Because Cecilia Muñoz had headed the Domestic Policy Council during the Obama years, she was required to brief her successors after the election. Holding out hope that the incoming administration might become more temperate now that the campaign was over, she asked Miller how she could help orient him in the new position. “How do you maneuver so that you’re making the decisions and not the NSC?” he replied, adding, “How do you elbow them out of the way so that you are controlling the decision making?”
