You want a national security adviser who is coordinating the processes among all the agencies that deal with these issues on behalf of the president and essentially exercising some oversight on those cabinet agencies.
David Axelrod discusses the importance of having a separate national security adviser rather than combining the role with the secretary of state.
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Yeah. I don't see the president-elect as a sentimental person. I don't think he's going to hang on here if he believes that Hegseth has become a liability to him.
this is another norm that's just going by the wayside in the era of Trump. But, I don't think it has particular meaning.
If he does all of those things, God bless him, good for him and good for the country.
There's a cost to U.S. credibility and there's a cost to Trump's credibility by bluffing like this and then pulling back.
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