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The Daily

John Bolton Is Fired. Or Did He Resign?

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.3107.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

John Bolton, the national security adviser, was ousted after fundamental disputes with President Trump over how to handle foreign policy challenges like Afghanistan, Iran and North Korea. But the two men disagreed about how they parted ways. Guest: Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading:President Trump said he fired John Bolton; Mr. Bolton insisted that he had resigned. Regardless, they had a fundamental disagreement over foreign policy, most recently Afghanistan.Mr. Trump is now looking for the fourth national security adviser of his presidency. Here is a short list of possibilities.

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0:00.0

Hey, Peter, it's Michael Barbaro.

0:06.0

Hey, how are you?

0:07.0

Good, good, good.

0:08.0

I imagine I'm catching you absolutely in the thick of it.

0:12.2

Just how in the thick of it?

0:14.2

Like crashing.

0:15.2

What's going on?

0:16.2

Okay.

0:17.2

We saw the presence tweet about John Bolton being out as a national security adviser.

0:21.2

And I wonder if I could just ask you a few questions about it or is now just not a good

0:25.2

time.

0:26.2

Yeah, I think it would be better not to.

0:28.2

Okay.

0:29.2

I'm going to get it right.

0:30.2

Yes.

0:31.2

We'll talk it a little bit.

0:32.2

Okay.

0:33.2

Okay.

0:34.2

Bye.

0:35.2

From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.

0:41.6

This is the Daily.

0:43.6

Today, Peter Baker eventually takes the call and explains what happened to John Bolton.

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