was pressure on iran. and i even think that he wanted to bring about regime change in iran through the use of military force. president trump has a different view. and time and time again he undermines the more comprehensive pressure track that john billion ton was supporting by saying the only issue here is about nuclear weapons. and if he was willing to give the iranians money to get an iran nuclear deal, that is back to square one, that is actually just exactly what they were criticizing the obama administration from doing in the first place. >> what about the problem who is trying to really discredit, down play, john bolton's so-called tough guy image. take a listen to this. >> so john is somebody that i actually got along with very well. he made some very big mistakes. frankly, he wanted to do things not necessarily tougher than me. john is known as a tough guy.