Trump ousts McMaster, taps hawk Bolton

By Jill Colvin, Catherine Lucey and Ken Thomas
Updated March 23 2018 - 10:22am, first published 10:18am
US President Donald Trump has announced he has sacked national security adviser HR McMaster.
US President Donald Trump has announced he has sacked national security adviser HR McMaster.

US President Donald Trump is replacing national security adviser HR McMaster with the former UN Ambassador John Bolton, injecting a hawkish foreign policy voice into his administration ahead of key decisions on Iran and North Korea.

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