Today i am joined by ambassador john bolton, President Trumps former National Security advisor and he is the author of the room where it happened, white house memoir, ambassador bolton, welcome. Figure having me. Lets begin with the opening of your book, has a detailed recounting of how you join the Trump Administration. Why did you join the administration in the first place about what you wrote in the book about the president s behavior largely known beforehand. I had the honor serving and prior Republican Administration of the state department and the Justice Department. And i felt it was a time of a great challenge for the United States, i thought the prior eight years of the Obama Administration had seen a lot of misguided policies that had weak interNational Security and i hope to commit contribution, i was obviously aware of many of the things that had been said and written about donald trump, but i also had had a number of meetings with him where he had discussed reviews in his
Bit differently this time. Well start with pat, pat, good morning. Im curious to know in your institution in burglar, and all institutions across the country, the ratio of people in the classrooms to other employees, by administrators, researchers, whatever. And how that has changed over time and what percentage of the tuition costs will be paid. Actually its to pay the salary of nonteaching employees of the university. So the university of michigan has about 3,000 fulltime tenure scre stream faculty that teach our students. We have clinical faculty that help train future physicians and residents and interns in our hospitals. We probably have on the order of 2,000 or so of teaching faculty. The total number of employees of the university is approaching 40,000. We have a very Large Health Care system, were a major provider of Health Health care in the state. If you put aside the Health Care System, we probably have two or three fold the number of employees providing all the Services Nec
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That congress agreed to do this and now we didnt leave any residual forces in iraq and its become a mess and now theyre going to say we can go back and do the war because well, it was under the other agreement. But that went away when they pulled everybody out so why wont they do at least a vote on syria and say, yes or no, you should go in or you shouldnt go in . I mean, because we get these residual forces from the other countrieses which is great and i do believe they do need to be we do need to protect our country and stop this big massacres but i find it disingenuous that they talk out of both sides of their mouth and they wont let congress say what their real thoughts are. Host okay. We have to leave it there. This conversation will continue on the washington journal but today were going to switch gears. Were going to go to the National Institute of health coming here. Talking to director Francis Collins and later joined by Patricia Grady of the National Institute for Nursing Res
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