john bolton didn t last that much longer in the administration. i m sure that was totally a coincidence. here is what is important about the washington post story in addition to the details from the story and we re hearing today. again this narrative is starting to lay itself out. we now know july 25th, which we always knew wasn t the only time this conversation was had. now we know that there were other meetings and know what was happening on july 10th. it is reasonable to assume there was potentially prior to that there were more conversation. it didn t just occur to someone one day, hey, let s do this. you have to suspect that he would have trump i mean would have had this idea in his head right from the time they got a new prime minister in ukraine. and what is the defense of this? what are people republicans on the hill and republicans in the white house saying other than attacking those who are making these allegations in depositions and impugning patriotism, et ceter
go around the entire state department. yeah. the entire organization, but then on top of that they re doing it and, again, we have the testimony. they re doing it specifically to carry out the president s bidding to have a foreign power investigate a domestic political rival. it s all there. it s why bolton called it giuliani s drug deal that he wasn t going to be part of. we still don t know the time line. when did donald trump decide that john bolton didn t belong in his white house? was it after it got back to him that bolton had called it a drug deal and sent people to lawyers? you know, that is one of the big questions, and i think we re going to hear from bolton directly as this all evolves, but the fact is the reason why he went around the state department is precisely because you now see today mike mckinley, three-time ambassador very close to pompeo was the closest
john bolton is this warmonger coming in howard: the wild man. he s a wild man that s going to lead us into war, and as soon as he leaves, oh, strange new respect. it s, oh, no, he was a strong hand at the wheel, you know? the now the president s going to be even crazier. to me, t kind of ridiculous. the president clearly has differences with a lot of people that he brings around and adjudicating those differences is something that s very important for a managerred to do. in this case i think the problem wasn t just that john bolton didn t see eye to eye with the president, it s that he had a difficult relationship with secretary pompeo and with other members of the president s team, and that made things more and more difficult to function. but the way this was depicted whenever someone leaves always cracks me up. howard: in particular, liberals were outraged by john bolton s appointment because he does have this very hawkish record and all he d say on fox over the years, and now ma
john bolton is this warmonger coming in howard: the wild man. he s a wild man that s going to lead us into war, and as soon as he leaves, oh, strange new respect. it s, oh, no, he was a strong hand at the wheel, you know? the now the president s going to be even crazier. to me, t kind of ridiculous. the president clearly has differences with a lot of people that he brings around and adjudicating those differences is something that s very important for a managerred to do. in this case i think the problem wasn t just that john bolton didn t see eye to eye with the president, it s that he had a difficult relationship with secretary pompeo and with other members of the president s team, and that made things more and more difficult to function. but the way this was depicted whenever someone leaves always cracks me up. howard: in particular, liberals were outraged by john bolton s appointment because he does have this very hawkish record and all he d say on fox over the years, and now ma
reporter: we are learning that administration officials just bolton are considering double tapping secretary of state mike pompeo. it means he would keep the job as secretary of state. he would also potentially become the national security adviser. so this has happened one time in history. it was in the 1970s when president nixon was in office. it s unclear right now what the president thinks of this option. he said yesterday there are five people that want the national security adviser job. he said there are other good and qualified people, but he also showed some light on why he let go of john bolton citing some differences particularly comments he made on north korea but also saying that bolton simply didn t get along with some people that the president considers very important. and our reporting tells us one of those people that john bolton