journalist charles hanley, author of "ghost flames," "life and death in a hidden war." "korea, 1950-53." sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern, real america features a series of u.s. government korean war films starting with "to help peace survive." a 1974 were defense department orientation film for soldiers assigned to south korea. at 7:00 p.m., oral histories. u.s. marine veteran alan clark on serving two tours in korea between 1950 and 1953. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. first the former national security advisers has a lengthy excerpt of his book online at "wall street journal" this morning. wsj.com. john bolton the scandal of trumps foreign policy.

he writes trump's conversations with xi, referring to the chinese president, reflected not only the incoherence in his trade policy also the confluence in trump's mind of his own political interests and u.s. national interests. trump co-pling manied permit and national not just on trade questions but across the whole field of national security. i'm hard pressed to identify any significant trump decision during my white house tenure that wasn't driven by re-election calculations. now, martha radditz with abc news has the first sitdown interview with the former national security adviser that will air sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. network released a clip of her interview. here is john bolton talking about vladimir putin's perception of president trump. >> how would you describe trump's relationship with vladimir putin? >> i think putin thinks he can play him like a fiddle. i think putin is smart, tough. i think he sees that he's not

faced with a serious adversary here. i don't think he's worried about donald trump. >> donald trump as we say sees himself as a dealmaker. what happened to the dealmaker in these situations? >> the president way-of-m may we a sue bush deal maker in it coming to wall street. dealing with strategic weapons and many, many other national security issues are things far removed from his life experience. when you're dealing with somebody like putin who has made his life understanding russia's strategic position in the world against dnonald trump who doesnt agree reading or learning about these issues, it's a very difficult position for america to be in. >> from the abc interview that airs sunday there is the former national security adviser. president trump tweeted about the book after midnight saying

this, wacko john bolton's exceedingly tedious "new york times" book is made up of lies. said all good in print until the day i fired him. disgruntled boring fool who wanted to go to war. what a dope he says and goad on to say president trump fired him also. bolton is incompetent. now, npr, this morning, and other publications recording that the would us is trying to stop the publication of john bolton's book. justice department seeks to block it ahead of its tuesday release scheduled for june 23rd. 27-page civil lawsuit timed against bolton for the district of columbia alleges that publication of this 592-page book, rumor it happened, would be a violation of non-disclosure agreements he sign and compromise national security. listen to the white house press

secretary yesterday talking about this lawsuit. >> so that as to why they went down that particular path is the question for doj, but what i would note is this book is full of classified information, which is inexcusable. former national security adviser john bolton should know all too well that it's unacceptable to have highly classified information from the government of the united states in a book that will be published. it's unacceptable. it has not gone through the review process and that's where we currently stand and refer you back to barr's statement. we don't believe bolton went through that process. it hasn't been completed, the process, therefore, he's in violation of that agreement that was part of his quote from monday. >> on this legal battle, the washington post editorial board in their editorial this morning, free speech. not national security. it's at stake in trump's absurd lawsuit against john bolton's

book and no self-respectingorde book halted. writing this, the official to scrub the book a process consumed four months. this review proceeded mr. trump insisted the book must not be published before the november election. nonsensically, all of his conversations with mr. bolton were classified. unsurprisingly, after mr. bolton's manuscript was strubbed, yore said further review was necessary con clutding the administration was using the process as pretext to silence him, mr. bolton decided to public. get to your calls. carl in chicago. democratic caller. what do you think? >> yes. how are you doing, gretta? i know bolton is getting a lot of criticism, but what we should realize from this book is just how -- how bad off we are as a country. we've got a major political party in this country who

basically has displayed how corrupted he a eed they are. allowed power to corrupt them. all the days they say values and principles have vanished. they don't care about any of that. we just want the power. whether or not he testified or not, they was still going to acquit him, because all that matters is having power. they want to have power to control basically -- especially in the senate, to put people on the bench because they think if we can put judges on the bench, this far right, we can control the society of this country in the future. it's about naked power. i don't know where we go as a country when you have someone that's gone to the dark side like this in the future. i mean, i just don't know what we're going to do. how do you make that adjustment in the future?

thank you, gretta. >> okay. all right. lester in tuscaloosa, alabama. lester, your turn. >> caller: good morning, grelt grelta. how are you? >> good morning. >> caller: funny something comes out of trump he loves to block, trying to go to court to stop it. trump is -- i don't understand this guy. the american people are going to have to wake up, because if we want a dictator we should have got him in 2016. everything he has done has showed us that he's no good for the united states. and thank you, gretta. >> willie in beliveau, illinois. independent. willie, good morning. what do you make of the reserre in john bolton's book? >> caller: a former employee of the government and did sign a disclosure agreement. to release a book right before the election is interfering in the election. >> okay. willie, from illinois.

