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
it s almost too big for the space. and the print is very small. but you know some of the names. jim, can you imagine trying to run a white house where you as the president says well i like to have acting they have so many acting cabinet officials who can t have their own chiefs of staff, who can t have their own team, who can t have real power because as you know they were acting. we had an acting defense secretary for six months or series of acting defense secretaries for six months. how do you run an operation like that? you don t. that s the problem. there is no process inside the trump white house. and once you get there, you realize very quickly that you re going to spend your time defending yourself from attacks from colleagues and from other folks. so, that s why you re kind of getting this third and fourth level of operative who goes into the white house. and the only people who stay are the people who tell the president of the united states what he wants to hear. you know,
this year than last year and certainly the year before. that s right. there s eight individuals that were in the president s cabinet a year agatha have since re-signed or been shown the door. we should also point out that the president has five acting cabinet officials. they have not been confirmed by the senate and this is rather extraordinary that he has so many individuals that he has chosen to use as executive office to just put them up there and have them serve in that role temporarily as acting secretary. the president reportedly says he likes that because they re more beholden to him than those confirmed by the senate and are serving in that role. so it s unusual in a lot of ways. there s the secretary of the department of homeland security, kirsten nielson. the secretary of the department of housing and urban development, dr. ben carson, the acting secretary of offense, the acting attorney general. i could go on.