he hired larry kidlow and john bolton without much consultation with john kelly. he is reshaping this administration and the chief of staff is watching from the back room. >> let me ask you a related subject which is scott pruitt. we know what's going on there. but what struck me over the weekend is what scott pruitt is accused of doing is multiple times anything that tom price did and had to leave for, the $50 a night condo, first class travel, the security, the stuff in his office, the list is very, very long, so why is scott pruitt still there when tom price was gone? >> well, i think the only person in the administration who wants scott pruitt still in his job is president trump and that's why he still has his job. the white house has just completely lost its patience and tolerance for the ethical blunders coming out of pruitt's office, not just that but sort of the very strange political strategic decisions that pruitt seems to be making and how he manages this scandal. but the president is unwilling, as of now, to fire him. he feels like he's an ideological

surrounded him with people like john bolton and pompei you know i mean they have nothing to do with the vision that he presented during the campaign you know i'll agree with you in georgia he's flip flopped all through his life go ahead daniel in washington few ways to simplify things his main foreign policy is wherever he is a personal financial interest and branding opportunity and that's really first and foremost where his heart and soul is being and as george articulated this is a lifelong democrat who turned himself into a tea party evangelical conservative for that thirty six percent base to win the election which was a thirty year record low turnout and he did a brilliant job at it the irony the grand irony is now that he holds office he has given capitulated everything there is no white house policy toward the intelligence community the pentagon or state whatsoever they're autonomous to create their own and the one thing he stayed true on throughout that whole thing is he's like a donald w. obama he is a hawkish neo con we were going to get that whether you had hillary clinton o

invasion of iraq i got a phone call from john bolton from washington who said. to me that you sign said your management style washington. u.s. brock's a u.n. security council move to investigate the deaths of protesters on the gaza border after at least nine palestinians were killed in a fresh round of violence including a journalist. and washington will not get a military base in garner the country's president made that announcement following mass protests it comes as the u.s. and other countries seek ways to become more entrenched in africa. live from moscow and daniel hawkins you're watching r.t. international wherever you are today welcome to the program. that was poisoned a double agent recovers from last month's attack on him and his daughter in the british city of solsbury his niece victoria who's a russian citizen has been declined a visit a visa to visit her sick relatives victorious cripple says she was not surprised by the decision and knew she would not be granted a visa she's questioned whether the british authorities have something to hide if they'

two departures we have seen since john bolton has taken over here. tom bossert is the latest one right now. >> how many are left before they start filling in the holes? kaitlan, thank you so much. >>> let's discuss this and everything else. dana bash is joining me now and chris cillizza. dana, it seems that tom bossert, i don't even know if we call it a resignation, but tom bossert being out is a surprise to a lot of folks. what are you hearing? >> just that. tom bossert is someone who has a lot of respect from and by a lot of republicans, inside the white house, and outside the white house. he came from capitol hill. he's somebody -- and also worked in previous administrations, worked in the bush administration under fran townsend, first homeland security director. and he is somebody who just to put it plainly knows what he's doing. so the fact that he was told he no longer has a job so abruptly is jarring. and kaitlan reported from her sources, i've been talking to mine as well, the shock of this. having said that, because this is not a policy issu

i got a phone call from john bolton from washington said that i just told me that i should resign so the management style is not agreeable to washington. and journalists voiced concerns over a plan by the u.s. department of homeland security to monitor the work of news outlets. m k partridge and you're watching the latest headlines here at r.t. international thank you for joining us. a driver has killed two people and injured twenty more after crashing a van into a crowd in the german city of minster the suspect then took his own life artie's peter oliver reports being confirmed three people including the driver have died after a vehicle plowed into people who were sat at a cafe in munster the driver we understand took his own life that's what we're hearing from the authorities at the scene that has been confirmed by the interior minister of the state of north rhine-westphalia where this took place another twenty people or so been injured in this incident as well six of those who describe . this being in a critical condition the authorities have named the main suspect behind this the

not so many new people coming in yet —— john bolton. perhaps more important in the timing of this and what some may see as the delay was the need to get together and co—ordinate with the allies, the united kingdom and france, and select the targets and what we are hearing just now coming in from damascus, as you noted, explosions are being heard, smokers rising from the eastern side of the city, and one reporter in damascus is saying that it looks like world war iii, is the way they are describing what they are hearing and seeing. from what you understand and president trump did indeed addresses when he was talking about and iran. he was talking about russia, would you want to be on the state —— side ofa you want to be on the state —— side of a dictator, on the zuttah people who commit commit these crimes, was that an important factor in coming to this decision in that the united states could come into conflict with russia? —— the side of people. states could come into conflict with russia? -- the side of people. just how

