mcmaster. there is a competent official who would be undersecretary or assistant secretary in a normal administration would be undersecretary. acting chief of staff mick mulvaney is certainly not john kelly and has made it clear he wants to leave. host: mark meadows may take over. guest: mark meadows, yeah, well anyway, the point is this was a group of people who imposed a certain amount of discipline on the president, which he does not like. he hates being managed and being lectured to. it is his prerogative to have the people in place that he likes working with. but the question is, are they the people who will sometimes challenge him as is necessary when you are president? think about obama and the bin laden raid, the secretary of defense said we should not do it and vice president joe biden said the same thing. at the end of the day, it was the president's decision, but he wanted to hear from naysayers as much as from people endorsing the raid. when it comes to tough decisions, you want peo

mcmaster won that fight.ek and you have to travel around in an armored car: it's not like you can walk in restaurants, hotels. >> it's worse than it was. >> it is worse than it was. that said half the population can now have a job. half of them can be educated. for aull the things that have gone wrong, and this report in the post is very disturbing, the fact is that afghanistan is in a much better plaince than it was when we invaded. >> in the book, incredibly relevant and focuses on many issues in the news every day these weeks, great to have you, and congratulations. >> thank you, john. >> alisyn. >> john, you'll enjoy this. republican lawyer steve castor made a real impression at monday's impeachment hearing, but it was not for what he said. here are your late night laughs. >> castor's demean throughout this whole thing was that of a guy who knew he was fighting a battle. instead of keeping his -- he showed up with his papers in a grocery store tote bag. look at that. it's luike he forgot about the hearing

so i don't anticipate either mattis or mcmaster getting out there and criticizing the president.viously we have had bill mcraven and also stan mcchrystal, two of the leading military officers of their generation, both publicly taking a stands against trump, but neither of them served for trump. one of the stories i have in the book is general mcchrystal was offered secretary of defense on november 16, 2016, and he turned that down because he didn't think donald trump would make a good commander in chief. that has remained his view. >> you start with a quote from dr. strangelove, those are the first words in the book. and the last chapter deals with a glittering washington book party. which do you think best describes where we are as a country right now? >> well, you know, i start with a scene in the war room at the pentagon where there is a great debate between steve bannon on one side and jim mattis advertise and rex tillerson on the other side and they're laying out to president trump how the united states is operating in the world and the intent on the bannon side to show we'r

mcmaster, mattis, kelly.e'll talk to the author of a new book on the relationship between trump and the generals who once advised him. >>> mr. president, are you concerned about north korea at all right now, the developments? >> we're watching it. we'll see. i'd be disappointed if something would be in the works, and if it is, we'll take care of it, but we'll see. we're watching it very closely. >> the north koreans say they've conducted two more tests in recent days aimed at countering any nuclear threat from the u.s. today in seoul, the top u.s. envoy on north korea warned that if the north conducts a major weapons test in the coming days, it would be, quote, most unhelpful in the effort to resume peace talks. the north has said the u.s. has until the end of the year to make concessions in these nuclear negotiations. and mind you, this is all happening just as we are hearing a devastating story about president trump's unique perspective, shall we call it, on north korea. in peter bergen's new book, "trump a

mcmaster has said nothing i'm aware of about his time, criticizing trump.think if you're a retired senior military officer, i think there is a kind of code of honor not to be critical of the president. so i don't anticipate either mattis or mcmaster getting out there and criticizing the president. obviously we have had bill mcraven and also stan mcchrystal, two of the leading military officers of their generation both publicly taking stands against trump, but neither of them served for trump. in fact one of the stories i have in the book is general mcchrystal was offered secretary of defense and on november 16th, 2016, he basically turned that down because he didn't think that trump was either honest or would make a good commander in chief, and that of course has remained his view. >> you start with a quote from dr. strangelove. those are the first words in the book, and the last chapter deals with a glittering washington book party. which do you think best describes where we are as a country right now? >> well, you know, i start with the scene in the war r

