there's been a lot of palace intrigue about how he fits in among the national security adviser, national security council and he's still standing here without a lot of security clearance or any sense about his role. do we have any sense with mr. kushner's role and whether he had anything to do with this firing? >> well, jared kushner having lost his security clearance doesn't have access to some of the most sensitive intelligence, which would allow him to take part in the most sensitive national security deliberations. he's still involved in trying to put together a middle east peace plan and the white house intends to table that. he went down to mexico and i think he's trying to work to smooth out a relationship that's obviously been extremely contentious because of president trump's repeated promises to build a wall. so i think it's going to be interesting to watch whether he can carve out a place with very powerful new penalties in the mix. mike pompeo is going to be aggressive. he has the president's ear, he gets along well with the president. john bolton is an extremely outspoken fi

>>> so we have one national security advisor out, we have new national security advisor in, who seems to be scaring people a little bit if tonight's reactions that we've seen here are anything to go by. we have the lead trump lawyer in the russia probe handing in his notice. we have a new trump lawyer from fox tv appointed to the president's russia legal team. somebody pulling my leg? is this friday? this kind of feels like a friday. i wonder what's going to be-to-happbe-to -- to happen tomorrow. now it's now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." >> thank you, rachel stormy daniels is on sunday night so something will have to be done to cloud that. there will have to be some news out of the white house to cloud that. >> you think there will be a human generated news storm to occlude that? >> how many firings would it take on late sunday afternoon, i guess happens the calculation the president has to make now. >> at some point we're going to come to the end of the cycle. fox news is a big organization but they only plemploy so many people. they'll go through the hosts,

the name to remember. >>> so we have one national security advisor out, we have new national securityisor in, who seems to be scaring people a little bit if tonight's reactions that we've seen here are anything to go by. we have the lead trump lawyer in the russia probe handing in his notice. we have a new trump lawyer from fox tv appointed to the president's russia legal team. somebody pulling my leg? is this friday? this kind of feels like a friday. i wonder what's going to be-to-happbe-to -- to happen tomorrow. now it's now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." >> thank you, rachel stormy daniels is on sunday night so something will have to be done to cloud that. there will have to be some news out

and can, in many cases, cause irrepairab irreparable damage to our national security. already taken actions by imposing enhanced penalties on those convicted of unauthorized disclosures. if confirmed, how do you plan to address the security of sensitive and classified information at the agency? >> mr. chairman, the safeguard of our national secrets, the safeguard of our capabilities is one of the most important things the next director will continue to address. if confirmed, my intent is to look to make sure that the security -- the enterprise and secure the network initiatives that nsa has undertaken to date are timely, are accurate, are on target to ensure that we continue to have the safeguard and security of our national treasures. with that being said, i would also add, mr. chairman, that there are two elements that i see as we look long term to this issue. first of all, is continuing to hiring great people that work at the nsa. not only hiring them but also training them, developing them and ensuring that their long-term careers with the nsa are well tended to. th

security of this country. vote yes. >> mike: the spending package includes almost $655 billion for national defense. nearly $48 billion for homeland security, $21 billion for infrastructure projects, and almost $1.6 billion for barriers and technology on the border. there was plenty of support for democrats since it is a bipartisan compromise, but the house democratic whip hammered the gop for voting on it before anyone had read the more than 2200-page bill. >> as i said, nobody's read that either. this is report language. come to the well if you've read this language. >> mike: in a last-ditch effort, the conservative freedom caucus applied pressure to the right. >> put a good bill in front of the president and he'll support that too. i know he would. let's not bring the worst bill i've seen in my 10 years in congress to the white house. >> mike: the white house swiftly shut down the argument. >> is the president going to sign the bill? the answer is yes. why? because it funds his priorities. >> mike: part of the senate leader's pitch for support are concerning background checks and safety. >> this b

