Advisor it was his decision to leave first. At this point theres really only one thing both sides agree on. John boltons policies and priorities did not align with President Trumps. Because source familiar with both of us tells fox news he was completely blindsided by the turn of events here over the last 24 hours. They described him as being shocked the president s decision after serving for 17 months. Boltons recognition stomach Resignation Letter is short, to the point. He said i hereby resign effective immediately. As a system to the president for National Security affairs. Thank you for having afforded me this opportunity to serve our country. President trump got to twitter first today saying i informed john bolton last night his services are no longer needed at the white house. I disagree strongly stomach strong with many for suggestions and others in the administration. Its well known here at 1600 penn that trump and bolton spent last of the few months tussling from policies across the globe from north korea to venezuela to iran but ultimately sources say their running feud came to to a head last night. The two duking it out over afghanistan. Sources say the president confronted john bolton here last night about his opposition to the president working with the taliban. Now, martha, the race is on for the president to tap and a full appointment for bolton, five or six names floated so far, all those people currently work here in administration. Martha. Martha thank you very much, Gillian Turner at the white house. Here now, Condoleezza Rice, nations former National Security advisor and former secretary of state under president George Debbie bush. She is also the author of the brandnew book. To build a better world, choices to end the cold war and create a global commonwealth. Thank you very much, very good to have you here. Pleasure. Martha were looking forward to having her anyway and then we got a lot of news today to talk about. I actually want to start by showing a sound bite. I actually spoke to john bolton the night that he received this decision to become the National Security advisor back on march 22nd, 2018. And heres what he said that evening. Theres a famous story about dean acheson, the secretary of state and the truman administration. Asked by a reporter, maybe somebody like you, how is it that they had such a good working relationship and he said basically because neither the president nor i ever forgot who was president. Martha so given that, it seems like i got to a point where john bolton could no longer really care that he doesnt agree with the presence on us and the feeling was mutual. I think so but let me just start by saying Something Like john bolton, because he did work for me. John has tremendous intellect. He cares deeply about this country and the role of the United States abroad and im sure he did his best to give the president his unvarnished advice, which is what youre supposed to do as National Security advisor, but in the final analysis, if the National Security advisor and the president are not on the same page, its not the president was going to go, and im sure that john understands that as a long serving diplomat, long serving policy expert. Martha that you are gracious and i know you have Mutual Respect obviously for serving the country and serving president s but there were times when you disagree. On things. And he even said the Bush Administration was weak need when it came to iran and north korea and there were reports that you suggested somewhat from afar that perhaps he would not be a person that you think should be in the Trump Administration when those choices were being made. The last one is certainly not true. I did not suggest that john would not be one to certain administration. I think everyone who is as talented as john is should serve our country. Yes, we had our disagreements, but i was also secretary of state and when i said with president bush that we were going to do certain things, we went ahead and did them, but we wanted to hear from people who disagree, thats the only way that you can make good policy, is if youre willing to take advice and listen and then you have to make your own decisions. But i have the utmost respect for john and in fact have stayed in touch with him over the time that hes been National Security advisor. Martha so what does this move tell you about where the Trump White House is right now on foreign policy. Its not clear to me that personnel is policy in this case. I do think theres been a kind of long simmering disagreements between john and perhaps the president , perhaps others in administration. John can be sharp in his views. He can have kind of sharp elbows sometimes, so maybe theres a simmering disagreements, but we will wait and see if theres a real policy differences. For instance, when it came to the decision about the taliban, i do believe the president looked at what happened in afghanistan is and how can i sit down and negotiate with those people when they just killed an american soldier, when they are keeping up the violence, and im glad he made that decision, because i think the taliban had come to the conclusion that we wanted an agreement more than they did. They had reason to believe that, and not just because of what the president had said, President Trump, about wanting to get out of afghanistan, but that rhetoric went back to the Obama Administration, that we needed to end the war, bring the troops home. So i think the taliban had become quite emboldened that they could keep up these attacks and they would negotiate. If they werent going to even acknowledge that there was a legitimately elected Afghan Government that we supported for a decade and a half. They were not going to acknowledge the afghan constitution reportedly. How could we sign martha you think if we pulled out that they would basically topple that government in short order . I dont know how strong they really are, only intelligence could tell you that because so far its been more of a hitandrun operation, but its been very close to the capital. That suggests that, yes, the Afghan Government would be in danger. And i will say one other thing, the book that we wrote, to build a better world, is about america staying the course from 45 years of the end of the work to 1991 germany was able to be unified. America has stayed the course in korea for six decades to keep the peace on the korean peninsula. We stayed in japan so that the wow japan didnt have to rearm. I dont think any of us would take back the decisions to provide a stabilizing force and i understand that people want the war in afghanistan to end, but if we can end it in a way so perhaps the military can tell the president that theres a sustainable presence for some period of time until the afghans can defend themselves, we dont want to turn our backs on the african people, and we certainly dont want to be in the position that we were 18 years ago tomorrow, where that attack came out of the territory of afghanistan. Martha i want to ask a quick question about iran and one about china if i may. The response from iran to this news about john boltons departure seems to have emboldened them. One of the advisor says the marginalization