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A trip like this will not change a whole lot. you're going through impeachment. you need to look presidential. he went to dover last week to see the bodies of a couple of service members being transferred home to pay his respects there. that's something we hadn't seen him do before. so he is sort of heeding that advice trying to get out, trying to look presidential and he's motivated certainly in these taliban talks or at least saying the taliban talks have restarted by giving the public the impression of progress here because he does see that election coming and he would like to be able to sa...

U.s. envoy, a representative of the u.s. government, and that actually may lead to a cease-fire, which would be a big deal. >> john, how does this play to our partners in the region because when it comes to the president's snap decisions or surprising decisions when it comes to foreign policy one could say they got whiplash at this point. >> absolutely. what we see in the region and especially not just within the region but with our alliance with nato and other partners who played a critical role in average, what you see, two things. a wait and see the to see what the president wants to do. he...

Protestations subsequent to now what we know was his knowledge of and sitting in on the phone call of the ukraine issue when he just kept saying i don't know what you're talking about, i don't know anything, nothing to see here. >> ned, you worked at the nsc and were similarly to others assigned from another agency, from cia to the nsc. understandably, the nsc grew after 911 into being a counter terror action group as well. there were a lot of people added. now it is being cut back notably according to the new national security advisor robert o'brien. and according to john gantz, trump's nsc h...

He left the white house after months of reported tension with president trump but if he returns to testify in his impeachment inquiry do not expect john bolton to spill the beans on his former boss. the defining of my next guest who recently wrote a pete for politico totaled "don't bet on john bolton to be an impeachment hero" author also of "white house warriors." so, john gantz, good to have you on. thank you for coming on. >> thanks for having me on. >> let me read what you wrote. "the power of the modern presidency is bolton's career legacy. when trump and his defenders question the legiti...

>> so far that is what we have to go on. but you have to go on what he's done over the entire career which is to stand up and say the president deserves to do what he thinks is right and so what this is running into is sort of the long-held tensions that he's had and i think his career and his time in the trump white house where he had his long-held positions on iran and north korea were in tension at times with donald trump. john bolton has a long time to go along and get along. he a hard time doing that in the trump white house and in the resistance in washington in the impeachment inquiry. ...