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How well did you do any wrong? how well did you do in north korea? i'm a pretty hawkish guy but after 18 years, it's okay to reevaluate our commitment in afghanistan. it makes perfect sense to me, but i'm just urging the president don't ignore sound military advice. you can reduce our presence in afghanistan but if you leave afghanistan, al qaeda and isis are coming after us. >> bret: so did he fire him or did bolton resign? >> i don't know what i don't think it really matters. at the end of the day i liked john bolton. he served honorably and as president lost trust and faith in john bolton a...

Himself with his own people. so i think he handled it as diplomatically as he could, but it's, you know, once again, we have an unconventional president doing unconventional things. >> what happens inside an administration, if you're the national security adviser john bolton, who said the test was in violation of u.n. resolutions, if john bolton said it was a big deal, then to have your boss, the president, walk out on the world stage and say, eh? >> well, you know, for this administration, it's another day at the office. this is not the first time this has happened. it happened to the previou...

Been often. yes, he has 38%. his base may be happy. he is the president of the united states. there is more than 38% of us, clearly. he does not govern for the majority of the country and we all feel it. what happened on november 6th is that people responded. they responded in a resounding way giving democrats the majority of the house. he's going to feel that. there's going to be accountability and going to be a different year in 2019 though he is going to continue to be unhinged. >> i want to go back to accountability. kind of the result of all these events when you look at them, are there t...

>> you think he's a liar? >> i don't think he tells the truth. >> is trump immoral in your view? >> i think he is. >> mcchrystal calls him immoral and essentially a liar. john kelly has reportedly suggested on many occasions that trump isn't up to the task of being president. mattis i think in the kindest interpretation of his resignation letter took issue with trump's approach to security issues. if four-star generals won't stand by him, who will? i ask in this context, in addition to defense secretary, there are a load of senate confirmations that are going to have to happen. high-level posi...

I campaigned on getting out of syria and other places. now when i start getting out, the fake news media or some failed generals who were unable to do the job before i arrived liked to complain about me and my tactics which are working. just doing what i said i was going to do. i'll let you pick what you want to start with because there's many things there. >> it's hard to know where to go. as an admiral, i have to say, it's pretty amazing to watch the generals get thrown overboard from the ship. it's general flynn, general kelly, general mattis, general mcmaster. i think president trump is, i...