the names so far including major waddell, brian hook, u.s. representative for iran and general kellogg who served acting security advisoadvisor, homeland security tom bossert and ambassador to germany richard grenell. joining me now our annie carney and our nancy cook. corey, you got some exclusive reporting between the president and john bolton and what i believe is quite a surprise with who the president reached out to in terms of h.r. mcmaster, the last one who had the job. >> that's right, steph. it was surprising given the way that president trump unceremofi mcmaster and offered the job to bolton and now he fired bolton. only several months after bolton started the job, president trump started reaching out to h.r. mcmaster telling him that he missed him and he reached out to him other time asking for advise on things like conflict and attention with iran and asking him who should be his next secretary of defense, stephanie. >> the president just talked about bolton's firing. the advisor was not getting along with important people in the

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number one would be somebody in the mode of brian hook who you guys mentioned earlier.e's currently the u.s. special representative for iran. he's someone obviously well versed not only in diplomacy with iran but also north korea, with afghanistan. he's worked at the state department for a long time. he would be someone who republicans and democrats on capitol hill would describe as a more steady hand. the other type of person that the president could pick would be someone like a richard gr grenelle. he is a u.s. ambassador to germany. he's been a trump supporter for some time now. he's only been over in germany a little bit those are two types of candidates that the president could go for here. folks on capitol hill, though, would prefer someone who would challenge the president's instincts. >> i feel like it's a two-part question, who is the president going to choose and who is actually going to say yes, considering this is the fourth. >> exactly. >> andrew, thanks. >>> president trump with a new crackdown on homelessness in california. details the white house may tak

with him was brian hook, the us special representative for iran.sentative for iranm is very important that the saudis continue their investigation of the attacks. these had global consequences, when you attack the world's largest oil facility under violate the basic international norms of human behaviour. so we do wa nt norms of human behaviour. so we do want more nations to hold iran accountable for these unprecedented attacks. you might remember us telling you about a planned raid on area 51. more than 3 million people signed up online, pledging to storm the top secret airbase where the us government is supposed to be hiding extra terrestrials. so how did it all pan out? the bbc‘s tim allman will tell us. as invasions go, alien or otherwise, this was a little underwhelming. here at area 51, it seems fewer than that number bothered to turn up, but for those who did, the hunt for little green man is always worthwhile. a bunch of random people in weird costumes standing outside of a government base? why would you want to miss that? that's a once—in—

here's special representative for iran, brian hook who just returned at 3:00 a.m.m the middle east. we thank you for making it here. what do we do if iran strikes out again even after these new sanctions? >> well, what we're trying to do is deescalate tensions. the president has kept our foreign policy clearly within the left right limits of diplomacy, the problem is iran is meeting our diplomacy with military force. and they have been doing it for many months now, since may, we have had almost 100 attacks that iran is behind in the middle east. secretary pompeo and i traveled to the region, met with crown prince in saudi arabia and in uae, to hear first land from those countries who are on the front lines of iranian aggression. the secretary will be seeing the president today to discuss a way forward. david: brian, if i could just follow up, a clear answer, maybe there isn't one right now, but specifically if there's another strike by iran, do we do more sanctions or something else? >> we don't preview our decisions. the president has as you mentioned at the top o

also there is a use alexander phenomenon she spoke to brian hook the u.s. special representative for iran to get a response to rouhani his comments the u.s. government has imposed new sanctions and travel restrictions on the iranian regime back to tehran as seems to remain defiant so it's you mexican pressure strategy not working no we're very pleased with it and we're also very pleased here at the united nations this week that germany france and the united kingdom have announced that we need a new nuclear deal that is much more comprehensive than the iran nuclear deal that the united states left last year the iran nuclear deal failed to cover iran's missile program in fact it relaxed constraints on iran's missile program and now here today we see the consequences in the middle east with iran using missiles to attack saudi arabia so we think this was a very productive and good week with our european friends they all said that iran is behind the attack on saudi arabia so i think the press has overstated our differences and i think the announcement this week

