It was early in the morning, I was getting ready to go to breakfast, I glanced at my phone

and I saw a message from a former colleague that began with an epithet and then said it's Bolton.

I'm Mary Hussain, welcome to Deconstructed, a new show from the Intercept.

I'm a journalist, author, TV host and yes now, podcaster too.

It's great to be with you all on this show, chewing the political fat, getting past the media,

spin, deconstructing the headlines and giving a platform to people you really need to hear from

and listen to. It's week two, let's talk John Bolton.

Do you remember where you were last week when you heard the news that Donald Trump had decided to

appoint a new national security adviser? There's major breaking news that's unfolding right now.

President Trump is announcing that General Atron McMaster will be out and will is going to be

replaced with John Bolton. Let's read it to your watch. I remember where I was when I heard the

dreaded name, those chilling words, John Bolton. I was eating fried chicken with my kids actually

and my instant response was, we're all dead. In fact, I tweeted that. We're all dead. Now, look,

I know I get it. You hear stuff all the time about how bad the Trump administration is, how bad

Donald Trump's decisions and appointments are. In this car crash, this clown car, this shit show

of a presidency would scandals every week, every day, every hour. It's hard to keep getting

outraged. But you know what? Appointing John Bolton as national security adviser is really,

really bad. This is a really big deal. Yes, John Bolton, the man with the white wall rust moustache,

the Super Hawk, the supervillain who served as Under Secretary of Arms Control and as US ambassador

to the United Nations under George W. Bush, who was one of the key architects of the invasion

of Iraq is now about to start work next month in the White House as national security adviser

to the president of the United States. National security adviser who'd have thought that we would

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