bolton: thank you, sarah. earlier today, sec retear of state pompeo made an important announcement regarding the president's decision to terminate the 1955 treaty of amity with iran, a treaty iran made a mockery of with its support for terrorism, provocative ballistic missile proliferation. today decision at the international court of justice was a defeat for iran. it correctly denied almost all of their requests. we're disappointed that the i.c.j. failed to recognize it has no standing about any sanctions. instead the court allowed iran to use it as a forum for propaganda. the iranian regime has systematically pursued a policy of hs tillity toward the united states that defames the central premise of the treaty of amity. the regime cannot prackity -- practice animosity and its conduct and then ask for amity under international law. in addition to the treaty of amity, i am announcing that the president has decided that the united states will withdraw from he optional protocol and dispute revolution -- resoluti

bolton the words subtlety and diplomacy don't come to mind so is there now a bolton doctrine. ross talking bolton's foreign policy i'm joined by my guess could see an oxford he's a senior policy consultant at the british american security information council in san francisco we have john rainwater he is the executive director of peace action and in new york we cross to alice slater she is a member of the coordinating committee of world beyond war cross talk rules in effect everyone i'm going to go to john first in san francisco say i always go to the person that gets up early is for this and i'm very thankful that you did get up so early and i wouldn't be surprised if you had a coffee mug in your hand john let me go to donald trump was campaigning in after he was elected everyone was saying that he was going to be an isolationists then he went through a few iterations of his foreign policy team and now with john bolton on the scene and apparently calling a lot of the shots what the fear of isolationism is really turned into the worry of unilateralism in a time when multi-later

bolton: accurate. it is not a state. >> the president recommitted his goal to achieving a two-state solution. amb. bolton: that is right. >> is using that sort of language productive in his goal? amb. bolton: sure, of course. it is not a state now. it does not control the boundaries and does not fulfill the normal functions of government. a host of reasons why it is not a state. it could become a state, as the president said, but that requires diplomatic negotiations with israel and others. so calling it the so-called state of palestine defines exactly what it has been, a position that the u.s. government has pursued uniformly since 1988 when the palestinian authority declared itself to be the state of palestine. we do not recognize it as the state of palestine. we have consistently, cross democratic and republican administrations, opposed the admission of palestine to the united nations as a state because it is not a state. is saying it does not take at face value netanyahu's claim that iran is harbor

bolton: i started as a lawyer. there is no better way to get into foreign policy then to do something else for a long time. for those interested in international affairs, this is a better time than there has been before. much didn't used to be alternative between simply joining foreign service in the state department or joining the military and serving a post overseas. now i think american business is so international that you have a much better have a variety of career choices. i think where the government still fails is in not encouraging and allowing movement back and forth between the government and private sector. i think this would enhance both the government and private sector, if there was more movement back and forth, but it is a very hard culture to cancome, and not one you reverse overnight. but from the perspective of all kinds of international issues, the opportunities today are broader for younger people. mr. blumenthal: in terms of government service, a lot of people, i think, don't know about this a

bolton did not try to refute it. his press conferences and other places, he didn't take it on head on, what putin said. that was also remarkable to me. >> michael mcfaul, former u.s. ambassador to russia. thank you, sir. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. always a catch. like somehow you wind up getting less. but now that i book at hilton.com, and i get all these great perks. i got to select my room from the floor plan... very nice... i know, i'm good at picking stuff. free wi-fi... laptop by the pool is a bold choice... and the price match guarantee. how do you know all of this? are you like some magical hilton fairy? it's just here on the hilton app. just available to the public, so... book at hilton.com and get the hilton price match guarantee. if you find a lower rate, we match it and give you 25% off that stay. if you find a lower rate, we match it and give you our because of smoking.ital. but we still had to have a cigarette. had to. but then, we were like. what are we doing? the

personally from mr trump what he did he basically just yesterday as bolton john bolton was here kind of explaining america's position on the i.n.f. treaty a crucial treaty all know sort of a massage of the terran thing donald trump promise to keep bolstering its nuclear washington's nuclear capabilities unless well other countries grovel really i should say so all that happened while mr bolton was here have a listen right here as noted here to the agreement this should have been done years ago but still people come to this that we have more money than anybody else by far we'll build it up but until they come to their senses when they go then low bar and was done as well and by the way not only will read you so just to give you some background john bolton's visit to moscow had been planned in advance but right before the donald trump made a very strong statement saying that he was going to pull out of the treaty unilaterally so mostly the his advisor here has had some explanation most of explanation to do on just on monday this monday he said that apparently the united states still do

