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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. bolton is a former u.s. ambassador to the u.n., wel...

Weekend to singapore for the summit. so, it is off, as far as we know, but theyre leaving open the possibility that it could be back on. >> josh crashauer, on friday morning, i had senator lindsey graham on my radio show. an absolutely chilling exchange. he said, president trump is going to resolve the korea north nuclear weapons program, one way or another, and he talked explicitly about war. is that the alternative to whats going on here? >> lindsey graham is being very stark and i think thats...

Portrait of who -- because people tell me hes not even a neo-con. neo-cons will put the sugar in with the medicine and say oh, were for freedom and all this. this guy is just a hawk. >> yeah, thats the difference is that neo-conservatives had also an ideology and spreading democracy. john bolton wants to change regimes, he doesnt necessarily care what comes after it as long as they sort of accede to american unilateral power and so, yes, he supports regime change in iran, in north korea and poss...

Pompeo diplomat will be like a measured cia director or diplomatic hawk. on his to do list is the first closest to home. rebuilding a deflopleted state department. seven of the top ten positions are unfilled including overseeing arms control and human rights. during rex tillersons brief tenure, americas diplomatic core lost dozens of career diplomats and ambassadors as morale issues plagued the department. while pompeo is working on that, hes going to have to contend with a negotiations over tal...

Rather than send young men and women to war. heres a question. how does he make that case when the president is tweeting about possible missile strikes on syria and hes talking about diplomacy? remember, we got diplomats leaving right and left. im joined by nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. andrea, we see he wants to focus on diplomacy. can that help mike pompeo sort of shake the hawk label hes got? >> absolutely. but he has a lot of challenges here. first of all, the...

Then he said he recognizes, he spent time at the state department, that morale there is abysmal and that would be his first priority to try to fix. if you cared about that or that was one of the complaints that left out about rex tillerson, the left is going to end up with the secretary of state. its going to be secretary pompeo. when he gets confirmed. if you want to hold him to something, make sure that morale at the state department is something you keep knocking on his door about. >> greg: g...

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. bolton is a former u.s. ambassador to the u.n., well known as a neocon and a hawk on military matters. hes advoc...

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>> good morning. >> josh, the president in the wake of the alleged chemical attack said animal assad will have a big price to pay and he is being urged to respond by several people, including noted hawk lindsey graham from south carolina. listen to what he had to say. >> defining moment in the presidency. he has challenged assad in the past not to use chemical weapons. we had a one-and-done missile attack. assad sees it again. they see our determination to stay in syria waning. this is no accide...