that is, the naming ofjohn bolton by president trump as the new national security advisor. is, who is the director of defence studies at the centre for the national interest. he's in washington. what do we know about the style of john bolton and whether he will get on with president trump?” john bolton and whether he will get on with president trump? i think it is clearjohn bolton is seen as a hawkish person when it comes to foreign policy, normally associated with neoconservative thinkers, wanting regime change, backing the iraq war, and recently going on air and the wall street journal and other places, arguing that if north korea does not give up its nuclear weapons, it is either time to impose regime change or have a military strike. this has been suspected for a while. in washington, dc, many scholars were passing around pictures ofjohn bolton going into the 0val pictures ofjohn bolton going into the oval office. this had been building all day and for a few months, to be honest. what do we know about whether president trump will actually listen tojohn bolton's advice on

spring in a similar hearing to this one, i voiced my concern to ambassador lighthizer about using national security for trade restrictions since this action could lead to retaliation if another nation follow suit and risks its import of u.s. products like sorghum and soybeans coming using the same rationale. while it is a good step to implement an exemption process as many members here requested for our allies and trading partners following the proposed steel and aluminum tariff. my concerns have only grown, especially since other nations are indeed preparing a retaliation list targeting farm products. mr. secretary, you have made comments recently about farm families and ranchers who i quote, scream and yell when their nerves get rattled by the administration. you mentioned that they even go so far as to write to their member of congress. you may not be aware however the state of kansas last week declared a statewide drought emergency for all 105 counties. blizzard's role through at a moments notice are that we have had multiple users, some which have blazed an area many times larger than the enti

to john bolton now being the national security adviser, single most important voice on national securitye decisions to the president of the united states? >> i'm worried about two things here, erin. one is obviously very hawkish record like north korea and iran deal. now we have pompeo potentially coming in secretary of state. more bell a coast attitude of the united states towards the iran deal worries me greatly and militaristic tone. and number two, i'm worried that the president is more and more surrounding himself with yes men. with people who are either promising to think like he does or will think like he does on everything. and one of the great things about a good national security adviser is teeing up as, barbara said, lots of options. different opinions. even dissenting views. and i worry that mr. bolton is not the kind of guy with the strong record of being inclusive thinker in that regard. >> sam, i mention and i want to mention again, an article that was written by john bolton, an op-ed to stop iran's, bomb iran was the head line, and continued in a sentence to say, time is

national security adviser reportedly over saw that process at the national security counsel. he and the national security counsel recommended to the president he expel russian diplomats. on wednesday. and then trump fired him thursday. now raise your hand if you think president trump will follow that recommendation and expel russian diplomats from the united states as punishment for the nerve agent poisoning he was too afraid to bring up person to person. when he spoke to vladimir putin. think he's going kick out diplomats? even if he doesn't follow that recommendation from the counsel. if he doesn't do that, past peerngs suggests he won't. he'd never the less is going to have to implement these sanctions. and these new funding restrictions against russia. and that's because some anonymous member of congress put on a ski mask and pried open the window and snuck it into the bill and got away without anybody knowing who did it. courage. so, things are weird. even more than usual. it's been a helter-skelter news cycle. major headline today was trump aids are at their wits end. r

the president is to protect our economy and national security. i'm not going to get ahead of the president's announcement who will replace gary. reporter: follow up on gary cohn. the president touted the strength of the markets. there's been volatility today. the u.s. markets opened down, the asian markets. is he concerned about the volatility in the markets? ms. sanders: the president is focused on long-term economic goals. the economy is still infinitely stronger today than it was when the president took office. we're going to continue to fight for strong economic policy. job growth, wage growth, and certainly an increased number of people that are working in this country, again, specifically some of the action that is you're going to see through the announcement later this we. reporter: isn't the message from the market theare concerned about gary cohn's departure what it might mean for the stability of the white house and u.s. economy? ms. sanders: if you look at the overall message of the markets if that were doing much better under presiden

