Think it will be true after 2016. So i think youre going to have a minuscule thirdparty vote. Its going to be up or down. Charlie cook, thank you very much for joining us tonight. Really appreciate it. Thanks. That is tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. Tonight, john bolton is out after a rocky tenure as National Security adviser. Its either a firing or resignation depending on which story you believe. Now the white house looking to hire its fourth National Security adviser in just three years. This comes amid a conversation already spun up over the president s changing the weather forecast, denying a business arrangement in plain sight, which may help to explain some big, bad, new Polling Numbers just out. Plus, a former counterintel chief of the fbi is here with us for an update on that russian asset who alerted america to putins meddling in our 2016 election. And Steve Kornacki at the big board with the North Carolina special election
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and he s somebody that i actually had a very good relationship with. but he wasn t getting along with the people in the administration that i consider very important. john bolton is absolutely a hawk. it s up to him, he d take on the whole world at one time. okay? i do. i have john bolton who i would definitely say is a hawk. and i have other people that are on the other side of the equation. john is very good. john is a he has strong views on things. but that s okay. i temper john. he has a small foreign policy team executing the lead into the 2020 election. the search is on for john bolton s replacement and the list of candidates includes many of the men who have been trump loyalists with secretary of state mike pompeo at the top of that list. up with me this morning, done callaway, the founder of the national voter protection action
with him. knows a lot. has a good a good a good number of ideas that i must tell you i agree very much with. i think he s going to be a fantastic representative of our team. he s highly respected by everybody in this room. great john bolton. they think he s so nasty and so tough that i have to hold him back, okay? that s pretty great. and he s doing a great job. he has strong views on things, but that s okay. i actually temper john, which is pretty amazing, isn t it? i have different sides. i mean i have john bolton, and i have other people that are a little more dovish than him, and ultimately i make the decision. no, i get i like john. those feelings have apparently been cooling all year with the two clashing over iran, north korea, russia, and more recently the president s plan to invite the taliban to camp david. so was he fired for that, for daring to speak out against the idea of bringing the taliban to camp david on the eve of the anniversary of 9/11? we don t know for s
once had plenty of praise for him, his intelligence, and perhaps most important to this president, his tough guy image. i think he s, you know, a tough cookie. he knows what he s talking about. john is a terrific giuy. we had some good meetings with him. knows a lot. has a good number of ideas that i must tell you i agree very much with. i think he s going to be a fantastic representative of our team. he s highly respected by everybody in this room. great john bolton. they think he s so nasty and so tough, that i have to hold him back, okay? that s pretty great. and he s doing a great job. he has strong views on things, but that s okay. i actually temper john, which is pretty amazing, isn t it? i have different sides. i mean i have john bolton, and i have other people that are a little more dovish than him, and ultimately i make the decision. i like john. those feelings have apparently been cooling all year with the two clashing over iran, north korea, russia, and more
to bolton s aggressive stance on national security issues. john bolton is absolutely a hawk. if it was up to him, he d take on the whole world at one time. i have john bolton, who i would definitely say is a hawk. and i have other people that are on the other side of the equation. yeah, john s very good. john is a he has strong views on things, but that s okay. i actually temper john, which is pretty amazing, isn t it? nobody thought that was going to i m the one that tempers him, but that s okay. bolton s departure puts him at the end of a very long and growing roster of trump officials who have either been ousted or resigned since the beginning of this still young presidency. deputy national security adviser charles kupperman is taking over bolton s job on an interim basis which brings us to our leadoff discussion on a tuesday night. philip rucker, pulitzer prize winning white house bureau chief for the washington post. jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and pent