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Demonstrates, i think the sort of limbo that im in because i didnt really expect an announcement this afternoon. >> didnt expect the announcement for one of the most important national security jobs in america. you might say tonight that boltons tenure kind of ended the way it began, surprise announcements, apparent disorganization and of course a live feed of all the drama on fox news. but i want to be clear with you tonight as well, this isnt just about drama. this is about national security p...

Were, indeed, going to shake up your national security team. >> well, we never really see orderly transitions from this white house. we see tweets. its true, theres a lot of daylight on foreign policy matters between the president and his national security adviser john bolton. that has always really been the case. i think the president when he brings people in believes that they are going to fall in line, that that is what mike pompeo has done. he looks at mike pompeo as a loyal soldier. john bo...

You know, kind of the bosom friendship between the united states and north korea. >> yeah, which is wild. malco malco malcolm nance your thoughts on all the above. >> michelle is actually right, john bolton -- would have been much better if it was michael bolton -- john bolton speaking out and being this friend of the president of the united states who, you know, with his entire career as the number one war hawk for iran, the number one war hawk for north korea, suddenly being chained and kept o...

Removal, but white house spokesperson hogan giddily says thats just not true. >> the fact is the president of the united states asked john bolton last night for his resignation. it was delivered today. john boltons policies dont line up with the presidents. any sitting president has the right to put someone in that position that can carry out his agenda. that became no longer tenable so the president made a change. >> and dont forget president trump was often eager to publicly highlight how bolt...

David? the security adviser, known to be a hawk on this issue, didnt want this deal. richard haas served in previous administrations in the state department saying the president, too, trusts himself. >> it shows the presidents unlimited and totally misplaced confidence in tree and the power of his own personality. the taliban are not a negotiating partner. if thats what you want to do, fine, but lets not confuse it with peace. all were doing is leaving and selling out our partners. talking to th...

♪ >> melissa: president trump has a new g.o.p. challenger, former south carolina governor and congressman mark sanford throwing his hat in the ring. sanford, who is known as a fiscal hawk, on why he is running. >> we have lost our way on deficit spending. the president has called himself the king of debt. im running because im think we need to have a conversation but what it means to be republican. i think we have lost our way as a party. between now groans a current group the republican sake,...

Factions you might say in this white house. in particular this episode has shined a spotlight on these conflicting impulses, both within the presidents own mind and top levels of his national security team, namely, his national security adviser john bolton in particular. in this case secretary of state mi mike pompeo who was trying to make these talks happen. and now they are kind of shattered on the floor. and who knows what comes next. >> whats mike pompeos best argument for meeting for terror...

Something that the president has campaigned on sinces they first days coming down the escalator in trump tower. do we know whether or not steven miller has been instrumental in shaping this policy? he has been a hawk on refugees coming into this country in general. >> stephen miller is behind almost every policy you see, refugee resettlement or the southern border. i talk to people who are very much in touch with stephen miller and who are championing what goes through there, and they talk about...

Bolton is definitely a hawk. pompeo is no dove, he is actually pretty hawkish himself. but what he is trying to do is to implement the presidents agenda. his critics would say that hes just trying to please the president. but what the president has made clear is he thinks that afghanistan is basically a boondoggle and a quagmire and he wants to get out. he also has a political motive to break to voters that i am ending this war that no one else could wrap up in 18 years. so pompeo was given the ...

Washington and tehran. it goes back to this idea that with this president in particular you can really fall in and out of favor depending on the extent to which he trusts you, he sees you as loyal and on the same page. this is a president who campaigned on scaling back u.s. involvement overseas. bo bolton is a notable hawk, all argued for more intervention. >> a.b., your view? >> im stunned that the national security adviser was not in this meeting but i was stunned when he was not on the trip t...