bolton laid out mr.rump's fixation on ukraine in the presence belief Ãbas he began to realize the extent and aims of the pressure campaign mr. bolton began to object, he wrote in the book, affirming the testimony of a former national security council aide fiona hill who had said mr. bolton warned that mr. giuliani was a hand grenade was going to blow everybody up. as you might imagine, the president denies this. president said today, i never instructed john bolton to set up a meeting for rudy giuliani. one of america's, one of the greatest corruption fighters in america, here you have the president saying john bolton is not telling the truth, let's find out. let's put john bolton under oath let's find out who is telling the truth. the trial is supposed to be a quest for the truth. let's not fear what we will learn. as mr. cipollone said, let's make sure all the facts come out. >> mr. chief justice, senators, counsel for the president, last tuesday at the onset of this trial we moved for leader mcconnell'

bolton began to object. he wrote in the book affirming the testimony of a former national security council aid fiona hill, mr. bolton warned thatrm mr. giuliani was a hand grenade. who would blow everybody out. as you might imagine the president denies this. the president said today i never instructed john bolton to set up a meeting with rudy giuliani. one of america's -- one of the hundred greatest corruption fighters of america. so here you have the president saying john bolton is not telling the truth. let's find out. let's put john bolton under oath. let's find out who is telling the truth. the trial is supposed to be a quest for the truth. let's let fear what we will learn. as mr. cipollone said, let's make sure all the facts come out. >> mr. chief justice, senators, counsel for the president. last tuesday at the onset of this trial, we had mcconnell's resolution be amended to subpoena documents from the onset. this body decided to hold the question over. you have now heard opening arguments from both s

talking about ambassador bolton. so if you want to know whether ukrainians self pressure call john as a witness. it was posted by ukraine and he was there for the cds. and he was so concerned he characterized the scheme as a drug deal. and urged doctor hill and others report their concerns to legal counsel will report to white house counsel ceremony. let's ask ambassador bolton thesequestions directly under oath . the president says ukraine felt no pressure, that soliciting these investigations wasn't improper . is that true -mark if it is true, why is ukraine publicly saying the talk of investigationscould destroy everything ? and if the president's administration thought this was okay , why did you use the word drug deal? ask him that. why did you purge your staff to report concerns the lawyers area these are all questions we can get the answers to. third, the president has suggested the house managers have not presented any direct evidence about mister giuliani's role in the scheme. in fact . >> it appears the hou

bolton.t to also make it clear that when i gave my interview to rachel, i wasn't aware that these clips of ambassador bolton's book were going to come out and i stated very strongly that ambassador bolton, because i figured with his integrity he will tell the truth and if he tells the truth it will validate everything that i said because like i said he knows everything that was going on because he was in the white house. i know everything that was going on because of two sources, a., i was on the ground but b., directly in contact with rudy giuliani who was basically the president's right hand to mastermind the whole plan. and one of the things that i think the senators are very scared for this to get out of witnesses because it is not just what john bolton has to say it is what the can of worms that will open up and when the book comes out there is a lot of things that are going to start coming out like some of the ways that ambassador yovanovitch was fired. it is just embarrassing to go int

i want to talk about john bolton.ra, "the new york times" today new reporting, john bolton's manuscript, this is about a meeting in may, may comes before june and june was when the call happened. trump has a meeting, at that is mick mulvaney, pat cipollone, the president tells bolton to pressure ukraine to get information on rivals including joe biden. >> i think you just defined hypocrisy and a reason to accelerate the trial to avoid having fact-based witnesses saying, remember that time people like adam schiff were too interested? cipollone as white house counsel, you too had some involvement. by the way, the call was in july, two months to plan this entire thing. one thing, i find it strange that the senate could not wait seven days to allow for witnesses like a bolton perhaps, maybe like other people in the room. they're willing to wait six days to make speeches about why they will acquit. by the alclation, you can have this done by next week. it's about the idea of the nonsense involved here. pat cipollone is the

bolton's testimony. it ensured it's the house of representatives not the president will be the place that winds up gathering the most evidence in this proceeding. so the lack of senators willing to stand up for the senate as an institution, to stand up for the senate's prerogatives, i think that was a permanent blow to the institution today. >> there was one win in its way among republicans for the house managers, and that is lamar alexander, republican senator who voted against witnesses and is going to vote in the president's favor on the verdict. he said that the house managers proved their case. he said there's no need for more evidence to prove that the president asked ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son hunter. and he said because they absolutely proved it all, we don't need anymore. but it's not enough to remove him from office. >> yes, he basically stipulated that trump did everything that everybody thought he did. one of the interesting things about that was that he was giving people an