and that bolton did not try to refute it.nces and other places, he didn't take it on head-on, what putin said. that was also remarkable to me. >> michael mcfaul, former u.s. ambassador to russia. thank you, sir. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. the automobile, but mobility itself. an autonomous-thinking vehicle protecting those inside and out. and it's the mercedes-benz of today that will help us get there. the 2019 e-class, with innovations that will change the way we drive from this day forward. lease the e 300 for $599 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. jushis local miracle ear t at helped andrew hear more of the joy in her voice. just one hearing test is all it took for him to hear more of her laugh... and less of the background noise around him. for helen, just one visit to her local miracle-ear is all it took to learn how she can share more moments with her daughter. just one free hearing test could help you hear more... laughter...music...li

i'm not worried about john bolton john bolton was at the state department for all those years that i was he's a minor character at best he said some pretty outrageous things but if you've noticed john will trump his modus operandi include surrounding himself with people that say outrageous things what's important is what gets done in the end right now cannot arise helen helen let me jump in here right here black i've got to go to a hard break here after a short break we'll continue our discussion on bolton's foreign policy stay with our. pranking gave americans a lot of job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year truck so i chose to drive truck people rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar to. this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here anymore just slowed down so much they lost their jobs got laid off the american

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landmark nuclear arms treaty with russia president travels hawkish national security advisor john bolton here in moscow for talks are happening all afternoon tell you about that also coming up saudi arabia admits dissident journalist. was murdered in the kingdom's consulate in istanbul but as international pressure grows washington stopped short of repercussions for now anyway so any talk of sanctions is premature and happening right now monitoring this one in the u.k. right now to resume a addressing parliament with a major break update his retort but the northern ireland border as some m.p.'s condemn intensified pressure on the pm. so lots to talk about is kevin already here at our teenage q moscow hoping to stay with me for the next thirty minutes as we get across all this first donald trump's national security advisor john bolton is here in moscow for talks with russia's foreign minister his visit here to the russian capital comes after president trump announced he's going to be taking the u.s. out of that critical nuclear arms treaty with russia that's been longstanding for the last

the second thing is that you know that what i heard bolton say at that press conference was that. you know there was no consequences when the u.s. when the bush administration bush cheney administration pulled out of the a.b.m. treaty and in fact there was a huge consequence russia found maybe a a.b.m. missiles being put in remaining and threatening it with the threat of a for strike that they might not be able to retaliate against and so russia responded as i read by developing these cyprus on a cruise missiles which are what has the u.s. upset so there has been a huge consequence of the risk decision to pull out of the one thousand nine hundred seventy two nuclear treaty that had been negotiated by richard nixon hardly someone who would be accused of being soft on the soviet union so so bolton is wrong and and then the third thing i would say is that bolton has been arguing for pulling out of in our for for years and he's written about it is early and i saw it as two thousand and eleven so to say that russia is violating the treaty as the reason for pulling out is. is somewhat d

opinion polls put mr bolton r.-o. ahead in the run up to the election he's been described by some as the tropical trump he's riding a wave of anger over widespread corruption and crime but some of his more controversial statements have also raised eyebrows. for more let's go to the ws ophelia harmes a rooty who is in rio de janeiro for us. the first exit polls show that mr bolton r.-o. has won the first round but none that vote at the end of the month but what is surprising is to see with how much more votes mr bolton r.-o. is getting to this position and it is a clear punishment to the workers' party we see that his next the next candidate is reaching much less than what has been expected it is a punishment to the workers' party mainly because of all the corruption scandals it has been involved with especially the carwash so known. corruption scandal which is the one who got ex-president mr listen ask you to let us see about imprisoned and well what it is important to see tomorrow as well as how the markets react wha

