joining us is john bol ton, the former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. and a fox news contributor. good morning. >> glad to be here. >> eric: thanks for getting up this early, you are in los angeles this morning. >> right. >> eric: first question, he god like 20% of the vote, is he toast? >> well, his term will end in about one year and he was a lame duck anyway but he has been engaged in a sustained struggle with ayatollah khomeini and, these elections are an indication that mahmoud ahmadinejad is on the losing side of that struggle. now, what it means for iran's foreign policy, for its support for terrorism and pursuit of nuclear weapons, i think, is actually very little. there is no real dispute within the leadership about those things. there's a lot of dispute about tactics and economic and social policy inside iran and it is really those latter topics that were the real contested issues in the election. >> eric: in terms of its nuclear program you don't see much changing, even if he loses support? >> no, i don't think so at all. i think the more conservative element in iranian