you voted for the particular ed in 2016? >> caller: no, i didn't. >> you didn't? why not? who did you vote for? >> caller: neither one. i didn't vote for anyone. i stood out. i stood beside. >> how will you vote in 2020? >> caller: i haven't made a decision yet. >> do you like what, some things that president trump has done while in the white house? >> caller: some things, yes. uh-huh. >> and what are they? >> caller: oh, how he's cracking down on the illegal trade with china. how he's trying to get businesses started back up in america. that's basically it. >> willie, did you read this part of the book? the "new york times" features in their papers this morning? mr. bolton also adds a striking new accusation by describing how mr. trump overly, overtly linked tariff talks with china to his own political fortunes asks

president xi jinping to buy american agriculture to help him win farm states in this election. mr. trump pleading with xi to ensure he's win, mr. bolton said, mr. trump stressed importance of farmers and creased purchase of soybeans from china in the outcome. "wall street journal" able to do an interview with president trump yesterday. his reaction to this book, the "wall street journal" notes in the interview with the president mr. trump didn't deny he agreed to lift penalties on two chinese companies seeing favor with president xi. as said in the book. read more what the president had to tell the "wall street journal" going along here this morning. also i want to share with you on this china trade question that the president's trade negotiator, mr. lighthizer, up on capitol hill yesterday testifying before a house committee and a senate committee about trade policy. we covered both hearings.

if you missed it, go to our website. c-span.org and find it there. here are headlines from the washington post on his testimony. trade representative defense china deal, trump dislikes. u.s. trade representative robert light housor expects china to fulfill its promise to buy an additional $200 billion in american goods and services over the next two years despite its slow start to placing new orders amid the coronavirus pandemic. light housor said-oe housesor said he intended to comply with the trade deal signed with president trump in january. elaine, hagerstown, maryland. rb. good morning. >> caller: good morning, gretta. i'll try to remain calm. from my experience, working in a classified area, any book,

manuscript, that -- that is known to have classified information it n it has to be reviewed thoroughly. word by word. phrase by phrase. sentence by sentence. and there's no way that this man should have ever released this manuscript or the book being published or whatever it was, because he has committed treason. the same thing as with hillary clinton doing with her server and her, in her basement or bathroom or wherever she had it. >> elaine, do you recall how long the scrubbing process takes from your work? the washington post says that john bolton went stlu four moss of scrubbing with the national security council and then it was later on that the white house and they argued in an attempt to stop him from publishing the book said more review was

needed? >> caller: perhaps they found there was classified information that shouldn't have been released. that's all. that's all i'm saying. because they have a set of reviewers where i worked, that we reviewed these books, an u scripts as i said, word for word. because just because -- and by sentence. and they usually in the margin will denote what classification it is. if any. so that's what i'm saying, and this man has committed treason, because if anybody else did that kind of stuff, what he has done, they would, yes. there'd sign a disclosure statement, yes, to begin with. >> okay. elaine's thought in maryland. to north carolina. charles, gastonian, north carolina. democratic caller. >> caller: how you doing? >> well.

who do you think of the book? >> caller: i think the book is truth-telling because most everything came out piecemeal is coming out in the book. a shame he didn't testify about it, but now it's going to come out, and i think the going to really hurt in the elections. just to hear what this lady just said, classified? that's nothing but the truth. the truth has come out. you can't keep hiding and lying and going on. the truth is out now. it's been out. bolton just, you know, just released it all of it can be actually told the way it really was up in there. and donald trump is not going to be president ever again. because we don't need this. the man lying ever since he's been up in there. it's time for him to go. we need a new president. we don't need another liar sitting up in the white house trying to get a way with the things that he has gotten away with. that's all i got to say. thank you. >> and more comments from our viewers on facebook.

here's morgan logan. i never liked him as an ambassador to the u.n. he's a warmonger. never trust him. trump made mistake keeping him on. you have pigpen writing, very disappointed in john bolton. he knows better, mrs. takenly thought he was an ethingiccal honor an e!able man, and also bolton's book shows us what we don't care about trump. he'll go to any length to win. imagine if the book was an a democrat/biden? also, being a day late a dollar short does not make bolton any kind of hero. many knew trump was a dangerous fool but stayed silent like mattis, kelly and others. all weak and pathetic. unpatriotic. >> jerome in washington, d.c.