in light of this, the importance of ineffective national security agency continues to be important to our natural -- national defense. a are at the forefront of technological evolution for our country. this involves quantum computing as wills the capabilities of the technological agency. i know a strong public-private partnership will be needed to make sure the country develops from the leading technology being developed and implemented today into the future. the nomination is to lead the nsa and cyber command. while the cooperation of the organizations has been critical to the growth, i see them as unique identity -- as unique identities. i'm committed to assessing the needs of both to ensure there'd success in the defense bar nation. if i am confirmed, i will ensure our customers can continue to rely on products to combat increasingly adaptive adversaries. equally i will ensure the national security agency upholds full compliance with our laws. i am deeply honored to be considered. i look forward to moving with the committee. chairman, thank you for the opportunity to be here this m

is he a fox news contributor or is he national security advisor? god knows at this point. ing us now, nbc news national political reporter, national political reporter for axios. jo we'll be talking about the markets which dropped. jonathan swan, how did this go down? because if h.r. mcmaster was in the white house yesterday, we are hearing he was in the building, and the president was in the oval, that's a short walk in the west wing. i've done it myself. so i'm sure he went down and told him in person. >> source with direct knowledge told me that the president informed him of a decision by telephone. >> so so quick that he picked up the phone and called him and then tweeted is what we're hearing. >> i know from sources with direct knowledge that after his meeting with bolton he informed mcmaster by telephone. the communications staff mostly found out after 5:00. around 5:15. >> so the president appears to be putting together a war cabinet. >> well, when you look at the combination, this is not in isolation. when you look at the come binatn of pompeo replacing tillerson, w

lessen a little bit. >> he can't keep bolton out, bolton is now his colleague as head of the national security. he's now calling the shots. >> i just keep thinking of all the people who recently lost their security clearances, all the people who aren't in the room anymore, so that pull has gotten smaller. even if people thought jared kushner should have never been getting the presidential daily briefing, here he was a moderating voice. he tried to keep the president kind of in a moderate line. that's one person less that will be in the room when he's being briefed by john bolton. >> what is it going to be like when we have a new coalition of jared kushner, a hawk, with the financing of the mentality, you can tell he is, bolton is one of his guys, and who else is in this mess? who is going to say no, let's cool it here. >> well, a lot of the moderates have been on the outs with this administration. gary cohn is leaving, mcmaster, a moderate, you just said that and tillerson, of course. that was one of the big problems. the president last week when he was letting tillerson go, specifically cited

but the national security adviser is there to listen to every part of what we call the interagency. united nations, the defense department, the intelligence community. we know that john bolton is going into this role with a distaste for diplomacy as a national security tool. he's made no secret that he views regime change as the most effective mechanism in north korea and in iran. so if he wants to, for example, put only regime change options forward to the president, he can control what discussions happen in the situation room, what information gets to the president, and who has the president's ear. and that's really disturbing. >> and it sort of reinforces, sam, this notion that a month or so from now, the president has to make a decision whether to stick by the iran nuclear deal that was negotiated during the obama administration, and you were there, whether to continue it or rip it up. we know that john bolton wants to rip it up. >> indeed. and i just wonder how much the state department or even general mattis, who i think has been supportive of the iran deal, are going to have a

enter john bolton, the new national security adviser to donald trump. he's called for bombing and regime change in north korea and iran. he remains a fierce defender of the iraq war that trump himself calls a big mistake. now he'll have the ear of the president at a time of acutely difficult diplomacy ahead with north korea, iran and russia. the u.s., in fact, is today expelled 60 diplomats from moscow with 14 eu member states following suit after the poisoning of an ex-russian spy here in the united kingdom. what will john bolton bring to the job? james jeffrey, the former deputy national security adviser joined me from washington, and kevin rud, the former prime minister from australia spoke to me from beijing. >>> welcome to both of you. ambassador jeffrey in washington, big deal today, the u.s. administrationas expelled 60 russi diplomats,he most its everxpelled in history. what do you make of this? and trump is doing a 180, isn't he? >> to some degree, christiane. he's also closing the consulate in aragon. it's a huge step not only to show the russ

