but i do want to go back to something ned said. this white house was well aware of the ideological differences between john bolton and donald trump. bolton advocated for giving north korea a bloody nose and doing preemptive strikes against them instead of the contrary to the diplomacy trump was pushing for. there were all these side stories. trump didn t like bolton s mustache. the relationship seemed doom from the start but it s not like you had tons of officials clamoring for the position. he had already been through two previous national security officials, michael flynn and mcmaster. on every sungal major foreign policy crisis this administration has been dealing with, john bolton differed with the president from venezuela to north korea to iran. there were a number of missteps that the white house then came out and called out john bolton