But not vetoes. I looked very seriously at the veto, i was thinking about doing veto this is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening. Im chuck todd here in washington. Welcome to mtp daily. Donald trumps impulses are to fight and after a dizzying series of white house shakeups it looks as the president s impelss might be running the country largely unchecked. He wanted to fight robert mueller, who will stop him in the chief lawyer who wanted to stop him is gone. He wanted to fight a trade war with china, who will stop him in the chief white house economist who did want to stop him is gone. He wants to maybe bring us to the actual brink of a potential war with iran by ripping up the nuclear deal. Who will stop him . The National Security advise who are wanted to stop him is out. And a major proponent of ripping up the deal and bombing raub ir in. He wants to fight storm and congratulate pute ind and again who will stop him. Support a bipartisan spending bill and then fight it and hold an abrupt and strange press conference to complain about having to sign it. Who will stop him. The White House Communications director who may have stopped him is gone wait, not that one. No, not that one either. No, not that one either. There it is. Thank you. That White House Communications director is the latest to go. Who did have an ability to stop him. And this is what were left with. Today was a prime example of the president s impulses unleashed and unchecked. He praised this massive spending bill and bragged about getting 1. 6 billion to start his wall. Then he changed his mind. And today said im considering a veto because the border wall is not fully funded. Then after sparking a small freak out on capitol hill, and raising the expectations of some immigration hardliners, he signed the bill. But not before holding an abrupt press conference to complain about signing a bill that his party negotiates and his white house staffed negotiated and praised and he supported. Here are a few of his grievances about the bill today. I will never sign another bill like this again. Im not going to do it again. Nobody read it. It is only hours old. We have to get rid of the filibuster rule. We have to get rid of the filibuster rule. Not happy with 1. 6 billion but it does start the wall. I do want the Hispanic Community to know and Daca Recipients to know that republicans are much more on your side than the democrats, who are using you for their own purposes. But folks when it comes to unleashing the president impulse there is no issue than the Foreign Policy bringing in john bolton who is a big proponent of the war in iraq and written op edds about using a strike with iran and north korea. And joining me now is Barry Mccaffrey and a National Security analyst. Let me start with john bolton. Im sure you know him and spent time with him. Give me your take on john bolton. Well ive watched ambassador bolton over the years. Look, this is a very talented guy. Hes extremely intelligent. He knows the global community. He writes beautifully. Hes very forceful speaker. Hes possibly the worst choice to be the National Security adviser you could have imagined. With the example of the of a perfect National Security adviser would be brent skoe croft or steve hadley. Defense interelect ums and neutral umpires and trusted by the ints interagency process and thoughtful and ambassador bolton is not that. And the thing that most concerns me about him is i dont think he understands the uncertainty of when you embark on military action. And so i think this is not going to turn out well. Well let me ask you this. Is this really about ambassador bolton or is it about the president . And the thing that im curious about is the president i know people are focused on ambassador bo boltons point of view but if youve agreed to take this job under the circumstance with which it came open, then you realize be careful be careful disagreeing with the president. The reason bolton appears to be in is one issue and one issue alone and thats the iran deal. There is always tension with the National Security adviser. They want an empire steps from the oval office and h. R. Got in trouble with mattis and kelly. Too bad. Now they have bolton instead. I hope they are happy working with him. But look, again, the problem with ambassador bolton will be that he will have a view point, a forcible one and look to me as if it will feed the president s impulsive nature and possibly get us in an Armed Conflict in lieu of using other tools. That is the concern. You said in a preinterview with my producer that you think if secretary mattis leaves, it will bring down the Trump Administration. Explain. Well, it is pretty strong statement. But look, jim mattis is literally worshipped by the armed forces, particularly the marines and the army. They know who he is. And hes been fired at with machine guns and hes a thoughtful lawbased rational person. Hes also got a huge constituency in congress. And hes being very loyal to the president in the most positive manner. If you try and push out mattis as a barrier to taking military action as an example against iran, i think the Republican Leadership would finally say, whoa, now were in trouble. So i dont think it will happen. If it does, were in trouble. Are you concerned that a military conflict with iran becomes