i see very troubled waters ahead. john bolton may have a fuzzy mustache but he s got extremely sharp elbows and in that position of national security advisor, as john alluded to earlier, occasionally people try and run the band as though they re the conductor. that s how i perceive john bolton and that will not go well with jim mattis who is a very, very hard fibered marine. so look for conflict ahead. mattis has lost a real ally and a real friend in rex tillerson. it s a sad day in washington. wow. let s look specifically at north korea where it looked like there had been some movement toward diplomacy, the president accepting the offer from north korea of a meeting at the top of the chain between kim jong-un and the president of the united states. i wonder what happens now to that diplomacy when you have john bolton making the explicit case less than a month ago in the wall street journal for pre-emptive attack saying we
up the iran deal, regime change there as well, military action against iran. so what is the brake? yeah. i think as we look internationally at this, andrea, i think this diminishes the chances of peace on the korean peninsula. it raises exponentially chances that the iran deal goes away which will create maximal tension in the middle east. it raises chances of tension in china and the south china sea. it raises tensions of a hard line with russia which is probably the only area i can agree on with john bolton but i m not sure the president agrees on russia. so look for more confusion and la alarm in the center in the white house. that s very dangerous. secondly, andrea, the job of the national security advisor is to coordinate interagency process. john bolton may have a fuzzy mustache but he s got really sharp elbows and that is a
we have a busy day. i ll see you later on today. sounds good. we will have lots to discuss. thanks, hallie. good morning. i m ali velshi. live in washington. stephanie ruhle is off. it s friday, march 23rd. let s get started. john bolton in. h.r. mcmaster out. my view is the same as the president s, which he described as the worst deal in american diplomatic history. didn t really expect that announcement this afternoon. the president building aggressive national security team. the president is assembling a war cabinet. i see troubled waters ahead. bolton may have a fuzzy mustache, but he has sharp elbows. from the center fold to center stage. a former playboy model opening up for the first time about the ten-month affair she claims she had with donald trump. were you attracted to him? i was attracted to him, yeah. the sex was consensual. it was, yes. after we had been intimate, he tried to pay me.