ambitions i got a phone call from john bolton from washington the first time he had contact with him and said that i did structures to to tell me that i should resign from the organization and i asked him why he said your management style was not agreeable to washington to dick cheney the vice president cetera said no way i don't accept that so he came to the hague and you keep to my office and he said you have to resign and i give you twenty four hours this is what we want and i said no way i don't have any reason to doubt that over to you i was elected by acclimation by all the member states of a good musician it's only you you got to see if they are challenged my management style and they said but then again i tell you we have already discussed with your government and i said i don't know all the in the agreement with my government and they said ok so they will be retaliations and appear to to to to accept the consequences we know where your kids are and the moment two of mice kids were in new york the studied united states one of them is american for that matter was born in new y

hating people she is the worst diplomat on the face of the planet now we have john bolton who is the national security adviser who works right out of the white house directly under the president john bolton is one of the people who walked this into the iraq war. iraq had never done anything to us was never a threat to us and since then we've killed a million innocent people in iraq and this is the same john bolton normally people who fail disappear into history but not in foreign affairs if you fail then you typically advance yourself but i worry about the war cabinet that surrounds donald trump and constantly pushing. interwar the one exception is general mattis maddest made a very interesting statement and this was just last month and he said he said the anonymous states cannot confirm that syria has ever used chemical weapons and says we have reports from the battlefield from people who claim it's been used but we have no evidence of it this is exactly the situation in duma and the united states has no excuse for going in there and and frankly the people the terrorists to do more

amy: that was john bolton last year. jamal abdi, your response? >> john bolton was delivering a speech to this organization that has been described by state department, human rights watch, ke rand as a cult-li organization that has engaged in terrorism. bolton was taking speaking fees to speak for this group when they were considered by the united states government to be a foreign terrorist organization. , it is extremely dangerous. they now have access to the white house. they have abused their memberer. the organization has had operations inside of iraq to try to go into iran to wage the swelling campaigns. and if this s is the party that the trump administration is investing in a sort of the iraqi national congress, as was the case in the lead up to the iraq war, i don't think this is going to resonate at all with anybody inside of iran. it is a reviled group ephod alongside saddam hussein. group that fought alongside saddam hussein. i think it is very scary what they may be willing to do in order to frustrate u.s. interest with iran and potent

invasion of iraq i got a phone call from john bolton from washington who said that i go to structures to tell me that i should resign said your management style to washington. the u.s. blocks the u.n. security council move to investigate the deaths of protesters on the gaza border after at least nine palestinians were killed in a fresh round of violence including a journalist plus washington will not be offered a military base in ghana the country's president makes the announcement following mass protests it comes as the u.s. and other countries to seek ways to become more entrenched in africa. for their well can you watching our international business saturday afternoon which just turned three o'clock here in moscow in our top story as poison double agents recovers from last month's attack on him and his daughter in the british city of soldiers bring his niece to victoria a russian citizen has been declined to visit her sick relatives. says she was not surprised by the decision and knew she would not be granted a visa she's questioned whether the british authorities have something to

. >> reporter: did the national security adviser john bolton force tom bossert out of a job? >> i'm not going to get into specific details about the ongoings of personnel. i can tell you he resigned. the president feels he did a great job and wishes him the best moving forward. >> reporter: the president tweeted about some of the promises that president xi has made toward instituting market reforms in china. he said this before. will this be enough to avert some of the tariffs the president has been talking about instituting. >> we've been encouraged by president xi and his kind words but at the same time we want to see actions from china. we'll continue to move forward. >> reporter: has the president spoken with michael cohen since the raids? >> not that i'm aware of. >> reporter: you said he viewed this as crossing the line. can you explain why it's viewed as crossing line? >> i don't have anything else to add on that front right now. >> reporter: you said earlier the president believes he has the power to fire robert mueller because usually most legal experts believe he wo

