John's known as a tough guy. He's so tough he got us into Iraq. That's tough.

But he's somebody that I actually had a very good relationship with.

But he wasn't getting along with people in the administration that I consider very important.

And I hope we've left in good stead, but maybe we have and maybe we haven't.

I have to run the country the way we're running the country.

That was President Trump describing his decision to sack or accept the resignation of John Bolton,

his national security adviser, who he mocked as Mr. Tough Guy.

It was the latest sign of the turmoil in chaos that is Donald Trump's White House,

a place where national security advisers and chiefs of staff and cabinet secretaries come and go.

For no rhyme or reason, other than they at some point get crosswise or trigger the ire of their temperamental boss.

But should we really be mourning the departure of Bolton and abrasive Uber Hawk,

who has urged the president to forcefully confront and risk military conflicts with regimes all over the world?

The national security writer, Fred Kaplan writing in slate,

praised Trump's decision to fire Bolton, calling him by any measure among the worst national security advisers in White House history.

Was he? We'll discuss with Susan Glasser of the New Yorker,

who was closely chronicled the infighting among Trump's national security team.

And we'll talk with Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon,

an unabashed progressive, who in a new book is seeking to shine light on Trump's harsh immigration policy,

and get his response to a new Supreme Court ruling that gives the administration a green light

to bar most Central American migrants from even seeking asylum in the United States.

All that and more on this episode of Skull Duggery.

Because people have got to know whether or not they're president of the crop.

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