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 jongun is engaging in the type of blackmail diplomacy. Is it working for him . Im wolf blitzer and youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Were following breaking news. President trumps Third National security adviser out of the white house tonight. John bolton said he resigned although the president tweeted his dismissal just before bolton was to take part in a White House Press briefing. Also breaking now, an exclusive new cnn poll showing the president s Approval Rating down and 60 of those asked say he doesnt deserve to be reelected. Well talk about all of the breaking news and more with congressman adam schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. And our correspondents and analysts are standing by. First to our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta. Youre getting new information from your sources about john boltons departure. Reporter that is right. President trump is searching for a new National Security adviser after he abruptly announced john bolton had been fired and he gave him the boot in a tweet after they clashed over Foreign Policy decisions after trump wanted to invite taliban to camep david and he was upset that bolton tried to create the impression that Vice President mike pence was opposed to those meetings but as one Top Administration official insists, it is not amess despite an obvious cleanup job. For now former National Security adviser john bolton it was an unceremonious firing by tweet. Standing outside of the west wing just hours before he was scheduled to join secretary of state mike pompeo and treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin to answer questions from reporters, bol boltan was suddenly gone with his former administration rivals all smiles. Im never surprised. The president is entitled to the staff he wants at any moment. This is a taf person who works directly for the president of the United States and he should have people he trusts and values and whose efforts and judgments benefit him in delivering american Foreign Policy. Reporter the white house insists he was fired but the president announcing in a tweet i informed john bolton last night that his services are no longer need needed at the white house and i disagreed strongly with his suggestions and therefore i asked for his resignation given to me this morning. I thank john very much for his service. Ill name a new National Security adviser next week. But bolton tweeted that is not true. Claiming i offered to resign last night and President Trump said lets talk about it tomorrow. Despite the fact that mr. Trump has gone through three National Security advisers, Administration Officials say there is no insecurity when it comes to the president s Foreign Policy team. Is this National Security team amess . Absolutely not. That is the most ridiculous question ive ever heard of. Let me say, the National Security team which is what you asked consists of the the National Security adviser, the secretary of defense, the secretary of state, myself, the chief of staff and many others. Do you disagree with the president reporter sources tell cnn bolton clashed with the president over a number of Critical Issues including mr. Trumps scrapped plan to invite leaders of the taliban to camp david days before september 11th. The president and Vice President mike pence believe bomt boltons team was leaking stories that Top Administration officials were questioning the idea of a taliban meeting. I think the view there is public discussions about bolton being on the other side of meeting with the taliban probably was a bridge too far. I dont know what happened there. Reporter a Foreign Policy hawk, bolton disliked the idea of sitting down with new yorkan dictator kim jongun. Aides say the outspoken style had irritated the president for months. He has strong views on thingsba that is okay. I temper john which is amazing. Reporter bolton also found himself at odds with pompeo. I know everyone talked about this for an awfully lot of times. There with places that john bolton and i had different views. Reporter the administration is sounding open to the idea of trump sitting down with the iran president at the upcoming United Nations general assembly. The president has made clear. Hes happy to take a meeting with no preconditions but were maintaining the maximum pressure campaign. Reporter now as we mentioned a few moments ago, the former adviser john bolton said in a tweet he offered his resignation yesterday evening but if we could put this up on screen. This is john boltons Resignation Letter to the white house and it is dated today and according to a senior white house official the president asked for and received that letter of resignation from the National Security adviser. As one source close to the white house put it, this may be the least surprising firing from the Trump White House as of yet as one Top White House official put it to me earlier today, wolf, this was a long time in coming. And bolton in his letter simply said dear mr. President , i hereby resign Effective Immediately as assistance for the president of National Security affairs and thank you for affording me this opportunity to serve our country. Not much there from john bolton. That is right. This was somebody who clashed with Top Administration officials including the president on a