office just fourteen months ago even in a crowded field john bolton's provocative views have long stood out whether it's north korean brinkmanship or iran's nuclear program. and how. to fight fire with fire let's say john bolton of the past ten years he has been a fixture on u.s. talk shows but today the new york times and here's the headline it's an eye catcher to stop iran's bomb bomb iran rarely missing a chance to hammer home his aggressive foreign policy approach i think has the earlier strike the more damage you can do it is a stance he has doggedly clung to ever since he served as the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. under george w. bush that was during the iraq war. he now returns to government on a bulging in-tray well i think the issues that confront us on proliferation and terrorism these are issues before the president obviously has them at the top of his priority list and so that's that's what. many others bolton will have to put words into action when he starts shaping u.s. national security policy from next month. well there's been plenty of reaction to bolton's appointment vice president mike pence for instance writing this con

policy especially with regard to north korea and iran so we should be worried yes you mentioned iran john bolton the new national security advisor is a very well known and vocal opponent of the international nuclear deal with. iran is his appointment an unmistakable signal if you want that president trump is in may going to abandon that deal well in the case of president trump you never know what is happening but he has been quite consistent in his criticism of the iran deal and i think in may we will see the united states abandoning that deal i think we should expect that and what effect would that move that depends very much on the iranians they should. they could just stick to the agreement with the europeans with russia and china and not react this is a best case scenario though in a worst case scenario they would start enriching uranium and they would be able to build a nuclear bomb in about two years or perhaps even less in the past. the new security advisor national security advisers called for military action against iran. presumably if they start making a bomb that would become even mor

even in a crowded field john bolton's provocative views have long stood out whether it's north korean brinkmanship or iran's nuclear program. and has a more only had one answer to fight fire with fire let's ask john bolton for us and of the past ten years he has been a fixture on u.s. talk shows but today the new york times and here's the headline it's an eye catcher to stop iran's bomb bomb iran there's rarely missing a chance to hammer home his aggressive foreign policy approach i think has the earlier strike the more damage you can do it is a stance he has doggedly clung to ever since he said as the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. under george w. bush that was through to the iraq war he now returns to government on a bulging in-tray well i think the issues that confront us on proliferation and terrorism these are issues dealt with before the president obviously has them at the top of his priority list and so that's that's will be working on among them on many others bolton will have to put words into action when he starts shaping u.s. national security policy from next month. ok let's get some analysis on th

wanted to stop toppling regimes however john bolton is a long time advocate for military interventions around the world so big developments on the horizon regarding iran and north korea. well side from north korea and iran john bolton has made some highly aggressive remarks about moscow as well he described alleged kremlin meddling as an act of war against america but his appearance in a russian gun advocacy video five years ago has left many people confused about his actual views were the russian national government to grant a broader right to bear arms to its people it would be creating a partnership with its citizens that would better awhile for the protection of mothers children and families without in any way compromising the integrity of the russian state this has been one of the most in saying baseless. theatres of the absurd that we've ever seed you know normally when somebody pursues something and it's not working they will say you know what let's go to a different theory the collusion thing isn't working we have no evidence of it but let's just find something else not here oh no it just builds up steam it builds up force this is this is stil

then iran was not such an influential player all over the place as it is today so to argue that john bolton is a sign for a regime change policy on iran to be materialized is i think. true and not too early to tell indeed that let's move on to another one of the big issues jim walsh in boston if there was any issue that highlighted certainly the trumpet ministration is the issue of a two state solution for both the israelis and the palestinians the palestinians cut off communications ever since the u.s. and trying to clad jerusalem the capital all of israel bolton arriving into the cabinet is really not good news for the palestinians though at the present moment they wouldn't really care about it too much because they know that they can't we negotiate with the trump administration yeah i think that's right particularly the last thing you said i don't think there's a peace process is going anywhere there's no sign that it's going to go anywhere and both the current prime minister and israel will see how long he last has certainly made noises during his previous election campaign talking abou

a hardliner who wants to stop iran's bomb by bombing iran john bolton is donald trump's new national security advisor is his appointment the final straw for the nuclear deal with tehran my name's christopher spring eight this is the day. the president is the person with the responsibility ear she needs the advice of their advisors because the earlier you.

