Since President Donald Trump is implementing the country’s foreign policy in such an expert way, it does not matter so much who is the next national security adviser, American Conservative Union board member KT McFarland told Newsmax on Monday.

Appearing on “Wake Up America,” McFarland, who is a former deputy national security adviser, said that in many ways, the national security adviser is a procedural position, since the aim is to coordinate with all the other agencies so that they have an opportunity to weigh in on the policy.

But she did emphasize that it is also a vital position that “you need for crisis management because it is the national adviser who talks with the president” when a crisis breaks out.

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