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correspondents are also standing by. first, to jim aacosta. he s gone from an administration that one source is likening to a snake pit. that s right, wolf and president trump is search iing r a new national security adviser this evening after he announced john bolton had been fired in that tweet today. the president gave bolton the boot after the two clashed over key foreign policy. decision areas including mr. trump s scrapped plan to invite the taliban to camp david for peace talks. i m told the president was upset that bolton tried to create the impression that mike pence was opposed to the camp david idea as well, but as one top administration official told us today, the president s national security team is not a mess. for now, former national security adviser john bolton, it was an unceremonious firing by tweet, standing outside west wing hours before he was scheduled to join mike pompeo
this national security team has very much been in a state of flux ever since donald trump was sworn into office as president and despite what you heard the secretary of the treasury say this afternoon at this briefing that his national security team is not a mess, there are a lot of disagreements as to that. there are people who feel from time to time this president s national security team has been a big mess, wolf. thanks very much. let s get more on bolton s exit. we re joined now by jim shuuto along with john kirby. our military and diplomatic analyst who was a state department spokesman. jim, the immediate impact of this sudden very tense, very t bitter departure. what s it going to mean? well, the key thing is that you had a voice here who differed with the president on handful of the nation s most severe national security challenges. one on iran. in an interesting way, right,
and took his stage over by the french president s wife. now all of this comes as there is criticism from the white house since they scrapped president trump s visit yesterday to a cemetery where he was supposed to visit the dead american soldiers who were buried there. white house officials are voicing confidence that criticism will dissipate after this ceremony ends today and president trump does go to a cemetery where he not only will lay a wreath but deliver his his formal remarks of the trip. we appreciate it so much. thank you. joining us now is cnn political analyst actually, we go to jim acosta first, right? we have jim aacosta who is 50 yards from the ceremony. give us an idea of what the president is participating in now. we are listening to emmanuel macron here. reporter: hi, guys. i don t know if you can hear me. we are just 50 yards from president trump who is sitting
president is clarity and moral authority, and that moral authority is compromised when tuesday happened. moral authority compromised.d joining republicans who have long been critical of trump, the president who was quick to slam gram and flake on twitter today has so far been silent. is his silence an acknowledgeability that their words wound him and does their condemnation open the door for others? so, jim, the president tonight becoming increasingly isolated. look at those two sound bites. even within his own party. reporter: absolutely, that s right. what s remarkable about senator corker s comments is that he is not typically a critic of the president. you do often here from jeff flake and lindsey graham they were targeted by the president today, but not so much the case with them. so i think that makes those