H.R. McMaster’s interview is part of the 2020 Texas Tribune Festival.

H.R. McMaster served as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser from 2017-18. Before that, he served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army for 34 years. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Watch him discuss how the pandemic affects foreign policy challenges in a Texas Tribune Festival interview with Ellen Nakashima, a national security reporter for The Washington Post.

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