John Bolton offered a brutal assessment Friday of Sebastian Gorka, Donald Trump ’s controversial pick as a deputy assistant to the president and the senior director for counterterrorism. “Well, Sebastian Gorka is a con man,” said Bolton, a former national security adviser under Trump, in an interview with CNN ’s Kaitlan Collins.

On The Source, host Kaitlan Collins pressed Bolton – who served Trump briefly as a national security adviser – about Gorka's qualifications.