John Bolton

If you look at the history of World War Two, Churchill and Roosevelt on behalf of the UK and the US had major differences over strategy.

Dealing with Charles de Gaulle and the French resistance was a whole nother question.

You can have common objectives and still beat each other's brains out on how to get there.

I think Netanyahu and Trump have enough of a relationship that it's not going to frustrate achieving the objective, assuming they agree on it.

Well, I think this is the way Trump does business.

It's almost always chaotic because he doesn't he doesn't think in strategic terms.

He certainly doesn't have a coherent national security strategy.

I mean, his administration wrote one.

They wrote one in the first term, too.

He didn't read the one in the first term.

And I'm willing to bet he didn't read the one in the second term.

He doesn't do policy the way we normally understand that, that people have described him as transactional.

And that's that's a fair approximation.

Everything is a new idea, a new possibility.

He can change his mind from the morning to the afternoon.

And so the chaos is sort of his operating style.

I do think that affects how his advisers.

react to him, where there's a real feeling he wanted to be surrounded in the second term by yes men and yes women.

And I think that's pretty much what he's got.

On the imminence point, I don't think, based on what I know, that Iran was at the point of having a nuclear weapon, but I don't think that is a prerequisite.