i got a phone call from john bolton from washington said that i had instructions to resign said your management style was not agreeable to washington. also us journalists voice their concern over plans by the department of homeland security to create an extensive media monitoring database. harvey this is r.t. international great to have your company deceive me. we'll start with our developing news story this hour in which three people have been killed and twenty others confirmed injured after a van rammed into a crowd in the german city of munster let's cross live to berlin and our your food correspondent peter all of it on the line peter bring is right up to date with the latest details police yes this vehicle rammed into a crowd of people who were sat outside of a popular restaurant cafe in the old town of munster it was a hot spring day people out and about enjoying the weather and this tragic event is taking place the vehicle there leaving four people dead including the driver who police have said took his own life six people are described as being in a critical condition with as

on us tv, john bolton said the trump administration is not what he called "starry eyed" about what the meeting will yield. president trump is determined to see this opportunity through. hopeful that we can get a real breakthrough. but we are not naive in the administration and a lot of will ride on this meeting with kim jong—un. joining me to discuss this latest development in the warming of relations between the two koreas isjustin hastings, a professor in international relations from sydney university. welcome to the programme. you heard itjohn bolton save dead bat a lot of is riding on this upcoming summit. what kind of outcomejussie coming from it —— say that a lot. they're looking for the concrete steps that north korea will take for an irretrievable dismantlement of their nuclear programme. the south korean declaration was pretty gauzy so korean declaration was pretty gauzy so they will want concrete steps. john bolton, if we look at the next clip, asked if the us was willing to give up its nuclear armed ships and planes on the korean peninsula at as pa rt planes on the kor

bolton as his national security advisor it was so it won't be too surprising if we see a more hawkish foreign policy from the us live from. russia's investors and you still agree that far from being a great public service wiki leaks is more like a non-state actor hostile to the interest the national interest and security of the united states so really i do believe that and i think you still agree that but i'm sure putin's government actively interfered in our presidential elections and that written elections at large in two thousand and sixteen yes that's correct tony democracy is in the vital national interest of the united states. yes and it's. effect of this doing that is an important tool of american foreign policy well like i said oh with the appointment of john bull and as trumps a national security adviser and now my pompei or as secretary of state not only will we see a hawkish foreign policy but maybe a more aggressive stance towards russia seems like it's severe of things to appear from washington d.c. this has more force now peter because nick's prefers history to american

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this all comes as today marks john bolton's first day as president trump's national security adviser. we'll have more on the updates in syria after headlines. in gaza, hundreds of mourners gathered saturday to the funeral of the palestinian journalist yaser murtaja, who was fatally shot by the israeli army while covering protests along the israel-gaza border friday. photos showed the dirty-year-old journalist was wearing a flak jacket, clearly marked "press" at the time he was shot dead. he is one of at least nine palestinians who were killed by the israeli army during its brutal crackdown against friday's protest. the palestinian health ministry says 31 people in total have been killed since palestinians kicked off a six week long nonviolent protest late last month dubbed the great march of return. 's brotherser murtaja speaking after his brother's killing. >> i was next to him at the protest, turning the journalist was very clear to the point that they targeted the two of us and gas using snipers bombs. amy: meanwhile, israeli defense avigdor lieberman has drawn outrage for saying t

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the us national security adviser john bolton has sounded a cautious note in the aftermath of friday's ground—breaking summit between north and south korea. both countries pledged to work towards the de—nuclearisation of the korean peninsula. the focus now turns to the forthcoming meeting between kim jong—un and donald trump, which us media have reported could be held either in singapore or mongolia. on us television, john bolton said the trump administration is not what he called "starry—eyed" about what the meeting may yield. president trump is determined to see this opportunity through, hopeful that we can get a real breakthrough. but we're not naive in the administration and a lot‘s gonna ride on this meeting with kim jong—un. laura bicker has more on this story from seoul. from this momentous show of unity comes an apparent display of sincerity. president moon is making his conversation with kim jong—un public, and it seems the north korean leader is willing to go further than simply stepping over the border. he has pledged to close an atomic test site, in front of w

john bolton is the new national security adviser. my guess is, just a wild guess, my guess is a new national security adviser will want to come in and say i want a new team, the spokesperson for the nsc is out. bossert who is not an nsc guy, is out. i wonder if there is a connection. >> michael cohen is the type of guy who is as close as you can get to a principle, a political principle. so when someone like that is targeted for any politician, it has got to be the biggest of big threats. >> absolutely. this is completely unnerved the president. you see that yesterday. instead of focusing on syria and the kids who were gassed, he was focus on himself. i see why. this is a category five storm for president trump and i don't know if there is a six, but i think we're about to find out. >> amanda, 30 seconds left here, back to this development in the white house. paul is suggesting, he may be right, we don't know, john bolton could be behind this. obviously the national security team shifting. what do you see is the next step by the whit

