of the surprise of the mcmaster firing last night was that white house chief of staff and other senior officials were hard at work planning an announcement that not only was mcmaster going to be fired but a bunch of other officials as well. including multiple cabinet officials. part of the surprise was that they were planning on announcing the firings at once. when all of a sudden the president got on twitter and fired mcmaster. i don t know if that makes you foal bert or worse about stability in the government. it was a shock to everybody the national security adviser was fired. but only because a whole bunch of other people at senior levels were also supposed to be fired at the same time. and those other people haven t been fired. yet. so we re still waiting for those firings to happen. do those shoes still drop? even among white house. the firing and hiring of john bolten was timed by the
using the nra as their conduit. now, as you know we have already had one trump national security adviser end up in an fbi investigation into russian influence in the trump campaign. that didn t end well. now it appears we have another. and it s not just the gun thing. he may find himself in the middle of that investigation. not just on the nra russia money side. also because of this. this is an ad that john bolten made for his super pack. imaginatively named the john bolten super-pack. between spring 2014 and fall of 2016 bolten super-pack received $5 million from robert mercer. the biggest of the trump donors and funder behind steve bannon projects including breitbart. and cambridge analytica. he got $5 million from mercer. what did he spend that on? well, more than a million
sparked speculation. if he was getting fired. you might remember from this show there was a response online that we singled out here because it hit like a thunder bolt. if bolten replaces mcmaster and i have heard kelly likes bolten. we re all going to die. that was from colin call. now that that s actually happened. now that mcmaster is out and bolten is in. he isn t saying okay we re all dead now. but he is still being pretty freaking stark. this is what he has just written for the foreign policy. the headline john bolten is a national security threat. mr. kaul is making a argument. but just like that initial tweet it s about as serious as a heart attack. joining us now. and former national security adviser to the vice president. thaurng for joining us tonight.
conduit for russian money into the trump campaign. and one into cambridge analytica. and what its role was during the trump campaign including its relationship to the russian attack. being national security adviser is a hard job. being national security advise ir while being personally linked to two ongoing fbi counter intelligence investigations, that s not just going to be hard. that s going to be awkward. but there s a lot more to get to tonight. about john bolten. and a rip roaring story involving an attempt at a $10,000 secret political pay off. secretly recorded phone calls that we have and will play and a sad sick horse in alabama. i kid you not. it s friday. friday s are always weird now. stay with us. lots to come.
that. and on that subject a sort of strange thing emerged. concerning john bolten. the man who president trump announced yesterday as the new national security adviser. since that announcement reporter tim mac turned up a strange video. this video from 2013. featuring john bolten. can we drop the lower third on the screen. thank you. i want to play a tiny bit. you have to see the subtitles. while he s talking. thank you for this opportunity. to address the russian people on the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the russian constitution. today, you re engaged in historic debate about the possible expansion of your freedom. should the russian people have the right to bear arms? you see the subtitles in russian. npr reporting today on what they re calling boltens curious appearance in a russian gun rights video.