upset so and so bolton is wrong. violence and a shocking incident in a metro station in rome mog tuesday evenings champions league football match between a us robot and moscow. i hear. a collapsing escalator in the metro left dozens injured also one russian fan was involved in a fight outside the stadium after the match. that sports correspondent i'd like you to check the joint column bray in the studio with the. really bad night for c.s.k. moscow in rome this time not only their team lost three nil to as roma big defeat but also to a very bad incidents for the fans first of all the fight outside the study only because stadium the roma stadium. there were reports that one of the c.s.k. moscow fans was stabbed two were severely injured in the fight over the russian embassy in italy later denounced this information they denied the stabbing incident but acknowledged the fight there was also a separate incident far more serious that i should say in a mall in rome subway station this on the way to the stadium about one hu

treaty and the topic is also on the table today bolton has already met. russia's security council head and the u.s. embassy said that they also discussed arms control and lavrov has also said that that will be an important topic but though this is on the table it doesn't seem there is much cause for optimism bolton himself has. shown that he's kind of in he opposes these arms treaties and the russian military expert today told me that russia also thinks that they're actually bad for the country he said that putin came out criticizing this agreement in the past and that actually trump has literally taking taken this decision off his hands now emily the e.u. is significantly alarmed by trump's statement and urges both sides to preserve the ins the treaty as it's known for short which is crucial for this continent to europe and global security let's take a quick look at what the agreement is about and then we'll continue our conversation at the other end of it. the nineteen eighty seven intermediate range nuclear forces treaty was seen as a major breakthroug

national security adviser john bolton's held a news briefing in moscow indicating that the u.s. is still going ahead with pulling out of a key nuclear treaty or playing down fears that little spark an arms race it follows his meeting earlier with president putin despite the tension surrounding the two countries right now they still manage to lighten the mood. you know as far as i remember there is an eagle on the us national emblem and there are thirteen arrows in one foot and an olive branch with thirteen olives as a symbol of peaceful policy in the other my question is did your eagle eat all the olives and leave just the arrows. i'm grateful for the opportunity to speak with you on behalf of president and hopefully for him but i didn't bring any more all of . them that's what i thought. the two eventually got down to the serious business at hand correspondent was out that he was briefing held by john bolton in the past hour either in or so as we stand right now the u.s. and russia any further forward. than it certainly looks like both russia and the united states have done the

not just john bolton. president trump dressed her down during that cabinet meeting over immigration, essentially saying what john bolton said today, you're not doing your job. you need to step it up. that was a pretty ugly cabinet argument as well where kirstjen nielsen pushed back on president trump saying she was doing the best she could and the attorney general jeff sessions toad up for her, but the bottom line is president trump does not feel that she's doing her job. he's incensed by these reports about the border crossing, and that causes problems in the west wing because john kelly is really loyal to kirstjen nielsen and that creates a divide between he and president trump and now he and the national security adviser. >> an art cam the other day in the new york magazine where the president made a show of pretending that he really likes john kelly. >> that's right. he says he's going to stay on. when it was reported weeks on he would like to see him stay on until 2022, john kelly was quick to tell th

with john bolton's visit here to most school trumps and rather harsh and stuck words this promise of withdrawing from the deal doesn't look as such a done thing doesn't look as a totally decided thing and still hopes that the united states has sort of on the fence with it and. hillary i mean what do you make of steve's argument that you know the method doesn't matter if you get to the right outcome at the end are you buying that one well actually i think that steve is totally correct and i don't even know that he said that the there that the method isn't so bad i think what it is is just like steve said though remember reagan stance which was peace through peace through strength that's exactly what trump is doing and of course we all know that the cold war actually sort of ended because reagan bill top during the whole star wars era he built up our defenses so greatly that russia wasn't able to keep up and i think this is a very strong stance to take mainly because our economy has not been as strong in probably over thirty years maybe forty years really since the second world war and

very serious and we know the bolton strongly influenced trump's decision to abrogate the i.n.f. treaty but what do you think donald trump's final goal in this then is because at every opportunity gets he wants to talk about complete nuclear disarmament he said for the past few years whenever he gets the opportunity it's his big number one priority so what's the thinking here because president obama was convinced out of not dropping out of this treaty but donald trump is and yet he's the one ofa nuclear disarmament apparently. but you don't take calls for nuclear disarmament at face value from every side of every issue all the time from you know when the washington post is catalogued the fact that trump is now live more than five thousand times so as soon as it's lips are moving you have to know better than to believe what he says now trump has said a lot of things he's applauded harry truman for the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki trumpet said what's the point of having nuclear weapons if we can't use them to a normal person a reasonable person that means let's get rid