is not an accident but a decisive sign of the failure of the u. S. Maximum pressure strategy. Do not doubt that we can manage the behavior of the United States toward iran and we will never back down. Its not surprising to me that the iranians are going to crow about something they dislike but hope and believe if i know secretary pompeo and others, anything that we do with iran, even if the president tries to engage in some kind of personal diplomacy, it still going to be under the shadow of the fact that this is the most disruptive, the most dangerous regime in the middle east and in the entire region. Martha a lot of talk about engaging in conversation at the u. N. And reopening all stocks. Do you think they should revisit the iran deal . I would revisit the iran deal a long time ago because it was not a deal that frankly i supported. I wish the europeans had used the year after President Trump was elected and said he was going to withdraw from the deal to try and improve that deal. I dont have a problem with negotiations with the iranians, in fact i started the negotiations with the socalled p5 1, the permanent members of the Security Council plus germany, to develop both sanctions and an attractor negotiations. This nothing wrong with the negotiation, it just has to be on the right terms. Martha china come quickly, george soros supported the president s move in china, being tough with them on trade and obviously recognizing that they present a big threat on a number of levels to the United States. But he is warning president not to back down on his firm stance against American Companies doing business with yahweh. I do think that huawei is the problem. Particularly i would not want to see them embedded in networks and countries with which we share intelligence. Whether or not we really should care if they want to sell headsets around the world i think thats a different issue, with the issue that the president is really having to deal with his china was admitted to the International System and to the wto well ahead of conforming its laws and its practices to true free trading practices. That didnt matter when it was a kind of developing country, but now its a huge power and it is tilting the Playing Field in the International Economy toward it. I want to see china growth, because without chinese Economic Growth would probably dont get international Economic Growth. I want to see it, again, on the right terms. So the president should stick to his guns on saying that china has changed some of those practices, but we need to remember too that china is an integral part of a growing International Economy and this is a policy that has to have nuance, not just elections. Martha i know you enjoy your life as a professor but as you know, every time i say to someone that im interviewing Condoleezza Rice tonight i always get at least a few of them saying to me to tell her she should run for president or she should accept a position working for the current president. What can you tell them . I can tell them that im really happy professor at stanford trying to help prepare the next generation and i can tell them this, i care a lot about policy. I had my chances to speak. I have good terms with people in this administration but, martha, i work for a president who admired me, trust me, i admired him, and we were together at a time of great conflict for the country. Im not going to try to catch lightning in a bottle again. Im doing what i was meant to do, my vocation as a professor, i will say there. Martha and backlinks and appear and backlinks you know, thats right. Martha always great to talk with you. 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Its time to make the switch to comcast business and take your business beyond fast. Dont miss out on this limited time offer. Call 18005016000 today. Martha about 24 hours since cnns bombshell report that the cia extracted a top level russian spy in 2017, largely out of concern, they reported, the President Trump might endanger the asset by sharing too much information. What followed is a drip drip of personal details in the New York Times and nbc news, a correspondent for the latter even knocking on the agents door, apparently, in the United States. It you might remember it was just over a year ago that a former russian double agent and his daughter were poisoned by a nerve agent in london and incidents like this have the media on the hot seat for possibly putting this assets life now in danger. Chief breaking news correspondent Trace Gallagher gives us all the back story on this tonight. Hi, trace. Martha, it was cnn correspondent jim shooter who first reported on the efforts to extract the dash pointed the finger directly at President Trump saying there was concern the president s mishandling of classified intelligence could result in a high level source being exposed. In a rare move, both the cia and white house quickly and heavily pushed back saying cnns narrative was not only dead wrong, it was dangerous. Congressman doug collins, the highest ranking republican on the house judiciary committee, also weighed in, calling for cnn to be investigated, but this was far from just outrage on the right. The New York Times and Washington Post also came out saying the cnn report was wrong adding there was no public evidence that President Trump endangered the informant and while fox news has confirmed the extraction actually happened in 2017, the decision to extract apparently made in 2016, prior to trump becoming president. Other news outlets also contradicted cnn, but then the New York Times and nbc were criticized because their continued reporting revealed more information about the source and the mission, including how long the asset had been sending secrets to the u. S. And even details about where the spy lives and information about the home itself. Heres White House Deputy press secretary hogan gidley on fox news. And i have to tell you, for the media, the hypocrisy they have is so egregious, to come out and try and say that this president is putting lives in danger with the way he handles information, classified or not, when they are the ones that actually go to this persons house with a video camera, revealing where this person lives. Former cia station chief in Fox News ContributorDaniel Hoffman says this type of behavior not only puts our sources and methods at risk, he says it could prompt foreign governments to ask if the u. S. Government is trustworthy. Martha. Martha trace, thank you very much. Turning out, marc theissen, American EnterpriseInstitute Scholar and Fox News Contributor and juan williams, cost of the five and fox news political analyst, welcome, good to have you here. Juan, this is a troubling story on a lot of levels, what you make of it . I think its important to have the timeline in front of us. So cnn broke the story, as we just heard from Trace Gallagher, it was followed up by the Washington Post and New York Times and as trace indicated both in the New York Times and Washington Post indicated that even though cnn said it could partly be tied to lack of confidence in the president s ability to keep secrets, his meeting with the russian ambassador, the Russian Foreign minister in january 17 tha