H.R. McMaster Gives Interview to Hugh Hewitt, Not Asked About Recent Purge

National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster gave an interview to Hugh Hewitt, a conservative member of the establishment, on Saturday morning amid attacks from the president’s conservative base. McMaster was asked about nearly every major national security issue that’s made headlines over the past few weeks, except for his recent firing of three President Trump loyalists from the National Security Council: Ezra Cohen-Watnick, Derek Harvey, and Rich Higgins. Hewitt asked him to talk about his “role in the White House and the White House generally,” but did not ask him about the chorus of voices from the right calling for his departure. As national security adviser, McMaster is responsible for teeing up options for the president on national security issues, but he has tried to isolate those who supported the president’s campaign and agenda, according to some former officials. At the same time, he has allowed former top Obama officials such as Rob Malley to come and go at the NSC, according to Conservative Review. “What we’re doing is we’re delivering what we’re calling “integrated strategies” based on the president’s guidance. And so what we had, and this is maybe understandable,” he told Hewitt. McMaster gently criticized the former Obama administration’s infamous micromanagement