Reports: Petraeus off the list, Trump down to three candidates to replace Flynn

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11. Foreign Policy reported that Harward had planned to

replace many in the NSC with professionals, no more talking-heads hired from Fox, etc. If he had taken the position, SecDef Mattis would have had two former deputies "at the table" in some meetings, the other John Kelly, new sec for Homeland Security.

Harward "had been startled by media accounts of Mr. Trump telling the deputy national security adviser, who was close to Mr. Flynn, that she could stay in her post. It added to his concerns about working for a mercurial president."

Steve WWIII Bannon would have lost a lot of power with Hardward and also with Petraeus, who scarcely share his determination to destroy western-style democracy.