National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said Sunday that President Trump\u2019s United Nations speech will focus on promoting and protecting American prosperity and suggested that the White House\u2019s National Security Council is better after having removed adviser Steve Bannon and others who pushed \u201ctheir own narrow agendas.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe National Security Council, I think, has served the president well in bringing him multiple options. There were some who tried to operate outside of that process for their own narrow agendas. And that didn\u2019t serve the president well,\u201d McMaster told \u201cFox News Sunday,\u201d in response to questions about his policy clashes with Bannon.<\/p>\n
McMaster, shortly after becoming the White House national security adviser in February, removed Bannon as an official member of the council. And Bannon was ousted last month as the president\u2019s top political adviser, after retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly became Trump\u2019s chief of staff.<\/p>\n
Others removed from the council include intelligence expert Ezra Cohen-Watnick and retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.<\/p>\n
Flynn was forced to resign this winter as national security adviser amid investigations into whether he or others in the Trump presidential campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 White House race.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe administration is better off when we can serve the president by integrating and coordinating across all of our departments and agencies \u2026 and present the president with multiple options,\u201d McMaster also said Sunday. \u201cWhat\u2019s important is to have an inclusive process \u2026 not to try to advance your own agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also tried to downplay the idea that Bannon, who apparently disagrees with the so-called \u201cglobalist\u201d in Trump\u2019s inner circle, was the only concern.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think this has been too hyped on one individual,\u201d he said. \u201cReports of feuding, this didn\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
McMasters also said Trump\u2019s scheduled speech Tuesday at the United Nations General Assembly in New York will be a \u201ctremendous opportunity to reach world leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the president\u2019s speech will focus on the themes: protecting American people, promoting American prosperity and promoting accountability and sovereignty.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose three themes will allow him to communicate his vision for America\u2019s role in the world,\u201d McMaster said.<\/p>\n
He also clarified his comment last week about the United States having \u201crun out of road\u201d in trying to negotiate with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un about him ending his pursuit of a nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are out of road because in the past the approach taken to the problem of North Korea and the Kim regime over decades has been to enter into long drawn-out negotiations that then deliver an unsatisfactory agreement — an agreement that then the North Korean regime breaks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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