the growingat strength of the afghan national security forces with the right support from our international partners, we strongly believe the same way they have kept the country together without any combat role of the international who would be able to improve security as well. announcer: the c-span buses traveling across the country. we recently stopped in phoenix, arizona, asking, what's the most important issue in their state? >> support of more public school funding. it is hurting the state's economic competitiveness. companies like amazon are passing arizona by. it's a very important issue that needs to be fixed so the state can be healthy and grow strong. an important issue is k-12 education. we ranked 49th in the country in funding for schools. we need to make helping our teachers a bigger priority. i'm here in support of our teachers trying to get them the respect they deserve. -- wem the president of are here today at the state capital to advocate for student leadership. we think the most important public issue is that there is a lack of public education funding. we are here to com

last evening, the president naming a new national security adviser john bolton. the former u.s. ambassador to the united nations and now a fox news contributor is coming in as national security adviser replacing h.r. mcmaster. a 34-year military veteran brought in a year ago to right the ship after the firing of the first national security adviser michael flynn. this has been in the works, but it came much quicker than people thought it would. officials here at the white house last week, the press secretary stood and said there would be no change in the national security adviser role. >> has the president spoken to mcmaster, carson, shulkin, to tell them their jobs are in fact safe? >> i spoke directly to the president last night. he asked me to pass that message along to general mcmaster. >> reporter: the question is what does it mean for foreign policy? mcmaster was setting up the negotiating talks with the u.s. and south korea over the north korea nuclear program. having someone who has a harder line view will certainly change the shape of the talks and could interrupt them. w

he's going to say, here's the main issues with our national security and we have to do the kinds of thingse associated with our security, and we all know that president trump is a bit more free-wheeling. i think h.r. probably actually stood up to him on several occasions. he can also be very pressing in his -- in his characteristics and he can stand up and support an argument. as we've seen, that's not the kind of guy that -- >> yeah. >> -- does well in this kind of environment. >> yeah. dana bash, i understand you have some other reporting as well. >> well, cnn is confirming that the president, according to sources that i've talked to, that gloria borger and pamela brown have talked to, has made the decision to remove h.r. mcmaster. what the holdup is, according to these sources, is two things. one, who he's going to be replaced with. that's obvious. two, where h.r. mcmaster is going to go next, because he is active duty. he's a three-star. the question has been whether he would be put somewhere, deployed somewhere, in an effort to get a fourth star or whether he would go somewhere else,

national security policy from next month. well there's been plenty of reaction to both is a point and vice president mike pence for instance writing this congratulations to the new national security advisor john bolton he's a highly respected american patriot who will bring decades of experience to our national security team these democratic senator bernie sanders took a somewhat different stance with this tweet john bolton was part of the effort to mislead the u.s. into the disastrous iraq war and has supported military action against north korea and iran he was too extreme to be confirmed as u.n. ambassador in two thousand and five and is absolutely the wrong person to be a national security adviser and now. finally this from mohammed el baradei the former head of the united nations nuclear watchdog the i.a.e.a. bolton was a champion of us versus them foreign policy he opposed multilateral diplomacy often blocking efforts to resolve nuclear nonproliferation peacefully we should brace ourselves for a rough and dangerous ride

i'm concerned that on the one hand we have in documents like the national security strategy and national defense strategy, equated russia and china in him most every sentence is : equal enemies. which i would argue russia has put itself in the category of our adversary. i don't think china has yet. i think the jury is out and we should not create a foregone conclusion by how we treat china. we know how to manage that relationship if we do so with hands-on engagement at the highest levels. we see both the competitive aspects and the potentially cooperative aspects. when it comes to things like one belt one road and global competition for influence, china is not doing anything new. this united states and that new thing is that we start a conversation on. it's basically what walking out the world stage. cutting back on our world capacity refusing to advocate for values and for democracy and respect for human rights. we've gone into a shell. in the meantime china saying hey, wide-open field for us now. that's very dangerous to our leadership in our security. it gives countries weather in the

