h.r. mcmaster. what is the white house saying?the white house is saying that this is within the prerogative of the president of the united states to put people he wants on those boards and take people he doesn't want off of them. let's just keep in mind some perspective here. donald trump ran a very bad administration that culminated in an armed insurrection against the will of the american people on january 6th. many people he stocked the administration with were, like him, unfit to serve. not all of them, but many of them were. what you said is the administration today saying, we're going to remove a bunch of these people, and jen psaki cited two people. >> i will let others evaluate where they think kellyanne conway or sean spicer were not political and qualified to serve on these boards. but the president wants you to be qualified to serve and that you be aligned with the values of this administration. >> sean spicer angrily denounced the decision, saying it had insulted his service as a naval officer. but keep in mind, sean s

h.r. mcmaster. what is the white house saying? >> the white house is saying that this is within the preprerogative of the president of the united states to put people he wants on those boards and take people he doesn't want off of them. let's just keep in mind some perspective here. donald trump ran a very bad administration that culminated in an armed insurrection against the will of the american people on january the 6th. many people he stocked the administration with were like him, unfit to serve. not all of them but many of them were. and so what you had is the administration today saying we're going to remove a bunch of people from these boards and jen psaki cited two of the most high-profile people that you mentioned in explaining the president's decision. >> yeah. >> i will let others evaluate whether they think kellyanne conway and sean spicer and others were qualified or not political to serve on these boards. but the president's qualification requirements are not your party registration. t

h.r. mcmaster, recently called the deal, quote, a surrender in the deal with the taliban. that's what joe biden inherited when he became president and when it became time to face that responsibility that's exactly what he said -- i accept the responsibility for my decision. what a contrast with the previous president who accepted responsibility for montgomery. this president stood -- responsibility for nothing. this president said i'll make the decision, i'll stand by it. it was time for america to end our longest war. it is time now for us to find a. mr. tuberville: 20 years ago, september 11, 2001, americans watched in horror as two planes struck the world trade center in new york city. we watched as another plane slammed into the pentagon, and yet another bound for this very city crashed in pennsylvania. that day was the worst attack on american soil in our history. america's death toll surpassed pearl harbor in december 1941. that day children came home from school without their parents. calls from family members went unreturned. lives were changed forever. yet instead

h.r. mcmaster, trump's second national security visor recently called the deal a surrender agreement withhe taliban". that is the agreement joe biden inherited and became. when it came time to face that e responsibility that is exactly what hety said. i accept full responsibility for my decision but what a contrast who accepted responsibility for nothing for this president stood up and set i will make the decision, i will stand by it. it was time for america to end its longest war. it's time now for us to find a way to bring the nation back together, yield the floor per. >> 20 years ago, september 11, 2001, americans watched in horror as two planes instruct the world trade center in new york city.

h.r. mcmaster, recently called the deal, quote, a surrender in the deal with the taliban. that's what joe biden inherited when he became president and when it became time to face that responsibility that's exactly what he said -- i accept the responsibility for my decision. what a contrast with the previous president who accepted responsibility for montgomery. this president stood -- responsibility forhi

h.r. mcmaster.asir was living in california until he watched the afghan government collapse earlier this month, and he knew that he needed to get his family out. once he got to afghanistan, he tried to get into the airport multiple times, he says, with his mother and niece. but each time they were confronted with tear gas and closed gates. basir joins me now on the phone. we're only using his first name for his safety and that of his family. i'm so glad you're with us this evening. thank you for joining us. you went to afghanistan from the u.s. to rescue your family right after kabul fell. you repeatedly went to the airport, you say, to try to get out, but no luck. talk to me about trying to get through the gates. you said that you were hit by tear gas? >> yes. hi, don. how are you doing? so, yeah, i was in california when i heard that the government collapsed and people were able to get their family out of afghanistan. so i decide, and i left my wife and my 6 months old son behind to go to afghanis

h.r. mcmaster, sean spicer, kellyanne conway, why now? >> no question about it.tomarily of these boards serve three years irrespective of who the new president is. when it comes down to it, it appears this just happens to be a raw political power move so the biden administration can steer attention away from afghanistan. elizabeth: you know president trump it has been said didn't fire obama appointees, right? now you got general jack keane, kellyanne conway saying no, we're not going to quit. kellyanne conway, you, mr. president, you should be fired. >> they should absolutely not quit and they should fight this. i believe there has never been a case of this situation ever been adjudicated. i tip my hat to jack keane and to kellyanne conway, but to your point, emac, essentially the biden administration says this is not about party registration but it is about qualifications. if that is the case, i think you would be hard-pressed to ever find two more qualified people than four-star general jack keane and former national security advisor, h.r. mcmaster. i bet they

