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neil: it s not something the president likes. bashing a new poll been chose his overall approval rating down on recession fears and that s a little odd considering the fact that we are not in a recession but we are close. maybe their fear is eventually we will be but still. fox news contributor, axios reporter. gary, it s one thing to fear something that hasn t materialized. it s another to wallop the president s approval rating as a result. what do you make of it? on the approval rating, i have to bring up charles payne because every day i turn on his show, he talks about 50 year lows in unemployment, all kinds of great news time and time again. but yet we get barraged by alabama and maps, buy war awards with actresses, now john bolton. the taliban may be coming in ....
Three national security advisors. michael flynn, h.r. mcmaster, now john bolton. all for various reasons but there s a high turnover particularly in that area and foreign policy. a lot of people look at it and say what do you want? what do you stand for? the interesting thing is if you look at donald trump over the last decade or more, one of the consistent themes that you will hear him speak of may be for 20 or 30 years is the idea that regime change doesn t work. he said for a long, long time the iraq war was a mistake and we emboldened around by getting rid of saddam hussein and there was a counterbalance and having saddam hussein there that that vacuum allowed isis to grow and then vacuum, and so really i think the president has been very, very consistent. neil: you mentioned isis, senator . isis was on the run, isis was defeated. foreign policy advisors urged him to cool it on that kind of talk because it emboldened the enemy. sure enough, isis popped up in other locales. does ....
There s an acting adviser. we ll see if the president decides to appoint anybody else. we have more for you on the five as well and the other antics. thanks for joining us. i m dana perino with the daily briefing. up next, here s shep. shepard: breaking news and a live look just suit of st. louis in dupo, illinois. a train has jumped the tracks and erupted into flames. firefighters have been racing to pull out multiple blazes. local media report evacuations nearby. we ll keep an eye on it. but first, another spin of the white house revolving door and a he said he said on why john bolton is out as the president s national security adviser. the president said he asked for bolton s resignation last night. bolton says that the president is lying. that he, bolton, offered his ....
Resignation. it s extraordinary on many fronts. first, this is the third national security adviser to depart in less than three years. the first one, michael flynn, in court today after he admitted that he lied to the fbi about conversations with the russians. further, the president issued a statement about the exit of one of his closest advisers and within minutes, that adviser hits back hard at the president saying what the president told is world is not true. publicly it began with a tweet from president trump. i informed john bolton last night that his services were no longer needed at the white house. i disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions as did others and i asked john for his resignation, which was given to me this morning. that was two minutes to noon today. 12 minutes later, john bolton issued his own statement saying i offered to resign last night and the president said let s talk about it tomorrow. ....
Quite a spirited conversation about afghanistan last night. it s no secret. people close to him let it be known that john bolton did not agree with allowing the taliban to come to camp david, did not agree with the overall parameters of the peace plan. that the former ambassador to afghanistan was negotiating on behalf of secretary mike pompeo and that was kind of i believe how this discussion sort of got heated. last night according to john bolton, he offered the president his resignation. the president said let s talk about it tomorrow. sources familiar with bolton s thinking say he slept on it, thought about it overnight, shared a principal s meeting on refugees that could bring interesting news in the next few days, because the white house is considering cutting back the number of refugees allowed into the country in fiscal year 20 because it s retasking people that would be vetting refugees to deal with the asylum crisis on the border. he chaired that meeting and then ....