john bolton. he was in the bush administration and was actually in favor of the iraq war which donald trump repeatedly criticized. "wall street journal," the legal case for striking north korea first. bomb iranjohn bolton now saying, hey, look. i'm a fox news commentator, i'm someone running down my op-ed pieces now. don't hold me to it. that was part of my past. >> frankly, what i said in private now is behind me, at least effective april 9. the important thing is what the president says and what advice i give him. >> it's true, john bolton didn't get his way in the bush administration. he got to air his views. sometimes he won, often he lost. do we overplay the idea he's on the record with this stuff, or is it important that the president has given indications that's where he'd like to be and he's been restrained. >> bolton will be right there in the white house advising him as he moves forward on all these huge international things coming down the pipeline. i think the north korea issue is particularly interesting because trump obviously took a meeting with the leaders of north korea because he wanted to be seen as the guy who can make a deal that no other president can make. clearly bolt

i think he really wants to go there. , bomb iran stop iran -- john bolton. with the iran deal? marty: there have been various people who have predicted that donald trump will withdraw from the iran deal. john bolton is a hardliner much further to the right of rex tillerson and others around the president. jim mattis never wanted us to leave the iran deal. week, this is a presidency of one and that one is donald trump. emotionally and intellectually, he wants to get out of the iran deal. i think that is what is going to happen next month. francine: michael mckee, how will this presidency of one choose who is permanently exempt from these tariffs? the eu's lobbying quite hard not to be put in the basket of going back to tariffs in may when this exemption ends. what will they decide on? michael: it's hard to know because it's that presidency of one and it depends on the transaction here. what does the eu give donald trump in order to keep themselves on the exempt list? he will probably want support from them on the intellectual property theft sanctions that he p

secretary secretary of state who has just recently fired is also a hawk on north korea and iran and john bolton the new national security adviser is to this doesn't mean that we're sort of around the corner from a conflict but this does mean that president trump is going to be getting a lot more hawkish advice than he got in the first year and we're coming up on some big things like the summit with the north koreans for example on the end of that how do you how do you think we know that he bolton is a war for tough action when it comes to north korea and iran so how do you think these talks if they go ahead will play out right if i had to guess the talks themselves will probably be a bust because it's only about two months to prepare for them in the issues between the united states and north korea are gigantic the strategic and political divisions are very large so i would be amazed at the trump team which is sort of in turmoil right now right a lot of these guys are sort of new could suddenly pull this together in the next two months my concern is i think what many people worry about is that i

iran. and that pretty much is john bolton in a nutshell. extremely hawkish, even by the standards of the most hawkish people in the trump administration. he has been very skeptical about iran's commitment to the iran nuclear deal. he's been against it. he's very skeptical about any negotiations with the regime in pyongyang, with the north koreans, which is ironic, considering president trump, not ten days ago, declared he would be meeting with kim jong-un, the leader of north korea. so that's going to be an interesting conversation behind the scenes. even dating back to his days in the trump administration, folks in the middle east, as you said, i was in iraq. they know him as someone who is a part of the bush administration. he served for a time as the u.s. ambassador to the united nations. of course, he failed to gain senate confirmation, so he didn't last very long in that position. but he has been a career state department official, and he's known as someone who is a very outspoken advocate for george w. bush's invasion of iraq. and he's

. >> even in a crowded field, john bolton's provocative views have long stood out. whether it is north korean frequent ship or iran'sar program, john bolton has long had one answer -- to fight fire with fire. for much of the past 10 years, he has been a fixture on u.s. talk shows. >> here is the headline. to stop iran's bomb, bomb iran. >> rarely missing a chance to aggressive home his -- rarely missing a chance to hammer home his aggressive foreign-policy stance he has had since he served as a to the u.n. under president bush during the iraq war. he now returns to government. >> i think the issues that confront us on proliferation and terrorism are issues i have dealt with before. the president has him at the top of his priority list. that is what we will be working on, among many others. >> he will have to put words into action when he starts shaping u.s. national security policy from next month. anchor: staying in the u.s., where anger and frustration at a lack of progress on gun control will be coming to a head tomorrow. more than half a million protesters expected to descend on the capital in washington to demo

