mr. mcmaster: i did.conclusion is president trump, and everybody knows this, has great confidence in his ability to make a big deal. this was the same sort of assumption that afflicted him, george w. bush, and barack obama. george w. bush looked into putin's soul. obama had a reset strategy. both of them got profoundly disappointed. this guy is the best liar, the best deceiver in the world, and he will tell you he feels surrounded, he has security concerns. what i have tried to convey to president trump, and i tell stories about this in the book that led to strong decisions by president trump, the only thing that provokes putin is the perception of weakness. and so he was persuaded by that. but of course he could fall back into that trap. you have seen him on the campaign trail, a lot of it is who is the last person who talks to him. so he's so disruptive at times, and i tell many stories about this, that he disrupts himself, and he becomes the antagonist in his own story. christian: with that story of ho

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 him that he wanted what was best for the country. now, he also predominantly wants what's best for donald trump. he always would ask implicitly, 3 or 4 questions. and i sent these to our team and said, hey, whenever you craft materials for the president, try to do them in such a way that they address these questions. they kind of are always on his mind, right? smart right. which is like, you know, he would always want to know. so what? why do we care abou

mr. putin. he never criticizes his policies, even when his own advisers tell him that he should. read hr mcmaster's new book, and yet he has been consistent on that. >> realistically, ambassador, what can the u.s. do? is there anything they said today that's in any way going to dissuade vladimir putin? >> i think this is a good sign, a shot across the bow to remind americans of this kind of behavior. we talked a lot about it in 2016. we should have talked more about it in 2020, by the way. they did various activities then. i applaud what the biden administration is doing right now to remind everybody that this is happening. they obviously have very good technology to uncover what has happened. that's a good reminder to the russians, and i think the very fact that they're doing this is a gentle reminder to all americans to be careful about what they're reading when the source comes from russia. and i want to remind everybody, you can go on x right now and find rt, the very people that are being indicted right now. they are freely tweeting. they are freely propagating their disinformation on the unit

mr. putin. he never criticizes his policies, even when his own advisers tell him that he should. read hr mcmaster's new book, and yet he has been consistent on that. >> realistically, ambassador, what can the u.s. do? is there anything they said today that's

mcmaster being trump's second national security adviser. in fact, before the abbey gate disaster back in 2021 mr. trump bragged about how he was responsible for the war ending and for the deadline. take a listen i started the process. >> all the troops are coming back to them. they couldn't stop the breast 21 years is enough. >> don't we think 21 they couldn't stop the process. they wanted to, but it was very tough this up. the process do you hold the trump administration responsible at all for the way the u.s. got out of that war absolutely not. >> and what i would like to do is commend to your audience the reading of the house foreign affairs committees, extensive report, it was published and released publicly today. they've looked into this for over three years. the first year of the democrats stalled the investigation, but it's an alarming set of facts and it is objective facts that are proven by testimony and the extensive investigation. what it shows is the doha agreement was a conditional agreement. certainly president trump made that a priority to try to end the conflict in afghanistan.

mr. trump is an f-ing moron. he had jim mattis, a four-star general what did he say? he said trump has the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader had general hr mcmaster, who called him an idiot, a dope on and on. i could go on he had quality people. i wouldn't agree with him on politics or policy, but their quality people and they've all run away from him like the double runs from holy water. so he's down now to the laura loomer is of the world because that's where he wants to get advice. >> i mean marjorie taylor greene, who herself was not a stranger to conspiracies, which she later apologized for and said cheap. she was reading misinformation, fed misinformation she, laura loomer have had a long-standing feud, which i think is part of what you're seeing today. but for her to come out and say, this is bad stuff. does does tell you something? no. sure does. i mean, she's very controversial in her own right. so we need to pay attention to her. she knows she wants donald trump to win. we want to get the white house we're not going to do it this way. we've got to go get those independents. >> you know what else she knows her state of georgia has a surg

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