number of occasions on a whole range of subjects. There was there was no mystery as to where john bolton stood on iran and north korea and everything under the sun but he was a man of few words in that Resignation Letter, wolf. Jim acosta at the white house. Thank you very much. More on the president s firing of the National Security adviser. Our National Security reporter kylie atwood is joining us and our correspondent jamie gangel is with us. And the white house suspected boltan was responsible for leaks particularly when he strongly disagreed with the president , what are you learning . We are learning today that the straw that broke the camels back here was National Security adviser john bolton disagreeing with the president s decision to invite the taliban here to the u. S. , to u. S. Soil to camp david to have meetings. National security adviser john bolton didnt think it was a good idea and voiced his disagreement. Reporters then found out about that disagreement and we have reported on it. But thats not the only policy issue that President Trump disagreed with bolton on. There also north korea. Bolton thought the Trump Administration should be more muscular in approach and not sit down with the north korean officials. Iran, similar thing. Bolton thought a strike against iran should have happened but President Trump cancelled that strike hours before it was supposed to happen. So these tensions have been bubbling for quite sometime. And there is a very, very far distance between these two when it comes to Foreign Policy. Someone close to bolton describing the two to me today as a round hole in a square peg from the beginning. Certainly was come plick complicated. And jamie, this relationship i never understand given their public disagreement on u. S. Troops overseas and war overseas and clashed in policy and personality and even clashed as far as facial hair is concerned. His exit, though, it was not unexpected. No. Not at all. For anyone who missed it, donald trump never liked john boltons mustache. But that was the least of their problems. Look, these two men not only clashed, but behind the scenes i i i am told by sources close to the situation john bolton was not supporting the president. A couple of weeks ago in late august he was supposed to go on the sunday talk shows. He did not go on. And my source said that it was because he said he couldnt support the president s position. When trump found out about it, that was yet another blow in the relationship. But i think overall all of these problems, friends of john bolton will tell you, hes a bull in a china shop. They were surprised he lasted as long as he did, wolf. I was surprised as well. Kylie, bolton was scheduled to appear at a White House Press briefing with the secretary of state, the secretary of the treasury just 90 minutes before he was fired. That is when the white house put out the announcement. This is rather awkward. That is right. So these departures from the Trump Administration are never very ceremonious. Weve seen President Trump fire members of his National Security team, former secretary of state Rex Tillerson via tweet before. So this is not necessarily shocking news. But instead of john bolton showing up there in the Briefing Room alongside the other members of trumps cabinet, it was secretary of state mike pompeo defending President Trumps decision to fire john bolton saying that the president is entitled to have the team that he chooses. Jamie, the boltan was growing increasingly reluctant as you point out to go on television and defend some of the president s policies. What more are you learning about the tension between the two men. Gist as one example, a group from congress had gone up this year to discuss and try to convince President Trump not to withdraw from syria. The president stepped out of the room at one point to take a call and bolton was reported to have rolled his eyes and said, welcome to my world. These kinds of stories were building up. But i think at the end of the day one of the things that were go fog find out very quickly is john bolton is telling reporters that he is going to explain more in due course. He is not going quietly. So i think were going to find out more of the details from his point of view. But it was it just had become untenable between the two men. I suspect well be hearing a lot more from him in the coming days and weeks. He used to by a Fox News Contributor before joining the white house so he might go back there or someplace else. Jamie and kylie, thank you very much. And lets get more on all of this. Joining us now, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee democratic congressman adam schiff of california. Mr. Chairman, thanks very much for coming in. Good to be with you. You were never a big fan of john bolton so are you happy the president got rid of him . Well i am until we find out who comes next because the story of the administration is from bad to worse but he was always a poor fit for National Security adviser, someone who ideally has the jum and temperament to bring people together, to be an honest broker for the president , to allow the president to hear conflicting points of view and help the president along to a decision. In pompeos statement that the president is entitled to someone he values and trusts, he was basically saying the president didnt value or trust bolton. Ironically, though, on