and whether or not heard john bolton's hawkish stance will stand here in moscow. well let's take a look at how we reached this point. the arms race is getting out of control. i'm with you we did not initiate this kind of events as you know there was no we pulled out of the antiballistic missile treaty russia has developed and developing it stabilizing weapon systems for more than a decade in direct violation of its treaty obligations and look at the shit we are in response to the threats that confronted us we're moving forward to modernize our nuclear arsenal and ensure their capabilities remain i'm just we will never allow anybody to have anything even close to what we have to go additionally if our american. greenland's who will give an immediate and reciprocal response. russia has violated the agreement they've been violated here for many years that i don't know why president obama didn't negotiate for pullout. we're not going to let them violate the nuclear agreement they go out of their weapons that we're not allowed to we're the ones that have stayed in the

for the next part of the story is john bolton meeting with vladimir putin tomorrow and she used to be here so that that's with from where big things could indeed come out but also what we have to remember is that the united states will have to hold a lot of tools with its european partners because they actually feels threatened by the design apparent design the trump has shown to pull out of the deal see the thing is some military experts see this deal as very one sided and tipping in the favor of the united states because back in the day when the united states and then soviet union a kind of brokered the deal it was very much. just to cut the long story short it did impaired the soviet union's and now russia's ability to expand its its military and want to deploy missiles that had that the soviet union used to intimidate europe and in turn in its own to unite. and states did not make concessions of the same scale so to speak i would i don't want to go into too much detail because this could really take up the rest of the program time but that's what some military experts on this are

again john bolton said earlier he compared pulling out of the i.n.f. treaty with pulling out of the antiballistic missile treaty back in two thousand and two other comparable is this all being overhyped. well this is this is this is mainly to be done for the purposes of the military industrial complex there's billions and billions of dollars at stake when they get out of this treaty that raytheon and all the rest of the big companies we manufacturing these missiles installing them in europe and it's very scary prospect so i think bad things happen when the a.b.m. treaty was abandoned this is probably worse. it's. this is ronald reagan's last great achievement these people are always praising ronald reagan but now they just tossed him overboard and his his his final great achievement with prime minister gorbachev so it's it's a terrible thing bolton of course is a neo con but the neo cons are warmongers they long advocated a first strike against the soviet union many of them advocated for a strike against russia so is this what this is about to make a f

upset so and so bolton is wrong on. what i'm trying to pass to have toughened his stance on saudi arabia over the killing of generalists jamal khashoggi in the kingdom's istanbul consulate speaking gave the oval office on tuesday the u.s. slated to live at his house just what i've seen yet but stopped short of committing to punish syria. there are very bored. original concept. it was carried out poorly at the cover up was one of the worst in the history of cover ups first a. bad deal should have never been thought of. somebody really messed up. and that the worst cover up ever. and where it should have stuck is at the deal standpoint when they thought about it because whoever thought of that idea. i think is in big trouble and they should be in big trouble well the. her harsh words from donald trump now at this point people are recalling how not too far in the past just a couple weeks back he was actually emphasizing the importance of arms sales to saudi arabia we've also heard mike pompei o u.s. secretary of state spea

treaty in the course of the past couple of days in front john bolton came here to this media venue in central moscow not far from the kremlin just after a nine hour and a half long conversation with president putin and he revealed john bolton i mean revealed two main factors as to why the united states still looks to abandon the deal one he says that russia has already deployed in europe some missiles that are banned under the deal and to the united states see this treaty as outdated and he says that the deal should include other nations like for example china and also john bolton talked about the key difference between russia and the united states when it comes to the understanding of the agreement with respect to the question of russian compliance as i said it is the american position that russia is in violation it is russia's position that they're not in violation so one has to ask how do you convince the russians to come back into compliance with obligations they don't think they're violating all the way russia sees the situation is kind of vice versa moscow has accused washington