more inevitable if we get out of the deal . Um, i dont know where this is going to go. As secretary mattis said in public, breaking the deal now is not a good thing to do. The europeans wont join us and then advance the mischief purposes. I think it was a bad deal but we are stuck with it and ought to make the best of it. We definitely dont want to fight the iranians. By the way, both north korea and iran, if we were told to go to war wed destroy their military and achieve our military objectives. But nobody is signing up for that. It is a bad idea. So why are we why are we getting a guy in the white house that allegedly thinks it is a good idea. I got to ask you about a tweet last week when you responded you seemed to be exasperated with the president that he didnt have anything to say negative about putin, to putin and you write this on twitter. Reluctantly ive concluded that President Trump is a serious threat to u. S. National security. Hes refusing to protect vital u. S. Interest from russian attacks and it is apparent that he is for some unknown reason under the sway of putin. That is you didnt pull any punches there, general. No. Look, the final straw was the attempted assassination of the Russian ForeignIntelligence Officer and his daughter. And by the way, that was a signature assassination attempt. Putin is telling the world im going to use this nova chock and hes running a criminal enterprise and a huge threat not just in syria we had had a battle between socalled russian mercenaries and u. S. Military forces in syria. Probably killed a couple of hundred of them. The president hasnt talked about it. The invasion of the ukraine, the threats to the baltic states. The Nuclear Rhetoric out of putin and his senior officials we never saw anything like that so what would you want the president to say and do . What should be the what should be the way to confront putin now to get him to stop . Well, by the way, i think it is relatively easy to do that. To deter putin. He is a clever risk taking kgb officer. The russians have a tiny strategic naval and air power capability. Theyre economy is a a tenth that of the United States, never mind nato. They are a threat to their immediate neighbors. The only thing they have that anybody cares about is Nuclear Weapons and oil and natural gas. So i think if you create an environment of nato deterring putin, it almost immediately happens. That is not happening as the United States wont exercise leadership. Mr. Trump has been disparaging to angela merkel, theresa may but respectful and almost a cinco fant of putin. He needs to defend u. S. National security interest. General, i will leave it there. Thank you for coming on. Good to have you, sir. Yep. Let me turn to ian bremer. President from theure asia group and i like to talk to give us sort of a a pulse check of how the world is the economy in leading foreign leaders are taking moves in the United States. Good to see you. You too. Let me start with john bolton. Who is happy with john bolton around the world pick and who is concerned . I would say pretty much every american ally is concerned. And that is did you say every american ally . Would you throw in israel or saudi arabia or are they the exception. No, israel and saudi arabia are a bit the exceptions but as the general just said, even American Allies like israel and saudi arabia, they didnt like the iran deal but they dont want it ripped up. And they dont want to see the United States doing something unilaterally and having no allies. That creates more instability. The israeli and saudi wants to see more sanctions against iran on other issues like the ball of theic Missile Program and support for terrorist organizations, that kind of thing. So there is a concern there. And i think the fact that bolton is going to be much more of an enabler of trump, someone who is more like mnuchin or navarro, Senior Adviser economically where he said trumps instincts are right and im here to facilitate. I think that is one problem where mcmaster and gary cohn and tillerson, now a lineup of individuals who even if they werent all very effective in moving trump, certainly were willing to tell the president to his face when they disagreed. I dont think youll get that with bolton. I think that unnerves American Allies. Let me ask you this. Could it be an interesting negotiating tact wick the europeans on the iran deal meaning their going oh, no, we really we have to do even more to try to save this deal. Maybe there is a way to keep the americans in here and lets try to placate them a little bit. Is that possible . Yes. It absolutely is. I think the white house was moving in that direction. It will still happen. Im not someone who believes that one person, especially in the Trump Administration, suddenly changes the trajectory that were heading. Certainly not someone that National Security adviser who is expected to Life Expectancy in the administration is in the months. But on iran, the europeans and the americans are presently negotiating a new deal that would basically mean that in eight years time, so when the tenyear deal period is over, that there would still be imposition of sanctions if the iranians decided at that point they were going to reopen uranium enrichment and Nuclear Research for military capabilities an the rest. Frankly, they are getting close