a couple of key issues, this failed idea for a summit at camp david and the colossal failures with north korea, boltan was right, that kind of unprepared highstakes summitry that reality tv diplomacy wont work with north korea and it didnt work with the taliban and it hasnt worked with the iranians and i think it is it has been a mistake and a costly one for the United States. The turnover among National Security advisers, secretary of state, secretary of defense, this National Security team, how much concern does that raise . It raises a lot of concern. There has never been much process in the white house in terms of in terms ever getting to a good decision on matters. So we see just more of the dysfunction but even the best of circumstances it was chaotic. Just to give you one sill administration, that tweet the president sent out purportedly of a photograph of the Iranian Missile site with a vague or ambiguous language about whether he had any role in it. What was the point of that . That certainly didnt come out of any comprehensive or National Security process. And so it just leaves people baffled. Here is the tweet. You could see the picture. Was that classified information that the president he has the right, he could declassify whatever he wants. Well, i cant comment on that. But i can say there doesnt seem to be any process for guiding the president on what he said, on what he does, on the International Repercussions of it and the repercussions in terms of intelligence agencies. And so that is one of the real costs of a lack of a workable National Security council and here with this latest departure, who knows when well have one of those. I assume you cant comment because it was classified. If it wasnt classified you could comment. I cant comment either way because that may implicate when this om this comes up again and this is part of the problem with the president s statement which is does that mean when there is another iranian failure and the president doesnt tweet that that is saying something about u. S. Involvement. So there was just nothing to be gained by what the president did. And we see this time and time again. You see it in the president s statements for example. Im not worried about the north Korean Missile launches, something he said in the past. That statement i can promise you is never vetted by any National Security official in the white house. And that is the problem with a broken process. He keeps suggesting these are just shortrange missile launches. They have a range of a thousand kilometers, 600 miles. They could hit south korea or where there is 35,000 u. S. Troops and japan more troops there. Shortrange is not necessarily five miles. That is exactly right. They could kill a lot of americans and a lot of our allies and if hes not worried about that, maybe he should spend time worrying about north koreas continued Nuclear Program even as he exchanged love letters with kim jongun. Let me get to some of jim sciuttos excellent reporting here on cnn. As you know, he first reported yesterday that the u. S. Back in 2017 extracted what was seen as a soviet as a russian asset working in moscow and valuable and may have been potentially at risk so they brought him here to the United States. I know there is a limit to what you could say about this. But what are your thoughts . I cant comment on the veracity or or lack of veracity of those allegations. I can say there is a concern about the president , about whether Foreign Intelligence Services could trust what they provide to us, whether theyll give us the most sensitive intelligence. I think sources themselves often who are motivated, yes, by money but by an ideological belief of what the u. S. Stands for and what the president stands for with democracy and human rights, those sources tend to dry up. The continuing attacks on our intelligence professionals, this coziness with russia. I was frankly just as disturbed with the reporting about the president questioning whether human intelligence is even valuable. Why is the president afraid of what human intelligence may you say human intelligence, you mean from foreign sources. The president is suggesting according to jim sciuttos reporting today that maybe that kind of sources, foreign sources are not reliable. If this is what the president is communicating to our intelligence community, these are people risking their lives for the United States. Risking their lives because we have hardworking people in the Intelligence Agency recruiting these assets. And that just makes their work so much more difficult and makes it more dangerous for any foreign asset. 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A newly released cnn poll shows President Trumps Approval Rating has dropped and six in ten americans say he doesnt deserve reelection. Lets bring in our political director david chalian. These arent good numbers for the president. No. It shows hes got a steep climb here for reelection. The Approval Rating that you mentioned. 