with his advisor -- with his departure, brian hook remains. will be fascinating to watch what type of ideology is ascribed to the success for of john bolton. will it be a more hawkish individual, will it be a more libertarian leaning? there's the possibility of someone like a senator rand paul trying to be a go-between between the iranians and president trump. and then you fast-forward to the g7, where emmanuel macron suggested he would serve as a go-between between the iranians and the u.s. very diverse ideological back-and-forth in terms of the president strategy. again, john bolton, this is a surprise, this i anticipated. he was long believed to have a close personal relationship with president trump. ultimately he has resigned. david: many thanks to kevin cirilli. he was up there to cover fannie mae and freddie mac but he is covering john bolton stepping down. res.let's turn to bill fai there is speculation about what this might mean for the president's policies. we focus on iran. are there other places we should be looking at? bill: john

and brian hook's role is pivotal.states, the command ner chief, donald trump, what brian hook is up to and what he's doing and the progress he's made and trump reportedly says to the person telling him about this, he says, who is brian hook? >> okay. >> oh, my okay. >> oh, my lord. >>> coming up, our next guest has a lot to say about the business roundtable's latest announcement that corporate responsibility needs to extend beyond their shareholders. a top executive from pfizer joins us next on "morning joe." the weather's perfect... family is all together and we switched to geico; saved money on our boat insurance. how could it get any better than this? dad, i just caught a goldfish! there's no goldfish in this lake. whoa! it's pure gold. we're gonna be rich... we're gonna be rich! it only gets better when you switch and save with geico. so, every day, we put our latest technology and unrivaled network to work. the united states postal service makes more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country.

former army general whose country the national security adviser to vice president mike pence there's brian hook who's been the administration's special representative for enron and is close to secretary of state mike pump and there is douglas macgregor a former army colonel who's often appeared on t.v. praising the president there is some sense of satisfaction in the government that john bolton is now out of a job one senior figure tweeting that john bolton promised 3 months ago that iran would no longer exist we are still standing he wrote he has gone alan fischer al-jazeera washington. president donald trump is promising to hit the afghan taliban harder than ever he made the comments at a ceremonies marking the 18 years since the $911.00 attacks it comes just days after he canceled peace talks after the killing of a u.s. soldier public has more from washington d.c. . it's a somber day in the united states the 18th anniversary of the september 11th attacks and the president did what presidents do on this day as he gave a speech this time at the pentagon memorial and he talked about the war in

this is brian hook i work for secretary of state mike pump a o. and serve as the u.s. representative for iran the offer millions of dollars for captain kumar to dock his own tanker in a us friendly port that would allow it seizure by washington after the possibly confused captain failed to reply a 2nd e-mail hit his inbox the tone now less friendly with this money you can have any life you wish and be well off in old age if you choose not to take this easy path life will be much harder for you what lay behind this thinly veiled threats was left to his imagination to ron was understandably roiled having failed at piracy the us resource to outright blackmail deliver us iran's oil and receive several $1000000.00 or be sanctioned yourself sounds very similar to the oval office invitation i received a few weeks back it is becoming a pattern incredibly the state department confirmed to this unusual strategy even adding this was no one off we have conducted extensive outreach to several ship captains as well shipping companies that some kumar meanwhile is on the us naughty li

with him was brian hook, the us special representative for iran. their investigation of the attacks. these had global consequences, when you attack the world's largest oil facility and violate the basic international norms of human behaviour. so we do want more nations to hold iran accountable for these unprecedented attacks. the government in malta has ordered an independent inquiry into the murder two years ago of the investigative journalist daphne ca ruana galizia. her well—known blog highlighted corruption in malta, including among politicians. she was killed near her home on the island by a car bomb. the parents of a student who took her own life while at university have called on colleges to help stop others from "falling through the cracks." ceara thacker was found dead in her room in may 2018, three months after an earlier suicide attempt, which her parents were never told about. from the inquest in liverpool, here's our education editor, branwen jeffreys: at liverpool university, new students are starting. two years ago, ceara thacker was