this all comes as today marks john bolton's first day as president trump's national security adviser. we'll have more on the updates in syria after headlines. in gaza, hundreds of mourners gathered saturday to the funeral of the palestinian journalist yaser murtaja, who was fatally shot by the israeli army while covering protests along the israel-gaza border friday. photos showed the dirty-year-old journalist was wearing a flak jacket, clearly marked "press" at the time he was shot dead. he is one of at least nine palestinians who were killed by the israeli army during its brutal crackdown against friday's protest. the palestinian health ministry says 31 people in total have been killed since palestinians kied o a s week long nonviolent protest late last month dubbed the great march of return. 's brotherser murtaja speaking after his brother's killing. >> i was next to him at the protest, turning the journalist was very clear to the point that they targeted the two of us and gas using snipers bombs. amy: meanwhile, israeli defense avigdor lieberman has drawn outrage for saying there a

as we talk about john bolton it's important to put it in context. we know obviously it's familiar he's hawkish, a neoconservative, but only a couple weeks ago even before he had been picked as the new national security adviser on the topic of russian meddles said the u.s. had to be strong in response. saying the response should not be proportionate but disproportiona disproportionate. a sense the way he views the issue relating specifically to russia broadly that he believes in overwhelming force as a de r deterring mechanism. >> bill, an already tense situation escalated, israel blamed for the early morning air strikes on a syrian air base. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: yes. the retaliation came at about 3:00 in the morning. we didn't know initially whose missiles they were, but two u.s. officials have confirmed to nbc news that israel struck that syrian airfield. lebanon is saying that four israeli fighters fired at the airfield from inside lebanese airspace and the russian defense ministry went further saying they were f-15s. they

all of this could come to a head tomorrow and john bolton, the new national security adviser starts tomorrow because the last one got the push. he has called one of the pay the push. he has called one of the pay “ the push. he has called one of the pay —— papers, the patron the push. he has called one of the pay “ papers, the patron saint the push. he has called one of the pay -- papers, the patron saint of warmonger as. this guy is much more hawkish, if we are to bring this to a head and have a real fight over it, it sounds like it could happen. it says a number of times we are locked in urgent talks, the international community must respond is to be a british source says it will likely be a response similar to last year, which wasn't effective.” think if you have a hawk like john bolton going in there,... is that almost an ad hominem attack? has got anything to do with his ability to do thejob? anything to do with his ability to do the job? he is very right-wing. the daily telegraph has the final take, trump was that warning to vladimir putin over syrian gas atrocity. there is a

we heard from john bolton saying he wants actions and not words. we know mike pompeo has been speaking with japan's foreign minister in jordan at the moment. a huge amount of diplomatic activity surrounding the new events. clearly we're seeing on both sides of the border that south koreans want to show the hostile policy is over. >> paula hancocks live for us at 6:30 in seoul. >> joining us this morning is chris deaton. friday was just unbelievable. moving quickly ahead here. i know they were chanting nobel on saturday night in michigan. there is still a lot of work to do here. >> it is putting the cart before the horse and 750 miles of the trail. that is pretty aggressive. look, you know, mike pompeo talking about needing these steps to be irreversible and referring to the past saying the trump administration will pursue the types of negotiations that we anticipate to see in short order as opposed to the way the united states conducted in the past. i would definitely fixate on that. one of the big questions here is pursuant to what pompeo said. no

whether john bolton now coming in as his national security adviser will be more in touch with the president and more able to execute the vision that the president has articulated, even if his own national security staff doesn't agree with it. >> nina, i guess the contradiction between donald trump, who's so attracted to the alpha aspects of the job, being undermined, what he wants to do as commander in chief was overruled, he was backed down from his public statement as i guess a quad lat, he made those comments in the east room in response to a question from steve holland from reuters about syria. not 24 hours later, his national security team had backed him down from something he'd already announced publicly. how sustainable is it for the president to be undermined by the reality and the impossibility of that which he states publicly? >> right. i mean, i think we're going to see this continuing to happen. you're talking about "the washington post" was talking about him unleashed. i mean, the more he's confident and emboldened to kind of say what he wants to do and just talk about it witho