39 of americans in the poll say they approve of the way donald trump is handling his job. 55 disapprove. This is definitely on the lower end of that range. Weve seen him take a look at the approval number over the course of the year. We havent seen him this low since back in january when he was at 37 . That was during the government shutdown. And you know that the economy has been one of his strongest suits. But look at this. It is now not such a huge advantage. It is still his best issue but 48 approve and 47 disapprove and this is the first time in seven months weve seen in our polling the trump approval on the economy drop below 50 . Interesting. How do voters feel about reelected President Trump . This number is the one that i think will send a chill down the spine of folks at trump reelection headquarters. 60 of americans in this poll say that donald trump does not deserve reelection. 36 say that he does. Wolf, this score, barack obama was in the low 50 . Dont deserve reelection. George w. Bush was actually at 52 or 53 that said he does deserve reelection so this is a tough number for him. And then take a look at this question we asked. Donald trump we know is a change agent. Eight in ten americans say he has changed the country. But look at how they split. More people say he changed it for the worse. 45 . Only 33 say hes changed the country for the better. Again, that is going to be a tough challenge for him to flip around in perception of voters minds as he head news his reelection year. A lot of bad numbers. But as you correctly point out, a lot of time between now and november of next year. 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And john bolton said he quit and either way he is out. Lets bring in our National Security experts to discuss. Gloria, the tweet was stark. I informed john bolton that his sefss are no longer needed at white house and i disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions. Bolton 12 minutes later said he resigned. This whole scenario is a little sessions like. And maybe even ruder. He might have been more rude to john bolton than to Jeff Sessions if that is possible. Our reporter, my reporting, danas reporting and our White House Team reporting is that this was kind of the final straw, this question of the meeting with the taliban which john bolton opposed. He didnt want it at camp david. He had a very bitter i was told conversation with the president and that kind of exploded the whole thing. But it doesnt come as a surprise to any of us. I mean these two people disagreed on everything, on iraq, on afghanistan, on north korea and on venezuela. That wasnt a surprise either when he hired him. We could have told you that going in. And finally it just got to be it just got to be too much. Dana, the president s Strong Language as far as getting rid of bolton, what does that tell you . It puts into the publics sphere what our team has been reporting for over a week and even longer, kylie atwood at the state department and Kaitlan Collins about the tension there and now that it is in public neither man is hiding their sort of irritation with one another. Both bolton and the president. But gloria was talking about, what i was told and even though there is tension for a very long time, on a policy level and on a personal level. Meaning the fact that i have been told that john bolton was perceived by the president and other senior aides as somebody whos style was too brash. That he had too much bravado and he took trips with too many staffers and he took his own plane instead of being with the president as a staffer which is what the National Security adviser is which is different from a cabinet members like the secretary of state or otherwise. But the leaking, the perception by the president that it was john bolton who leaked Bad Information about the president following the afghanistan summit that was supposed to be at camp david that didnt happen, saying that the president basically didnt know what he was doing. The fact that the president believed that that was john bolton who obviously did disagree, thought the notion of bringing the taliban to american soil, never mind camp david a couple of days before 9 11 was a terrible idea. Bolton was not alone in that at all. But the notion of leaking im told even for a president who clashed with somebody, that was the bridge too far. When you say Bad Information, you mean information the president didnt like. Negative information. Not necessarily incorrect information. It was about the story. It is about the story. Negative information. The president was not happy about it. Precisely. Over the past several months, susan, the president has often acknowledged publicly his disagreements with bolton on several major issues. Listen to this. I have john bolton and i have other people that are a little more dovish than him. And ultimately i make the decision. He has trong views on things but that is okay. I temper john which is pretty amazing. I have john bolton who i would definitely say is a hawk and i have other people that are on the only side of the equation and ultimately i make the decisions. So it doesnt matter. He takes it generally a tough posture but i have other people that dont take that posture. But the only one that matters is me. John bolton is absolutely a hawk. It is up to him. He would take on the whole world at one time, okay. But that doesnt matter. Because i want both sides. I was surprised when he hired bolton and surprised he lasted this long. It was unclear for a long time that john bolton was not trusted by white house staff, was not trusted by the president. And this was not a tenable position for the National Security adviser to be in. Certainly his Foreign Policy instincts do not align with the president s. Were