>> Tucker: GOOD EVENING AND

WELCOME TO "TUCKER CARLSON

TONIGHT."

NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR

JOHN BOLTON GOT FIRED THIS

MORNING AS YOU NO DOUBT HAVE

HEARD.

IT'S A MAJOR PERSONNEL

CHANGE.

IT'S MORE THAN THAT IT'S

GREAT NEWS FOR AMERICA.

ESPECIALLY FOR THE LARGE

NUMBER OF YOUNG PEOPLE WHO

WOULD HAVE BEEN KILLED IN

POINTLESS WARS IF BOLTON HAD

STAYED ON THE JOB.

THEY MAY NOT BE CELEBRATING

TONIGHT BUT THEY SHOULD BE.

INTERNATIONAL OIL PRICES BY

THE WAY ON THE INTERNATIONAL

MARKET DROPPED IMMEDIATELY

ON THE NEWS.

INVESTORS NEW

INVESTORS KEW

INVESTORS KNEW FOR CERTAIN

THAT BOLTON PLANNED ON

LAUNCHING ANOTHER MIDDLE

EASTERN CONFLICT THAT WOULD

SPIKE ENERGY PRICES.

SOME WERE DISAPPOINTED TO

SEE BOLT TO BE GO.

CERTAINLY MANY IN WASHINGTON

WITH DISAPPOINTED.

CHRIS MURPHY FROM

CONNECTICUT A PROGRESSIVE

ONE AT THAT QUOTED THAT HE

WAS QUOTE LEGITIMATELY

SHAKEN TO SEE JOHN BOLTON TO

LEAVE THE WHITE HOUSE.

SAMANTHA POWERS, YOU

REMEMBER HER.

THE OBAMA OFFICIAL PRIMARILY

RESPONSIBLE FOR THE

CATASTROPHIC DESTRUCTION OF

LIBYA.

THE MOVE THAT FLOODED EUROPE

WITH REFUGEES.

THAT OFFICIAL, SAMANTHA

POWER TOLD REPORTERS TODAY

THAT THE FIRING WAS A VERY

TROUBLING SIGN BELIEVE IT OR

NOT A NUMBER OF OTHER

REPUBLICANS MADE SIMILAR

NOISES MITT ROMNEY QUOTE HE

WAS VERY, VERY UNHAPPY THAT

BOLTON WAS LEAVING.

HE WENT ON TO DESCRIBE THE

NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR AS

A BRILLIANT MAN WITH DECADES

OF EXPERIENCE IN FOREIGN

POLICY.

ROMNEY DIDN'T SAY MUCH ABOUT

THIS EXPERIENCE.

HE WASN'T SPECIFIC ABOUT IT.

WHY?

PROBABLY BECAUSE NONE OF

BOLTON'S EXPERIENCE IN THE

END HELPED AMERICA.

ROMNEY IS RIGHT.

BOLTON HAS, IN FACT, BEEN ON

THE SCENE FOR DECADES.

ALL OF US ARE SUFFERING THE

CONSEQUENCES OF IT.

BUT, WHATEVER.

THE DETAILS LIKE THAT MAKE

NO DIFFERENCE AT ALL IN

WASHINGTON.

IN WASHINGTON, NOBODY CARES

WHAT KIND OF JOB YOU DID.

ONLY THAT YOU DID THE JOB.

NOBODY THERE LEARNS FROM

MISTAKES BECAUSE MISTAKES

ARE NEVER EVEN ACKNOWLEDGED.

EVER.

JOHN BOLTON HIMSELF TOOK

THIS FORM OF SELECTIVE

AMNESIA TO AN ART FORM.

WATCH HIM PERFORM IT ON THIS

SHOW.

>> SO YOU'VE CALLED FOR

REGIME CHANGE IN IRAQ,

LIBYA, IRAN, AND SYRIA.

IN THE FIRST TWO COUNTRIES

WE HAVE HAD REGIME CHANGE

AND OBVIOUSLY IT'S BEEN, I

WOULD SAY A DISASTER.

>> NO, NO.

I DON'T AGREE WITH THAT AND.

>> Tucker: YOU DON'T THINK

IT'S BEEN A DISASTER.

>> I THINK YOU NEED TO

UNDERSTAND IS THAT LIFE IS

COMPLICATED IN THE MIDDLE

EAST.

AND WHEN YOU SAY WELL THE

OVERTHROW OF SADDAM HUSSEIN

WAS A MISTAKE IS SIMPLISTIC.

>> Tucker: I WOULD ARGUE

THAT I'M THE ONE WHO

UNDERSTANDS HOW COMPLICATED

IT IS.

THAT'S MY VIEW.

>> IT'S YOUR LONG EXPERIENCE

IN FOREIGN POLICY.

>> Tucker: BETTER RECORD

THAN YOURS, I WOULD SAY.

>> Tucker: DID YOU CATCH

THAT RATHER THAN JUSTIFY OR

IVAN EXPLAIN HIS OWN RECORD,

BOLTON BRAGS THAT HE SPENT A

LOT OF TIME ON THE JOB.

IF YOU ARE WONDERING WHY SO

MANY PROGRESSIVES ARE

MOURNING BOLTON'S FIRING

TONIGHT BOLTON HIMSELF

FUNDAMENTALLY WAS A MAN OF

THE LEFT.

THERE WAS NOT A HUMAN

PROBLEM JOHN BOLTON WASN'T

TOTALLY CONVINCED COULD BE

SOLVED WITH THE ELITE FORCE

OF GOVERNMENT.