he had argued, for instance, against tearing up the nuclear deal with iran without a plan for what follows. john bolton is the opposite of a constraining figure. the longtime fox news fixture has called for the u.s. to declare war on north korea and iran. even within conservative circles he's viewed as one of the most radical, hawkish foreign policy figures in the country. joining me now, msnbc contributor steve clemons, and steve, i wanted to talk to you immediately as this news happened because i think i met you first back in 2005 when you -- >> bolton watch. >> you were the person, you were the leader of the john bolton resistance. there was a broad idealogical coalition to stop his nomination to be the u.n. ambassador. it was successful. they ultimately had to recess appoint him. you led that effort. why did you do it then and what is your reaction today? >> i did it then because george bush had beaten john kerry in an election, and george bush had gone to brussels and given a speech that said we needed to get out of this unilateral this moment, we needed to think about restoring our partnerships a

his new piece for the american conservative is headlined "the untold story of john bolton's campaign for war with iran." gareth porter, welcome to [captioning made possible by democracy now!] when you heard the news yesterday, what were your thoughts you go? >> i that was probable john bolton was going to become the next national security adviser for the trump administration, but i was not expecting it this soon. so it was a bit of surprise in terms of the timing. but it has really been a matter of some weeks now that there have been rumors that -- not rumors, but reports based on leaks from the white house that mcmaster was going to be replaced and that bolton was going to be the leading candidate. that is why i wrote that piece in anticipation of the likelihood this was going to happen. amy: what are your major concerns? >> i think everyone knows by now that john bolton has been in fact a very vocal advocate of war with iran as well as with north korea. he has, for years, been appearing on fox news regularly. i have not counted them, but there must be dozens of times that he has publicly called for

when it comes to the iran deal, john bolton's been the biggest critic of the iran deal, it's a terribleeal, so i am very pleased with john bolton as the national security advisor to president trump. it's going to make the world safer. maria: so the date is may 12. do you think the president does not renew that iran deal at this point? >> unless you change the sunset clause, which says the following in 15 years under this deal, the iranians can reprocess and enrich uranium they can march toward a nuclear weapon without having to cheat and what president wants is to say any time they get within a year breakout, we will reimpose sanctions. they can't deny inspectors access to military sites where they're doing all their mischief john bolton has been dead right about this deal. president trump's been dead right about this deal. to my european friends, if you don't work with president trump to get a better deal he's going to withdraw and he should. maria: wow that is really fascinating on the meeting with kim jong-un also coincidentally expected in may, what is going to happen at this meetin

do you have these kinds of concerns that a john bolton could torpedo it one way or another, including ditching the iran deal? >> well, i know john bolton tmia d extent. i met him a couple of times in his work during the bush administration. he's certainly a hawk. let's call a spadepa a here. i agree with ambassador jeffrey. we needo give ambassador bolton time to settle in. he's never occupied the position before. let's see how he plays the game ahead ofhim. i would say this on the question of north korea, i would agree again with ambassador jeffrey, the military option frankly ads us to a world of pain, much greater than we currently confront. but secondly, we now have, i think, a realroblem in terms of the china-u.s.p relations on north korea. why do i say that? i mean, up until now, china basically has accepted the uperican lead on north korea, hasrted u.s. proposals for sanctions in the u.n. security council against the north koreans, multiple sets ofs sanctietting harder and harder. and then we have this unilateral action by president bush -- president trump someeeks ago when he indicated that he

secretary or secretary of state who has just recently fired is also a hawk on north korea iran and john bolton the new national security adviser is to this doesn't mean that we're sort of around the corner from a conflict but this does mean that president trump is going to be getting a lot more hawkish advice than he got in the first year and we're coming up on some big things china is planning to impose three billion dollars worth of tariffs on american products it's in retaliation to the u.s. president's order for sixty billion dollars of levies on chinese imports fears of a trade war over at the white billions of dollars from the value of stock markets in the u.s. and asia syrian rebels in eastern goes have agreed to a truce in the southern part of the enclave fighters in another part harassed surrounded on thursday they are on their way to adlib which is the last rebel held province in syria russia brokered the deal and is involved in the gauche ations elsewhere in eastern guta and the tentative cease fire earlier this month in duma broke down the area is undergoing when you'd bombardment