h.r. mcmaster, sean spicer, kellyanne conway, dave urban, et cetera.hem, some of those officials are refusing to hand in their resignations, setting up a possible legal standoff. i'm joined by mark murray. set the scene as far as president. what is typical, what is not when it comes to these kinds of positions on military advisory boards and letting people stay on or not. >> these are advisory boards for a lot hof the service academies you see like the air force academy, west point and the naval academy, and these positions do end up having set dates that you have a term that you serve throughout x-date, and for many of them, the former president, donald trump, ended up appointing people like sean spicer, the former omb director, and kellyanne conway to these positions as trump was ending his presidency or pretty much headed out the door. >> on the way out the door, right. >> right, and so, you know, the white house ended up saying they want their own people, people who align with their values, and also their qualifications that they see are important

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h.r. mcmaster. house press secretary sean spicer, a naval officer he was.mer white house budget director and former senior advisor kellyanne conway. she shot back saying this. your decision is disappointing but understand able given the need to distract from a news cycle that has you mired in self-inflicted crises and plummeted poll numbers i'm not resuming but you should. meghan calls the move purely partisan. >> i think it's imperative we fight for this. one of the last places where we should be politicizing anything is our united states military academy. i served along obama appointees and were very respectful. >> harris: jen psaki defended the president's decision. >> we're confident in our legal abilities here but i will tell you, john, no one is looking to have a battle here. >> traditionally these appointees do serve out the full three-year term though. >> it goes back to what every president's right is. to appoint individuals they choose because they are aligned with their values and aligned with the qualifications that they deem for any of these po

h.r. mcmaster. as always when news breaks out we will break in. i'm trace gallagher.k to "hannity." >> sean: joe biden struggles are now so glaring, it is so undeniable that even his own staff or putting him on mute, literally. according to a new report from politico white house staffers often for the president on silent or don't watch him live at all in an effort to quell their anxiety about what they might say or might do. this report already tells us what we know and that is that his presidency is imploding and why biden has told don't take questions altogether because he is weak, frail, cognitive mess and frankly, deteriorating daily. common sense americans, the world have all taken notice. listen to the welcome that joe biden got yesterday in new jersey that the media tended to ignore. >> [bleep] leave americans behind! [bleep] leave americans behind! we should leave you behind, you guys! you guys! >> sean: meanwhile, biden's failures abroad continue to embolden americans enemies and adversaries because, get this, according to a new report, u.s. news, they are no

h.r. mcmaster. on saturday he's going to get their highest alumni association award for graduates. so there are some individuals that have a claim to these positions who were just fired. >> right. and the point that jen was making to our questions earlier today is that these are presidential appointees. so of course they serve at the pleasure of the president who is in office. and she said -- she wanted appointies to the board that would better reflect the president's values. traditionally these boards are largely advisory and ceremonial. a lot of them are three-year terms and they go across the administration. so it was an interesting move by the administration to do this. the former trump officials fight this? kellyanne conway's letter seemed to think that she was going to push this on a little bit further. >> right. and it wasn't exactly a letter that was demonstrating that she was capable of doing a job in a nonpartisan way. but let me ask you because these terms from these board members are staggered. there were people from the obama administration on the boards when trump sta

h.r. mcmaster, trump's own former national security adviser called a surrender treaty to the taliban.nding to be critical. as for others in the democratic party who want us to stay longer, various foreign policy experts, they've been proven wrong. joe biden has been right all along. in 2009 when they surged under the obama administration and added 30,000 troops to afghanistan, secretary of state hillary clinton, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, david petraeus, general david petraeus, i could go down the list, defense secretary robert gates, who claimed it was biden who was wrong about everything, he was wrong. joe biden was right ten years ago that this was a way to spend a lot in human lives and we shouldn't be doing it. so he's now just following through, he's being very consistent on what his position has been all along. >> jonathan, always a pleasure, my friend. thank you so much for all of that. >>> colorado police officers are now facing charges in the death of a 23-year-old black man two years ago. many are asking, what took so long? in a moment, some of the last word