and aluminum industry are vital to our national security. solutely vital. steel is steel. you don't have steel, you don't have a country. >> even as he moved to punish nations he says are unfairly dumping cheap steel into the u.s., the president was talking about carving out exclusions for certain countries. exempting canada and mexico, at least for now. >> we need steel, we need aluminum. we negotiating with mexico, we are negotiating with canada. and the nafta. depending on whether or not we reach a deal, also very much involved with that as national defense, but if we reach a deal, it is most likely that we want to be charging those two countries the tariffs. >> there may be other carve outs, too. for example the steel mill in sheffield england produces castings that are used in the weapon system of the new columbia class nuclear submarines. if president trump slaps tariffs on britain, they would be texting its own supply chain's. >> we have other countries with that are very much involved in trade but also military and working with milita

broadcom one hundred seventeen billion dollar bid for qualcomm out of national security concerns highly unusual move according to washington post donald trump ordered singapore based broadcom to bend its one hundred seventeen billion dollar hostile bid for qualcomm blocking what could have been one of the biggest technology deals in history and his presidential order trump cited credible evidence of the takeover threatens to impair the national security of the united states the merger would have put one of america's largest mobile chip makers and the hands of company based in asia a reason that's been receiving against american companies to develop the next generation of mobile technologies so of course that kind of goes with the first story is that if every effort all the silicon valley billionaires frees their minds to be reanimated in the future and i'll put it to a cloud in the future whoever controls the cloud is part of this story here all of the suicide bankers will do so in the name of living in a world of seventy two virgins bankers living in the suicide cloud there'll be jamie

here's the second national security advisor, if he's leaving, he'll be the first trump national security advisor in history to leave without being accused of a crime by the fbi. >> that's true. >> come on. they're maturing, growing up in that building. >> that alone is probably worth the fourth star. >> thank you, rachel. >> good luck, my friend. >> the trump organization says it's old news that special prosecutor robert mueller has subpoenaed the organization to turn over documents, documents involving russia. and it's old news within the trump organization because according to the "new york times" that subpoena was delivered in, quote, recent weeks, but it is new news to us, to all of us today and the rest of the world, that the "new york times" is reporting that the special prosecutor has subpoenaed the trump organization. the order is the first known instance of the special counsel demanding records directly related to president trump's businesses, bringing the investigation closer to the president. the trump organization released a statement today saying they publically stated last

we're already seeing the national security benefits of this order.esterday, in anticipation that we'd be here today, u.s. steel announced it's reopening a mill in illinois, a big one, and recalling 500 workers immediately. that's going on all over the country. and by the way, it went on with solar panels, which we did three months ago, and washing machines where they were dumping washing machines all over our country, and now they're expanding plants to make washing machines. we put the tax on, a lot of you were here. a skilled, trained work force in steel is a crucial element of america's national security and must be protected. after the signing of this proclamation, century aluminum in kentucky -- century is a great company -- will be investing over $100 million to restart and upgrade their idled military-grade high-quality aluminum production, which is also critically important to our national security. that's 150,000 additional tons of aluminum. and think of it. this is a closed plants and now they're doing 150,000 tons. production and additiona

national security. i initiated the steel and aluminum 232 investigations in april 2017. and the president signed two memorandums that month, directing me to proceed expeditiously to conduct these investigations and report my findings. i submitted my reports to the president in january. the reports found that high levels of import penetration are adversely impacting the economic welfare of our domestic steel and aluminum industries. we have seen plants closed or idle with attendant loss of jobs, skilled workers and research and development. the reports also found that global excess capacity is a circumstance that makes it likely that continued high level of imports would cause further closures. this all would place the united states at risk of being unable to produce sufficient steel and aluminum to meet demands for national defense and critical infrastructure in an emergency. for example, there is only one remaining u.s. producer of steel used in electric transformers, a type of critical infrastructure,

national security. question, china and russia pose a threat to our national security. in order to counter these threats, we bus -- must understand our objectives. in doing so, we must consider the spectrum of capabilities of our potential adversaries. from high-end platforms to irregular warfare approaches. the kremlin is pursuing strategic competition across a range of capabilities from conventional modernization to asymmetric operations below the level of military conflict intended to undermine our democracy. we need a clear right understanding of president bush -- putin's ambition and using every tool at his disposal. there is also an assault on the year.m elections this we heard from administration officials that the white house has not directed the intelligence agencies. components to disrupt attacks against the fundamental institutions of our society. in the case of china, we need a whole of government approach we need a whole of government approach that counters the economic and military challenges we face. military response alone will not be successful. china i