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mcmaster, general mcmaster, to talk about the work of the three centers here at fdd. the center on military political -- military and political power led by h.r. mcmaster and brad bowman, the center for cyber and technology innovation led by samantha ravitch, aided by any -- by annie fixler, and of course, our center on economic and financial power that i chair and is led by eric warber. that day, we talked about a number of threats, number of issues, including north korea. and largely, the ambition of the centers in the work we are doing at fdd would result in innovative, impactful, strategic work on things that matter to fundamental american national security. and that is exactly why we are here today and exactly what this report represents. it represents the best thinking of those three centers and the great work of brad bowman and dave maxwell and the authors. today's event and the report could not come at a better time, as those of you know, those who followed north korea closely, north korea and its leadership is returning to the well rehearsed playbook of blust

the case was the first of several climate change lawsuits. just before james mcmaster became ceo, heob applicant. this inspired him to start a new strategy for the staff of his company to create a happier workforce. my my cco my ceo secret is to occurrence your tea m my ceo secret is to occurrence your team to bring themselves to work and they will bring the true personalities, bring a better customer ‘s experience and that will increase more sales. i remember interviewing someone at a previous business who had had a bad experience coming back from maternity. there was no desk, no role and people didn't even know she was coming back that day and it made me think, if you come back into a work environment and you don't feel very valued, you are not going to do your best work so we believe the best way to have your staff feeling like they are giving everything and feeling like they are totally committed to the company is to create an environment where they feel they can bring their true selves to work. if you have a team there who don't feel like they can bring their personality to work

mcmaster.here is a competent official who would be under secretary or assistant secretary in a normal administration. acting chief of staff mick mulvaney is certainly not john kelly and has made it clear he wants to leave. guest: mark meadows may take over. yeah, wellmeadows, anyway, the point is this was a group of people who imposed a certain amount of discipline only president, which he does not like. he hates being managed and being lectured to. it is his prerogative to have the people in place that he likes working with. theyhe question is, are the people who will sometimes challenge him as is necessary when you are president? think about obama and the bin the secretary of defense said we should not do it in vice president joe biden said the same thing. at the end of the day, it was the president's decision, but he wanted to hear from naysayers as much as from people endorsing the raid. when it comes to tough decisions, you want people who will give you a range of device with which you wil

going to do that, we are going to talk about putting your personality into your workplace. james mcmasterny huel — says a chance meeting inspired him to start a new strategy for his staff, called "bring yourselves to work". he says that allowing employees to show their full personalities in their professional roles helps drive up sales and leads to a happier workforce. let's take a look. my ceo secret is to encourage your team to bring themselves to work and then they will bring their true personalities, they will give a better customer experience and that equals more sales. i remember interviewing someone at a previous business who had had a bad experience coming back from eternity, where there was no desk, no role, and people didn't even know she was coming back that day. it made me think if you come back into work environment and you don't feel very valued, you are not going to do your best work. so, we believe the best way to have your staff feeling like they're giving everything and feeling like they're totally committed to the company is to create an environment where they feel they

mcmaster. general mcmast toer to work on political power led by h.r. mcmaster and brad bowman and the center of technology and innovation led by samantha ravage and aided by amy fixler and the financial power that i chair and led by eric lorber. that day we talked about a number of threats and issues including north korea and largely the ambition that the work we were doing with ftd would result in innovative and strategic work on things that matter about fundamental american security and that's exactly why we're here today and that's what this report represents. the report represents the best thinking of those three centers and the great work of brad bowman and dave maxwell and the authors. today's, vent and the report couldn't come at a better time. as those of you know especially those who follow north korea closely. north korea is coming to bluster and brinksmanship and tied neatly to the holidays and those of us suffered holidays dealing with north korea's recalcitrance in order to achieve premature lifting of sanctions and premature pressure, nor

this is one page out of 250 pages but i did tell the president and hr mcmaster and others that knew ofconcerns but keep in mind what i said is this wasn't that these guys thought this was the rogue president, they disagree with his politics, disagreed with of get out of our paris climate agreement, getting out of the iran deal, disagree with moving the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem so when the president was charting a different course and giving us a strong hand for america and our friends, they thought he was going in the wrong direction. they were attempting to tell me if i would work with them they were trying to save america and keep people from dying but when the embassy moved from tel aviv to jerusalem the sky is still up there. it didn't fall and we didn't see casualties but a courageous moment that many presidents tried before and technology day fact. sean: your relationship with president seems great. you talk about how much freedom he gave you as his governing style was one that you like. when you were first asked about the impeachment issue it is like the death penalty

mcmaster didn't like a number of things obama had done in terms of not responding to the use of chemical weapons in syria and putting a withdrawal date on afghanistan. so there was a combination of factors why they said yes. >> and you make the point when it comes to foreign policy, president trump has more in common with president obama, what do you mean? >> the rhetoric, both of them come outside of the traditional app rat russ. er not machine candidates and they saw themselves getting elected to get out of the endless wars and obama did that in the end of 2011 and in afghanistan here we have president trump thinking about it. he's gone back and forth. but at the end of the day, they're not sending big conventional armies into the middle east as president bush did in 2003 and they're using drones and cyber warfare and careful with the use of force. >> and this is a pivotal moment that we'll be watching with you, peter burgen, as we watch what is happens in afghanistan. that is the big question when it comes to president trump and his foreign policy. trump and his generals, peter burgen

