Trump administration NSA H.R. McMaster says there was "inconsistency" in foreign policy 

Yeah, another book deal. Patriotism is no longer about country, it seems.

McMaster isn’t criticizing Trump. He’s trying to sell a book. Profits over patriotism.

His duty is to serve the *nation,* not the _dictator._ He seems to have those two confused.

This was a waste of time - DJT is awful but sometimes he's rational but then someone whispers in his ear and he makes another bad decision. Another lily livered former Trump administrator saying nothing other than Buy my Book.

Mcmaster I had respect for, after this interview I believe that he is another neo man

I am appalled that a military man can be so naive.

McMaster sounds like a Trump apologist instead of someone who witnessed gross incompetence that puts our security risk. Acting like a second Trump admin would have guardrails is absurd.

Incredible! McMaster seriously questions Trump's leadership ability effectively calling him unfit to be US President. But he still seems to support his candidacy. He needs to talk to conservative Republican Judge Luttig who endorsed Harris because Trump is a threat to our democracy, "a clear and present danger to the country."

Guard your mind when watching corporate media

Oh Lord. McMaster is a lost soul. Too bad.

HE DRANK THE COOIL-AID!!!

To be fair, it is hard to make anything in the Trump admin sound sane. He's trying too hard. What a suck up

How desperate is this Trump sycophant to sell a book!

these people are the problems not the solutions.

"We got a lot done" like what. Total BS.

This guy's a fool.

Am I the only person who is tired of hearing from Republicans spouting off about what the American people want. Not one of them has asked me, how about you?

Are you guys out of your minds? The childish guy must not be in the Whitehouse. Period! No discussion. NONE.

He is not seeing threats to US democracy clearly.

Holy sh-t from this guy's mouth! Finally he still fear and spport trump! COUNTRY OVER PARTY! I thought all of the decent and courage genrals would know that!

3:15 Trump already showed us that he could bypass the confirmation process, by installing "acting" positions with yes men!

Looks like face the nation has become another advertisement for Trump

It's not that hard to condemn Twimp-only then can the Republicans attempt to rebuild their co-opted party. HR will be remembered by history for his feckless apologism rather than his heroism.

What a coward and what a traitor!!!

what a disgusting disappointment

McMaster sounds like someone who wishes Trump was a crazy neocon Republican but had more focus and discipline.

Margaret has to bash Trump. They have to keep bashing Trump. Bash Trump. That is thier goal.

Can he attract the right advisors? What?!? Why would he? This has to be hard right b.s.

Over on the Neocon ‘Hoover Institute’ website, McMaster quietly endorses Trump.

The fact is that every time there is a possibility of a ceasefire, Israel (Netanyahu) assassinates some leader, bombs another country or as in this case, launched a "preemptive" attack based on nothing more than Israel's own conjectures, that caused this escalation.

This didn't seem too serious during his interview! It appeared Trump was more a joke than a leader! These people know the danger Trump represents yet they remain complicit until they write books and then while promoting they tell the horrific story of what really happened!

This guy sounds more Bolton than himself 2 years ago

Is he contradicting with his book? I don't think Trump is wise enough to do what he said. He is increasingly out of control now.

Deference was one is a business man and the other is a corrupt politician and who support Iran .

This guy is answering your questions politically. McMaster is avoiding your questions by not answering your questions straight.

If Trump gets reelected. He'll reappoint Jared and Ivanka Kushner to cabinet positions like Fed Chairman. Baron Trump will be his secretary of defense! HR is nuts. Trump's former VP wouldn't support him! He'll only appoint people based on loyalty not qualifications!

Hé IS looking for job

No wars under trump HJ

This guy was in the room when it all happened. I bet a retired general and former National Security advisor has seen more policy ramifications first hand and been in more strategic national level decisions than 100% of the commentators in this thread. Don’t hafta agree with him but first person knowledge and cogent discussions are better than echo chambers.

Why didn't Martha ask HR, "why did you resign"?