secretary or secretary of state who was just recently fired is also a hawk on north korea and iran and john bolton the new national security advisor is to this doesn't mean that we're sort of around the corner from a conflict but this does mean that president trump is going to be getting a lot more hawkish advice than he got in the first year and we're coming up on some big things china is planning to impose three billion dollars worth of tariffs on american products it is in retaliation to the u.s. president's order for sixty billion dollars of levies on chinese imports fears of a trade war already wiped billions of dollars from the value of stock markets in the u.s. and asia twenty three british diplomats expelled from russia are on their way to the airport they were asked to leave in retaliation for the u.k.'s expulsion of the same number of russian diplomats ever aspired to spew to britain is accuse a criminal of being behind a nerve toxin attack on a former russian double agent and his daughter in england earlier this month. proof vice president martin his car has arrived in lima to be in or

wanted to stop toppling regimes however john bolton is a long time advocate for military interventions around the world so big developments on the horizon regarding iran and north korea from a u.s. diplomat told of the appointment of john bolton could aggravate the situation with iran. a lot of people mistakenly said that during the campaign trump said he would tear up the agreement because it was a very bad agreement he did exactly said that he said it was a very bad agreement but he likes to make bad agreements good i think he came in with the notion that if he was threatening and up we could get the europeans on board and pressure the russians or the chinese to say that we want to add missile technology and not threatening israel a lot of other things to the agreement to change the agreement to something he likes better maybe that's still their game play and maybe they think if they have somebody who is sufficiently bellicose they can scare the europeans into siding with the americans on changing the agreement and not have to pull out of it but i have no doubt now that the regime change is going to be a cardinal conscious goal of american policy pa

our guests joining us from to iran political analyst says i it must close tension i mean the question thank you for joining us on the program how do you think john bolton's appointment is going to affect u.s. foreign policy particularly with regard to iran. hello and thanks for having me well as a matter of fact the we all know that the u.s. is going to this court the nuclear deal and in the next few weeks and iran will have a couple of options under such circumstances first to go along the same path with with others with russia china europeans and the second option is dropping the deal and resuming nuclear activities as before before the deal was developed and struck an iranian officials have valid to do that to take the second options to go along with their nuclear plans and they have also valve to you know double or triple the out who have given the new kind of offensive huge machines that they have the hollow and the has confirmed that and now the changes in the white house not just that but also the maneuvers the drills minute to military drills done by israel the united states and even saudi arabia this theater that includes also the appointment of

wanted to stop toppling regimes however john bolton is a long time advocate for military interventions around the world so big developments on the horizon regarding iran and north korea from a u.s. diplomat told is the appointment of john bolton could aggravate the situation with iran a lot of people mistakenly said that during the campaign trump said he would tear up the agreement because it was a very bad agreement he did exactly said that he said it was a very bad agreement but. he likes to make bad agreements good i think he came in with the notion that if he was threatening and up we could get the europeans on board and pressure the russians or the chinese to say that we want to add missile technology and not threatening israel a lot of other things to the agreement to change the agreement to something he likes better maybe that's still their game play and maybe they think if they have somebody who is sufficiently bellicose they can scare the europeans into siding with the americans on changing the agreement and not have to pull out of it but i have no doubt now that regime change is going to be a cardinal conscious goal of american policy and fa

robert: what kind of candor does bolton bring, especially when it comes to nuclear deal in iran. the possible meeting with kim jong-un. >> john bolton has happened positions on north korea and iran. at time promoti preemptive strikes on both. immediately, he'll be a key person in negotiating in the run-up to the talks that the s presidend will happen in may. we'll see if they do. he's in a position where he could potentially advocate for those talks and get the best position for the united states or he could sabotage him. he'll have an advantage that incoming secretary of state mike pomp and sect of defense mike -- will not. he'll be in the white house every day. he'll be there all the time and be the sort of first round of advice that he gets. so in that regard he could be quite influential. that said, mitigating circumstance will be all those around them. particularly the def department, which has warned against any strike. it says it's cataclysmic in terms of the consequences and the jefpble who say they find that the iran deal has worked. w thl be the balance between what he's hearing in the white house and what he's hear