bolton. tonight, while president trump may be getting the victory he wants in the senate, it may not come before the deadline he desires, his state of the union address on tuesday. for more on that and the game plan ahead, we go to capitol hill, cnn chief political correspondent, dana bash. so dana, what's next? >> reporter: what's next is -- well, first of all, the senate just adjourned. you're looking at pictures of senators flocking for the doors, going home. and they really started the day not thinking that that was going to happen. but what occurred throughout the whole afternoon was some pretty intense negotiations, first of all, within the republican caucus, sort of competing desire, some saying, you know, we don't want to just do the final votes tonight, we want to take some time for senators to have conversations, to have statements, to make clear to the constituents why they are voting how they're going to vote. so what happened was, they came up with the deal. and the deal says tha

bolton says he never made that call to president zelensky. that's not bolton's new revelation.n says that trump told them last summer that he wanted to keep holding back american military aid to ukraine until ukraine investigated trump's political rivals. but secretary of state mike pompeo seemed to rebutt that saying the president had legitimate reasons for holding back aid for ukraine. >> when we were talking about, hey, does it make sense to continue to provide this assistance to ukraine, he had valid concerns about how we would do it and how we would protect america if we did do it. >> bolton's latest revelations from fiona hill paint a portrait of a national security adviser who was in on the critical conversations at the heart of the impeachment scandal. a man who confided in his aides on the pressure in ukraine. >> he then in the course of that discussion said that rudy giuliani was a hand grenade that was going to blow everyone up. >> reporter: without any impeachment testimony from john bolton, will any of his revelations matter? >> it's true that if the worst revelati

bolton to "help with his pressure campaign to exfract damaging informion on democrats from ukrainianfcials." an by friday night, right now, senator majority leaderitch mcconnell held his leaders in line and the volt to call witnses did tail with only two senators voting in favor. senator mittoll and i and senator susan collins of maine. ing us tonight. karoun demirjian, congressionalt reporter f "washington post." jake sherman, sister writer and co-author of political play book. carl hulse chief washington core portant for "the new yo times" and here with me at the table, ayesha rasc, white house reporter for national public radio and susan page, washington brewo chief for usa today. t's start witthe dean of senate reportering, carl hulse. th e's been a question abo the timing of the final vote on the articles of impeachment. what can you tells about the politics and negotiations behin thatcision? >> a lot of wrangling going on tryingo get to an end game here. so what has happen sled that there's been a decision that was cleared with perspective trump to have a final vote on wednesda

john bolton is very hawk i shall. but the president and bolton did clash on decisions.ite house anymore. bolton is all about him. and he doesn't even care about what the process is. he just wants to sell books. trish: i'm disturbed by that. country matters in all of this. i don't know, maybe he wants to be in the club he's hot stuff at msnbc and cnn? is that it? maybe to your point it's as pure and simple as money. the almighty dollar. >> definitely the almighty dollar. but it's not surprising he's a rock star with him because he's criticizing the *. i wonder if he signed a contract with any of those networks? >> i think he's work. i wonder if there is some kinds of deal, i'll give you my first interview for my book. in he has a grand story to tell, he will tell it. i invited him on the program via a representative. i believe sean hannity invited him on his program. in he has a story to tell, go out and tell it. he's holding tight in homes it go with the the release of the book, et cetera. deneen borelli, such is the world we live in. coming up next. conservative challe

why didn't bolton just speak out? well, he just told an audience at a speech at duke university the following. i'll read it for you. my conclusion was that if i got a subpoena, i would testify. why? because mr. impeachment power and mr. executive privilege, meet mr. first amendment. then bolton was asked a follow-up question of why he didn't just speak out. his response, quote, the threat of possible legal action by the executive branch. bolton is pushing his book, which is supposed to come out next month. according to "the new york times," in the book, bolton alleges that trump directed him to hold up aid to ukraine until the country announced investigations into the bidens. and so right now, i want to go to our cnn's vivian salama, who was in the room with john bolton. she just left the room -- we're going to get to vivian as soon as we can get her hooked up. until then, let's get over to kaitlan collins who's at the white house with much more on this. kaitlan, how is this likely to go over, because at the white hou

and john bolton will make money on it. and in the meantime, the american people, 75% of whom wanted to hear witnesses, will remain in the dark. that means you. karl bernstein is here. hello, one and all. >> good to be with you. >> how did i do? >> tell me how you really feel. >> we have been expecting this. it was a foregone conclusion. to not hear from witnesses. i kind of thought about that. the closing arguments and statements from the senators are next week. instead of hearing witnesses we'll hear senators try to explain -- all in their feelings as we say. here's why i did it. because in my heart, do people want to hear that? >> first of all the irony is going to be you're going to delay this by six days so we can hear from you. you're not willing to delay for seven days to have witnesses. to hear from people who were players. you told us essentially so what. now you want to tell us here's why. the reality is their votes speak for themselves and the idea explanation in this respect. dershowitz came out very strong hand

