HR McMaster: Trump and the transition
The Interview
BBC
4.3 • 537 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump hasn’t yet accepted it, but he’ll be out of the White House in January next year. Gone but not forgotten. His legacy can be seen in a divided body politic, strained international alliances and deep uncertainty about America’s geopolitical ambition. HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to Lt. General HR McMaster, who served as Mr Trump’s National Security Adviser until he was fired in 2018. In terms of America’s role in the world, will the Trump years be seen as an aberration or a marker of underlying change?
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| 1:00.0 | Welcome to Hard Talk on the BBC World Service with me, Stephen Sacker. |
| 1:04.6 | My guest today, H.R. McMaster, was a key player inside the Trump White House, |
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| 1:12.9 | advisor until he was summarily fired in the spring of 2018. This former general, a veteran of war in |
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