trump said he fired bolton. bolton said he resigned. what do these dueling narratives tell us. >> reporter: they tell us this story is not over. we may be hearing from john bolton his version of events. of all that we've heard from the cabinet, very few have given candid exit interviews on why 93 left. we may get that from bolton. just to recap the last three hours. about three hours ago the president had that bombshell tweet on twitter. firing his national security adviser. and then the national security adviser saying i resigned myself. i told the president i'd sleep on it. there were multiple disagreements, there was a whole range of issues they weren't on the same page on. we know most recently they clashed on this idea of whether or not you should invite the taliban to camp david. and the overall strategy of trying to pursue a peace deal with the taliban. i think one indication of where this might end up going is this idea someone close to bolton saying in bolton's 17 months as national security adviser, the president didn't make a

john bolton is a hawk. john bolton has. rand paul, more of the isolationist, stay away from the world, tweeting this out. i many the president has great instincts on foreign policy and end recalling. in that context the endless wars get back to the original question about the timing here. the most was his plan, and then he decided to bring the taliban to camp david on october 11 and bring the afghan government along who doesn't trust this. they have absolutely no relationship with the taliban. the president pulled the plagugn his own. now he's looking for a new national security adviser. >> you're right, in some warksz it's public policy even by photo op. they're probably further along in terms of their nuclear weapons capabilities, and here the same thing, bringing the taliban to camp david. imagine this sort of photo op of that. obviously mike pence and lots of other republicans in particular, liz cheney, are very much against that saying, this is not something you do, period, but certainly not something you do in the day

bolton is out. we need to figure out just what the proximate cause is and who will replace him and what it means for the direction of the administration and for a whole host of issues across the globe. >> of course bolton almost auditioned for the job as a fox news commentator very vigorously against iran as is pompeo. so, on that, they did not disagree. but he has been driving a lot of the action on iran, certainly was not comfortable with the president suggesting he would be willing to talk to iranian leaders. you've got the un general assembly meetings coming up in two weeks. we're there in new york for the un meetings. the president is giving a major speech on the 24th at the united nations. and now his national security adviser has been fired. one other thing about john bolton i want to point out and i'm going to bring in ned price here on the phone, former special assistant to president obama. the big difference between john bolton and all his predecessors going back in any administration i've

president trump fired his security adviser john bolton. bolton says he did not quit. he resigned. and camp david, a point of contention between those two. bolton is publicly disputing the president tweeting he "offered to resign last night." tensions really hit this new high between bolton and secretary of state mike pompeo including this recent stretch of several weeks without speaking to one another. and then moments ago, secretary pompeo had this to say about john bolton's sudden departure. >> the president's entitled to the staff that he wants. at any moment a staff person who works directly for the president of the united states and should have people he trysts, values and whose efforts and judgments benefit him in delivering american foreign policy. >> president trump has now gone through three national security advisers and says he will name a fourth in the next week. cnn's kaitlan collins is at the white house for us. what else are you learning? >> reporter: so much going on, brooke. we know the president and john bolton are going back and forth whether or not he was fired

bolton for the exit. president trump said he fired the national security adviser john bolton leaving a critical post in limbo amid heightened global tension. will bolt -- while bolton claims he resigned we're learning new details of what may have been the final straw for the president. >>> falling approval. a new cnn poll has been released and shows the president's approval rating is down. but another number should be of even greater concern for the white house, how many americans now say the president should not get a second term. >>> bell weather race. all political eyes are on north carolina special election tonight with president trump heavily invested in the contest that could set the stage for the 2020 race for the white house. can democrats maintain their 2018 momentum in a state that president trump won. >>> hours after ready to resume talks with the united states, north korea launches two more missiles. experts say kim jong-un is engaging in the type of blackmail diplomacy. is it working for him?

