National Security Council - Obama Presidency Oral History Back National Security Council Index / Organizations Transcripts Patrick Gaspard ...staff at the White House, staff at the NSC [National Security Council], staff i... ...at the White House, staff at the NSC [ National Security Council ], staff in various parts of the Stat... ...It was actually through someone in the NSC . Someone in the NSC calls me and says... ...someone in the NSC. Someone in the NSC calls me and says, “So, there's thi... David Simas ...in that descending order. The Principals Committee would convene, would look at what wa... ...the principals couldn't resolve at the Principals Committee level, those would be presented to th... Cecilia Muñoz ...all of this by folks working for the National Security Council [NSC]. We saw the chart, which is no... ...for the National Security Council [ NSC ]. We saw the chart, which is no... ...McDonough, who had come up from the National Security Council , which has a very specific [claps... ...specific [claps] process. We adopted NSC processes of more precise work i... ...committees. That's the way the NSC had done its work throughout, but i... ...that was essentially co-convened by the National Security Council and DPC. There was a work stream tha... Show more... James Cole ...the Situation Room and be part of the National Security Council meetings, the deputy meetings that day... Janet Napolitano ...she went and ran the part of the National Security Council that was focused on climate. The... Tommy Vietor ...out how to interact better with the NSC [National Security Council] press sho... ...how to interact better with the NSC [ National Security Council ] press shop over time; because ther... ...policy before you got over to the NSC , because there were a lot of foreig... ...was a unique event. When did I get the NSC job? I think about basically January o... ...So basically, I got promoted to the NSC job right as the Arab Spring started... ...and talk to you a lot more about the NSC job, but before we do, I just wanted t... ...this was more when I was at the NSC —was just the enormous intellectua... ...to find someone in the bowels of the NSC who had time for me, like a directo... ...And then when I moved over to the NSC , it would be Ben Rhodes—but Ben was i... ...to that when we talk about you in the NSC . The other thing that I wanted to as... ...ill will. Tell me how the move to the NSC came about. What happened was, thi... ...this guy, Mark [W.] Lippert was the NSC chief of staff. He moved out to ... ...meant you were officially part of the NSC , and you could attend NSC meetings... ...part of the NSC, and you could attend NSC meetings, and that was really th... ...can make phone calls to anybody in the NSC , or the Pentagon, or whatever, an... ...was by the time you moved over to the NSC . Tell me more about the unfolding o... ...the Deputies Committee level. So, the Principals Committee is the secretaries of state and defens... ...meetings, and some of the bigger NSC meetings. So you're serving tw... ...in the larger Situation Room, with the Principals Committee –level people talking about what ha... ...focusing on foreign policy at the NSC , and national security, there ar... ...for you over in your position at the NSC ? I mean, you are living—if you wer... Show more... Chris Lu ...leaves. There are certain places in the National Security Council [NSC] world where they pass o... ...in the National Security Council [ NSC ] world where they pass on continuit... ...process that gets run through the NSC . But then we created other subsets... Michael Kassen ...at Princeton, then he worked in the National Security Council in, say, the 2005, 2006 period unde... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Democrats Democrats go to the Russia Russia go to the Agriculture Agriculture go to the Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa go to the Labor Labor