Read describing john bolton, hawkish, super hawk, fire brand, undiplomatic, confrontational. Those are the nice ones, the mild assertions, adjectives. Is that fair . No, its not fair. What id point out is this is not a position that has to be confirmed because probably that wouldnt happen. I think we can sum this all up in two words, paul, and that is status quo. John bolton has no patience whatsoever for the status quo. Let me say also that he served in two president ial administrations. He served with jim baker in the first bush presidency. He was under secretary of state in the second bush presidency. John bolton has a lot of experience with bureaucracies and whether the issue is iran or what we should do about north korea, the status quo will always be careful and john boltons career has been built around the idea not so much of not being car careful but pushig the status quo forward to deal with reality, such as the one facing us with north korea and the nuclear capability. There
I want to read some words that i read describing john bolton, hawkish, super hawk, fire brand, undiplomatic, confrontational. Those are the nice ones, the mild assertions, adjectives. Is that fair . No, its not fair. What id point out is this is not a position that has to be confirmed because probably that wouldnt happen. I think we can sum this all up in two words, paul, and that is status quo. John bolton has no patience whatsoever for the status quo. Let me say also that he served in two president ial administrations. He served with jim baker in the first bush presidency. He was under secretary of state in the second bush presidency. John bolton has a lot of experience with bureaucracies and whether the issue is iran or what we should do about north korea, the status quo will always be careful and john boltons career has been built around the idea not so much of not being car careful but pushig the status quo forward to deal with reality, such as the one facing us with north korea a
Bolton is hardliner and called the deal with iran the biggest single act of appeasement by the west since munich. In the past he called for bombing of iran. Im joined by vivian solama. And, of course, move that back, please, joliet ainsley, former Tate Department official, and stunned by the news. I dont know if this is wag the dog, is this to get away from Stormy Daniels and the whole rest of this hell or what, but they are bringest the biggest neocon in the world. The one exec that so many millions of voters voted against in 2016, who voted against stupid wars and bring in the biggest hawk theres ever been and put him as head of National Security is awful. And i dont know anybody who disagrees with that, who thinks, your thoughts . You just said the word hawk, thats what john bolton is. Hes no stranger he likes war. He wants war with iraq. He pushed and pushed and pushed and wanted to go to war with syria. Name a country in the middle east he didnt want to go to war the. And now he w
Im joined by three of d. C. s brightest young stars. Matt, courtney kube, and alaina plot. Courtney, im going to start with you. The week began with ambiguity about syria and ended with rockhard sanctions against russia. Three different entities slapped with sanctions even when the beginning of the week seemed like they were handing syria to beauty in. What gives on both stories . Well, it has been an interesting week. We saw some of the strongest actions yet from the Trump Administration on friday when he sanctioned a number of the u. S. Sanction russian oligarchs. 12 companies they control. The reasoning behind this is because of what the u. S. Says was their malign and malicious activities both with respect to elections and cyber attacks. Also for the invasion of crimea, which was several years ago. And then of course for russias continued support of the Bashar Al Assad regime in syria. As you mentioned, hugh, we had news out of syria this week. Last week, President Trump surprised
Top of the hour, im brooke baldwin, youre watching cnn. We begin in a Stunning Development in american diplomacy today. Ambassador to the united nations, nikki haley, has submitted her resignation and is leaving at the end of this year. That has started the speculation game as of why. Haley eliminated the first clung conclusion that many people jumped to saying the only person she is campaigning for in 2020 is President Trump. I have given everything ive got the last eight years and i do think sometimes its good to rotate in other people who can put that same energy and power into it. No, im not running for 2020. I can promise you what ill be doing is campaigning for this one. I look forward to supporting the president in the next election. We have a lot of people who would like to do it. Its a great position. I hethink she helped make it a better position. I think maybe its become a more glamorous position than it was. Shes made it a very glamorous position, more important more import