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This is the new national 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. 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...

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...

Over all of this, is the president trying to make a point or is he serious? well have to wait and see. >> kristen welker, stay in close touch. stay tuned. >> i will. of course, this on top of the dramatic changes in staffing at the white house with john bolton being brought in precipitously. it was rumored, long rumored. but the fact is that he himself was not aware that it was going to be announced exactly when it was on twitter late yesterday. retired admiral james stavredes, form former com...

Considered seriously by the president. jeff zeleny, i want you to stand by. lets bring in our panel and get some analysis. samantha vinograd, you used to work on the national security council during the obama administration. john bolton, very well known. hes a fox news contributor. hes a hardliner when it comes to north korea, when it comes to iran. im a little surprised, only a little surprised, because he was a major supporter of the war against iraq and back in 2003, and of course, the first ...

Back in national review, how to get out of the iran nuclear deal. this guy is a real hawk. >> hes a hawk. even if there is a legal case for striking north korea, the reality of the situation is that the president just accepted at least tentatively an invitation to negotiate directly with kim jong-un and the legal case doesnt factor in the case that we have 38,000 united states troops in south korea, no the to mention our allies in south korea, seoul is just 30 or 35 miles from the north korean b...

Bolton is hard-liner and called the deal with iran the biggest single act of appeasement by the west since munich. in the past he called for bombing of iran. im joined by vivian solama. and, of course, move that back, please, joliet ainsley, former tate department official, and stunned by the news. i dont know if this is wag the dog, is this to get away from stormy daniels and the whole rest of this hell or what, but they are bringest the biggest neo-con in the world. the one exec that so many m...

I get the sense hes edging toward getting rid of mueller somehow. >> i do, too. >> i want my prosecutor in there. i want to pick him. >> but the problem is he has allies in congress. i dont get a sense that the republican leaders would object at all if he did that. the house republican intelligence numbers shut down our investigation -- >> i dont think mr. nunez will stop him. >> he re-tweeted the report essentially. so congress has looked the other way as far as the republican leaders who its g...

People are alarmed. >> i know the history of these people. >> and hes a hawk on russia. so where does he stand now on russia? >> but theres something else here, chris. >> they took limited knowledge, not a bad guy, w., with limited knowledge, he didnt spend a lot of time studying anything, a business school guy. now another business school guy, not a lot of history in these guys heads. takes a guy with no foundation to understand american history and what we stand for in the world, gets ahold of...

Hes now calling the shots. >> i just keep thinking of all the people who recently lost their security clearances, all the people who arent in the room anymore, so that pull has gotten smaller. even if people thought jared kushner should have never been getting the presidential daily briefing, here he was a moderating voice. he tried to keep the president kind of in a moderate line. thats one person less that will be in the room when hes being briefed by john bolton. >> what is it going to be lik...

To do my own legal defense. and the word even got out he wanted to get rid of general kelly, he didnt want a chief of staff, he wanted to be his own chief of staff a couple weeks ago, and now hes firing the national security adviser, bringing in a hawk to talk his language. it does seem like hes on the verge of doing anything he feels like, which means finding a way to get rid of mueller. >> he certainly has felt that he can get rid of people and hes tired of having people that he disagreed with...