h.r. mcmaster, watch it something is going on. here are people you need to be careful about. and he begins meeting with the joint chiefs, army, navy, air force to talk about what will they do to block donald trump if he takes a step to use the military to keep and maintain his grasp on power. they decide, basically, as phil and i learn on a reverse saturday night massacre, if anyone is familiar with that moment from nixon's presidency. they talk about how they will resign one by one basically to stop the president in his tracks if he does something insane. >> extraordinary. phil, cover of your book obviously has the picture of donald trump pulling off his mask upon his return from walter reed medical center after he was diagnosed with covid. when you talk to him in your interviews and as you report in the book, do you have any sense of any second guessing of how he handled theb.? anything epts to do differently in the moments of his presidency? >> his management of covid, failure, we know that. yet when we asked him what he would do differently he had no regrets. nothing to a

h.r. mcmaster, those who served many years in the national security community. thing that might be worth pointing out, what is the precedent here? the precedent is these people do serve out their terms and oftentimes the outgoing administration will make these appointments at the end so that their influence continues or the trump administration still in office was doing this. i think we might be focused on what is the precedent here. now, that said, of course, president trump broke all of these norms and we know that many of these people he put on these boards don't necessarily bring that expertise to the table. >> unprecedented who he put on. >> exactly. so, you know, i think clearly there's going to be some blow back here. at the end of the day, the president is able to demand these resignations, is able to fire these people it seems, although obviously the push is for these folks to insist, no, we're not going to do it, we're not going to resign voluntarily. >> all right. kasie, you have to stick around for us because we -- >> happy to. >> we have not gotten

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h.r. mcmaster who are also on the list are going to do.ple who enjoy the attention, this move gives them that, and that's probably not a consequence that the administration was considering. again, they have the right to have people, you know, donald trump did plenty of replacing when he was in office for four years. that is to be sure. administrations have the right to have their own people. it just gives a good twitter box to people who are waiting for one. >> a.b. stoddard, charlie sykes, thank you for spending time with us, especially on these stories. >>> the next hour of "deadline: white house" starts. let me tell you what we have, live remarks from president biden on covid. starts right after a quick break. don't go anywhere. dry eye symptoms keep driving you crazy? inflammation in your eye might be to blame. [inflammation] let's kick ken's ache and burn into gear! over the counter eye drops typically work by lubricating your eyes and may provide temporary relief. those drops will probably pass right by me. xiidra works differently,

h.r. mcmaster, donald trump's, i don't know, second of four national security advisors and he did an ierviewhe surrender reement, in his wos, that the last administration, mi pompeo, entered into. let's listen. >> our secretary of state signed a surnder agreement to the taliban. >> you're talking about mike pompeo? >> yes. thisollapse goes back to the catulati agreement of 2020. mean, y know the taliban didn't defeat us. we defeated ourselves. >> so, helene, i play that to broaden the lens around which we examine what happened on capitol hill today. what did you think of the sort of this line of questioning and responses up there today? >> well, hi, nicole. thanks for having me. i think you're right. this was an extraordinary day. i mean, as i was on deadline and filing my story and i, you know, you're in the moment and you're not really processing what you're seeing, and now that we've sort of the six hours of testimony has ended, the six hours of public testimony has ended, and you -- we now sort of have time to think about what we just saw today, it was sort of just a really sad punctuati

h.r. mcmaster, recently called the deal, quote, a surrender in the deal with the taliban. that's what joe biden inherited when he became president and when it became time to face that responsibility that's exactly what he said -- i accept the responsibility for my decision. what a contrast with the previous president who accepted responsibility for montgomery. this president stood -- responsibility for nothing. this president said i'll make the decision, i'll stand by it. it was time for america to end our longest war. it is time now for us to find a way for us to bring this nation back together. i yield the floor. a senator: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from alabama. mr. tuberville: 20 years ago, september 11, 2001, americans watched in horror as two planes struck the world trade center in new york city. we watched as another plane slammed into the pentagon, and yet another bound for this very city crashed in pennsylvania. that day was the worst attack on american soil in our history. america's death toll surpassed pearl harbor in december 1941. tha

h.r. mcmaster did submit his letter, but he was asked to quit. it's that super embarrassing.weekend he is getting west point's distinguished graduate award. they are giving him the award but at the same time the administration is trying to take away his job. brian: wrote the most comprehensive book on the challenges america faces. go ahead. ainsley: meaghan mobbs was appointed by the west point board by president trump. obviously a west point veteran. the military board she says should not be political. and she talked to brian. listen to this. >> i think it's imperative that we fight for this. one of the last places where we should be politicizing anything is our united states military academies, especially at a place like west point which has the oldest board. that board was formed by then secretary of war james monroe back in 1815. this has been a long tradition of being nonpartisan to ensure that we are offering the best possible advice and instruction to our west point cadets. steve: yep. so, anyway. we don't know how many of the people are fighting back saying they are n