secretary mattis refused -- this was going to happen at camp david and mcmaster wanted options oconeee called back military operations against iran and we are pullingstantly trying to withdraw from north korea and dialing back and north korea rhetoric. we are almost in a war at 2017 and now we were not. he's lucky, he has not had a major foreign crisis. every president had a missile crisis or 9/11 or some big thing. trump has not had that yet. he may have that next year or may not or second term or should he get one. how he react in that crisis is an interesting question. >> he has been impulse sive in terms of the withdrawal of syria and erdogan and ignoring all the advices here. what are the implications though of the generals ignoring what the president really wants and how would we feel about it as some suggested if it were president commander in cheer, elizabeth warren or some other democratic commander in chief who does not have military experience and have the generals basically counter demanding. >> that's a great question. >> he's a commander in chief. commander in chief, he

mcmaster, and there were others that knew of y concern.d, what i said, this wasn't that they thought this was a rogue president. this was that these guys disagreed with his policy. they disagreed with us getting out of paris climate agreement, disagreed with us getting out of the iran deal. they disagreed with moving the and embassy from tel aviv. when the president was charging a different course and really giving us a strong hand for america and for our friends, they just thought that he was going in the wrong direction, and so when they sat me down that day, they were attempting to tell me that, if i would work with them, they were trying to save america and keep people from dying. but we saw when the embassy moved from tel aviv to jerusalem, the sky is still up there. it didn't fall and we didn't see casualties. what we saw was a courageous moment by the president that many presidents have tried before that was very successful and it acknowledged the fact, which, jerusalem is the capital of israel. >> sean: it's very interesting, becau

we also will have authors presenting the joy of cooking on november 23, 2019 here in the mcmaster center tickets are $50 but they include a copy of the newest edition of the book and a small sampling of some of the most loved recipes and cocktails. so hopefully we'll see you there. and now, for the reason you are all here today, our moderator for this afternoon is a pulitzer prize-winning columnist and professional in residence at canaan state university school of journalism. she's the author of two nonfiction books including and his lovely wife which chronicles successful rates of her husband and presenting author we see name for the u.s. senate. her novel, the daughters of erie town will be published by random house in spring of 2020 hopefully to bring her back here next year for that. please join me in welcoming to the stage miss connie schultz. [applause] [applause] >> don't laugh while i get on the stool. >> our guest author is a senior u.s. senator from ohio elected to see in 2006 a member of the democratic party he began his political career in 1975. prior to serving this united s

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worked with brennan and mcmasters. they have absolutely critical information about certain ukrainians involvement in our u.s. election. their relationships with the witnesses who went before the intel committee and others involved in these allegations make them the most critical witnesses in this entire investigation. and the records including their emails or text messages, the flash drives or computers have information that will bring this effort to remove the president to a screeching halt. so we have an article here from october 11, gary pickett points out that house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff recruited to former national security aides who worked alongside the whistle-blower at the nsc during the obama and trump administrations, abigail grace worked at the nsc until 2018, hired in february while shawn misco, nsc aide until 2017 join schiff's committee in august. the same month the whistle-blower submitted his complaint. and it goes on to point out that grace was hired to help schiff's committee inv

mcmaster. he was fired and replaced by john bolton.umstances that aren't clear but immediately coincide went with the events of the impeachment scandal, which is such a big deal that bolton won't testify about what he knows about the scandal. but after bolton was fired, he did get himself a book deal and he did sign up to start doing speaking engagements and at bolton's first public speaking engagement after he was fired, he gave a shocking warning. he said, if president trump is re-elected and gets a second term is he thinks he'll pull the united states out of nato. nato, of course, is the transatlantic alliance set up at the end of world war ii to, among other things, provide a unified western counterweight and unified western check against what was then the soviet union. nato has shaped the western world since world war ii. that alliance is, arguably, why there has never been a world war iii. but the first thing john bolton said after he got fired as trump's national security adviser is, if he gets a second term, he's going to destr

