resign last night and turned in that resignation this morning. whatever you thought of bolton s foreign policy views, he was largely seen as a check on some of the president s most reckless and childlike impulses. things like sucking up to kim jong-un and staging a summit with the taliban at camp david. his abrupt resignation came as a surprise to the west week. the new york times reporting, the national security adviser s dismissal came so abruptly that it was announced bare lly an ho after the white house scheduled a briefing for 1:30 where mr. bolton was supposed to appear alongside mike pompeo and treasury secretary mnuchin. mr. bolton is reported to have now left the white house. trump fired off a tweet indicating there were disagreements about policy. we ve learned one of those was the kumbaya with the taliban which bolton reportedly described as, getting in bed with killers in american blood. he canceled the trip into the dmz into north korea, trump is accompanied by e vun
haw hawk/dove, that s really not what appears to be at the heart of this. and my concern looking at this geopolitically is we are not projecting strength, stability, to our allies, to our adversaries and instead we re projecting chaos and uncertainty. that makes us less of a leader in this world and far more vulnerable to our adversaries. carol lee, you ve got some reporting that sort of puts us back into donald trump, the reality star, he was talking to the season 2 national security adviser about replacing the season 3 national security adviser. of course, the season 1 national security adviser was in court today learning that his criminal sentencing would be later in december. talk about what you re reporting exclusively about donald trump s lifeline to the man he fired to install bolton. sure. what we learned, nicolle, is that president trump started reaching out to his former national security adviser h.r. mcmaster last fall about six
somebody who was a very self-centered national security advis adviser. he is not somebody who really, you know, leveraged the interagency the way a national security adviser should do it. he thought he was the smartest person around and was very assertive and very singular in his views. so it s not as though, you know, we re losing a national security adviser who really was trying to bring together an interagency in a harmonious way to give us strong national security policy. third, i just wonder how much of this was the the timing of it is designed by trump to be distraction from all the other problems he has. uh-huh. you know, the taliban debacle with camp davis, the air force debacle as far as scotland, refueling stops. russia and the cia. all these things. what does trump essentially do? he throws out another golden nugget, going to cause the media, as we are right now, looking at something other than those things that really were, i think, further tarnishing trump s already
morning. general mcmaster is going to be replacing general flynn as national security adviser. he holds a ph.d. in military history. he commanded the regiment that retook kandahar in 2005. and the bambassador in russa died unexpectedly yesterday after collapsing at his desk at the united nations. the cause of death is unknown, but the officials say there s no foul play. and a levee breaks from yet another storm. this time it s the san joaquin river. the leak has been temporarily repaired but the evacuation order remains in effect. a flash flood warning was also issued. vice president mike pence is back following an overseas trip
before we toss it over to morning joe, we ll check on the stories in the day ahead. kelly o donnell reports. reporter: president trump back in washington with one of the big items checked off his to-do list. he has named h.r. mcmaster as national security adviser, and the president has been clear that mcmaster will have the full authority to set up the national security council and his staff the way he sees fit. that has been an issue of controversy with some of the other people considered for that position. in the week ahead, we expect there to be big developments on crucial priorities for the president. the revised travel ban affecting the seven muslim countries with restrictions on how people can come into the u.s.