work with us on our greatest challenges. for example, china's campaign of cooperation, co

h.r. mcmaster about veterans day and the presidential election. first, here's what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 13 in tampa, braces for a second hit from what is once again hurricane etta. the storm has been in the gulf of mexico since -- causing major flooding in some areas. fox19 in cincinnati as a truck crashes and fires shut down both sides of interstates 71 and 75 and the bridge which connects cincinnati and covington, kentucky. and carries approximately 180,000 vehicles a day over the ohio river. police say the roads will be closed for an extended period of time. no timing yet on what that means. and this is a live look at detroit from our affiliate, fox 2, they are. one of the big stories there, coalition of public education groups urges the michigan supreme court to bar the state from reimbursing private schools for complying with health and safety orders. the case involves more than $5 million set aside for private schools by the republican-controlled legislature when rick snyder was governor. if

h.r. mcmaster, board director of the atlantic council and senior fellow at stanford's hoover institution, and the 26th assistant for the president for national security affairs. general mcmaster joins us for a discussion of u.s. grant strategy with a particular emphasis on u.s. foreign-policy regarding china and the middle east. there are a few who bring a more , as agic mindset historian, as a retired officer with 34 years of experience in the u.s. army, and is one of our nation's senior policymakers. , generalw book mcmaster lays out what he sees as a new vision for a better u.s. national firm policy. he advises the use of strategic empathy to better know and understand our adversaries and using that perspective to rather thanrategies episodic or short-term engagements to solve long-term problems. general mcmaster has cited one of the great examples of strategic thinking and character and our foreign-policy leaders as an inspiration and model for his tenure at the national security council. as many of you who listening today know that general was one of the architects, one of the great l

h.r. mcmaster, who is a lieutenant general in the u.s. army, and one of its great thinker soldiers. and he was named national security adviser a month into donald trump's term. general mcmaster, welcome. let me first ask you a simple question. the president of the united states has just tweeted that this election was rigged. what is your response? >> well, fareed, it's great to be with you. first of all, that was a pretty depressing lead-in, fareed. i think i'm a lot more optimistic than you are. record numbers of americans voted. our democracy works. and while what the president says in this tweet is just wrong, it's regrettable, it's counterproductive, i think our democracy kocould be stronger tn ever, right? people are making a lot about, hey, we're divided. but if we weren't divided, we would be a one-party system. so i think we should be more confident. and fareed, what i write about in "battlegrounds" is that the only thing worse than the ignorance of history is the misuse of it. and i'll tell you, fareed, we just haven't -- we just didn't go through world war i and we're not t

h.r. mcmaster, thank you very much. gen. mcmaster: thank you, nick. judy: despite denial by the president, the transition tora biden adminion is moving forward. one of his closet allies in the capitol democratic senator chris coons of delaware. he joins me now. thank you for being with us. before i ask about the transition, i want to ask about the georgia recount. senator lindsey graham of south carolina himself has said he phoned georgia's republican secretary of state, and i'm quoting, mr. raffeperger says "mr. graham asked about possible ways ballo could be disqualified, including whether the secretary of state could reject all absentee ballots in counties that had a highig numbr ofture mismatches." what is your reaction to this? senator graham is denying it. wh is your view? se coons: this election is over. the election is two wks ago tonight and the saturday news outlet was beg to, every call the election for en.it ist-elect joe b longpast time for the presidento accept this transition and begin moving forward. these actions by senator grahain of

h.r. mcmaster , and vice president-elect harris senior adviser symone sanders.s week, the trump administration announced it would withdraw 2,000 troops from afghanistan by mid-january. critics say the decision risks putting peace and progress in the country in danger. imtiaz tyab has the story. >> reporter: the scarred streets of kabul are shattered yet again by rocket fire. forcing a group of school girls to run for their lives after the capital's heavily fortified diplomatic area was targeted. few here were spared in the attack, claimed by a regional branch of isis, including this woman's grandson. she asks, "what was the crime of this innocent child? he was just eating breakfast at home. why do we get killed? we aren't the government." the assault happened just hours before a meeting between secretary of state mike pompeo and taliban negotiators in qatar, that follows the outgoing trump administration's announcement it plans to withdraw 2,000 troops from afghanistan by mid-january. raising concerns about the afghan government's ability to deal with violence l