i did it -- interviewed hr mcmaster, and a few weeks later he resigned. i interviewed secretary mattis and a few weeks later he resigned. everything okay? [ laughter ] >> i guess i'll have an easy christmas. >> okay. just checking. thanks for the time. first, i want to talk about this horrible story out of pensacola. you definitively say it's terrorism today? >> first of all, it's a very tragic incident, three lives lost, eight injuries and of course we extend our condolences to all the families affected by it and touched by it and our military community down there. no, i can't say it's terrorism at this time. i think we need to let the investigators, the fbi do its work and a get us the facts and we'll move from there. >> it's reported that he posted a will on twitter, praising osama bin laden. there have been multiple arrests. any other light you can shed on this investigation? >> not at this time. like i said, my view is let the investigators do their work. in the meantime, we have taken precautions, yesterday i directed that we look at our security pr

it wasn't john bolton, it was hr mcmaster, dina powell, rex tillerson.hat stops him from subpoenaing those witnesses? did anyone hear putin say these things to him? did anyone hear him say it was ukraine? because it seems that his disbelief in the u.s. intelligence product is an ongoing threat to this country. >> well, nothing should stop them. and that's why i've said that i know that impeachment moves the process in one direction for the president of the united states, but the job of the united states congress and particularly the intelligence committee is to continue the work because -- i think as nick said, this really is ongoing. it's not as though we had an investigation. there was an election and it stopped. we are in the middle of a 2020 election, and that interference continues. and it continues vis-a-vis putin to donald trump to the american public. and i think that it's incumbent on legislators to look at this and to say this is not about the 2016 election, this is about what is happening right now in this election, and we run the risk that pu

secretary of defensejim mattis, white house chief of staffjohn kelly, and national security adviser, h.r mcmasterned now by peter bergen, author of trump and his generals. thanks for coming in. i love the story, one of the mysteries of the trump administration. he comes in and surrounds himself with brass, loves his generals, and then he gets unhappy and somehow they all have to leave. a multiple one could from your book, talking about the generals and you say... what happened ? trump what happened? trump is the first american president in history to have neither served in the military or public office so he need people who knew how to make things work. and also, you recall that about 100 of leading top republican experts said they would never work for charm. military officers generally do not take political positions, so by default he needed these military guys. very impressive group of people, to basically tell him how to run the war against isis and afghanistan and iraq and other places. over time, the policy differences begin to add up. these generally... they wanted to give a long—term commi

mcmasters made a comment that he didn't want to of his employees national security council ever mention the word holdover. because somebody was hired by the obama administration and rid of them gotten yet didn't mean they were holdovers. they're government employees. they're holdovers, and he should have never been in the position was. spent time trying to undermine could.sident as best he but as of march of this year, our own speaker said, must be, quote, ompelling and overwhelmingly bipartisan. she's violating her own tatement if she has this go forward next week. judiciary r own chairman nadler said there must never be a narrowly voted by one of supported our major political parties and other. by the such would produce divisiveness in our politics and will call very uestion the legitimacy of our political institutions. know what, jerry nadler when he said ght that. they go through with that in the january, eeks or in whenever, it's going to do exactly what he said, which is jonathan -- professor will an turley said, produce even more divisiveness in this country and will call nto que

mcmaster, they were serving as guardrails. sense from these men or at least people around them their true view of donald trump as commander in chief? how did they look at him? >> jim mattis was constantly slow-rolling any kind of military option. he was very concerned not to give military options to the president on iran or north korea, and it was a source of great frustration at the white house. it turns out, i think, that jim mattis kind of misunderstood trump a little bit, because it turns out trump is actually quite reluctant to use military force. he called back the military operation on iran, he pulled troops out of afghanistan, out of syria. he has tamped down tensions with north korea after amping them up. but certainly these generals saw their role as to kind of sort of fence him in a little bit, and also they disagreed with him. >> did they think it was dangerous, unpredictable? why did they need to fence him in? >> we know he's measurcurial an that was their view. >> if you look at the joint chiefs and the entire me

president biden on different matters involving ukraine should they worked with brandon and brennan and mcmasters. the relationships with the witnesses who went before the intel committee and others involved make them the most critical witnesses in the entire investigation. hearsay on hearsay, but we have experts who know better than the accumulated experience of the ages. so here we are. i would submit we need some factual witnesses. we do not need to receive a report that we don't have a chance to read before this hearing. we need a chance to bring in actual fact witnesses. there's a couple i could name that are critical to us getting to the bottom. they work for the national security council. they were involved in the ukraine affairs and they worked with vice president biden on different matters involving ukraine. it was critical information about ukraines involvement in our u.s. election. the relationships with the witness who is went before the intel committee and others involved in these allegations. makes him the most critical witnesses in this entire investigation. and the records includi