Think it will be true after 2016. So i think youre going to have a minuscule thirdparty vote. Its going to be up or down. Charlie cook, thank you very much for joining us tonight. Really appreciate it. Thanks. That is tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. Tonight, john bolton is out after a rocky tenure as National Security adviser. Its either a firing or resignation depending on which story you believe. Now the white house looking to hire its fourth National Security adviser in just three years. This comes amid a conversation already spun up over the president s changing the weather forecast, denying a business arrangement in plain sight, which may help to explain some big, bad, new Polling Numbers just out. Plus, a former counterintel chief of the fbi is here with us for an update on that russian asset who alerted america to putins meddling in our 2016 election. And Steve Kornacki at the big board with the North Carolina special election
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john bolton had basically become a cable tv commentator in the white house. with no mandate other than to push his own views and his agenda. that s what got him crossways but also shows how dysfunctional the national security process has become under president trump. kim, at the start of our broadcast, we showed a piece of video that we didn t explain, and that was while this was all going on, shortly before the announcement, the camera crews that are always camped out in the driveway and the briefing room saw john bolton all by his lonesome on his cell phone come out of the northwest portico there in the west wing, no marine present, just standing there, still the national security adviser to the president, making a phone call. next time we heard his name, it was his departure.
push his own views and his agenda. that s what got him crossways but also shows how dysfunctional the national security process has become under president trump. kim, at the start of our broadcast, we showed a piece of video that we didn t explain, and that was while this was all going on, shortly before the announcement, the camera crews that are always camped out in the driveway and the briefing room saw john bolton all by his lonesome on his cell phone come out of the northwest portico there in the west wing, no marine present, just standing there, still the national security adviser to the preside president, making a phone call. next time we heard his name, it was his departure. kim, you covered this crowd for a long time. you ve talked to a lot of people. is the lesson of this that if you manage up, your chances at longer tenure are better? essentially. i mean, this is the white house that is run by president trump.
and his agenda. and that s what got him crossways, but it also shows how dysfunctional the national security process has become under president trump. kim, at the start of our broadcast, we showed a piece of video that we didn t explain, and that was while this was all going on, shortly before the announcement, the camera crews that are always camped out in the driveway and the briefing room saw john bolton all by his lonesome on his cell phone come out of the northwest portico there in the west wing. no marine present. just standing there. still the national security adviser to the president, making a phone call. next time we heard his name, it was his departure. kim, you ve covered this crowd for a long time. you ve talked to a lot of people. is the lesson of this that if you manage up, your chances at longer tenure are better? essentially. i mean, this is a white house
good day from new york as our live coverage gets under way of what we expect to be a bilateral appearance and two-way news conference on a beautiful day in the white house rose garden. visiting president of romania, we saw the president of romania after arriving in the northwest portico talk to the president of the united states in the oval office. peter alexander, our correspondent standing by in the rose garden. peter, give us a curtain raiser on told. reporter: brian, to give you a sense, this is our first opportunity to pose questions to president trump following james comey s dramatic testimony there before congress. this opportunity will psent itself toose specic questions about his comments after james comey accused him, in effect, of being a liar, saying comey is a leaker. we ll be asking specifically if he s willing to testify under oath today if the questions come from the reporters who are likely to pose those types of questions, and we ll probably