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He's happy just kind of handling it himself on the way to and from the helicopter. it seems like he's happy not necessarily having a lot of close advisers. he seems to feel he can negotiate with kim jong-un on his own and vladimir putin on his own. so what happens next? i mean how does the next national security adviser do his or her job? >> these are two different things. so the broader problem we have is that the national security process has completely broken down. john bolton did not convene the national security principles. the cabinet-level officials, who are supposed to weigh in and col...

His own. so what happens next? i mean how does the next national security adviser do his or her job? >> these are two different things. so the broader problem we have is that the national security process has completely broken down. john bolton did not convene the national security principles. the cabinet-level officials, who are supposed to weigh in and collectively make recommendations to the president on anything like a regular basis. he arrogated so much authority to himself to the exclusion of his counterparts, and decisions were not worked through with the rigor and the care that they no...

John bolton had basically become a cable tv commentator in the white house. with no mandate other than to push his own views and his agenda. that's what got him crossways but also shows how dysfunctional the national security process has become under president trump. >> kim, at the start of our broadcast, we showed a piece of video that we didn't explain, and that was while this was all going on, shortly before the announcement, the camera crews that are always camped out in the driveway and the briefing room saw john bolton all by his lonesome on his cell phone come out of the northwest porti...

Push his own views and his agenda. that's what got him crossways but also shows how dysfunctional the national security process has become under president trump. >> kim, at the start of our broadcast, we showed a piece of video that we didn't explain, and that was while this was all going on, shortly before the announcement, the camera crews that are always camped out in the driveway and the briefing room saw john bolton all by his lonesome on his cell phone come out of the northwest portico there in the west wing, no marine present, just standing there, still the national security adviser to ...

And his agenda. and that's what got him crossways, but it also shows how dysfunctional the national security process has become under president trump. >> kim, at the start of our broadcast, we showed a piece of video that we didn't explain, and that was while this was all going on, shortly before the announcement, the camera crews that are always camped out in the driveway and the briefing room saw john bolton all by his lonesome on his cell phone come out of the northwest portico there in the west wing. no marine present. just standing there. still the national security adviser to the preside...