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Forward to the president and give him different options and not to let his ideological leaning to the job and in the past bolton has been accused of changing intelligence to fit his point of view. >> i think john bolton disagrees with donald trump on a number of things most especially russia. john bolton has a long history of being a russia hawk even as late as the past several weeks. hes urged the president to confront vladamir putin and be more aggressive in how the united states handles putin...

It. >> known as a hawk, served under george w. bush. bolton was seen as he worked for bush as having checks on his hawkishness. that is not now going to be in place, evan. what do you make of the pick? >> overall the president and therefore the white house, theyre taking a much more hawk isha approa hawkish approach. across the board it will be a centrist on the mueller investigation, on foreign policy. the president i think feels besieged. he has a number of political threats hes confronting. h...

Day 427 of the trump administration, and yet again, here we are tonight covering breaking news out of this white house. as we said, two men who were members of this presidents inner circle at this time last night are gone tonight. his lead personal lawyer on rush ai is gone, and of greater impact to our country, so is his national security adviser. h.r. mcmaster, the three-star active duty u.s. army general and combat veteran is out, and will retire from the u.s. military. and john bolton is in....

Later in this stunning twist, his briefing documents were leaked out and, jill, we learned that in all caps, his national security team said do not congratulate. some people say mcmaster, the timing of it is because of that leak, the white house pushes back and says that wasnt the case, its not mcmaster. what do you make of that? >> very few people saw that document. it comes through the nse, so it couldnt maybe have been pinned on mcmaster, but certainly people around him. it is a very closed c...

Security adviser john bolton. hes donald trumps third in 14 months. that was a comment that would come back to haunt him when he was nominated as u.n. ambassa r ambassador. boltons hiring come as the president prepares for a possible sitdown with kim jong-un of north korea, and is weighing withdraws from the iran nuclear deal. bolton has been a dependable hawk on both subjects. >> i think with the may date approaching by which everyone thinks the president will make a decision one way or the oth...

That was a comment that would come back to haunt him when he was nominated as u.n. ambassador. boltons hiring come as the president prepares for a possible sitdown with kim jong-un of north korea, and is weighing withdraws from the iran nuclear deal. bolton has been a dependable hawk on both subjects. >> i think with the may date approaching by which everyone thinks the president will make a decision one way or the other whether to get out of the iran nuclear deal. i think its a strategic debacl...

Gives the national security advisor his or her currency. having that proximity to the president. the national security advisors office is just feet from the oval office and as josh was saying on your program earlier the national security advisor is the first one in and the last one out when the president meets with his foreign counter part. the other key point, though, lawrence is the national security advisor is not supposed to come to the position with firm prominent policy views of his or her...

Could potentially hit the united states in the future can be attacked by the president without a congressional vote. that is a pandoras box that has no end to it. >> we should note that piece that the senator is citing is february 28th of this year. thats not an old view of john bolton. that was published, i guess, less than a month ago. three weeks ago. senator chris murphy, always a great pleasure. >> thanks. joining me now, richard painter, who served as white house chief ethics lawyer unde...

Course thats often the best course of many bad options. and people like brent scowcroft, other national security advisers managed to get every view in front of the president in a balanced and thoughtful way. john bolton was accused when at the state department of cherry-picking intelligence, of running people out of the department that didnt agree with him. and basically shaping things. so we have a national security adviser who may very well start with a key bias and then squeeze the people out...

Country that has weapons that could potentially hit the united states in the future can be attacked by the president without a congressional vote. that is a pandoras box that has no end to it. >> we should note that piece that the senator is citing is february 28th of this year. thats not an old view of john bolton. that was published, i guess, less than a month ago. three weeks ago. senator chris murphy, always a great pleasure. >> thanks. joining me now, richard painter, who served as white ...