for firing john bolton. the president today tweeted i disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions as did others in the administration and therefore i asked john for his resignation. and the white house spokesman reiterated the same statement. >> john bolton's priorities and policies don't line up with the president's. and any sitting president has the right to put someone in that position that can carry out his agenda. that became no longer tenable, so the president made a change. >> like we said, president trump knew he and bolton didn't share the same philosophical beliefs the day before he hired him. so the spin from the white house about so-called priorities and policies, that doesn't line up. and it is either completely ridic rue husbar ridiculous or this is an incompetent explanation. and this is one day after the president insisted that there were no disagreements on the potential camp david meeting tweeting that the dishonest meeting likes to create the look of turmoil of which there is none. any

and i said i think you mean john bolton, michael bolton a singer. but honestly i think michael bolton would do a better job, i think i'd be comfortable with him. it was an astonishing choice. it was obviously not his first choice. was his third candidate, fourth candidate, since one turned it down for national security adviser. but a bad choice from start to finish. although ironically he was right on a couple of things that were profound disagreements with the president. that is, if we can believe what bolton has evidently been telling people, that he disagreed with the president's approach to north korea, which has been a debacle, and he disagreed with this reality tv effort to have a summit with the taliban at camp david. those were both i think quite disastrous decisions by the president. we're paying the price for it. >> we'll have to wait for john bolton's book to at least get his thorough version of this. but there's also the question of how they agreed or disagreed on iran and was john bolton pushing for a military strike against iran that t

in bolton's view. we've got a lot more to go on this story and see what our latest sources are saying and toss it back to you. >> i do want to let folks know peter alexander at the white house is reporting that charlie cupperman, the deputy national security advisor will step in on an acting role. ned price, what happened here? as -- from your viewpoint? was this policy, the ones that i mentioned? we know there have been public disagreements between these two men and vivid disagreements within the national security team, particularly between john bolton and mike pompeo. was it policy or personality or some combination of both do you imagine? >> well, i imagine when it comes to the disagreements it was a little bit of both. it was certainly policy. there had been rumors of personality. but i think we also have to talk about this in terms of the process we've seen today and that is utter carelessness and recklessness with our own national security. let's talk about the rupture. on any number of foreign p

john bolton just tweeted. i offered to resign last night and president trump said let's talk about it tomorrow. let me read that again. that is john bolton, former national security adviser for president trump, 21 second or so ago tweeted, i offered to resign last night and president trump said let's talk about it tomorrow. he put the president's words in quotes. brian? >> he's getting on the record. he did not mind being characterized as a hawk. he did not mind and felt it was inaccurate when he stood where he did being tough on iran, being pretty much against -- showing any weakness with north korea. i think melissa, you bring up an interesting point. this meeting could be taking place and john bolton could be against it. in the aftermath, things wept in his direction. they dent have the meeting with the taliban. in a way, you think john bolton would be in a positive light with the president. >> unless disagreeing about iran. >> look, the president said they disagreed on many things and he talked about the f

drone in june, bolton pushed for a president trump called it off at the last minute. >> john bolton's priorities and policies just don't line up with the president. >> bolton was president trump's third full-time national securige advisor. sted only five weeks. lieutenant general h.r. mc.ster served for just 13 bolton lasted 17 months. by the end bolton clashed even with those who agreed hithim idealogically, including secretary of state mike pompeo. >> many times amador bolton and i disagreed, that's to be sure. >> a senior offici describes mike pompeo as a trump whisperer. w he h this internal fight, but even he said today the administration policy wouldn't change, judy, because this administration is dominated eveo by one man, the president. well, along with nick, we are also joined by our white house correspondent, yamiche alcindor. so yamiche, we know it's bn n reported jlton did have differences with the president over time, but what ultimately led to this decision by your reporting? >> soues close to the president tell me this ultimately came down to the esident not seeing john

i have john bolton and other people that are a little more dovish than him. john bolton is a hawk. if it's up to him, he'd take on the whole world at one time but that doesn't matter because i want both sides. >> that doesn't matter until it does and he's gone. now despite the president's claims that he wants quote both said sides, that doesn't be the case. he's been happy to let go of officials who don't agree with his ziss. it fits a larger pattern. purging any internal dissent. join iing me, hallie jacqujacks andrea mitchell, carol lee, "washington post" national political reporter and msnbc political analyst, robert costa and former national security counsel senior director and msnbc national security analyst, ned price ch we have a packed show for you and a lot of information to bring. but i'm going start at the white house. and i want you to walk us through what we know so far about this firing at the top of the hour. >> this was a slow burn that exploded fast at the end. when you talk about the relationship between john bolton and president trump. here is what we know. confl