h.r. mcmaster, who is warning biden on a possible iran deal.oe biden has repeatedly said he'd like to re-enter the jcpoa. what that looks like, whether or not iran would actually even agree to re-enter the agreement is a big question, i think, and what the united states will agree to as well, and the parameters surrounding that. h.r. mcmaster saying the deal forged with the tehran regime with then secretary of state john kerry failed to consider the hostile ideology of iran in the 40 years they have fought against america. these big payoffs to iran when the deal was signed, as well as relief to sanctions, what did they do with that money? they applied that money to sectarian violence across the region in an effort to put a proxy army on the border of israel. what do you think about the deal heading into a biden administration, especially with a country like iran that won't necessarily trust the united states going into a second deal when donald trump essentially tore up the last one? >> well, i think both sides are going to be slow to re-enter

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h.r. mcmaster served in the military for 34 years. held the position of the 26th assistant to the president for national security affairs as well as being a close friend of my husband for many years. he'll be talking about his new book, battleground, the fight to defend the fee and jeffrey world doctor michael crow the 1h president of arizona state university. a mccain institute trustee and dear friend to my family. we are proud to host mcmaster and president grover will be at timely discussion on u.s. foreign policy. >> go ahead you can begin. >> alright great. glad to see everybody here. general mcmaster nice to see you again. what i want to do first is say the book, fantastic peace of work got many little tags on it. i want to spend some time relative to a set of core ideas that you put out in the book. in fact some that i think are fantastic in the sense they are concepts we should be using in the articulation of our thinking about foreign policy and national event policy and so forth. i articulated 20 questions for you. seventeen

h.r. mcmaster, anthony scaramucci.he list goes on and on of the number of people who have found themselves on the wrong side of the presidency. mark esper fell a far -- a foul of them in june with black lives matter protests taking place. he said a former national guard marine that he did not support sending armed forces into civilians. we were not quite there yet. it was really than that the president talked about whether he would keep them or not. in the last 72 days, mark esper has been fired. with me now -- sorry, go ahead. ros: i was just going to ask you to carry on what's going -- reporter: thank you, i was doing the same -- i have made several trips to delaware ended up. every time the networks would rush here to delawar this is where joe biden was raised. he moved here as a 10-year-old from scranton, pennsylvania. this is where his wife tragically died in a car accident with his infant daughter and where he became a senator at the age of 29. with me now is the attorney general of delaware state. thank you so m

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h.r. mcmaster on foreign policy. bidensident-elect joe announced a number of foreign-policy and national security posts on tuesday. toinees include tony blinken be secretary of state and john kerry as the new presidential envoy for climate. following his remarks, vice president elect kamala harris close doubt the event with brief comments. this runs about 30 minutes. gooddent-elect biden: afternoon, everyone. today, i am pleased to announce nominations for staff for critical foreign policy and national security positions in my administration. it is a team that will keep our country and people safe and secure, and it is a team that reflects the fact that america's back, ready to lead the world, not retreat from it, once again sit at the head of the table. ready to confront our adversaries and not reject our allies. ready to stand up for our values. in fact, in calls from world leaders that i have had -- 18 to 20 of them so far, i'm not sure the exact number -- in the weeks since we won the election, i'm struck by how