seeing that clash. That said the issue here is not john bolton. The issue here is donald trump. The job of the National Security adviser is to ensure that factual information is going out to the president. Hes coordinating inner Agency Policies and ensuring that the president of the United States understands what the cia is thinking, what the National Security agency is thinking, what the u. S. Military is thinking. So the president could make wise and informed judgments. That involves telling the president information that is incon convenient to him, things he didnt want to hear. Hes not a p. R. Spin it is not a p. R. Spin. So whether it is john bolton or h. R. Mcmaster or anybody else, anyone in that position and willing to do the job of telling the truth to the president is going to clash with the president. Once again ordinarily it is fine for a president to have a National Security adviser. They want to rely on and it is important they have that role. That said tweeting that he was fired and pretty clear there was no next in line. They hadnt vetted anybody or who the next National Security adviser will be so this impulsive decision once again throws an important element of the National Security apparatus into complete chaos. This is the Third National security adviser in the Trump White House who has come and go. S sabrina, there seems to be a constant turmoil and there you see michael flib and mcmaster sand john bolton. It comes at a time when they are grappling with a number of Foreign Policy challenges. Whether it is negotiations on how to end americas longest war in afghanistan, ongoing talks with north korea about denuclearization and this escalating global trade war with china. How to engage with iran at a time of simmering tensions between washington and tehran and political unrest in venezuela, the list goes on and on. So to have this level of turnover leaves the administration without a sense of continuity or a clear sense of direction. It special projects instability to both allies and adversaries alike and to susans point the biggest problem is that people could come and go but what the president expected is loyalty and for people to tell him what he wants to hear and if you dont you might be out of a job. And i dont think we can emphasize enough and i hear from a policy maven if you will, the amount of dysfunction in the Foreign Policy apparatus. And this person said to me, this is a thoroughly dysfunctional operation. It is important to reflect on the fact that pompeo is the last person standing and that everyone else, mcmaster, mattis, coats, tillerson, john kelly, Kirsten Nielson found is impossible to work with the president and they are bitter about their experience and that is where we are. A lot of bitter people. Everybody stand by. A lot more on all of the breaking news right after this. At fidelity, we believe your money should always be working harder. Thats why, your cash automatically goes into a Money Market Fund when you open a new account. And fidelitys rate is higher than etrades, td ameritrades, even 10 times more than schwabs. Plus only fidelity has zero account fees and zero minimums for retail brokerage and retirement accounts. Just another reminder of the value youll only find at fidelity. Open an account today. Youll only find at fidelity. 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Dana bash, the dismissal of bolton and the firing and resignation, whatever it was, earlier in the morning it was announced that bolton would be at a White House Press briefing with the secretary of state and the secretary of defense. 90 minutes later the president tweets hes been fired and doesnt happen. Listen to the react of the secretary of state mike pompeo to a question on whether or not he was surprised. Im never surprised. Let me ask you this i dont mean that on just this issue. And i think secretary Steve Mnuchin would say the same thing. We work closely with the president of the United States. We have a good understanding of how he thinks about things. He doesnt seem disappointed by boltons departure. Neither surprise nor disappointed. Part of the reporting and part of the reality is that mike pompeo, the secretary of state, and john bolton clashed on a lot of issues, very very important policy issues which again people who have worked in administrations, democrat and republican, argue that healthy debate on really important issues is a good thing. So that is not necessarily a bad thing. But they also had a personality clash. And a clash about how they approached the jobs, about process and so forth. So that is why there was no there were no tears being shed there by the secretary of state pompeo. But i also thought it was telling that both him and Steve Mnuchin, who has known President Trump for a very long time, had to laugh. Nervous last laughter but telling laugher about that nobody is surprised by the notion that despite how much this is building up, in the end made an impulsive decision to fire john bolton. Very quickly. Does this mean, susan, that mike pompeo, the secretary of state, has even greater power now because he clashed often with bolton. I think it does show that mike pompeo is one of the most influential figures in the Trump Administration. He has staying power. People are the flavor of the month with trump. Mike pompeo has really persisted in this administration. Reporting suggests hes