i got a phone call from john bolton from washington who said that i had instructions to tell me that i should resign said your management styles in washington. hello welcome you watching r.t. international start with that breaking news this hour because several people have been killed and thirty confirmed injured in the german city of munster. has vanished rammed into pedestrians there are reports suggest that six of the thirty injured are in a critical condition as you can see from these pictures the latest pictures a heavy police presence is at the scene at the moment the driver is said to have taken his own life after the incident that's what we know so far but i have a police presence there was as we saw police helicopters in the sky to be some of the latest pictures that we've received. here now is the poison double agent recovers from last month's attack on him and his daughter in the british city of seoul spring his niece victoria a russian citizen. has been refused a visa to visit her sick relatives in the u.k. she says she was not surprised by the decision she has questioned

bolton to be talking a lot about john bolton on this program but you know what it's very interesting is that we have another round of sanctions came about we have this whole affair in the in the u.k. and we have nikki haley with john bolton coming in this seems very well organized to me and i think that would have to say in the first part of the program is that you know now we have a precedent now we can see more of these shenanigans being played out to drive a specific agenda yeah and the latest is with these latest sanctions against russian oligarchs and companies as as they call them a handful that they say are close to putin first of all putin is probably just and a lot of the russian people most of the russian people are just saying thank you thank you for pressuring and scaring our you know all of our such as it is into repatriating their wealth back to the motherland rather than spending it in new york or london and we're really happy with that but you know the most hilarious and ironic thing about all of this is that russia's all of dark back in the day when they really exist

john bolton is now the national security adviser who was the fellow who who really really wanted us to go into iraq on the premise that there was w m d i think that the administration is slowly turning toward regime change again i think that that's what they're they're going to go after and the whole idea i think as far as a strategic policy if there is one for the united states ultimately is to divide syria yeah well then that's been you know that's the if you can throw in the turkish angle which of course is a completely different program but you know it is. looks like is a partition is really what they're going to settle on here you know joe the interesting thing is that you know i've never believed that anybody in the u.s. government or politicians think tankers and all of that they don't give a hoot about the syrian people they never have and what i see now is that this is a geo political gambit here we've noticed that russia is being held responsible for this alleged chemical attack which when there is no evidence of presented to the to the public which i guess the public is just

delegation with new national security adviser john bolton behind. i can see white house advisers stephen miller there as well. they will also greet the french delegation that just arrived. national security adviser john bolton obviously his arrival before these key meetings could be pivotal in terms of positioning president trump's mind towards europe, towards france, treasury secretary steve mnuchin there. there's been a lot of focus on trade issues between the united states and china but there are just as many issues with europe as well. secretary of commerce wilbur ross very much part of the trade issue, the chief of staff general john kelly is there as well. john kirby, again, you've been on both sides of this, no doubt as a member of the military and then working for both the state department and the pentagon here. it's a wonderful thing to see whoever is president these ceremonies especially dealing with the nation like france, truly, america's oldest ally. >> indeed. we have an exceptionally close bilateral relationship with france both from

john bolton was then the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs has now been appointed as the u.s. national security advisor and will shortly take up his post as danny says his intention is to make iraq a member of the o.p.c. stood in the way of u.s. ambitions. john bolton from washington the first time i had contact with him it said that i had his structures to to to tell me that i should resign from the organisation and i asked him why he said your management style was not agreeable to washington to dick cheney the vice president said no way i don't accept that so he came to the hague and you keep to my office and he said you have to resign and i give you twenty four hours this is what we want and i said no way i don't have any reason to doubt it over to you i was elected by acclimation by all the member states of a good decision it's only you you have to see if they are challenged my management style and they said but then again i tell you we have already discussed with your government that you should resign i said i don't know of any agreement

bolton has a different point of view. >> this is why i like john bolton as national security adviser. he's a very healthy skepticism of north korea. he thinks they're buying time. they're nine months away to having a nuclear missile that can hit america. he sees this as buying time. i'd caught them off a of the there path there. make sure the negotiations were focused and get quick acc. >> at least we're negotiating. does the president deserve credit for that? is it a good thing that you have someone in the national security adviser roll that is more hawkish like john bolton? >> i think that it's impossible not to give the president props for this break through. it is a break-through. more over, everybody can get this. the canary in the coal mine is kim's response to the military exercises that he opposed if they had the exercises. if you'll recall, firing on some south korean islands and doing other aggressive things to complain about the south korean u.s. military exercises. so if kim stays silent on that, it's a good indicator that there will be meaningful negotiations. do you tru