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h.r. mcmaster, a lieutenant-general in the u.s. my and one of its great thinker soldiers and he was named national security advisor a month into donald trump's term. general mcmaster, welcome. let me first ask you a simple question. the president of the united states has just tweeted that this election was rigged. what is your response? >> well, first of all, that was pretty deres pressing lead-in. i think i am more optimistic than you are. record numbers of americans voted. our democracy works. and what the president says and in this tweet, it's just wrong, it's regrettable, it's counterproductive, i think our democracy is -- could be stronger than ever. people are making a lot about that we are divided. if we weren't divided we would be a one-party system. i think we should be more confident. what i read about in battlegrounds is the only thing worse than the ignorance of history is the misuse of it. i will tell you, fareed, we didn't go through world war i and we are not the wie mar republican. so i think that we have to be more

h.r. mcmaster, second national security adviser after mike flynn, said he believed it was a risk for the president to do that. he was talking about labels or levels they were at in the middle east with troop levels now. he said he believed it was a sustainable level and said the chance the president is taking by following through with troop draw downs could have lasting effects and that could come in years of the biden administration or after that. those are decisions we are watching closely. the president is making decisions, a lot of moves he is making are ones he may have made even if he won the election, firing the defense secretary was one, considering firing the cia director was another. we know in october he was tweeting, seemed to be trying to get people to vote about troop draw down levels. we have to see what he does in the next 60 days. aides say don't expect it to be a quiet period. >> kaitlan collins at the white house. abby phillip, appreciate the reporting. >>> when we come back, coronavirus vaccine is coming, but it is a difficult couple months ahead before it does. >>> another vac

h.r. mcmaster, former trump national security advisor, slamming the decision to withdraw more u.s.s from afghanistan and iraq. joining me katie bell williams. welcome. what do you make of all of this? the afghan offensive has been going on for 19 years. 19 years. why are some in the military against this move? >> there are -- what i hear from my sources in the pentagon who believe that the united states military presence in afghanistan is necessary is they see us a little like the little dutch boy with his finger in the dam. we are there as a presence to prevent these kind of safe havens for terrorist groups like al qaeda to launch an attack. on the other side there are security analysts who are saying, this is insane. al qaeda does not have the same ability to strike the united states that it did in 2001. in the meantime, what is the national interest of the united states staying in afghanistan? what i think is really interesting to watch here is, as we look at this peace agreement, this so-called peace agreement that the trump administration struck with the taliban in february, o

h.r. mcmaster also served numerous tours in iraq and afghanistan. his latest book is defend the free world." to >> general, welcome back." to the "newsho thank you very much. let's start on the afghanistan drawdown. as we heard, acting defence secretary chris miller says the mission is not changing. can the u.s. continue the mission if it goes down to 2500? i think it goes beyond the paultry number f troops. in both afghanistan and iraq. i think it is the overa strategy. essentially in afghanistan, nick, what ha've done is partnered with the talibant gets the afghan government. the afghan government officials are sitting across the table fro the taliban in doha, andin they're he we defeated the world's greatest super power. why are wven speaking to you? >> i spoke with a senior afghan official who echoed your fear about the doha ped e talks. he t it will further "embolden the taliban." and i talked to other taliban officials and they said we don't kif the military's capacities will go down. afghan officials are holding out, and sayg if the capacitie

h.r. mcmaster, the former national security advisor to president trump, discussed u.s. foreign-policy at an event hosted by the atlantic council. he talked about middle east security, u.s. strategy towards china and the military mission in afghanistan and iraq. this is 45 minutes. >> hello and welcome. p, president and ceo of the ati

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h.r. mcmaster rejected mr. trump's claim on twitter that the presidential election was rigged. what the president says in his tweet, it's just wrong, the general said. it's regrettable. it's counterproductive. john kelly, once chief of staff to the same president, told "politico" that a delayed transition was debt emergency to the country's national security -- detrimental to the country's national security. his concerns were echoed by more than 150 former military and senior elected officials that called on the leader of the general services administration miss emily murphy to recognize the election of president-elect biden and vice president-elect harris. but administrator murphy refuses to engage what is known as ascertainment to establish who the real winners were. she continues to deny president-elect biden and his team access to resources and knowledge they need to become, to begin the massive task of setting up a new government. administrator murphy's actions are in defiance of the federal presidential transaction act and the law that is gomping the transfer of power in