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National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said Sunday that President Trump’s United Nations speech will focus on promoting and protecting American prosperity and suggested that the White House’s National Security Council is better after having removed adviser Steve Bannon and others who pushed “their own narrow agendas.” “The National Security Council, I think, has served the president well in bringing him multiple options. There were some who tried to operate outside of that process for their own narrow agendas. And that didn’t serve the president well,” McMaster told “Fox News Sunday,” in response to questions about his policy clashes with Bannon.

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...