“I’ve written and said a lot of things when I was a complete free agent. Those are my opinions, and the circumstance I’m in now is I’m national security adviser to president. I’m not the national security decision-maker."
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday that it is "ludicrous" to suggest that recent tensions between Israel and Iran are a result of the U.S. withdrawal from the nuclear deal with Tehran.
"There is a great deal of work that remains. Our eyes are wide open with respect to the risks, but it is out fervid hope that Chairman Kim wants to make a strategic change."
Denuclearization is absolutely at the core of it and it means not just nuclear weapons,” Bolton said on ABC’s “This Week.” “North Korea has also previously agreed … to give up its uranium reprocessing capabilities, we’ve got ballistic missiles on the table, we’ve got to look at chemical and biological weapons.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said he believes that “there would be a lot of support in Congress to provide aid and relieve sanctions” if North Korea agreed to give up its nuclear program.
"I think that the unpredictability in terms of some of the tweets and some of the tough talk did get the attention of the North Koreans and the Chinese as well -- in terms of fire and fury and so on," the former secretary of Defense said.
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen cautioned on Sunday that if the upcoming summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un fail, the likelihood of conflict will increase.
The Republican senator told host Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation” that he was not satisfied with how the Trump administration has responded to the remark.
“I think Brennan did a good job in his position. I have serious reservations about this nominee and I will oppose her,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said.
"I worry about presentism. I think you have to go back to 2001, 2002, and the horror that people in the administration felt, getting reports literally every day that Washington or New York were going to be attacked again."
"It's a recognition of reality,” the national security adviser said on ABC’s “This Week.” “If you're not prepared to recognize that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and that's where the American embassy should be, then you're operating on a completely different wavelength.
"That's not the way I think I ever did deal with people, and I did fire people – very senior people," the former Defense secretary told CBS's Margaret Brennan on "Face the Nation" when asked about a report that Trump berated Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
A former pollster for President Trump's 2016 campaign predicted a grim outlook for the Republican brand in the 2018 midterm elections, saying that the GOP needs "to do better" as a party.
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