David Axelrod: ‘Basically, Waltz Got Waltzed out of Town’

‘I don‘t think they wanted to concede that this was what it was’

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AXELROD: “It does not. I think it reflects the political need they had to, you know, the president dispatched so many national security advisers in the first term that I don‘t think they wanted to concede that this was what it was. But it is. And, you know, the frankly, I haven‘t heard the president elevate the position of the United Nations. United Nations ambassador. He doesn‘t think that much of the United Nations, they want. Basically, waltz got waltzed out of town to New York and out of the out of the action. But I want to say one other thing, Anderson. Listening to John Bolton discuss this, the job of a national security adviser. And brit is much more attuned to this than than I am. But the is to organize the national security process to to bring together a consensus among the various national security agencies. But the word process in Donald Trump just does. That doesn‘t go together. And it‘s a you know, whoever is in that job. And we‘ll see how secretary Rubio fares in the interim has to respond to the firing neurons as as ambassador bolton just said that is really disconcerting because you want a considered process. You want agencies to to be working together and coordinated. And if you can‘t do that it puts the nation at risk, I think.”

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