to that kind of a deal. Which would be seen by trump as a win. Lets sign it. So im less worried about iran than i am about north korea. Im less worried about iran than i am about the general tendency toward doubling down on unilateralism. One thing that bolton strongly agree with trump on is the United Nations multilateral trade deals, multilateral agreements all need to be ripped up by the americans. Last question for you. The World Economy how is it handling what appears to be an amped up tariff policy from this president which it looks like the europeans might not retaliate but the chinese look like they are ready. The europeans are possibly not doing to retaliate because tail find a way out of the tariffs and the headlines looked horrible but the behind the scenes deal will end up keeping them from experiencing the american tariffs. On china, on the other hand, you have republican leaders, Corporate Leaders and banking and Technology Leaders saying the chinese are acting in an unfair way and we should be hitting them and trump isnt getting pushback. The chinese will absolutely retaliate in that regard. And also retaliate because trump just signed into law a taiwan travel policy that is going to lead to higher level exchanges of the americans going to taipei and government officials and vice versa. And that is a red line for the chinese and they wont back down on that. No, they wont. It is interesting there. Ian bremer, thank you. Appreciate you sharing your views. Up ahead, well try to break down the dizzying changes in the Trump White House and what they all mean with the panel next. And a Big Broadcast this sunday to talk about the policy of this chaos and confusion and confrontation the the Trump White House and my guests include Cory Lewandowski and mark warner of the Senate Intel Committee and well be right back. S it take to make Digital Transformation actually happen . It takes dell technologies, a family of seven Technology Leaders working behind the scenes to make the impossible. Reality. Were helping to give cars the power to read your mind from anywhere. And were helping up to 40 of the nations donated blood supply to be redirected to the people that need it most. Magic cant make Digital Transformation happen. But we can. And when youod sugar is a replace one meal. Choices. Or snack a day with glucerna. Made with carbsteady. 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In iraq and afghanistan almost twothirds of our casualties were caused by suicide bombers and ieds but courageous patriots like marine Kevin Nicholson put himself in the way. His pac gave 6 million to those sharing his world view and including thom tillis and tom cotton but his days helping in the Wisconsin Senate might be over. More mtp daily in 60 seconds. So lionel, what does being able to trade 24 5 mean to you . Well, it means i can trade after the market closes. Its true. So all. Evening long. Ooh, so close. Welcome back. A lot to talk about. So maybe i should shut up and brick in and bring in the panel. Okay. George, what do you make of of everything weve seen this week from the president and the different changes, there seems to be a pattern of pugilism and i used an extra syllable word that is what hes looking for, fighters. Hes not looking for a team of rivals. Hes looking for his advisers and hes got it. John bolton is intelligent, educated, principled, articulate and experienced. Five virtues not present in the man who appointed him but five virtues that may not be virtues when he is down the hall from the president and the last person and the most frequent person that the president hears from because the president is largely influenced on the last voice he hears from Cable Television or one of his employees. That is what happened with the budget bill today and heard something on fox and friends and got the complaint and spending all of this money and you have no wall. The bolton clip shows him speaking at cpac which is the conference. Those are the red meat people. And the president now has the kind of warrior like unilatterists all across the board that he wants. Bolton, navarro, pompeo, kudlow, haspel, assuming they get confirmed. Pruitt, people who ripped up the paris out of the paris accord and out of the iran accord and the u. N. Could take the top ten floors off. They emulate the president s own his campaign disruptor. Combativeness, but also people that are externally combative and what are they like internally and will they say yes, mr. President , whatever you want but it might be moot because theyll have the same instincts for combat that he does. Caitlyn, the question i have is everybody is now coming into this job, if you are the with the awareness that if you disagree with him, youre out. Exactly. So these people worry about john bolton believes this and im thinking does that matter . John bolton knows the circumstances with which he was hired which is dont disagree with the president. Theyve had over a year to see kind of what it is like to work in this white house and what tactics you use to stay in and what tactics get you pushed out. And certainly i think the president and bolton know that about each other. And i think the president likes to have people out there going to bat for him and also presenting somewhat of a fight. 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