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Byron york of the washington examiner, susan page of usa today and jonathan swan of axuous. i think it's fair to say while the timing may be a bit of a surprise, the fact that mcmaster was going to be out sooner rather than later, the surprise at the timing of it. jonathan, you've been covering this, as to whether mcmaster was going to be out, your thoughts? >> i tell you, this has shocked people inside the building. again, it's the timing of it. there was an assumption at some point he was going to remove h.r. mcmaster. they never fortunateli fortunatelied -- formed a chemistry. he never figu...

Team as a contributor, because i do know the president was considering him when he first came in in december during the transition, in december of 2016, and one of the concerns was he was very aggressive, a neoconservative in the sense of wanting to confront the countries and the president wanting to avoid international entanglements. >> byron: i think you could talk about one policy in particular in the sense that mcmaster was a guy who told the president he couldn't do stuff particularly concerning the iran nuclear deal. it has to be recertified every three months, so it's come up four times...

Aggressive on the korean peninsula, a bit of a warmonger, not happy with his tactics. but h.r. mcmaster was quite differential to mattis. they clashed a lot but he was deferential. john bolton will not be deferential. i had a conversation last week with one of mcmaster's allies who was frustrated with the way mattis treated him and this person in the frustration said you know what, i hope they appoint john bolton. sitting at the opposite of mattis, it will be very dynamic. john bolton will not take a backwards step. >> chris: let's talk about general kelly -- i'm sorry, the chief of staff, bec...

After he had misled the vice president about his meetings with the russian ambassador. interestingly enough, in that same meeting, he was talking about mcmaster's eventual successor, john bolton, and we want to alert you to not change your channel here, because at the top of the hour, martha mccallum is going to have an exclusive interview with john bolton, the new national security advisor to the president. i must say, folks, i'm a little jealous of that booking, as much as i want to talk to all of you. i was just during the commercial looking at this and, you know, it's happened over a coupl...

Pompeo, and a new national security advisor in john bolton. we need to remember mcmaster was brought in after the precipitous and sudden firing after three weeks of michael flynn as national security advisor. first your thoughts on mcmaster, what he did and what he did wrong. >>susan: as you said, he wasn't a good fit with the president. remember, bolton wasn't a good fit either. bolton went in and met with the president and did not immediately click with him either. there's a reason this is shocking, but not surprising, we knew mcmaster was having trouble. it's shocking because of the timing ...