staff at the cia and pentagon as well as former counsel to the house intel committee. and kimberly atkins, senior washington correspondent for wbur, boston's npr news station. welcome to you all. phil, i'd like to begin with you. just tonight, tucker carlson, by the way, is quoted as calling this a great day for america and saying of bolton, he's a man of the left. what is your after-action report? was this loyalty problems or leaks? was this outside voices or actual policy? >> brian, it's basically all of the above, and by the time bolton left the administration, the list of his detractors, of the people inside the administration who did not admire him, was quite long. it included, by the way, the first lady and the chief of staff, mick mulvaney. trump and bolton have disagreed from really the beginning of this relationship, especially on north korea, but also on afghanistan, on iran, on other