done that by adopting a sycophantic posture toward trump. Sort of flattering him, something that is quite effective in trump world. One thing we have seen the president do is he tends to sour on people when they see their own political star rising and thinking about their futures. Mike pompeo has been playing coy about suggestions he might run for senate in kansas and doing kansas media for a sect of state and one thing that remains to be seen as mike pompeo turns his focus to his own future, how the president responds to that. He would liken dorsment. There is no doubt about it. This turmoil, the National Security upheaval now comes as we have a brandnew cnn poll, 60 of americans now say the president does not deserve to be reelected. That is a striking number, wolf. Right now if i were working for the president , the president s reelection, i would look at that and i would say, okay, it is early. But we have an awful lot of work to do. This summer hasnt helped. And digging into the poll, i would look at the number of independent voters here. Because the question was asked has the country changed for the worse and 47 of independent voters now, almost half of independents say it changed for the worse and that shifted from 35 in february. Those voters, those voters are the key in this election. And they are changing their minds pretty dramatically i think about donald trump. And by the way, 71 of americans do not believe what they hear from the white house. Think of that. Everybody stick around. There is more news were following. 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This is a frm of exwhich might be working for kim jongun. Just hours after the regime issued a statement saying it was ready to restart Nuclear Talks with the u. S. , the north korean dictator once again ordered the firing of two short range missiles into the sea of japan. A u. S. Official telling cnn the missiles are the same types of missiles north korea has repeatedly tested in recent weeks. Tonight, experts tell cnn north korea is using what its called blackmail diplomacy and they say its working for kim jongun. North koreas negotiating style is to threaten destruction. To launch missile tests. As a center for di ploplomacy. Not a cost. It incentivises pyongyang to keep doing what theyre doing. Been no cost for kim analysts say because President Trump has down played the near ly two dozn short range missile tests since may. He likes testing missiles, but we never restricted short range missiles. They are short range missiles and very standard missiles. But experts say thats not true. They say while kim jongun sends letters to trump and talks about a grand bargain, hes been perfecting type of missiles that pose a major threat to u. S. Forces in asia and their allies two are capable of maneuvering. Meaning they can complicate interception by american missile defenses and south Korean Missile defenses and eventually, all of these missiles will contribute to north koreas ability to produce missiles aimed at the United States. One group of missile angel s isists estimates the misls he tested can strike six u. S. Bases in south korea and two in japan and the threat doesnt end there. Eventually, it could be armed with a nuclear warhead. Expert tell cnn kim jongun may not have the grand nuclear deal he wants from the americans yet, but the deal he has right now with trump allows him to use all of these threats to his advantage. It allows them to keep expanding their missiles, capable theties. They are moving the ball two yards, three yards, four yards down the field and theres nothing were doing about it. So theyre going to play the ground game and keep expanding their arsenal. And during all of these diplomatic overture, north korea has been perfecting its threat capeability in other ways. Since that singapore summit in june of last year, north korea has produced enough fuel to make several new nuclear weapons. Wolf. You know, brian, i understand youre being told tonight that the firing of john bolton as the president s National Security adviser could give the north koreans yet another advantage. We spoke to former white house officials today, others who say that boltons departure is a cause for celebration in pyongyang. It was his influence that was seen as a driving force behind President Trump walking away from a deal with the north koreans in hanoi this past february. With bolton out of the way, experts say the north koreans now feel they have a better chance to get President Trump alone in a room with kim jongun and a better chance of trump giving way the store in a nuclear deal. Brian todd reporting for us, thank you. More breaking news come up next. New details emerging of john boltons sudden departure from a house and how conflicts boiled over in one final heated argument with President Trump. R. Every day at marcos, get two medium, onetopping pizzas for just 6. 99 each. Hello to the italian way. Hello primo. Woi felt completely helpless. Hed online. My entire career and business were in jeopardy. I called reputation defender. Vo take control of your online reputation. Get your free reputation report card at reputationdefender. Com. Find out your online reputation today and let the experts help you repair it. Woman they were able to restore my good name. Vo visit reputationdefender. Com or call 18778668555. 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