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Good everyone we’re coming on the air with word that
President Trump has fired his
national security adviser John
Bolton, the president tweeting
just a short time ago that he
would no longer be needing a
Mister Bolton at the White
House the president said he
strongly disagreed.
strongly disagreed. >> With some of Bolton’s
suggestions as did he said
others in his administration,
let’s go to Peter Alexander
right now at the White House,
Peter Rowe what precipitated
this specifically the lesser
this certainly highlight some
of the deep divisions that
existed inside this White House
between the president and some
of his aides most notably John
Bolton as it relates to some
foreign policy
foreign policy situation specifically.
situation specifically. >> Relating to Iran North Korea
and
and most recently Afghanistan the
president making the surprise
announcement by tweeted came
exactly an hour after the White
House announced that John
Bolton, the president’s.
Permanent national security
adviser would be in this very
briefing room find briefing
reporters alongside the
secretary of state Mike pompeo
and the Treasury secretary
Steve Mnuchin later this very
afternoon here is that we did
resist follows I inform John
Bolton last night
that is services are no longer
needed at the White House I
disagree strongly with many of
the suggestions as did others
in the administration and
therefore I asked John for his
resignation which was given to
me this morning. I think John
very much for his service I’ll
be naming a new national
security adviser next
week, we’re also now hearing
for the first time from John
Bolton himself who tweets I
offered to resign last night
and president Trump said, let’s
talk about it.
Tomorrow so that’s where you
hearing from both John Bolton
and for the president as we try
to learn more details about
this again though to the basis
of the the disagreements that
have existed here this would
appear to be in effect a policy
win for the secretary of state
Mike pompeo who was
repeatedly clashed with John
Bolton behind the scenes in
this White House Bolton very
hawkish the president on
multiple occasions has noted
that was frustrated for a
variety of things in recent
weeks. He was frustrated that
the U S backed away from a
potential air strike in the
wake of tensions with Iran was
frustrated by the president’s
agreement to go to the DMZ and
meet with a North Korean
dictator, Kim
dictator, Kim Jong un is well so while the
president in the eyes of some
critics has taken a sort of
naive view there was a hope
among some that the bold might
be a realist behind the scenes
to be able to impress upon the
president. Some of the
potential challenges in his
strategy as it relates to
situations overseas and
periods, it’s notable that this
happened within a few days of
his learning about this secret
meeting that was proposed at
Camp David.
Camp David. >> To come up on a peace deal
with the Taliban. It is was
that perhaps one of the straws
that broke the camel’s back.
Well it certainly plays into
this
this just a series of disagreements
that we are familiar with a
taken behind the scenes
remember the president said
that he canceled that meeting
at the last minute with Taliban
leaders who he
had invited to Camp David John
Bolton. Obviously among those
who is taking a more hawkish
view as it relates to
Afghanistan with real concerns
that removing American troops
from that region would only
make the situation worse.
The president you remember
campaign on this
sort of less interventionist
approach a
approach a more isolationist approach
Bolton was more inclined to
show American force around the
world so it’s certain that that
would have been one of the
places where the 2 men clashed
was obviously one of the points
that we were planning to press
John Bolton on when he walked
or was scheduled to walk
into this briefing room at one
30 Eastern time this afternoon
I’ve reached out to White House
officials to see if Bolton will
be here with the briefing will
go on as planned.
At this point we simply don’t
know all right, Peter and right
now Republican senator Lindsey
Graham is on the hill and he is
talking to reporters about
this. Let’s listen that.
>> Texas.
And that listening and they were apparently speaking about
jobs will be moved on to other
topics but this will of course
be the talk on Capitol Hill in
the days to come the president
saying he will be next week
naming a new national security
advisor, but again the headline
we’re on the air with right now
John Bolton national security
advisor has been fired the
president accepting his
resignation today there will be
a lot of moving parts and is
recovering in throughout the
day that of course full
coverage when I see one NBC
nightly news for now, I’m
Lester Holt NBC News New York.