If an assassins bullet didn't change Trump, McMaster's book surely won't! I don't quite understand why he is trying to tap dance around what he wrote now. Perhaps he is hoping for a cabinet position in a Trump Administration?! Sadly, those will all be taken by Loyalist and not the subject matter professionals McMaster was referring to. Does anyone have an extra copy of Project 2025 to share with him. He has some catching up to do.

If his next book is on why a President should not ask a Secretary of State for 11,000+ votes in order to win a state election. Then I’ll buy the book and hopefully he will finally understand why he shouldn’t vote for a person that doesn’t respect democracy.

Very disappointed that he is more interested in selling his books, " I tell it all in the book", etc., instead of shouting out a warning about what a future CF34 presidency would be like. Really, McMaster, the only people in his cabinet would be the ones who pledge allegiance to him, rather than the Constitution.

McMaster Echoes everything Trumps cabinet said about Trump during His administration an “ idiot” or worse

How in the hell is trump allowed to run for the presidency. What will the chapter be called in the history books?.. Decade of Shame?

I find it hilarious that anyone thinks Trump would care about confirmations anymore...

Hope no one by this traitor book😢😢😢😢

Why did you even serve under him in the first place? Why didn’t you quit? Don’t you have any integrity? Don’t have any morals. Who can trust you just write a book why don’t you write above and make millions of dollars. Get off

He resigned after a year as National Security advisor. Why? What was his beef with Trump where he was forced out or felt so upset with Trump that he quit his dream job? Trump was maddening and could not make a decision and fired his defense secretarues and national security advisors on a regular basis creating chaos. Trump was a mad man during hisnone term as POTUS.

this guy looks like a bozo to me. he brags about all his personal perks.

Everyone has a book to sell but the guy was too gutless to speak out against Trump at the convention.

“It is fatal to enter a war without the will to win it.” Douglas MacArthur “Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.” Douglas MacArthur

He wants a piece of the action. Sad!

The USA told Israel not to escalate the conflict, and they (Netanyahu) did it anyway... let Israel (Netanyahu) deal with the consequences and keep the USA, the UK, etc. out of it!!!.

Let's turn America BLUE down the ticket and stop lying crooked Republicans and save our country 🙏 Then hold Trump accountable for his crimes against our country 🇺🇸 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE AND GET RID OF TRUMP FOR GOOD 🙏 🇺🇸💙

"Trump's 'friend' had it exactly wrong, but Trump found it difficult to distinguish between those who brought him sound analyst and those, real or imagined, who brought him hackneyed bromides." HUH! "OR IMAGINED"?

Why did they bring this guy on? Trump has never made a sound decision unless it benefited himself.

This man has no convictions. He says one thing, then contradicts it, just like Trump.

Enabler of the worst president ever!

There is some gray area in Cabinet appointments and Senate approval… “acting Secretaries”. I am not confident that guardrails are guaranteed.

John kelly cant stand Trump why the hell is he not coming out . Someone give that man a chair to talk to the American people

Sure buddy and today the world is on fire

That's an interesting way to say it was treasonous.

Well, there goes almost eight, wasted, minutes of my life that I'll never get back!

trump doesn't listen to his military advisors

This guy needs to hurry up and make his money, then go home and shut up. If you're not helping you're in the way.

How sad….to defend the indefensible.

Are you kidding me? Do you expect people to listen to him if you want an expert advice go ask Joe Biden 0:56

Margaret Brennan 👏is amazing, she is one of my favorite on Face The Nation..

Except for how many of his "interim" Dept heads did he not bother to run thru congress. I'm really disappointed in McMaster's unwillingness or inability to be forthright.

Liar liar liar pant on fire!!!!

