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
april 9, 2018. he was the third national security adviser and of course doesn t need senate confirmation. so, another national security adviser can be put quickly in place. but this is a real turning point for the administration going into an election year as to what he wants his policies to be and whether these high profile photo opportunities like the dmz meeting with kim jong-un and what they were planning at camp david, whether this can replace real policy and what the pay out is. that s right, andrea. the traditional role of a national security adviser is to create a process by which all the stakeholders, chairman of the joint chiefs, secretary of state, they can all have a voice in the policy deliberations and tee up decisions for the president. and traditionally, national security advisers have kind of held their own opinions back. but what has happened here are two things. number one is the process has