for us thanks for coming on the show before we get to bolton and iran and north korea and china what role as john bolton in sacking a previous boss of the o.p.c. w w m d. this was one of bolton's early. successes shall we say when he was at the united nations in two thousand and two. he was only there briefly and he was playing a major role as a leading state department official in charge ironically enough. disarmament affairs in that role he decided that this is in two thousand and two this is in the run up to the u.s. british war against iraq and the then chief of the organization for the prevention of chemical weapons brazilian diplomat named jose stanley was going to be a potential problem why because it was danny was actually negotiating with the iraqi government with saddam hussein's government trying to push them to join the organization if they had agreed which they were a legit lee on the verge of doing that there were a lot of rumors at the time that the iraqis were prepared to join the organization and if they did they would have been subjected to incredibly intrusive inspections to de

john bolton and his —— as his new national security adviser. john bolton is widely seen in washington asa bolton is widely seen in washington as a hawk who has advocated using military force against irano and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are political correspondent for the financial times, laura hughes and michael heaver, who is the co—owner of political website, westmonster. making your debut with us this evening. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. so let's start with the financial times, which leads with the trade tariffs against chinese imports to the us announced by president trump earlier today. the telegraph features a large picture of one of the invitations to prince harry's wedding to meghan markle which were sent out today. the guardian continues with its coverage of the cambridge analytica scandal, revealing facebook shared information on 57 billion ‘friendships' from the social networking site. the i has a picture of detective sgt nick bailey, the police officer who was discharged from hospital

he sees john bolton on television talking about the iran nuclear deal, sees john bolton taking a veryard line toward north korea. he calls them up. it's not like they haven't talked all year. they have been talking at various times. i think he feels he wants that kind of voice. also, this is a position that doesn't have to be confirmed by the senate and george w. bush when he made bolton the u.n. ambassador had to do it through recess appointment because rand paul and other members of the u.s. senate said it would not happen so it had to be, if you were going to appoint bolton, had to be in a non-confirmed position. >> chris: panelists, standby. we're going to continue this conversation in a moment. jennifer griffin is standing by at the pentagon, our national security correspondence. jennifer, we're talking in the case of general mcmaster, a lieutenant general in the military. there had been talk about trying to get him a fourth star and one of the reasons for the delay was the idea they were trying to find him a good, appropriate spot, some would say a soft landing inside the milita

iran. we have the summit opportunity coming up with kim jong-un and donald trump, and that's a scary thought in itself without john bolton in the mix. but also on iran where the iran deal 235iss a key deadline and the t president trump has to decide whether to keep the deal, which is the only thing that stood in the way of iran and a nuclear weapon. >> let's look at an issue where john bolton disagrees with the president, at least has disagreed with him publically strongly. that is on the approach to russia. listen to what john bolton had to say about the ex-spy being attacked in england by -- possibly by russian agents. let's listen to this. >> it's so blatant in a public place. it reminds me of kim jong-un, moscow's found, killing his brother-in-law in an airport in asia, having the women rub a nerve agent on his face. it's saying to the other western capitals, what are you going to do about it? i think there should be a strong answer to that. >> david corn, how is that particular session going to go with president trump when he's advised to have a strong answer to vladimir putin about anything? >> i think this is the

wanted to stop toppling regimes however john bolton is a long time advocate for military interventions around the world so big developments on the horizon regarding iran and north korea you have this another. too which is to john bolton is not particularly known for his love russia is apparent in the russian gun because he video five years ago already has some american media speculating about possible connections to moscow than. where the russian national government to grant a broader right to bear arms to its people it would be creating a partnership with its citizens that would better allow for the protection of mothers children and families without in any way compromising the integrity of the russian state the sewer line is going to think about it legal analyst and media commentator hey there things should job old some point it's not going to well with the media justified oh no this reputation is going up. what is happening did you hear that is now what is he talking about what is going on here this is this is this is the most incredible orthogonal disjointed skit storied. planned it we i mean we can't we cannot figure this out now let me tell you