Yet, this "inconsistency" during Trump's four years resulted in an international situation that was pretty calm - the calmest in years as a matter of fact. Putin hadn't invaded a single neighbor or seized a single inch of a neighbor's territory. North Korea had stood down and was no longer testing ICBMs close to or violating Japanese airspace, and cordial relations between Trump and Kim were developing. Iran was being strangled by sanctions to the point its terror proxies like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis were fairly docile (and the Houthis were NOT attacking commercial shipping in the Red Sea) along with its master terror strategiest General Soleimani turned into worm food with a cruise missile, and relations with China were fairly stable with no increasing threat to Taiwan. The war in Afghanistan was winding down and an orderly US withdrawal had been negotiated with the Taliban, but severe measures remained if the Taliban caused any problems threatening US interests. And of course the Abraham Accords achieving the first full peace agreements between Israel and key Arab states in over a generation. Would McMaster trade that "inconsistency" for the chaos that unfolded just a few short months after Amtrak Joe took over? Including the disastrous reflexive Afghan withdrawal that simply surrendered including abandoning Bagram Airbase and $80 billion in US military equipment and 13 lives of US servicemen? This was NOT part of Trump's deal. Not to mention, the disastrous collapse of America's own southern border to waves of millions of unvetted illegal migrants and narcotics. Would Margaret Brennan who is always ready to carry water for the Democrats if she's not cleaning up after them?

You are a fool if you believe Trump will listen to anybody but Trump! I’m so disappointed in these people who constantly take up for Donald Trump and his crazy nature

Why is Face the Nation interviewing a former president Trump foreign relations guy? 😂😂 oh I see he wrote a book😂😂😂 Face the Nation promoting people who writes books😮 don't want to interview current individuals😊

So basically, Trump needs multiple babysitters. We already knew that.

All Trump wants is attention and nothing else!

Jesus what did I just see? He sounded like he was describing somebody mentally unstable and indecisive. And he almost seemed as if you were apologizing in some vague way for Trump's shortcomings. The jjob of a good leader is to create more leaders by leading not being led by whichever way the wind blows.

Sir you remembered Trump could not get qualified and experienced people to embrace him because Trump was and is still nutty, in his last administration...why give raw deal option on this interview and go home happy with yourself...unamerican and misleading McMaster

Hogwash

There's a little irony here, Trump understands where a country's source of pain lies and its not in their military, it's in their consumer's pockets. Foreign policy doesn't mean anything if you're lining the enemy's pockets with money. Trump understood that clearer than any advisor. I think that's likely the greatest difference.

My god he's basically saying trump isn't smart enough to make his own decisions. How can anyone vote for trump at this point.

Very disappointed, another sell out for a book. Trump Vance Kennedy 24

Sounds like he wants to work for Trump again, lol!

Let's hope we don't need McMaster's vote because we're not going to get it.

He'll talk about Trump's and consistency but won't destroy the fact that we've given Iran billions of dollars through another administration

1. Trump's 2st term = No wars 2. FTN Journalist = Trump should recruit high quality advisers in his second term 🤦‍♂️

Is he serious???????????? What a disappointment.

Difficult to take these greedy Generals serious especially the ones who clearly lack valor.

😂😂 no wars that’s pretty consistent I mean, who wants to go back to no war and cheap everything not me 😂😂😂

Trump was never be friendly with Putin. Remember that his first Europe visit, Trump accused Germany and other allies to fill russion cofres with money from gaz business. So Trump acted against Putin interests. But at same time the biggest Trump concern was when Trump said "my biggest nightmare is an alliance bettewn Rússia and China " 😮😮greetings from Europe Portugal

How can he sit there and say that Trump will have good people who know what they’re doing? It doesn’t make sense. This man is more of a coward than I ever thought.

Don't you love these former officers that throw their bosses under the bus. They can't stand not being important anymore. I'm a 20 year veteran so I know the type. Embarrassing.

That is a mission for KH!

well played HR! poor Ms Brennan just couldn’t get the answers she was hoping for…

Should of asked him how it felt helping the Trump administration turn the United States into the laughing stock of the world.

More like face the communist

I'm SO sick and tired of these cowards coming forward AFTER the despicable acts by Trump, so they can profit off their books!!

He should've gone on Morton Downey Jr if he were still alive today

So Trump needs training wheels to be president. 🤣😂😢😢🙃🙃

Foreign policy how’s that working out today