team with green blood gone this is the remaining team the president's son in law jared kushner brian hook who handles iran an avi berkowitz until given the task of finding middle east peace this 30 year old was cush nurse assistant who staffers reportedly say was mostly in charge of getting them coffee and setting up meetings the administration says it will unveil its still secret plan after the israeli election but they've made it clear their overall approach take hundreds of millions of dollars in aid from the palestinians in an attempt to pressure them to make a deal promising a $50000000000.00 investment if they do at the same time assuring israel its full support some analysts say that's been a critical mistake and one thing we know we're further apart than we ever worked to get a deal because the president. has given up some of our bargaining positions he's moved the embassy to jerusalem he basically has given the golan heights back to israel what is our leverage now to get them to withdraw from all or part of the west bank in the run up to his own election israeli prime minister be

wasn't the regular spam for the junk folder this came direct from the state department this is brian hook i work for secretary of state mike pompei oh and serve as the u.s. representative for iran the offer millions of dollars for captain kumar to dock his own tanker in a us friendly port that would allow it seizure by washington after the possibly confused captain failed to reply a 2nd email hit his inbox the tone now less friendly with this money you can have any life you wish and be well off in old age if you choose not to take this easy path life would be much harder for you what lay behind this thinly veiled threats was left to his imagination to run. understandably roiled having failed at piracy the us resource to outright blackmail deliver us iran's oil and receive several $1000000.00 or be sanctioned yourself sounds very similar to the oval office invitation i received a few weeks back it is becoming a pattern incredibly the state department confirmed to this unusual strategy even adding this was no one off we have conducted extensive outreach to several ship captains as well as s

special representative for iran brian hook announced a reward of up to $15 million for any person whoelps disrupt the financials operation of iran's islamic revolutionary guard and it specialized unconventional warfare unit. here is that announcement. the unitedoday, states government is intensifying our maximum pressure campaign against the islamic republic of iran. first, we are announcing a reward of up to $15 million for any person who helps us disrupt the financial operations of iran's revolutionary guard corps

we'll be having berkowitz who is an aide to jared cushion or as well as the special envoy to iran brian hook who works for the u.s. state department so a very busy portfolio already in the hands of mr hooke now taking this went on as well but the white house saying in all of this that they do have a vision for middle east peace that this is in capsulated a plan which has now been drafted and that's why the jason green but is leaving because his work essentially is done kimberly how could. you. still ahead of you on al-jazeera more military deaths in afghanistan a u.s. service member and a romanian soldier killed and harken dorian strengthens again that threatens at the u.s. east coast. how it was still got some showers across southern parts of china we have got to feeling just off the side of our screen here that's making its way up that western side of the pacific towards the korean peninsula through later on in the week for china itself it does stay dry will be a little line of showers there was a said down towards hong kong perhaps a little drier in hong kong as we go on into saturday but

team with green blood gone this is the remaining team the president's son in law jared kushner brian hook who handles a ran an avi berkowitz until given the task of finding middle east peace this 30 year old was cush assistant who staffers reportedly say was mostly in charge of getting him coffee and setting up meetings the administration says it will unveil its still secret plan after the israeli election but they've made it clear their overall approach take hundreds of millions of dollars in aid from the palestinians in an attempt to pressure them to make a deal promising a $50000000000.00 investment if they do at the same time assuring israel its full support some analysts say that's been a critical mistake one thing we know we're further apart than we ever want to get a deal because the president has given up some of our bargaining positions he moved the embassy to jerusalem he basically has given the golan heights back to israel what is our leverage now to get them to withdraw from all or part of the west bank in the run up to his own election israeli prime minister benjamin netanyah

