national security council. and that can be a dangerous place, because it means in addition to the president growing frustrated with ambassador bolton, there were a lot of people in the white house taking shots at him. >> nancy, something, of course, doesn't line up here beyond the conflicts stories we're getting from the president and john bolton. did he get fired, did he quit? but this morning, the white house was saying that bolton and pompeo and mnuchin were going in the briefing room. somebody was out of the loop here? >> i think a lot of people are out of the loop. the press team will say one thing, the president will tweet out the next. so, this is a pattern we've seen time and time again at the white house. it seems like, i don't know this for sure, but it seems like potentially that's what played out here because we did get an email announcing that bolton would be at this 1:30 briefing. and shortly thereafter, the president tweeted out he had basically fired bolton.