The president of the United States has just fired his National Security adviser john bolton on twitter. This is by my count the third time a top National Security official has been fired on twitter on social media. The first time of course was Rex Tillerson. The second time was dan coats, the National Intelligence director. The tweet i am now seeing says i have asked john for his resignation. I thanked i dont know for his service. I will be selecting a new National Security adviser next week. I disagreed strongly with his decisions and ever there continued to say i asked john for his resignation today. Msnbc political analyst, were going to speak shortly with peter baker who is on the Phone Reporting at the New York Times as we speak. Jim joins me now, manager of President Obamas campaign. This is pretty extraordinary. Were in a middle of a controversy over the camp david proposed meeting. John bolton objected to it very strongly, and we understand according to our reporting that priva
jim joins me now, manager of president obama s campaign. this is pretty extraordinary. we re in a middle of a controversy over the camp david proposed meeting. john bolton objected to it very strongly, and we understand according to our reporting that privately the vice president had also suggested that the initial plan which was for a white house meeting was not well-advised. we don t know how strongly the vice president objected privately to the president about the camp david ameeting as well, but that the secretary of state, mike pompeo, was in favor of these taliban talks here in washington. and it was of course being negotiated by zal khalilzad who worked for the secretary of state. the dmz meeting, was not there at the zmz meeting and objected to this very high profile proposed camp david meeting the