john bolton is in moscow as we speak for talks are you encouraged by that is that a good sign. yes that i think that is very important and i hope that this trip and these announcements will be the beginning of a series of conversations about strategic arms about arms control rather than the end of a treaty that has served everybody rather well and therefore i believe that john bolton being in moscow and briefing the russian side on the intentions of his administration is a positive sign i believe however that we need briefings from him or other senior officials in the united states administration and nato as well which is why we are calling on the german government to ask for a special nato summit on arms control and the i.n.f. treaty and what with that special nato summit meeting accomplish well in that context the united states could explain what the strategy is behind their announcements because so far we have the announcement we cannot recognize a strategy what is the intention is there a change in the nuclear posture is there a pushback against russian hybrid warfare that

but how could john kelly and john bolton agree over immigration. a lot of it goes back to secretary nielsen and what john bolton said about her. he was really empowered as a national security adviser about didn't have to answer to john kelly like we saw h.r. mcmaster do. >> we've heard repeatedly that president trump doesn't mike arguments. but at what point, i'm not sure that's really point, but at what point does it start to negatively impact governing? >> oh, i think if you have a situation that basically bolton and kelly aren't speaking to each other, that would definitely hamper the internal operations of the white house. i do think there's a new element here, anderson, since we last visited this question, and that is that president trump has introduced the notion of sending troops to the border. u.s. troops. that is something general kelly, coming out of his military background, is likely to oppose very strenuously. but we have this caravan coming up from about 4,000 now, who have left honduras and coming through guatemala up to the u.s. bord

that's not lost on john bolton. and the dynamic is set up so that bolton reports directly to the president and circumvents kelly's authority which kelly finds frustrating. there's all of that simmering underneath and then the closest person to john kelly has consistently been kirstjen nielsen. he has help her. >> he brought her into the white house. >> brought her into the white house. helped install her at the -- >> his old job. >> his old job at homeland security. and he's very protective of her. she's been under fire from the president, from within her own agency. and, you know, to have bolton then go after her for what he felt like, according to our reporting was her not really doing the one thing that she's supposed to do and the big thing the president cares about when it comes to her department. >> what's interesting about the palace intrigue and we'll get to the abomination which is the policy they were fighting over and nobody appears to have been on the side of the humanitarian crisis that it is. they were

>>> national security vice other john bolton in moscow set -- security adviser john bolton in moscow set to meet with sergei lavrov. this follows the president's announcement he is pulling out of the treaty with russia. the u.s. is pushing the world to another cuban missile crisis. we have fred pleitgen with more from moscow. good morning, fred. >> reporter: good morning, dave. all of this could trigger a new arms race. they are accusing the u.s. of trying to blackmail russia. national security adviser john bolton is on the ground here and has the meeting with sergei lavrov. the question is will there be a meeting with vladimir putin. from what we hear, the meeting is in preparation from the kremlin and they have not finalized if the meeting is confirmed. dave, the thing the russians are trying to find out from the u.s. is whether or not president trump's announcement he made means the u.s. is definitely pulling out of the deal or whether or not there may be wiggle room to try to maybe renegotiate things for the nuclear force treaty which was signed in 1987 and got rid of 2,700 nucle

national security adviser john bolton is in moscow today for what could be tough talks on arms control that's after washington announced it would withdraw from a nuclear arms agreement with russia u.s. president donald trump accused russia of violating a thirty year old treaty on intermediate range missiles and threatened a fresh arms race with moscow. this is what the drama is about medium range nuclear ballistic missiles that have been on a self-imposed by the u.s. and russia since the end of the one nine hundred eighty s. that may be about to change u.s. authorities believe russia may have developed weapon systems like these in breach of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty. we're not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement they go out and do weapons and we're not allowed to wear the ones that have stayed in the agreement and we bonded greatly but russia has not fortunately wanted the agreement so we're going to terminate a break but we're going to pull out. the kremlin has denied trump's allegations saying it has not produced any missiles that are prohibited by the i.