as our national security strategy states, the united states considers unfettered access to and freedom to operate in space to be a vital interest. our national defense strategy clearly demonstrates that it is the reemergence of competition. this budget is aligned with the national defense strategy to best -- we are enhancing our space situational awareness and our ability to command and control. we are investing in tests and training infrastructure to further enhance our readiness and we are enhancing our intelligence,ith nudity, l at partners and space industry. i look forward to working with congress as we continue to focus on her . i am privileged to be here with myspace colleague and i look forward to your questions. recognizes --ow of the national reconnaissance office. >> thank you, ranking members of the committee. it is a pleasure to host you and your committee. it is a great honor for me to be here today. the nro has a clear and critical mission for the nation. went to ensure the u.s. has an operational advantage. we are small with end-to-end responsibility. our research and d

history to help rebuild the nation's military and secure the national defense. but the president not pleased because as he said as he was leaving the diplomatic room at the white house, he very seriously considered a veto because while the administration got some of what it wanted, this didn't fix daca and had a message to hispanic-americans saying republicans are working in your interest better than democrats. he was very upset about this. in the introduction, the sound bite he would never sign a bill like this again, one way would be to revoke the filibuster the senate has. here is the president in his own words. >> to prevent the omnibus situation from ever happening again, i'm calling on congress to give me a line-item veto for all government spending bills, and the senate must end, they must end the filibuster rule and get down to work. reporter: political analysts said, one, if they had the filibuster removed from the senate, they were missing john mccain. so the republicans would not have had the majority that the president thinks he might have been able

as president trumps the national security adviser gets ready to start. exploring looks likely to be the latest official to face scrutiny of or alleged links to russia and the latest installment of the revolving door saga that's to find the trumpet ministration a third national security advisor is taking over john bolton is an outspoken ultra hawk seen as an advocate of big stick diplomacy including when it comes to russia the russians have walked all over the obama administration for eight years it's really been a pathetic performance putin is i think making a propaganda claim here and of course he's blaming us for this he's saying if you hadn't gotten out of the one nine hundred seventy two anti-ballistic missile treaty i wouldn't have to do this that's complete nonsense and he knows that you've got to build up our cyber pensive and defensive capabilities and create structures of deterrence so it doesn't happen again and how do you do that in this case you make the russians feel pain so not exactly in line with terms and during a message of the benefits

other question for national security adviser? please. the second row. >> following on the question about into afghanistan peace process, it would seem that the involvement, to have driven by kabul alone and not including the provinces in the province, governors and the parson outside of kabul, it would seem that would be the right way to approach this. not too many years ago i was having tea with a governor and i'm aware of the differences between the president and the governor. so in general the provincial involvement in the peace process and in particular can you give us some insights into the governor-president differences, shall we say. >> on china, their number one interest is security, that is extremely what is about eastern turkestan islamic movement. their number we estimate to be between three to 500 fighters in afghanistan. mostly coming from pakistan and then the region. the last group of them that we arrested was basically a family six children, two women, a couple of male fighters. these are from the province. china knows ab

chip maker qualcomm national security really have been hampered by the one hundred twenty billion dollar deal. this is your business i'm crystal cove will welcome at a european parliament debate on tuesday e.u. officials urged the u.k. government to speed up. with just one year to go until britain is set to exit the block prime minister theresa may has mainly been repeating the red lines that have been known for years official say and german main industry association is urging politicians in berlin to make their voices heard in brussels and avoid a heartbreaks of which could cost german businesses billions bricks it will change aspects of germany's export trade it will not be more complicated but also cost up to nine billion year a small per year according to expect estimates the extra costs will be due to terrorists registration procedures and waiting times at borders and german industry representatives can still be reached between the e.u. and great britain. talked a few were calling on both sides to reach an agreement and on british leaders to support the transition of things but it's

