staff at the cia and pentagon as well as former counsel to the house intel committee. and kimberly atkins, senior washington correspondent for wbur, boston s npr news station. welcome to you all. phil, i d like to begin with you. just tonight, tucker carlson, by the way, is quoted as calling this a great day for america and saying of bolton, he s a man of the left. what is your after-action report? was this loyalty problems or leaks? was this outside voices or actual policy? brian, it s basically all of the above, and by the time bolton left the administration, the list of his detractors, of the people inside the administration who did not admire him, was quite long. it included, by the way, the first lady and the chief of staff, mick mulvaney. trump and bolton have disagreed from really the beginning of this relationship, especially on north korea, but also on afghanistan, on iran, on other issues. the problem for trump in recent weeks, however, is that bolton s
staff at the cia and pentagon as well as former counsel to the house intel committee. and kimberly atkins, senior washington correspondent for wbur, boston s npr news station. welcome to you all. phil, i d like to begin with you. just tonight, tucker carlson, by the way, is quoted as calling this a great day for america and saying of bolton, he s a man of the left. what is your after-action report? was this loyalty problems or leaks? was this outside voices or actual policy? brian, it s basically all of the above, and by the time bolton left the administration, the list of his detractors, of the people inside the administration who did not admire him, was quite long. it included, by the way, the first lady and the chief of staff, mick mulvaney. trump and bolton have disagreed from really the beginning of this relationship, especially on north korea, but also on afghanistan, on iran, on other
house intel committee. and kimberly atkins, senior washington correspondent for wbur, boston s npr news station. welcome to you all. phil, i d like to begin with you. just tonight, tucker carlson, by the way, is quoted as calling this a great day for america and saying of bolton, he s a man of the left. what is your after-action report? was this loyalty problems or leaks? was this outside voices or actual policy? brian, it s basically all of the above. and by the time bolton left the administration, the list of his detractors, of the people inside the administration who did not admire him, was quite long. it included, by the way, the first lady and the chief of staff, mick mulvaney. trump and bolton have disagreed from really the beginning of this relationship, especially on north korea, but also on afghanistan, on iran, on other issues. the problem for trump in recent
have the advocacy group be the plaintiff here? the law recognizes that organizations sometimes are appropriate to sue against policies and government actions that affect both individuals and organizations. and this is a perfect example for why that is. the iiic speaks for people who cannot speak for themselves. a 10-year-old a baby who had a stroke, a 10-year-old girl who has eye cancer, an 18-year-old with burns over 70% of his body. these are people battling life and death situations and they cannot all be expected to sue the federal government particularly at a moment when they desperately need that very same government s grace. in terms of the process and where we are in this process thus far, there was initial reporting on the trump administration taking these actions from commonwealth magazine, wbur and boston globe,
test these treatments, to cure these rare diseases. there is no other way to do it, so they need to find these patients wherever they are in the world and bring them here. and because isabelle was able to come from another country to california to be part of this clinical trial, that clinical trial finally had enough patients to be allowed to go ahead. and the clinical trial went ahead and it was successful. and that treatment for that rare disease is now fda-approved thanks to her and her family. and then last week we learned that the trump administration had decided it was time for her to die. she gets weekly intravenous infusions of that experimental treatment which is not approved for distribution in her home country. nevertheless, the trump administration sent her family a boilerplate letter, a phone letter telling them they needed to take isabel off treatment and get out of this country, go back to where they came from. and so that letter going out to isabel s family and other fa