i see r g as the iran envoy brian hook explains this is what he had to say we have taken this step because the i.r.g.c. operates more like a terrorist organization than it does a government. the ira g.c. and the ca's force were designated as a foreign terrorist organization in april in this put them in the same category as many of the terrorist groups that they actively support such as has followed and hamas the i.r.g.c. trains phones and equips proxy organizations across the middle east iran wants these groups to extend the borders of the regimes revolution and so chaos and sectarian violence. it's hard to separate us from the context of the way election campaign which is well underway what white president trying want to convey to his base from a move like this. well certainly there's that element of strength that he wishes to push or that he will not accept agreements reached underneath previous u.s. administrations but it goes even further another sanction that has been imposed by the u.s. is it appears according to the financial times that that's on for you just to bryan hook as being

possibly brian hook, pompeo's senior policy advisor. and u.s. ambassador to germany.ichard gro grow grenell. >> all three those gentlemen would be ideal for this situation. they might bring a new sense of levelness to the white house i think is much need, and someone who could help us find a domestic agenda and foreign policy before the election. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu promised to annex parts of the palestinian area if elected. he was rushed off the stage. >> this is a constant reminder of a lot of the input we have seen from iran where they have their allies across the globe. and something we need to keep in mind, it's all their allies and other people they work with around the world to support their terror attacks. >> u.s. military leaders warning of an isis insurgency at the syrian border in iraq. it was seen to be sort of ground to go into syria. >> when we were talking about isis being eliminated, my opinion then was they are just going to go hide. they will disperse and wait for to us think that they have completely lost, and dissipated. they

one is brian hook, rex tillerson brought into the state department. he is currently leading the push on iran through the state department right now. another name is rick waddell. he served as trump's deputy adviser, a third intriguing name is rob blair, the acting chiefed a haver to dick mulvaney. some think mulvaney's influence may lead him to that job. another pete poke stra and charles cuberman is not on that list. a source telling me he will not be on the job very long. we should point out president trump makes unorthodoxed picks, so it could be he ultimately taps someone that source versus fought thought of, they have not brought up to us. the president, of course, often unpredictable, kate. >> boris, thank you so much. >>> joining me for more on this is michael allen who served on the national security council under president bush. what do you think of the departure first and foremost? >> i think two factors were at play here, first john bolton is famously abrasive. i think that stale grated on the president and secretary pompeo and esper and i

being kicked off, more in the neighborhood of mulling over who might be on tap to replace him, brian hook, currently mike pompeo's senior policy adviser at state, steven began, the president's point person on north korea. there will be others rumbling around here in washington in the next few hours and days. >> shepard: bolton is at the top of pile of trusted people at the moment. with history as our guide, you think he would have a lot of influence on this? no? >> bolton or pompeo? >> shepard: i meant pompeo. >> yeah, pompeo is on the top of one heap. it's not the heap you were talking about. yeah, pompeo is probably the president's most trusted adviser on foreign policy. they're on lock step over everything. pompeo will have a lot of influence. >> shepard: john roberts back as things change. as all of that was breaking, within minutes we learned that tis railly prime minister, benjamin netanyahu says he will annex part of the west bank if he is reelected. annexed with the support of the united states. if true, it is a dramatic departure on a firm position on annexation. the prime minist

among the names being floated this morning, rick grenell, current ambassador to germany, brian hook, the present appointment on north korea. senator lindsey graham says whoever it is, they need to be able to get on the same page.>> what are we looking for, someone who can work with pompeo, the department of defense and can get the interagency back, stood back up. >> meanwhile there is still the he said he said matter, the white house says the president fired bolton, bolton says he quit.>> he was a bad fit from start to finish, but the broader problem is this dysfunction in the administration when it comes to national security. >> owns deputy will be the acting national security advisor until a replacement is named. >>> this is ktvu fox 2 news at 6. >> it's a bill that aims to rewrite employment law in california, potentially reshaping her company such as uber and lyft do business. tonight it is just one signature away from becoming law.>> this particular bill, setting up a new standard for how you classify workers between independent contractors is really as big as anything we've see