what do you think? korea good morning. >> >> caller: good morning. >> what do you think of the book? >> caller: i keep repeating even from yourself john bolton made this and that accusation. what is in the book that's supports any of it that can show that it's the truth, other than it being his opinion, his viewpoint? he said -- he said putin feels that he can play donald trump like a fiddle. i'm pretty sure putin said that about every american leader. how is this exclusive or extraordinary as relates to donald trump? >> okay. irene. red oak, virginia. democratic caller. irene, what it's your opinion on this? >> caller: yes. good morning. i'm glad to be on the show this morning to talk. what i would like to say is that i didn't vote for donald trump. but i always liked him. in "the apprentice." in the show. thought he was good for that.

i'm originally from brooklyn which i moved to virginia. i don't think donald trump is made or has the character to be a president. but he's good to have been on television. for, you know, doing athe apprentice." he's has not brought this country together. he always saying what he did for black people and i am a black woman. he has not done anything for me. if i get anything, i did it for myself and my family. i worked hard. i used to be a correction officer, and worked with the police department. but he hasn't done anything for me. anything i've done for me and my children i did it for myself. but that's one thing i don't like when they says that, what do black people have to lose? we have a lot to lose. you know? but he hasn't done anything for us and on the other hand, even though i do vote democrat, a lot of the democrats haven't done anything either. >> okay. irene, talking about john bolton, former national security adviser that served in that spot 16 months.

17 months. in the trump administration. his new book is out. going to be published next week, unless the white house can stop him from doing so. back in november of 2019, "usa today" had this headline. ex-trump aide john bolton deal for book that may publish before the 2020 election. in it it says that the same literary agency that represented former fbi director james comey and the anonymous author of a warning helped bulletin land the $2 million deal according to the associated press. simon & schuster published the book and are also publishing other books about the president. upcoming books from the "wall street journal" this morning that says mr. bolton's memoir isn't the only explosive title on simon & shochuster's plate.

these as we. next month, the publisher release add critical account of president trump's family history titled "too much and never enough." how my family created the world's most dangerous man written by mary trump. relative of the president's. simon & schuster sizz the book shine as dark light on the bright history of their family. collins, mississippi. independent. hi, james. good morning k. >> caller: how you doing? >> doing well. what do you think of the book by mr. bolton. >> caller: i think mr. bolton is sort of like -- ah -- a split personality. on one mannhand he wants to be republican and on the other hand he, he wants to be a -- a person of, of -- of doubt sometimes.

with my main point which is, this is not the only book, and the book is about the president of the united states of america. but it's not justed president. it's everybody around him. him. people are focusing on this president about what he's doing, but you u got to look at the people that's supporting him. if you look at the people that's supporting him, they already know, so you say this book is stake or whatever, everybody in president trump's cabinet know who he is. they know what he has done. and everybody in other countries know that if the people over here that we don't understand, it's time to step up and vote either democrat or everything or -- or independent or republican. this stuff about voting two different parties and the control, he already let you know right now that them days are

over. those days are over for saying we need a democrat to watch over the democrats. we need a republican to watch over the democrats. look at that man from utah. what's his name? i forgot his name, but he stood up. >> mitt romney? >> yes, the one that's in arizona. those are real republicans. if you can't expose your own, how you going to talk about somebody else? i noticed how they criticized the previous president with books and other things. now his own household, this is a part of his house. all these people that are criticizing him, these people still can't see. god is telling you something. these young people are telling you something. he's going to a place right now where they tell him not to go to a, a have a convention because that makes sense in this book. he's saying that the president

to be re-elected, now he's going to arizona or utah or where ever to have his campaign. >> tulsa, oklahoma? >> not to go because of this virus. >> understood, james understood the point. "the new york times," nbc news, "wall street journal," "washington post," with excerpts from mr. bolton's book, able to preview it and from "the new york times," they write the president never tired of assailing allied leaders and came closer to withdrawing the united states from nato than previously known. he said it would be cool to invade venezuela. at times, he seemed to mimic the authoritarian leaders he pretended to admire. these people should be executed, they're scum bags. when mr. xi explained why he wanted to build concentration camps, president trump said he should build them. he repeatedly badgered mr. barr