, bolton did not get onboard. he still kept on making his hawkish points privately in meetings then there was a suspicion within the white house that he was leaking flattering stories to himself in the press. when he lost, he would leak what his position was and how he tried to stop the decision he didn't agree with and even there was frustration that when he won an internal fight, instead of giving the president the credit, he would leak that as well. that seemed to be the discussion in the white house, that that was more the sin than the actual core of the foreign policy disagreements although, of course, that didn't help, either. >> that would make sense, jim, because anyone who watches as much fox news as donald trump does knows exactly where john bolton comes down on love letters with kim jong-un, on footsie with putin, on iran. i mean, he hired someone who was on a network he watches like an addict. >> yeah. it's crazy. season 3 of the trump show is the craziest year of all. >> it sure is. >> it really is nu

the president tweeted that he asked bolton for his resignation yesterday and bolton responded with his own tweet saying that he offer to resign last night and the president responded "let's talk about it tomorrow." bolton had been scheduled to take part in a press briefing on terrorism. washington is stepping up the campaign to put more pressure on iran. mike pompeo said that iran is world by deceive the refusing to cooperate with the international atomic energy agency and the u.s. has been increasing sanctions on iran since they withdrew from the landmark nuclear deal last year. pakistan is warning india that couldcupation of kashmir launch the nuclear armed countries into a "accidental war ." tensions have been escalating since last month when they changed the status of kashmir. pakistan accuses india of turning cashmere into the largest prison on the planet. in north carolina, republicans are hoping an 11th hour pep talk from president trump will propel them to a special election victory today. the president urged an arena packed with supporters to vote for conservative state senato

so bolton, i mean, not to praise bolton and bolton was as incredibly hawkish and he always made us closer to war, but he was within the normative window of what people actually think about foreign policy. he may be replaced by someone who is not. >> and both of you at least have been very careful to say you're not praising bolton while in little ways you have gestured at lightly praising bolton. so i just observed that. final quickly. >> i would say only that -- to say that somebody has kind of more integrity than some of the other disgraced figures in the trump administration is the faintest praise imaginable. >> i see what you're saying there. it is somewhat faint. it's like saying to use a grateful dead reference that hardcore deadheads will know, a very organized drums and space sequence is still a drums and space sequence. anyone? no? no? malcolm? >> not going to hit on that. >> malcolm, anything? >> can i just say one last thing about this? >> sure. >> the person donald trump will be looking for next can be encapsulated in the character from the movie, you know, general jack t. ripp

the welcome to well it's a part of the heart of john bolton as president trumps national security adviser made as much of a splash as he's hiring in april of 2018 see him as the president's man in the beginning bolten left the white house ask you strong upon and leaving many people gassing what the national security process in the oval office comes down to these days to discuss that i'm now joined by matt bassler cells started professor of public policy at the university of maryland professor dessler it's a privilege for me to talk to thank you very much for your time. it's a privilege to be with you thank you for inviting me now about the daycare that go you published a very influential book on the history of president's national security advisers as i was reading it it occurred to me that in this capacity john bolton was truly one of a kind if you were writing that book today with you weren't the separate chapter. i suppose we would have a separate chapter on all or all 3 are now 4 of the people of the time trump has chosen to be a national security advisor but bolton would get the most

trump said he fired bolton. bolton insists he resigned. >>> plus, republicans eek out a win in the congressional district. >>> and addressing the gun violence epidemic, while those with president trump are waiting their marching orders. good morning, everyone, on this wednesday, september 11th. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. on this 18th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks president trump finds himself searching for his fourth national security adviser in just three years after announcing the firing of john bolton on twitter yesterday. the president claims he informed bolton on monday night that his services are, quote, no longer needed at the white house. trump tweeted out i disagreed strong with many of his suggestions as did others in the administration. therefore, i asked john for his resignation which was given to me. those are how to handle iran, afghanistan. and reports say that bolton refused to push back on reports that he and mike pence disagreed on trump's plan to host the tal

bolton says that the president is lying. that he, bolton, offered his resignation. it's extraordinary on many fronts. first, this is the third national security adviser to depart in less than three years. the first one, michael flynn, in court today after he admitted that he lied to the fbi about conversations with the russians. further, the president issued a statement about the exit of one of his closest advisers and within minutes, that adviser hits back hard at the president saying what the president told is world is not true. publicly it began with a tweet from president trump. i informed john bolton last night that his services were no longer needed at the white house. i disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions as did others and i asked john for his resignation, which was given to me this morning. that was two minutes to noon today. 12 minutes later, john bolton issued his own statement saying i offered to resign last night and the president said let's talk about it tomorrow. then within minutes, bolton was texting morning show hosts and news reporters,

