much surprised that john bolton seems surprised or maybe he's feigning surprise i'm not sure james kirchick that now here are some of the other stories making news this hour facebook has removed by u.s. president donald trump's reelection campaign the ads contain a symbol that was used in nazi germany facebook has repeatedly drawn fire for its hands off approach to political speech but released a statement saying these trumped campaign messages violated their policy on organized tight. australian prime minister scott morrison says the country is on the cyber attack from a foreign state. he says all levels of government critical infrastructure and essential services are being targeted a strenuous public broadcast of the i.p.c.c. reports that federal agencies believe china is behind the attacks or used. brazil's covert 19 at the damage continues to spread according to the ministry of health the country will soon top 1000000 confirmed infections and 50000 deaths brazil is harm to the world's worst outbreak outside the us. a german run ship has rescued 9000 people from a sinking doing in the me

or for his part donald trump has denounced the book as pure fiction earlier we spoke to james kirchick a foreign policy analyst and a visiting fellow at the brookings institute institution and we asked him if some of the criticism against john bolton and his. motivations was legitimate there are many things many things you can say about john bolton or criticize him for the notion that he doesn't believe in things and you can disagree with the things that he believes in but the notion that he doesn't genuinely believe in things and pursues policies that he believes to be in the american interest that's not something that i think even john bolton's worst enemies would accuse him of i mean the man deeply deeply believes in a certain vision of the world which is why frankly i find it. a little surprising that he went into the administration in the 1st place i'm not really sure i mean i would like to ask him you know what do you think you are getting into because someone who has john bolton's track record of beliefs on american engagement of the world on taking a very robust posture towards

ard for tonight's let's bring in james kirchick he is a foreign policy analyst and a visiting fellow at the brookings institution he joins me tonight from washington d.c. jamie it's good to see you again so what does this book do to the image of the u.s. and the power of the u.s. if the president is prepared to sell an election to the president of china. you know actually on that particular accusation that was one of the ones that i found the least convincing because there weren't that many details and all that bolton said was that trump asked the chinese to buy more american weeks which i think. would be would be a fine thing for any american president to ask and you know if he threw in some line about it helping his reelection chances that you know that spore a sort of more blunt. suggestion in most american presidents are going to be making so i actually didn't find that. anecdote to be the most disturbing i think what the president had to say about concentration camps and china basically got not not saying that the chinese were correct in building them out i found that highly dis