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🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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0:00.0 | From the free press, this is honestly, and I'm Barry Weiss. |
0:04.0 | Very few people have worked closely with Donald Trump, gotten fired, and walked away with a pretty balanced view of him. |
0:10.6 | But former national security advisor, Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster is an exception. |
0:16.3 | In his book, At War With Ourselves, My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House, he gives an honest |
0:22.1 | account of working in Trump's first administration, the good, the bad, and the very unexpected. |
0:28.4 | Last week, General McMaster sat down with my colleague Michael Moynihan at the National Constitution |
0:34.2 | Center in Philadelphia for a live free press book club event to discuss it all. |
0:39.3 | They talk about his tensions with Trump, his understanding of Trump's worldview, particularly his foreign policy, |
0:45.1 | and how Trump's rhetoric towards adversaries was actually good, despite being villainized by the press. |
0:51.0 | And how, as General McMaster puts it, Trump can be so disruptive, he often interrupts |
0:56.5 | his own agenda. They talk about what to expect a few days from now when Trump takes office. |
1:02.7 | Trump's current cabinet picks, the ones who HR sees is good and the ones who sees as less good. |
1:07.6 | They talk about Trump's options for handling Russia, China, and Iran, and why HR is |
1:12.4 | cautiously and surprisingly optimistic about Trump 2.0. Just a quick note to say that the |
1:18.3 | Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which is chaired |
1:23.4 | by McMaster, is the sponsor of this episode. Stay with us. |
1:33.8 | Thank you. by McMaster is the sponsor of this episode. Stay with us. This episode is brought to you by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. FDD is a nonpartisan |
1:40.1 | research institute dedicated to advancing U.S. foreign policy and national security. |
1:46.1 | Founded in the wake of the 9-11 attacks by Cliff May, FDD has become a powerhouse for shaping |
1:51.9 | some of America's most critical foreign policy debates. Their mission? To expose and confront |
1:57.6 | authoritarian regimes, terror networks, and nuclear threats. |
2:02.2 | Their work is so effective that both the organization and its individual experts |
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