, attacking john bolton. calling john bolton not smart. john bolton resisted responding to donald trump's provocation. well, john bolton didn't completely resist. he said some very important words. john bolton said i will have my say in due course. that was first reported as a text john bolton sent to the washington post and soon nbc news confirmed those exact words from john bolton today, i will have my say in due course. it would have been much better for donald trump if john bolton decided to have his say today and get it over with, but on this, at least, john bolton is much, much smarter than donald trump. john bolton is going to have his say. he is going to respond to the insults that donald trump threw at him today. but john bolton is going to control the timing and the form of his response to donald trump. john bolton has already written one book of memoirs of serving in a republican presidential administration. today he has the makings of a book that could outsell any book ever written by a member of

bolton said he resigned. after months of conflict, sources say they got into a heated argument over trump's canceled plan the host taliban leaders at camp david. bolton reportedly opposed the idea. >>> also breaking. cnn's exclusive new poll finds six out of ten americans now say president trump does not deserve to be re-elected. his approval rating has ticked down to only 39%. and more than half a of those surveyed say he's doing a bad job keeping his campaign promises. i'll get reaction from democratic congressman worthy. he's on the intelligence and oversight committees and our correspondents are also standing by. first, to jim aacosta. he's gone from an administration that one source is likening to a snake pit. >> that's right, wolf and president trump is search iing r a new national security adviser this evening after he announced john bolton had been fired in that tweet today. the president gave bolton the boot after the two clashed over key foreign policy. decision areas including mr. trump's scrapped

negotiation and resolute action and it looks like to me at least i've been in john bolton trying got a taste of his own medicine don't you think that bolton ironically may have made president trump more moderate than more cautious in his decision making serving made him look more moderate and cautious and i think it's become increasingly clear that the president doesn't want or doesn't want conflict but he's up for suing policies that are tend to be confrontational can do challenge others around most notably and but he doesn't want to follow through with use of military force that's fortunate in my view but it doesn't help the president's credibility because he seems to me across is trying to be tough until the until he has to fish or cut bait and then he doesn't do something that he doesn't i. indeed recent iraq apparently attack apparently from iran or saudi oil facilities is a good example of a plausible result of the very tough hooey as the united states has been putting on the iranian economy but again the surtur state of said iranian bombing in saudi arabia was an act of war wh

a white house official telling fox news, simply put, many of bolton, referring to john bolton, national security advisor who is leaving, many of bolton's policy properties did not align with potus, president of the united states. he is out. he is gone. how this all happened is probably beside the point. just that it happened, not a surprise it got to this point, after this. ♪ ♪ ♪ here, hello! starts with -hi!mple... how can i help? a data plan for everyone. everyone? everyone. let's send to everyone! [ camera clicking ] wifi up there? -ahhh. sure, why not? how'd he get out?! a camera might figure it out. that was easy! glad i could help. at xfinity, we're here to make life simple. easy. awesome. so come ask, shop, discover at your xfinity store today. neil: all right. was he asked to go, was he pushed, did he jump? probably doesn't matter in the scheme of things, just that john bolton, national security advisor is gone. to retired colonel david hunt on significance of that. he joins us on the phone. colonel, this guy had spartan, militaristic, in your face approach, particularly d

as bolton's firing. it is about incoherence, a lack of inability to function as president of the united states in a way that is o open to fact and the problem here is, of all things, the weather report. the weather report. >> putting lives in danger. >> not liable because the president of the united states decided in what should have been a one-day story to correct himself and it may be not accident that the bolton announcement comes today to get this off the front pages and to lean on cnn and the cable networks to get the weather story off the -- off the -- because it all goes to the same thing. the president of the united states who conducts the presidency as if it were a television show called "apprentice: you're fired." but the consequences of this are now apparent to republican in a way that they will tell you in congress, many republicans, they are very worried about the stability of the president of the united states, and at some point some people besides muoo e gare -- garamucci, not only how the

bolton for the exit. president trump said he fired the national security adviser john bolton leaving a critical post in limbo amid heightened global tension. will bolt -- while bolton claims he resigned we're learning new details of what may have been the final straw for the president. >>> falling approval. a new cnn poll has been released and shows the president's approval rating is down. but another number should be of even greater concern for the white house, how many americans now say the president should not get a second term. >>> bell weather race. all political eyes are on north carolina special election tonight