president trump has named john bolton as his new national security adviser. he'll replace general hr mcmaster, who's been sacked in the latest change in white house personnel. mr bolton, a former us ambassador to the un, is a hawk who has advocated using military force against iran and north korea. he'll be the third national security adviser in m months — he'll take up the post next month. chris buckler in washington has more. this is no ordinary appointment, this is like donald trump's spirit animal. this is notjust a revolving door of the white house, it is something quite different. it's a change of tack on foreign policy. instead of hr mcmaster as national security adviser and secretary of state, we have two different people and they are much closer to donald trump in their thinking is perhaps their predecessors were. if you take a look atjohn boulton, he has been you ff;— you also get a sense be scrapped. you'alsa get'a'sense be scrapped. ypu'elsp’ get'p'sense is be scrapped. ydlj'eled' get'a'sense is going to come to this that is going to come to this

the presidential ruling saying impair the national security of "it turns to impair the national security of the united states." is this the end? >> there was no appeal process. once the president ways in and blocks the deal, that is generally it. >> the thing is, you find me a company these days that doesn't have any global foot print and doesn't have any chinese connections. this motion of broadcom is a chinese company, it is nonsense. they are not a chinese company. they are a company that has a

i mean there is a national security exception in global trade flows which is meant to be used when it really is about national security in a case of war or something like that but the idea that u.s. national security is threatened because it imports steel from canada its close ally and neighbor is absolutely ludicrous if everyone starts doing that though global trade rules and indeed the world trade organization could collapse and that really would have a very significant global impact and i do want to talk about that a little bit later but joe watkins let me bring you in now would there what president trump has tweeted that trade was a good and easy to win what do you make of that. well that this is a course not unusual for president trump he uses the tweet in a way that no president before him has used. social media communication and he used it to move the dial use it to change the conversation to use it to put people on notice and then he's also able to to to to do it about face and whatever he pronounces so while on the one hand he's made this pronouncement that pleases hi

as our national security strategy states, the united states considers unfettered access to and freedom to operate in space to be a vital interest. our national defense strategy clearly articulates that the central challenge to the united states' prosperity and security is the reemergence of long-term strategic competition. space is a war-fighting domain, just like air, land, and sea. this budget is aligneded with the national defense strategy to meet our war-fighting imperatives necessary to compete, deter, and win. this budget marks a bold shift toward an increased focus on space superiority in a contested environment. specifically, we are enhancing our space situational awareness and our ability to command and control. we are shifting toward more defendable architectures. we are investing in tests and training infrastructure to further enhance our readiness . and finally, we are enhancing our partnerships with intelligence community, our ally partners, and the commercial space industry. i thank you for your support and i look forward to working with congress as we continue to focus o

that is a major national security achievement. the south koreans are giving credit to president trump. that's a good thing to do. >> evelyn, it seems we learned at the end of the cold war the degree to which the cold war rivals the eastern blk like honey ker in east germany. what they wanted was recognition by the west to go to the white house and be received with honors. could it be would kim jong-un wants the respect and prestige from sitting across the table with the president of the united states? could that be the carrot? >> chris, he definitely wants respect. there's no question about that. but i would caution everyone not to get overly enthusiastic. i think we are excited now because again, in the contrast between this negotiating and fire and fury military action which is what we were hearing out of the white house is scary and so we're happy that we have engagement. but if you remember what vice president pence said coming back from the olympics he said we're going to look at engagement and maximum pressure. and i think i

national security policy from next month. joining me now is tyson baka he's a us political scientist and a program director and fellow at the aspen institute here in germany welcome tyson not one of the things that john a bulletin has said that he wants to have a policy which gives the u.s. president the whole range of options how to interpret the statement and should the blood i think those in particular with regard to north korea and i think the world frankly should be worried because john bolton has a long track record in dealing with north korea when he was george w. bush's chief arms negotiator in the first bush administration where he basically scuttled or had a heavy role in scuttling attempts to taunt between north and south korea which would have led to the prevention of north korea getting a nuclear weapon i think he is more willing to enable trump's worst instincts when it comes to military action and i think that is something concerning absolutely they must be for the allies of the united states and promptly simpl

