they should have nothing to do with domestic politics. dr. hill said ambassador bolden referred to this deal as a drug deal after the july 10th meeting. ambassador bolton opposed a call between president zelensky and president trump out of concern it would be a disaster. needless to say, the ukrainians in the meeting were confused. ambassador bolton and the regular channel wanted to talk about security, energy and reform. ambassador sondland, a participant in the irregular channel, wanted to talk about the connection between a white house meeting and ukrainian investigations. also during our july 19th call, dr. hill informed me that ambassador volker met with mr. giuliani to discuss ukraine. this caught me by surprise. the next day i asked ambassador volker about that meeting but received no response. i began to sense that these two separate decision making channels, the regular and the
as i think if you look at history of the president s decision-making like i ran it s an ad hoc decision. he changes his mind a lot and will do last minute height dra drama, high-stakes. ten minutes from bombing iran and the present without that he gets criticized for this but he just has a different - i think they don t like his management style and they don t like the last minute with things like trade negotiation back and forth but maybe it s time to stop parading in the way traditional previous presence have run that office let me ask you about the bolden situation because it was such a huge new story. john bolton very high profile guy with hawkish views that were no secret and do you think the story overall was overplayed? all these people - on the other
as i think if you look at history of the president s decision-making like i ran it s an ad hoc decision. he changes his mind a lot and will do last minute height dra drama, high-stakes. ten minutes from bombing iran and the present without that he gets criticized for this but he just has a different - i think they don t like his management style and they don t like the last minute with things like trade negotiation back and forth but maybe it s time to stop parading in the way traditional previous presence have run that office let me ask you about the bolden situation because it was such a huge new story. john bolton very high profile guy with hawkish views that were no secret and do you think the story overall was overplayed? all these people - on the other hand the argument is that he s a
went into and north korea kept it from the u.s. for a long time. so the warmbiers have been pretty frustrated with president tru trump. they think he s evil, killed their son. they sued north korea. they got a half a billion judgment, they re trying to collect on that. so the warmbiers are going to be very direct when they speak with president trump about kim jong-un and what they think the united states approach should be with north korea. they certainly don t like this talk of friendship and whatnot. richard grenell, the current u.s. ambassador to germany, he s one of the people being floated as a possible replacement for national security adviser to replace hawk john bolton. perhaps this dinner we re told it was scheduled before bolden was let go, but obviously i would expect if i were a fly on the wall, it will be a very
disagreed, that s to be sure, but that s true for lots of lots of people with whom i interact. president trump has now gone through three national security advisers and says he will name a fourth in a week. we are covering this, of course from all angles. cnn kiley atwood at the state department but start with jim acosta, chief white house correspondent there. were you at that briefing. what is the back story, please? reporter: it sounds like a long back story and i won t get into off of it but sound likes things came to a head last night. firing john bolton, and clashed over this meeting with the president who thought about having a meetingality camp david with taliban leaders to try to draw up an afghanistan peace plan. i m told by two senior administration officials the president and vice president mike pence were upset bolden aides were leaking out to the press that the vice president