As President Trump began losing confidence in John Bolton, who was fired today, he reached out to the man he had fired to give Bolton the job: H.R. McMaster.
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Trump's first national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, was in a Virginia courtroom Tuesday for a hearing ahead of his sentencing in December. Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017 to a charge of lying to the FBI about his conversations with the Russian ambassador. Trump's phone calls to McMaster began in the fall of 2018, about six months after Bolton had taken the job. The most recent call that the people familiar with the conversations knew of was a few months ago.
"The president's view is: 'I run Iran. John may think he runs Iran, but I run Iran,'" a former White House official said. Bolton took a far different approach to the job than McMaster did. While McMaster held meetings and ran a policy process that involved meetings with officials from other agencies, Bolton opted to work policy directly with the president. He hasn't chaired a principals' committee meeting at the National Security Council in months, according to three people familiar with the matter.
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