John Bolton

I don't think you're required to put your

country at risk when it's necessary and appropriate to take preventative action beforehand.

But, you know, Trump was trying to dramatize the reason to go in.

And as usual, he exaggerated.

You know, she obviously had two choices.

She could either appeal to the one person audience that matters, which is Trump, or she could show herself to be incompetent.

And I think she achieved the latter.

Whether she satisfied Trump, I don't know.

And certainly the others on the panel tried to avoid the question, except for Ratcliffe, who just agreed with what Trump said.

So he's probably the safest of all of them.

I don't think Tulsi Gabbard is going to last long for a number of reasons.

I'm surprised, really, she's still there.

Well, she may have better sources inside the Trump administration than I do.

But I just think if you're going to have a director of national intelligence, you need somebody that the president trusts.

And I think that that bond was broken some time back.

She may have been in some meetings.

There's reporting that she's had one on one meetings with Trump.

He's obviously not going to dismiss her in the middle of a war.

And with the resignation of the director of the Counterterrorism Center, which has gotten a lot of attention, I don't think he wants to call more attention to it.

You know, he was finally driven to the point where he had to let Kristi Noem go because she was causing more damage to him than he was willing to tolerate.