president could use bolton's resignation to improve dialogue with iran. i would expect to see from the president an effort to open up a dialogue with iran using bolton's departure if you will as an excuse to say really bolton was the hawk i'm ready to talk and let's remember trump desperately needs this deal things did not work out with afghanistan things haven't worked out with north korea he's heading into elections and he needs to show something that he's done on the world stage sheer that there is no one left in the situation room who is going to speak truth to trump might pompei you know as a sycophant someone who is really a yes man and this is what we have lost over the course of the last year in. defense secretary the former national security adviser general mcmaster going out and now with the loss of john bolton i'm no fan of john bolton but it least he was more disciplined and he would i think control some of trump's worst tendencies. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has announced his intention to omics the jordan valley and by the wes

and iran trump of bolton clashing over iran so what impact will bolton 2nd half. you're absolutely right helen of there was a we'll call it a pretty strong difference of opinion we've seen we'll call it a more conciliatory tone coming from president in recent weeks and months and also also coming from his secretary of state mike pompei oh now what we've seen is the president has said he's open to meeting his iranian counterpart. rouhani now we even heard earlier the secretary of state said that it could even take place at the. general assembly which is taking place later this month and i we know this was very much against. john bolton had wanted he had a much more hardline and much more aggressive sort of policy towards iran and it appeared that this just didn't fit in this different this change of direction we'll call it in terms of foreign policy direction and it was it was just one of many issues that it appears they disagreed over and also let's not forget it's also been reported here that there was perhaps a little bit of a personality even between the 2 that

did john bolton just decide to resign? we're being told john bolton himself insists that didn't happen. that's something that will likely never be fully resolved. but one thing we do know, dana, over 17 months that john bolton has been the national security adviser, there have been broad disagreements. not only over the taliban and the parameters of the peace plan, but all over other issues like iran, north korea, venezuela, how to get rid of north korea's nuclear plan. i'm told bolton just got to the point where he thought one day it would be inevitable that he and the president did not see eye to eye to the degree where bolton would have to leave the white house. it appears today is that day. secretary of state mike pompeo was asked at the briefing about it. i asked about this idea that bolton's foreign policy was not in alignment with the president. here's how pompeo responded. >> i'll leave to the president to talk about the reasons he made the decision. but i would say this. the president's entitled to the staff that

than hawkins that we discussed bolton's dismissal with the former u.s. naval intelligence officer steve rogers and also the former u.s. congressman ron paul. john bolton was rather more hawkish than any national security advisor that i've seen at least in my lifetime he was opposed to the president taking steps to sit with foreign leaders across the table look when president trump suggested that lattimer putin be invited to the g. 7 summit was opposed to that the president recently want the taliban to come to camp david and talk and so it seemed to be a situation where the national security advisor john bolton was not respecting the wishes of the president united states the president is the duly elected representative of this country and mr bolton had an obligation to support the president's policies. also i had a lot of disagreement with secretary of state might pompei oh and as a result we now see what this culminated in today every time i think trump is making progress bold you know but in any room is a so i think the timing is just too late i mean no

but withjohn bolton, it may have been the other way round. i actually temperjohn, which is pretty amazing, isn't it? nobody thought that was going to... i'm the one that tempers him, but that's ok. on any number of policy issues, donald trump and john bolton were not aligned. on iran, bolton advocated a more aggressive military response. the president wanted restraint. on venezuela, john bolton thought sanctions could bring the overthrow of nicolas maduro. the policy has failed. and most recently, the president wanted to go ahead at the weekend with a summit at camp david with taliban leaders. but this week is the anniversary of 9/11, and bolton thought the idea was crazy. and that view, somehow, found its way into the public domain. perhaps the final straw for the president. and so donald trump is now casting around for his fourth national security adviser in under three years, one of the most pivotaljobs in any american administration. jon sopel, bbc news, washington. a little earlier i spoke to frances brown, from the carnegie endowment fo