THAT'S AN ASSUMPTION OF THE

LEFT.

NOT THE RIGHT.

DON'T LET THE MUSTACHE FOOL

YOU.

JOHN BOLTON WAS ONE OF THE

MOST PROGRESSIVE PEOPLE IN

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.

BY THE WAY, NATURALLY ONCE

HE WAS A SCONS THERE BOLTON

PROMOTED OBAMA LOYALISTS

WITHIN THE SECURITY COUNCIL

THAT SHOULDN'T PRIZE YOU

EITHER.

FROM THE VERY FIRST DAY JOHN

BOLTON OPERATED AS IN FACT A

FIFTH COLUMN WITHIN THE

TRUMP WHITE HOUSE.

WE WARNED ABOUT HIM

FREQUENTLY ON THIS SHOW.

>> Tucker: WHEN THE

PRESIDENT CALLS FOR PEACE

WITH A HEAVILY ARMED NUCLEAR

POWER THAT IS CONSIDERED

TREASON.

BUT WITH THE NATIONAL

SECURITY ADVISOR CALLS FOR,

YET, ANOTHER POINTLESS WAR,

THAT'S JUST ELITE CONSENSUS

AND IT'S FINE.

NIKON BOLTON HAS CALLED FOR

TOPPLING THE IRANIAN

GOVERNMENT AGAIN AND AGAIN.

TELLINGLY HE NEVER SUGGESTED

WHAT MIGHT REPLACE THE

IRANIAN GOVERNMENT ONCE IT'S

TOPPLED.

>> Tucker: TO THIS DAY MIKE

BOOT TAKES A.

JOHN BOLTON IS THIS

COUNTRY'S NATIONAL SECURITY

ADVISOR.

THERE WERE NO CONSEQUENCES

TO THEIR FOOLISHNESS OR

DISHONESTY.

NONE.

YES, MR. PRESIDENT, JOHN

BOLTON DOES WANT TO GET YOU

INTO A WAR.

IT'S ALL HE WANTS IT'S WHAT

HE DREAMS ABOUT.

MANY WARS IF POSSIBLE.

IF YOU ARE NOT CAREFUL, HE

WILL DO IT.

>> Tucker: IN BETWEEN

ADMINISTRATION JOBS THERE

ARE CUSHY THINK TANK JOBS.

CABLE NEWS CONTRACTS.

WAR MAY BE DISASTER FOR

AMERICA BUT FOR JOHN BOLTON

AND HIS FELLOW NEOCONS, IT

IS ALWAYS GOOD BUSINESS.

>> Tucker: WE INVITED JOHN

BOLTON ON THIS SHOW TONIGHT

HE DID NOT RESPOND TO THE

INVITATION WHICH IS A SHAME.

IS HE ALWAYS WELCOME HERE.

THAT'S A SINCERE INVITATION.

IN SOME WAYS THE STORY ISN'T

SIMPLY ABOUT JOHN BOLTON.

IT'S ABOUT THE COUNTLESS

JOHN BOLTONS WHO CURRENTLY

THE STAFF FEDERAL

BUREAUCRACY DEEPLY MEDIOCRE

LIFERS, DRUNK ON UBEROUS.

PROTECTED BY BULLET PROOF

JOB SECURITY.

THEY ARE MORE LIKELY TO DIE

ON THE JOB THAN BE FIRED AND

THEY KNOW IT.

AS A GROUP THESE PEOPLE HAVE

DONE AN AWFUL LOT TO MAKE

THIS COUNTRY POORER AND

SADDER AND MORE DIVIDED.

THE ACTUAL JOHN BOLTON IS

GONE, LIKELY FOREVER.

THE QUESTION TONIGHT IS WILL

HE BE REPLACED BY ANOTHER

JOHN BOLTON JUST LIKE HIM

AND UNFORTUNATELY THERE ARE

SIGNS THAT THAT'S POSSIBLE.

IN FACT, IN WASHINGTON, IT'S

ALWAYS POSSIBLE.

CHANGE ARE NOT ALWAYS FOR

THE BETTER.

DON'T LIE TO YOURSELF.

APPARENTLY ON THE SHORT LIST

TONIGHT TO REPLACE BOLTON IS

THE PRESIDENT'S SPECIAL

REPRESENTATIVE FOR IRAN

BRIAN HOOK.

HE MAY BE A GOOD PERSON

UNAPOLOGETIC NEOCON.

HE HAS UNDISGUISED CONTEMPT

FOR DONALD TRUMP AS JOHN

BOLTON DID.

AND HE PARTICULARLY DISLIKES

THE PRESIDENT'S NATIONALIST

FOREIGN POLICY WHICH IS ONE

OF THE REASONS PEOPLE VOTED

FOR DONALD TRUMP IN 2016.

ONE ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL

RECALLS HOOK ANNOUNCING

THAT, QUOTE: I THINK THE

PRESIDENT IS RECKLESS AND

DOESN'T UNDERSTAND POLICY.

ANOTHER SOURCE HEARD HIM

DIRECTLY FOREIGN OFFICIALS

AT A CONFERENCE ABROAD.

A CHOICE LIKE THAT AND HOOK,

BY THE WAY, IS NOT THE ONLY

ONE, NOT EVEN CLOSE.

A CHOICE LIKE THAT IS REALLY

NO CHOICE AT ALL.

IT'S MORE JOHN BOLTON WITH

THE SAME PREDICTABLE

DISASTROUS RESULTS.