for talking with john kerry about iran in what he insisted was u a violation of the logan act. in mr. president's interview with "the wall street journal" last night, mr. trump disputed he gave his blessing to mr. xi to continue building f camps for muslim minorities as mr. bolton said in the book. he had been considering sanctions for his treatment, more than a million had been detained without trial for years. but mr. trump didn't want to upset trade negotiations mr. bolton said. that's not true, mr. trump said, b about the description of his conversation with mr. xi. mr. trump then pointed out he signed legislation earlier on wednesday calling for sanctions on china over the camps. i could have kill ed that very easily, mr. trump said. shelley in spartanburg, south carolina, republican, what do you think of this book? >> well i don't think very much of it. in fact, i would say we don't

have to worry about the russians or the chinese destroying the united states because our own citizens are going to do it for us. thank you. >> james, bristol, tennessee. democratic caller. james, good morning. >> yes. i believe every word that's in the book even the fact that i haven't seen it, but i do not believe john bolton belongs in jail because he's not just a disgruntled employee wanting revenge. he's just an old man wanting all the money he can get. he's not no better than anyone else. as a matter of fact, like i say, i believe everything i hear about the book and because i'm sure it's all true. but this old man, he should be put in jail because he should have stood up during the impeachment. >> okay. all right. we'll take a look at the reaction on capitol hill from lawmakers. the minority leader for the democrats, chuck schumer, in the

senate. it was clear then and couldn't be any clearer now. the vote to convict and remove donald trump from office was absolutely the right vote. the revelation of o bolton's book makes senate republicans craven actions on impeachment look even worse and history will judge them for it, he writes. gregory meeks, democrats, encouraged the concentration catches and insisted on letting americans know whether he's fit for the title. bolton sat on that information to get a book teal. no heroes in this story and bill pascrell, trump spit in the face of america to flatter the world's leading dictator. trump's hatred for democracy is revolting and threatening to the way of life for all of us. it's also an extension of his party ee party's growing liberalism and representative debbie -- blanking on how to pronounce her

last name. the congresswoman writes whether it's waivering on venezuelans seeking democracy or entertaining deals with foreign advisories, the pattern is clear. trump stands with dictators and authoritarians and deserves to be b one. now for republicans, doug collins writes 2 million. apparently, that's all it took for john bolton to sell off what little credibility he had left, referring to his book deal and rand paul of kentucky, if nothing else, donald trump deserves a gold medal for exposing the war kau led by john bolton. always a very stupid and dangerous idea. some reaction on capitol hill. now on this idea of testifying in the impeachment proceedings, mr. bolton writes in the excerpt on "the wall street journal's" website, this is not in the hard copy this morning, he says this. that these and innumerable other

conversations formed a pattern of unacceptable behavior that eroded the legitimacy of the president. had advocates not been so obsess wd the ukraine blitzkrieg in 2019, had they taken the time to inquire about the president's behavior across foreign policy, the impeachment outcome might well have been different. randy, broken arrow, oklahoma, republican. randy, your opportunity to tell washington what you think of this book. >> it's just more trash against our president. since he, since he was legitimate president, you guys have come after him about everything. if you think this book is a bigger deal than people taking territory in seattle then whoever picks your stories and news stories should really

examine their bias. even something about our president, every morning i've listened to you since my kids were little and they're all grown. two served in the marine corps. now what i have is a news agency in cspan, cnn and, msnbc, even fox news is getting on the band wagon. everybody is slandering this president. every day. pick something that's positive about our president or maybe you could do an expose on joe biden. maybe you could look into the fbi scandal that you guys just once trump was acquitted, you guys just drop it and pick up the next hateful thing you can find about our president. it's shameful and you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

god bless america and i'll be in tulsa on saturday. god bless america. >> randy, for you and others, this book is dominating the national newspapers. the decision makers in washington are talking about it. the president has acknowledged it and put out tweets, did an interview with "the wall street journal." giving his side. and his reaction to this book. we're letting you know all of that and then only here on this program do you get to call in and tell washington who's chatting about this, what you think of it only here on this show. so that's why we do it and why we're having this question this morning. mike, oak grove, missouri. independent. hi, mike. good morning. >> good morning, greta. i've already ordered my book. it will be here the 25th.

a shame it's a book about, written by a scum bag about a scum bag. but you know the book shows how political bill barr is trying to help donald trump stop it. they've been going over it for four months to try to find anything that shouldn't be there and they can't find it. donald trump says any con v conversation he has with anybody is classified, which is you know, we all know that's bs, and i think it makes all the republicans look bad that voted not to impeach him. as far as randy goes, the last caller, begging to put something good about trump on television is