some early names being mentioned is a special representative for north korea, also brian hook, a policy advisor to pompeo. he's basically the point person on the iran deal with the maximum pressure on iran. he actually gave a speech last week saying that the u.s. is going to give a reward for anyone to break down the financial network and operations that iran has. some names being floated early on. lou, the seat isn't even cold yet. back to you. lou: no, but the folks who would like to have that post are heating it up to get their names out there. ed lawrence, thank you very much. >> thanks, lou. lou: we will have much more on the story tonight. we will talk with former trump administration official sebastian gorka, katie mcfarland and international aafirs expert kristin whiten. the white house and cia are slamming cnn for falsely reporting that a cia agent was pulled from russia because intelligence officials were concerned that president trump might somehow compromise the agent's identity. fox chief intelligence correspondent katherine herridge has that story tonight from washington.

departure of the 1st national security advisor michael flynn another name who's been mentioned as brian hookthe arabian point person who's actually become a player in the president's son in law jared cushion his push for a wider middle east agreement so much speculation within d.c. but also observers pointing out one stop fact at the moment there's no national security adviser there is no homeland sit security secretary they have simply not been replaced you've got acting person in homeland security position and very importantly there's no director of national intelligence dan coats has not been replaced a long period of time up to his departure so very much a vacuum as always within the trump administration all right mike thanks for that mike hanna live for us in washington. more than 300 nigerians are flying home from south africa after a series of attacks on foreigners there last week they're among at least 640 who've taken up an offer of free flights from privately owned nigerian airline at least 12 people were killed and more than a 1000 shops vandalized in attacks on foreign owned busi

special representative for iran, brian hook. you saw the interview.ay a little bit of a tidbit here and there. and get your reactions first of all about the president had to say about iran and the nuclear ambitions. >> if someone keeps nuclear weapons, this is not correct. this does not change the nuclear weapons. >> they have long maintained that. are you buying it? >> if the nuclear watchdog referred iran's nuclear program to the u.n. security council in 2006, and they have found a half a ton of materials. if the nuclear archive for how to build an atomic weapon and that was only just a year ago. this is a machine that has not surrendered its ambitions to acquiring a nuclear weapon. the iran nuclear deal expires in just a few years so the president was right to get out of the deal. we are in a much different condition. >> >> israel supports isis. >> translator: certainly, undoubtedly. do you have any doubts? you can see the injured isis for fighters and how they are being taken care of, they should be captured from isis fighters. at >> he said iran

brian hook, senior policy advisor to secretary of state mike pompeo. stephen began, who was the chief of the north korean negotiations. president trump likes both of them. mike pompeo likes both of them, and you can bet that because pompeo is now the president most trusted advisor on foreign policy and national security, pompeo will likely have a big influence over who the president picks. >> neil: john roberts the white house. before we get to my next guest i want to compare resignation letters. when they are short and to the point, normally the person leaving is not too happy. you've seen this one sentence resignation letter on the part of mr. bolton. it compares very much to richard nixon's resignation letter back on august 9, 1974. short, pithy, to the point. when jim mattis decided to leave his defense secretary, he had two full single's amazed pagers arguing his point that it had a lot to do with bigger issues and no ill will toward the president. that was then. this is now. kentucky republican senator rand paul, good to see you. what do you make

brian hook, who is mike pompeo's senior policy adviser, steven beegen. i think it's probably safe to say that mike pompeo will probably play a big role in whomever is chosen as the next national security adviser because he and the president are in lock step when it comes to foreign policy and national security. >> dana: john roberts, thank you. more with jack keane. really good to have you here. i do just want to play one more sound byte from that press conference that happened when secretary pompeo talked about his disagreements with john bolton. watch. >> i don't talk about the inner workings of how this goes. we all have things that we disagree on, but that's true for lots of people with whom i enter. >> dana: that isn't unusual, right, to have disagreements within the national security council as they try to give their best advice to the president. >> absolutely right. this president is similar to other presidents. they welcome contrary views and disagreements. i think most people involved in issues of great importance believe that's pretty good gove

