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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 s ....
Not good for this country because we re living in a very dangerous world and this is president who s now gone through three national security advisers. he s somebody who has a national security counsel that is dysfunctional, it doesn t work. there s no deputies meetings, no principle meetings. and in the end after three years of being in office this president has not accomplished any major foreign policy objective, and the result is that we have a very dangerous world as a consequence. let me ask you about the behavior of this presidency and this almost cartoonish decision that he had to say that alabama was exposed to the hurricane, to dorian. and even to the point of having his chief of staff mulvaney, while he thought he had his head screwed on, telling wilbur ross of commerce to lie over there ....
President suggesting he would be willing to talk to iranian leaders. you ve got the un general assembly meetings coming up in two weeks. we re there in new york for the un meetings. the president is giving a major speech on the 24th at the united nations. and now his national security adviser has been fired. one other thing about john bolton i want to point out and i m going to bring in ned price here on the phone, former special assistant to president obama. the big difference between john bolton and all his predecessors going back in any administration i ve covered is he did not oversee the deputies meetings. he did not convene other agencies. he operated unilaterally very frequently. so, he was not factoring in the opinions of the pentagon, of the cia, of the state department in decisions that he brought to the president. and that was one subject of a lot of criticism. even with had i was interviewing dan coats somewhat famously now ....
Or is it, as it is for so many people, the kind of slow-moving, frog-boiling experiment, of rolling moments every day? well, when i talk to people inside the government, inside the intelligence community, inside the defense department, i sense a huge frustration. because their job, in many respects, is to support a policy process, and there is no policy process. there are no deputies meetings, principals meetings. there s no regular order in the way policy is made. i think the woodward book explains this. the anonymous author explains this, as well. the president makes up policies and fires them off and decides things at whim without the input of facts, information, expertise. we re getting a horrible result. the thing i worry about, coming to the midterms, many people inside the government who are trying to do a good job are going to leave. they ll say, we served two years and are going to leave with reputations in tact, if they can. it ll be hard to replace them. ....