and now he fired bolton. only several months after bolton started the job, president trump started reaching out to h.r. mcmaster telling him that he missed him and he reached out to him other time asking for advise on things like conflict and attention with iran and asking him who should be his next secretary of defense, stephanie. >> the president just talked about bolton's firing. the advisor was not getting along with important people in the administration. now that he's gone, what are the feelings inside the white house? for months president trump says it was good that john bolton sort of had a different opinion as the president but at last, that did not work out. >> that did not work out. we saw it in the faces of pompeo and mnuchin in the briefing room, big smiles. this has been a tension between pompeo and bolton as to who is the top dog in terms of foreign policies advise given to the president and pompeo's side is i won. there is a lot of relief that bolton is gone. there is concern, bolton was a cha

is possible that some of the he fired one of the most hawkish members of his white house team john bolton previously back to the u.s. quitting the nuclear deal with. the morals out across the united states the victims of the 911 terror attacks all survivors continue to question the way the investigation has been handled. the wanted to impress. their geopolitical region 1st. the needs of their families and their family members survivors. and germany infuriates china by rolling out the red carpet for a hong kong protest leaders see urges the human rights as a bargaining chip in trade talks with beijing. since the u.s. quit the iran nuclear deal the president on trump has come out and said making an agreement with the country could be a good thing. much different country right now than they were 2 and a half years ago when i came into office. and i do believe they'd like to make a deal if they do that it's great and if they don't that's great too he made some very big mistakes when he talked about the libyan model for kim jong il and that was not a good statement to make you just take a look

it seems that 11 58 am eastern standard time president drum tweeted i informed john bolton last night that the services were no longer needed at the white house i disagreed strongly with many of the suggestions as it others in the administration and therefore i asked john for his resignation which was given to me this morning i think john very much for his service i will be naming a new national security advisor next week since then trump has said that bolton strategies set back the administration's foreign policy objectives the ball was not well liked among sis peers and even the bolton's hawkishness had soured north korea's kim jong un un peace talks with the us here's how 2 of bolton's peers secretary of state my pompei on secretary of state this in treasury's see munchen responded to questions regarding the unceremonious ousting. but i don't talk about the workings of how this all goes we we all keep working and the thing is there were many times investor vote that i disagreed that's to be sure but that's true for lots of thoughts of people who with whom i interact whatever that i

the actual john bolton is gone, likelyev forever. the question tonight is will he be replaced by another john bolton just like in and are signsely there that that's possible. in fact in washington, it's always possible. change is not always for the better, don't lie to yourself. apparently on the short-list tonight to a place bolton is the president's special eepresentative for iran, brian hook. cook may be a good person. he's too an unapologetic neocon. sourcesru say he has undisguised contempt for donald trump as john bolton did he particularly disliked the president's nationalist foreign policy, which is one of the reason people voted for donald trump in 2016. one administration official recalls hook announcing that "i think the president is reckless and doesn't understand policy." another source purge them directly say something very similar to foreign officials at a conference abroad. a choice like that, and here, by the way, is not the only one, not even close, a choice like that is really no choice at all. it's more john bolto

mr bolton has said he offered to resign last night. and the uk has won its bid to host a major united nations climate change summit. it'll take place in glasgow at the end of next year. president trump as fitz fired one of the most senior mums of his administration. they are holding a press c0 nfe re nce . administration. they are holding a press conference. let's listen to what is being said. perpetrators of terrorism worldwide. among other revisions, it allows the united states to better target terrorist leaders, provides new tools to to shoot those who engage in terrorist training. and targets those actors who are designated as global terrorists. the treasury sanctioned over two dozen individuals and entities from 11 terrorist groups. specifically we have leaders operative and financiers from 11 terror organisations, including al-qaeda and their affiliate. the white house are taking more action than ever before. the us treasury is enhancing our efforts to deny terrorists access to the us financial system. we will continue to make su

if you are wondering why so many progressives are mourning bolton's firing tonight bolton himself fundamentally was a man of the left. there was not a human problem john bolton wasn't totally convinced could be solved with the elite force of government. that's an assumption of the left. not the right. don't let the mustache fool you. john bolton was one of the most progressive people in the trump administration. by the way, naturally once he was a scons there bolton promoted obama loyalists within the security council that shouldn't prize you either. from the very first day john bolton operated as in fact a fifth column within the trump white house. we warned about him frequently on this show. >> tucker: when the president calls for peace with a heavily armed nuclear power that is considered treason. but with the national security advisor calls for, yet, another pointless war, that's just elite consensus and it's fine. nikon bolton has called for toppling the iranian government again and again. tellingly he never suggested what might replace the iranian government once it's toppled. >> tucker:

bolton out of the way? bill: mike pompeo has been the point person ever since he was cia director with north korea relations. the u.s. point of view is the ball is in north korea's court. we heard from president trump's top envoy last week saying we are ready to talk. they need to respond to us. ,here is always the potential but i think this outcome -- this outcome does not affect as much as the black box of european politics -- of north korean politics. david: many thanks to bill ferries from washington. joining us with more is alix steel. you know oil like nobody else. once this tweet came out, i watch the price of wti and it went down .5%. now it has come back up to flat. what is oil doing? the initial reaction is we might have seen a softer line between iran and the u.s.. the reality of the situation is that it did not matter. that was not going to be true. iran has said multiple times that in terms to come to the negotiating table they need sanctions lifted. no matter who will be in the white house, an

to resign last night nap is not how bolton is stating it. he says he offered to resign last night and the president told him, talk about it tomorrow. lo and behold talk about it tomorrow for president trump meant, tweet, he was firing john bolton today. so it is shocking, but it's something that happens in this trump administration time and time again. we have seen so many national security officials leave this administration, and one of those who's left standing is secretary of state mike pompeo. he is really holding the baton when it comes to foreign policy for this administration, and in afghanistan, that is one of the issues facing the trump administration right now. are they going to pull troops out? going to kwum to agreement with the taliban, include the afghan government? just the latest. there are a number of issues they e need to focus on and clearly have a disjointed national security team right now. >> i think if you just look at twitter right now and see the way john bolton and president trump are even spinning it as far as i fi

bolton wanted to humiliate bolton in an exchange. there's bolton at the white house 8:44 a.m. this morning, work as usual taking a phone call outside and he then went in and led a meeting with top administration officials and then, boom, a tweet. the operative part of that tweet, quote, i informed john bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the white house. well, that's not bolton's version. sources tell cnn bolton was livid and it was a source for a story about how bolton told trump that hosting the taliban at camp david was a bad idea. trump, of course, was resoundingly slant right around the 9/11 anniversary and he thought bolton was the one who made him look bad. the president says he's the one who fired him last night. he said no way, i resigned and president trump said let's talk about it tomorrow. trump wanted public embarrassment to bolton and he let him come to work and be on camera and a press release came out saying that bolton was going to be at a press briefing with secretary steve mnuchin. >> bolton was on the guidance to be here so were you

katie, your thoughts on bolton? >> so based on who i talked to today in his administration but bolton's departure, it seems like john bolton became too much of an independent operator. there were decisions made by the administration specifically by the president and john bolton would then refuse to go out and back foreign policy decisions that had been made and that didn't just happen once or twice on a couple of issues, it would happen on a regular basis. i was also told that he would often take these elaborate overseas trips with a lot of national security staff and that was something that required a lot of resources and not necessarily part of his job, which was to gather information from a number of federal agencies that deal with national security, presented to the president for decision. so i think it was a matter of john bolton not being necessarily a team player, thinking that his strategy was better and not backing the president publicly when it came to the big decisions. >> bret: also had a statement back

back as he goes out the door john bolton noise suggesting. paul in d.c. this time of year is terrible. suggesting that he resigned rather than was fired what is true is that there were a number of people in the administration who didn't agree with john bolton's position on a number of things one of them was mike pompey or an america's top diplomat certainly wasn't diplomatic when asked about that at a news briefing a short time ago. we all give our can defend if there were many times in bass or both and i disagree that's to be sure but that's true for lots and lots of people who with whom i interact much my mission set is always to make sure as i run the department of state is to deliver america's diplomacy and to work with the team whether it's a treasury or the president's staff to make sure we get good outcomes and i don't i don't i know everyone's talked about this for an awfully long time there were definitely places that best and i told them i had different views about how we should proceed so i will bolton's departure have much of an i

bolton says he resigned. once again the two men disagreed, as they d on licies ranging from iran to north korea. the bbc's north america editor jon sopel startour coverage. jon: john bolton is the hawk'ser hawk -- c, dry, clever, and confrontational. and this morning still to be found on the white house grounds. but not anymore. he has been turfedut by presidential tweet. "i informed john bolton that his services are no longer needed at e white house. i disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did hers in the administration. therefore i asked john for his resignation." but highly unusually and in a sure sign of the acrimony over this departure, bolton also took president's veof events.the "i offered to reangn last night, president trump said let's talk about it tomorrow." at a white house briefing with e treasury secretary and secretary of state, two men that john bolton have clashed mo with, there were grins all ouound. c. pompeo: last night the president asked for ambassador bolt's resignation. a