it's john bolton. if this november meeting takes place, it would be the first face-to-face meeting since the july summit in helsinki, where the president took questions about election meddling with putin standing right there next to him, still viewed by so many as a low point in his presidency. >> just now president putin denied having anything to do with the election interference in 2016. every intelligence agency has concluded that russia did. who do you believe? >> president putin, he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. >> president putin, did you want president trump to win the election? >> translator: yes, i did. >> the president did try to clear all that up when he came home, but the damage was largely done. today in moscow, john bolton said he talked with putin about election interference generally, and he was asked if he thought russia was trying to meddle in the upcoming vote just two weeks away here. >> we're obviously monitoring the potential f

end of the week so it's very difficult other than listening to strident voices like those of john bolton the neoconservative nutcase in my view or my pump aoe who is not far from that definition some other spokes person for the administration the only sane and sober one being in my estimation jim mattis at the pentagon secretary of defense of course with regard to syria though i think president obama's strategy and i actually had occasion to talk to president obama in the roosevelt room in november of two thousand and fifteen and got some inkling of this was to admit that bashar al assad was there that simply we had made a street strategic error and interpreted his role in syria like we had interpreted mubarak's role in egypt and that was wrong because there was a sizable portion powerful portion of the syrian people that supported as odd not to mention his armed forces in majority and so president obama's policy at that point was sort of patience to see how long it would take to restore assad and if eventually the united states could support that i don't know what donald trump's policy

and he and john bolton, their relationship has kind of been fraught from the start. if you remember, john kelly did not want john bolton to become national security adviser, and the dynamic is set up so bolton reports directly to the president and circumvents kelly's authority, which kelly finds very frustrating. there's all of that simmering underneath, and there's the closest person to john kelly has consistently been kirstjen nielsen. he helped install her over at the -- >> his old job at homeland security, and he's very protective of her. she's been under fire from the president, from within her own agency, and you know, to have bolton then go after her for what he felt like, according to our reporting, was her not really doing the one thing that she's supposed to do and the big thing the president cares about when it comes to her department. >> what's interest about the story, and we'll get to the abomination, which was the policy they were fighting over and nobody appears to have been on the side of the humanitarian crisis it is, they were debating not whether

landmark nuclear arms treaty with russia president trumps hawkish national security advisor john bolton's in moscow for talks. on trouble. in new york as a coven of witches pro-forma hexing ritual on supreme court judge read. the event is met with protesters condemning the black magic. and hundreds rally in the u.k. to protest the british government's pressing ahead with a controversial gas extraction process after a seven year suspension. the state's really doing something the people don't want and the reason why is because there are fifty six. executives in you take up. and they have financial interests. around the clock across the world this is r.t.d. international from the team and myself and you know neal hello and welcome our top story donald trump's national security advisor john bolton's in moscow for talks with russia's foreign minister the visit comes after president trump announced he was taking the u.s. nuclear arms treaty with russia while also going to develop new weapons well the treaty was signed back in nineteen eighty seven between then soffit union and the united states

but it was between kelly and bolton that it got the ugliest.hey were arguing about it, and kelly was set off because bolton made a remark about the dhs secretary kirstjen nielsen, criticizing her and saying essentially she needs to start doing her job over at dhs. of course, don, that didn't sit well with john kelly, who considers nielsen to be his protege essentially. she was at dhs when he was the dhs secretary. he brought her over to the west wing when he was chief of staff. he was the one who persuaded president trump to nominate her to leave dhs. president trump actually sided with john bolton on that remark. i'm told that only added to john kelly's anger here. people walked away from this argument thinking there was a significant chance that john kelly could resign over something like this. that's how angry he was. now, he's threatened to resign in the past. people have seen that as an empty threat. when he got in arguments with president trump. but don, i'm told by sources inside the white house that this was a really unusual fight and t

you talked to bolton. what did he tell you? >> yeah, i certainly talked to bolton earlier today.give you the latest lines that i got a couple seconds ago coming directly out of that meeting between vladimir putin and john bolton. this is coming to us via the russian official news agency. and apparently in that meeting, president vladimir putin told john bolton that he was surprised by the very hars line that the russians are getting out of washington, also apparently said that he would like to meet president trump once again, apparently to that, john bolton answered that president trump would be very happy to meet vladimir putin. but as you said, right now, the big thing here in town is the reaction to the u.s. wanting to pull out of the inf treaty. i did catch up with john bolton earlier today, and i asked him whether or not the u.s. is really pulling out or whether there might be some wiggle room for negotiations and how the russians are taking all this. here's what he said. >> the russians been quite understanding for your reasoning when you explain it to them? >> well, i thin

