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People scared to death by this appointment of john bolton to be national security advisory, it has to do with john bolton saying things like that and the reputation john bolton earned himself over the last couple decades in washington. joining us is a white house correspondent for "the new york times." you and your colleagues broke this story about mcmaster and bolton tonight. i know it's been a busy day for you. thanks for being here with us. >> great to be with you, rachel. >> what can you tell us about the surprise factor here? obviously mr. bolton had been seen in and around the white hous...

And it would appear only minutes later he popped his head into the briefing room. we'd never seen him in the briefing room when reporters were present to make this announcement. so there was no rollout here at all. this was a decision made by president trump to not only accept the offer but to go forward in making it public. in the past, there have been these kind of entrees into hot spots around the world where perhaps there was an invitation made but it wasn't made public immediately, it would go through other channels. the surprise factor is on setting of meeting and high stakes of having t...

Into these meetings so this is actually literally the exact opposite of nixon to china except for the surprise factor. >> deals at that lifl aevel are, already cooked by the time it happens. let's take up joe and mika's point about stormy daniels. you're wired into this white house and talk to people everyday. how concerned about the president is this about the payment going to stormy daniels, allegedly, about covering up an affair with the president of the united states? >> i have asked a lot of people in there and you'll be surprised to know he doesn't talk a lot about it but they sense ther...

Out. so there's a surprise factor for sure. there's some groundwork behind the scenes, but none of it in the traditional sense of all the paperwork going back and forth and legitimate concerns about how willing the north koreans are to live up to all of this. >> song un li is a professor at tufts university. ambassador richardson. evan mcmullin a former cia operative who ran for president in 2016. governor, north korea, as we said, squarely in your whe wheelhouse, including the release after negotiations of americans there. president trump thinks he can outnegotiate kim jong-un. he goes into t...

But the surprise factor also meant for much of the day there really wasn't any coordinated pr effort around what she was doing. democrats didn't appear to be spending the day trying to promote the fact this was happening. a lot of the media was late to figure out this was going on. but, you know, this is novel, never done before, break through the noise tactic to try to up the pressure on paul ryan to finally allow a vote on the dreamers after all his happy talk on the subject and never actually taking any action, this was a real concerted effort to up the pressure on him about that. this does...