that's brian hook, who runs iran policy, steve beegen, our u.s't it looks like it could be possible there'sn that job, which would give him control over foreign policy. we know he's one of the most important voices right now, though, because he gets along so well with the president. >> kiley atwood, thank you so much. >>> top of the hour, good morning, everyone, i'm poppy har allow. >> -- poppy harlow. >> and i'm jim sciutto. we are learning this morning that some of the democratic members on the committee have drawn up a list of possible charges against the president, crucially including obstruction of justice. >> outside that committee, the argument is not necessarily over the charges, it's actually over what to call the process itself. is it impeachment or oversight or some combination of both. >> our national correspondent manu raju on capitol hill, nadler was clear this morning saying i'm done with talking about what this is and what it isn't. >> yeah, he said we are conducting an investigation to determine whether or not to impeach the president of the united states. call it what you

one is brian hook, u.s. representative for iran and a senior policy advisor. the secretary of state mike pompeo. he came in under tillerson but paint pompeo has grown to like him. jared kushner likes him as well. the other top choice, stephen biegun, the u.s. special representative for north korea, but like stephen biegun was potentially going to get tapped to be the new u.s. ambassador to russia but he said he didn't want that job. he wants to remain on north korea. he was at odds with john bolton over the approach to kim jong un. stephen biegun thought using a program of carrots could help bring them towards denuclearization and john bolton wanted to use the stick. >> john roberts, thank you. back to the president's comments and apparent action pending on vaping, let's turn to tony, executive director of the vapor technology association. tony, thanks. >> thank you. >> shepard: is vaping safe? >> vaping, we know from scientists, is that vaping is safer than smoking cigarettes. >> shepard: no, it isn't. actually that's not true. because i have a google machine

on the short list tonight to replace bolton is the president's special representative for iran brian hook may be a good person unapologetic neocon. he has undisguised contempt for donald trump as john bolton did. and he particularly dislikes the president's nationalist foreign policy which is one of the reasons people voted for donald trump in 2016. one administration official recalls hook announcing that, quote: i think the president is reckless and doesn't understand policy. another source heard him directly foreign officials at a conference abroad. a choice like that and hook, by the way, is not the only one, not even close. a choice like that is really no choice at all. it's more john bolton with the same predictable disastrous results. at least mitt romney and the energy speculators will be happy. buff the country won't be served. mcgregor author of the fantastic book margin of victory and first man we go to for clarity on questions like this. colonel, thanks for coming on tonight. >> sure. >> tucker: looking at the national security apparatus in "washington post" john bolton. what a

we know that at the top of that list, now it appears brian hook, the u.s.ative for iran policy and steve beigun, the special envoy for north korea, regardless of who the president picks for this position, it appears that this role will be diminished in some capacity. the president will be keeping his council on foreign policy, more often than not dpg into go the future, and his current vision of foreign policy which has included a number of diplomacy related initiatives, including the possibility of a meeting with the iranian president, hasan rouhani. all three men would fit the bill for lining up more with where the president currently is on national security but we know in particular that mike pompeo more than perhaps any other official in the president's national security apparatus has earned the president's trust and has managed to line up with the president's views on foreign policy. kate. >> let's see what that means for the next chapter. good to see you, jeremy. thank you so much. >>> coming up next for us, a massive multibillion dollar deal in the n

long list of possible replacements, top hostage negotiator robert o'brien, special envoy for iran, brian hookan ambassador ric grenell who attended a white house dinner last night with the family of otto warmbier, the american college student who died in 2017 afterring with herald -- after being held captive in north korea for more than a year. publicly, the warmbier family was critical of the suggestion that kim jong un was unaware of warmbier's deteriorating condition. bill: kevin corke reporting from the white house, thank you. joining us now, counselor to the president, kellyanne conway, and welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> good morning, bill, to you and your viewers. thank you. bill: we have a lot to get through the, let's see how much we can cover in the next ten minutes. the administration believes iran is responsible. what are you willing to do about it? >> secretary pompeo's made clear that the iranian regime is responsible for this attack on civilian areas and infrastructure vital to our global energy supply, and we're not going to stand for that. in fact, our department of ene