when you think of bolton the word subtlety in diplomacy don't come to mind so is there now a bolton doctrine. talking bolton's foreign policy i'm joined by my guest had seen oxford he's a senior policy consultant at the british american security information council in san francisco we have john rainwater he is the executive director of peace action and in new york we cross to alice slater she is a member of the coordinating committee of world beyond war and affect everyone i'm going to go to john first in san francisco so i always go to the person that gets up early is for this and i'm very thankful that you did get up so early and i wouldn't be surprised if you had a coffee mug in your hand john let me go to trump was campaigning in after he was elected everyone was saying that he was going to be an isolationist then he went through a few iterations of his foreign policy team and now with john bolton on the scene and apparently calling a lot of the shots what the fear of isolationism is really turned into the worry of you. lateral ism in a time when multi-lateralism is gaining pace

but john bolton has a long history back in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine when i published my book on crimes against humanity he reviewed it for the moonie paper the washington times and the fanatically right wing paper and said this guy's a threat is a danger to america because he's doing that america could should sign up to international justice which then was in its infancy but then the court was together in two thousand and two and by that time bolton who's never been in to do anything here has no electoral creedence was an advisor to george w. bush and supported the. bill look both and jesse helms and jordan bolton got pasta enabling literally literally enabling the american president to reinvade. them as if they hold an american torture before the international court in the hague it was an absurd piece of legislation but each malice and the stupidity of the man the result of these are your colleagues people you work very. well. for us there from leading european countries from if you like the civilized world the democratic nations of the world that have hitherto look to

treaty is an attempt to blackmail russia bolton reportedly also said that the u.s. had not taken the decision to deploy missiles in europe targeting moscow if the i.n.f. treaty is scrapped we're here at the big table with me now is on the whole she is on the board of i can germany i can germany is the german army of i can which is dedicated to a a world without nuclear weapons we appreciate you taking the time to come in with us tonight we've got the trumpet ministrations saying that for the past four years at least there is evidence that russia has been in violation of the i n f treaty is that true. well only the u.s. know the answer to that because they haven't been telling anybody what the information is that they have that actually proves that's and so nobody in europe has actually said we know that to be a fact and at the same time the russians have also been saying that the u.s. are in violation violation of the same treaty so it's very hard to know what going on here what we do know is that this is a kind of blame game that they're both are trying to say that

john bolton, president trump's national security advisor, is famously hawkish. mr bolton is noticeably tough on russia. now he's in moscow explaining why the us plans to pull out of a reagan era arms control treaty. mr bolton dismissed russia's warning that scrapping the pact would make the world a more dangerous place. he added that the treaty was out of date because key international players aren't part of it. we have been discussing with all of the russian officials i met with why the president made his decision. and had a very interesting conversation just now with the defence minister about how outdated the inf treaty is. and overall had a very productive conversation with the defence minister. it was scheduled for about an hour, it lasted for an hour and a half. you do not feel this is a dangerous step, a return to the old arms race of the cold war? no, i think that rhetoric is over heated. i was here almost exactly 17 years ago to withdraw from the abm treaty. we heard a lot of the same rhetoric. we withdrew from the abm treaty. and we are more secure cou

john bolton started criticizing dhs secretary kirstjen nielsen. had been his deputy at dhs and was the one who convinced president to lead dhs. john bolton saying she wasn't essentially doing her job and needed to start doing it and that set john kelly off and led to this argument and an argument in this west wing is normal. it's really bitter and divided, and there are people arguing on a regular basis this. led people to think john kelly might resign. someone who has threatened to resign in the past when he and president trump disagreed and people thought he genuinely could resign because he saw president trump siding with john bolton adding to john kelly's fury. he's not traveling to the president to montana, wasn't scheduled to, but john bolton kept about his schedule going on with meetings this afternoon. a really ugly fight that startled people in the west wing and that sees a lot because they see a lot of fights here. >> david? >> these are both tough guys with very thick skin. >> does john kelly have thick skin? >> john kelly has pretty th