explicitly endorsed in public or suggested that he believes and it s been very hard to get any of it done because he has had the wrong people working for him. i hope that changes and i hope he listens to you colonel mcgregor good to see you tonight. thank you. tucker: the departure of what s done thousand happened is more confusing. trace gallagher joins us tonight with all the details. hey, trace. hey, tucker, what is crystal clear is that john bolton and the president have strong disagreements on the handling of syria, north korea, iran and afghanistan and apparently it all came to a head last night when bolton and the president got in to it over the taliban and afghanistan. john bolton says he offered to resign but the president said let s talk tomorrow. then after sleeping on it, bolton issued this letter quoting: i hereby resign effective immediately. as the assistant to the president for national security affairs, thank you for having afforded me this opportunity to serve o
connecticut a progressive one at that quoted that he was quote legitimately shaken to see john bolton to leave the white house. samantha powers, you remember her. the obama official primarily responsible for the catastrophic destruction of libya. the move that flooded europe with refugees. that official, samantha power told reporters today that the firing was a very troubling sign believe it or not a number of other republicans made similar noises mitt romney quote he was very, very unhappy that bolton was leaving. he went on to describe the national security advisor as a brilliant man with decades of experience in foreign policy. romney didn t say much about this experience. he wasn t specific about it. why? probably because none of bolton s experience in the end helped america. romney is right. bolton has, in fact, been on the scene for decades. all of us are suffering the consequences of it. but, whatever.
bolton brags that he spent a lot of time on the job. if you are wondering why so many progressives are mourning bolton s firing tonight bolton himself fundamentally was a man of the left. there was not a human problem john bolton wasn t totally convinced could be solved with the elite force of government. that s an assumption of the left. not the right. don t let the mustache fool you. john bolton was one of the most progressive people in the trump administration. by the way, naturally once he was a scons there bolton promoted obama loyalists within the security council that shouldn t prize you either. from the very first day john bolton operated as in fact a fifth column within the trump white house. we warned about him frequently on this show. tucker: when the president calls for peace with a heavily armed nuclear power that is considered treason. but with the national security advisor calls for, yet, another pointless war, that s just elite consensus and it s fine. nikon bolton ha
but 28 minutes after the letter of resignation was delivered, the president tweeted that bolton didn t quit. he was fired, quote: i asked john for his resignation, which was given to me this morning. but, in a message to fox news bolton immediately fired back saying there was no request for resignation. a person close to john bolton wouldn t comment on the was he fired or wasn t he controversy but that person did sneak in the last word saying that since bolton has been national security advisor, there have been no bad deals on iran, north korea, russia, and syria. the standoff on who fired who goes on. tucker? tucker: trace gallagher. thanks for that. well, some years ago cnn hired former obama official jim sciutto and he has been delivering for them ever since. on monday sciutto appeared with what sounded like a blockbuster story. here s what it was. the cia had been forced to spirit an agent out of
john boltons who currently the staff federal bureaucracy deeply mediocre lifers, drunk on uberous. protected by bullet proof job security. they are more likely to die on the job than be fired and they know it. as a group these people have done an awful lot to make this country poorer and sadder and more divided. the actual john bolton is gone, likely forever. the question tonight is will he be replaced by another john bolton just like him and unfortunately there are signs that that s possible. in fact, in washington, it s always possible. change are not always for the better. don t lie to yourself. apparently on the short list tonight to replace bolton is the president s special representative for iran brian hook. he may be a good person unapologetic neocon. he has undisguised contempt for donald trump as john bolton did. and he particularly dislikes the president s nationalist foreign policy which is one of the reasons people voted for donald trump in 2016. one administration official