you never liked john bolton, he was hawkish. >> certainly, i had problems with john bolton. as history as a very, very aggressive, bombastic, and come in my view, dangerous person, never should have been in that position to begin with as a national security advisor. but he was there. with regard to the meeting with the television at camp david, three days before 9/11, a very, very bad idea. a very good idea to negotiate, no doubt about the need for negotiations. but on the negotiation side, to leave the afghan government out of the negotiations as did happen, what's going on here? this doesn't seem to management since the date this doesn't seem to make month since may. we do have to move forward, but i'm not sure what's happening. there are negotiations over the taliban. spewing out this week and not at camp david. we will see what happens. i'm wanting to make sure i understand it right. he maybe nuance for approach from the left side of the aisle. we've heard from her republicans, we had one yesterday. colonel waltz, former military, who said he didn't like the fact that yo

hawkishness had soured north korea's kim jong un un peace talks with the us here's how 2 of bolton's peers secretary of state my pompei on secretary of state this in treasury's see munchen responded to questions regarding the unceremonious ousting. but i don't talk about the workings of how this all goes we we all get work and the thing is there were many times investor vote that i disagreed that's to be sure but that's true for well that's lots of people who with whom i interact with that is the one thing i would just say follow up exam president's been very clear on this the president's view of the iraq war and ambassador bolton is very different the president's made my service. much could be said about the love of interventionist wars something that has always run counter to the platform trump ran on in the last election and with another election creeping up over the horizon and at least 2 democratic party candidates pulling ahead of him in a general is trump starting to worry that he's strayed too far from the isolationist noninterventionist platform the god of the electorate to

mcmaster, now john bolton. all for various reasons but there's a high turnover particularly in that area and foreign policy. a lot of people look at it and say what do you want? what do you stand for? >> the interesting thing is if you look at donald trump over the last decade or more, one of the consistent themes that you will hear him speak of may be for 20 or 30 years is the idea that regime change doesn't work. he said for a long, long time the iraq war was a mistake and we emboldened around by getting rid of saddam hussein and there was a counterbalance and having saddam hussein there that that vacuum allowed isis to grow and then vacuum, and so really i think the president has been very, very consistent. >> neil: you mentioned isis, senator . isis was on the run, isis was defeated. foreign policy advisors urged him to cool it on that kind of talk because it emboldened the enemy. sure enough, isis popped up in other locales. does he have to be careful with his wording? >> i would say that the president is

bolton to netanyahu i also think that he was reluctant to let him go for a time at least because bolton even though he was not jewish represented the judeo christian evangelicals a very strong political base for donald trump but he has pomp alun he has pants so he probably felt at this point we he no longer needed services and and the other thing too is that he was always critical of the president have a go bolton would go behind the scenes and criticize the president as opposed to. pump aoe who was much more clever and not criticizing the president but doing what a good soldier was do once the president made a decision and that was to salute and carry arms press wasn't boarding stifling this is a key position we're talking about national security advisor when it comes to u.s. foreign policy will foreign nations be looking on now and thinking it's ok things going to change now will the u.s. take a different approach to this or would you expect just more of the same whoever comes in. well it could be it could be a signal that. the president really wants to do things in a more moderate wa

with iran is possible and i softly find one of the most hawkish members of his white house team john bolton who previously banked us quitting the nuclear deal with a rom. the morial to held across the us for the victims of the 911 terror attacks while survivors continue to question the way the investigation has been handled. the wanted to put the interests of. the geopolitical region 1st. the needs of the families and their family members survivors. and the u.n. warns israel's prime minister if his plans for the west bank benjamin netanyahu is an intention to annex parts of the region has also sparked outrage in the arab world. a warm welcome you watching r.t. international with meaning to arran. more than a year since the u.s. quit the a wrong nuclear deal president donald trump has said making an agreement with 2 wrong could be a good thing he also commented on his reasons for sucking his national security adviser john bolton they are much different country right now than they were 2 and a half years ago when i came into office. and i do believe they'd like to make a deal if they do that