>> the national security advisor saying he or she is the filter by which the president receives national security information and in some cases the last stop before it reaches that information, correct, sam? >> exactly. the national security advisor can be a sensor for information that makes its way to the president's desk. he or she can stop what we call a package of information from making its way to the 0eoval. but they also control what meetings are held and what topics are discussed. for instance, john bolton did not want to have a discussion on north korea, he could not schedule a meeting, he could just decide that foreign visit fors, foreign delegates would not make their way into the oval office. he has complete control. >> i want to get your take on this, the president is as assembling a wartime cabinet, with mike pompeo moving to the state department, and people coming in, and people like mcmaster going out and bolton coming in. >> if we look at what rex til r tillerson represented over at the white house. he and general mattis were that last front standing in the way of more a

what change will john botlon bring to the job of national security advisor? that, we get two views. nancy mceldowney was a career foreign service officer. and ambassador. she served on the nationalnc security c staff during the clinton administration. she is now director of georgetown university's masterof cience in foreign service program. and, matthew kroenig worked forh office of the secretary of defense during the bush and obama years, and at the c.i.a. he is now a professor of govement at georgetown university. >> reporter: and we welcome both of you to the "newshoow". nancy mcey. to you first, what do you think of the choice of john bolton for this job? >> i think johnolton is a spectacularly bad choice for this job. he is a hard-line nationalist. he is someone with disdain for diplomacy. he has -- is almost a knee-jerk advocate for war whatever problem you look at from north korea to iran even to russia, he's talked ut war against all of these countries. and when you look at a white house that is already leaning in a very extreme direction with a presid

advisor mike flynn, another deputy national security advisor on the national security counsel he lost the intelligence director there and middle east director there and the director of strategy planning there and deputy chief of staff and the chief white house strategist steve bannon and we don't really know what his job is but he went on tv a lot. sebastian gorka i think was his name. the director of public liaison, the communications director, am rosa and james comey, chief of staff of the fbi, special advisor to the president on regulatory reform, carl icahn more on him in a moment. he's lost the director of use of government ethics, the counselor to the treasury secretary, the director of the national security agency, the deputy director of the domestic policy counsel and the vice president staff it has been amazing. the vice president's chief of staff, the vice president's wife's chief of staff. the vice president's press secretary, chief counsel, the head of the cdc, white house staff secretary, the white house speech writer, the director of the federal railroad administ

thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> these were warnings from the national security advisors. do you know what kind of advisors these were. >> so whenever the president has a call with a foreign leader, there is usually a lot of effort put into briefing him about the important hot topics in the region and what he's likely to be asked by the foreign leader and what issues that are really like the hot list that he should address with that person and there is a panel plea often putting together with this information and important call, each one of these calls is considered part of our foreign diplomacy. and index cards are provided to kind of guide this president and others in the past through the call and apparently these staffers felt that it was important to make clear that they were key topics that should come up and key things that shouldn't be said and the president seemed to basically chose for himself what he should do, which is his right. >> is it clear that the president do accept some of the other advice of the national security aids and these were on this putin call i

without the afghan national security forces, no peace and reconciliation would work within the country. second, there will have to be national consensus for peace and reconciliation. not just among political actors, but among all sections of our society. women must see themselves in the process. our minorities will have to be comfortable with the peace process. it will have to be a peace process for all afghans. third, there will have to be an intra-afghan process of dialogue. one of the major insurgent groups taliban has had recently -- it worked for them, an intra-afghan process, but we need to have the right support for that process. fourth, u.s. afghan alignment is key. we have to make sure the countries are fully aligned in pursuit of the peace process. fifth is regional cooperation. as i said, for the success of both strategies, peace and reconciliation and counterterrorism, we have to have regional consensus and regional support. as i said, terrorism is a common threat to the entire region. they need to know how we fight. peace and reconciliation is of interest to all of them, a