why is it that we never heard from bolton? was it because he had a book coming out in march that he didn't want to speak out? was it because he didn't think he had the right to make the decision about whether he could testify and defy the white house from telling him not to or go along with a congressional subpoena? we have not heard from him, and that's why we spent as much time as we did this week trying to final out what was in that book because it seemed like he was someone who was actually in the room, who was there with the president talking to him, unlike many of those other witnesses that the house democrats were relying on. and it looks like, from our reporting in that book, that bolton does reveal several details about what the president was saying, how the president asked him to set up a meeting with giuliani so he could meet with zelensky as giuliani was kicking off his campaign to start digging up dirt that the president wanted. it's this fuller picture that we have of what bolton knows. but as we come to the end

things are not going well with john bolton.e screwed up venezuela. >> ambassador bolton looked pale, ijtd kaitd with body language there was nothing much he could do about it. and in the course of that discussion said rudy giuliani was a hand grenade pat was going to blow everyone up. trish: meanwhile, sean misko, an nsc aide alongside john bolton joined adam schiff's committee staff in august a. august. the same day the whistleblower submitted his complaint. the same day the whistleblower met with adam schiff's staff. then the alleged whistleblower filed a complain. the whistleblower report goes public. and adam schiff does his victory lap. >> what we have seen already is damning. i found the allegations deeply disturbing. and i found them very credible. i want to thank the whistleblower. this whistleblower has already had a tremendous impact a exposing wrongdoing by the president of the united states. we have note spoken directly with the whistleblower, we would like to. trish: only one problem. >> we have not spoken directly

>>> john bolton revelations, "the new york times" saying bolton wrote in his manuscript trump directed to -- congressman adam schiff, the lead house manager zeroed in on that on the senate floor. >> during an oval office conversation in early may that included the acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney, the president's personal lawyer rudy giuliani, and the white house counsel pat cipollone. who is now leading the president's impeachment defense. >> pat cipollone as schiff was saying has been on the senate floor all week arguing against witnesses and the president is denying the allegation. back with our political and legal team. kirsten, are you convinced bolton's book will be published? >> i don't know. i'm sort of curious if there are any like options for somebody where the government just sits on the book. it seems like there needs to be some sort of recourse for somebody that they're holding it out -- >> i was talking to jeff toobin about this earlier, he said if you go ahead and publish they take your money. >> but i guess it seems like -- i don't know. i just wonder if

john bolton says it is true.own this road whether you are ever going to get any sort of conclusive agreement on what happened. >> and i think that's part of the problem as republicans. guy brings up a an interesting point while guy and other republicans have been very outlet this call was not perfect. i think this would have went away a lot quicker if there were more republicans who came out and said mr. president your behavior on this call was unbecoming. it was unpresidential. to be frank with you, the reason why this is impeachment is happening there are some parts of these calls and part of this whole operation that raise questions to the american people. what was missing here is republicans never did that and now as we get into this election literally starts on monday. >> some did. >> some did. i think there should have been more republicans. anybody who understands foreign policy understands how incorrect his behavior was. >> martha: from the top and the president's attorneys were he did nothing wrong. ther

trump denies giving bolton that order.t saying, quote, i never instructed john bolton to set up a meeting for rudy giuliani to meet with president zelensky. that meeting never happened. according to the times, bolton writes that he never made that call to president zelensky. but that's not bolton's only new revelation. according to the times, bolton says in a forthcoming book that trump told him last summer that he wanted to keep holding back american military aid to ukraine until ukraine investigated trump's political rivals. but secretary of state mike pompeo seemed to rebut that, saying the president had legitimate reasons for holding back aid to ukraine. >> when we were talking about, hey, does it make sense to continue to provide this assistance to ukraine, he had valid concerns about how we were going to do it and how we would protect america if we did do it. >> reporter: house testimony from his former aide fiona hill paint a portrait who was in on many of the critical conversations at the heart of the impeachment s

the notes ambassador bolton has or didn't have.the president has said, at least with respect to the allegation that ambassador bolton made that he told him to call zelensky. the president said it didn't happen. i believe bill barr mike pompeii said it didn't happen. if someone has information we have to be sense tifr about the classified information. >> brennan: we turn to the chairman of the house intelligence committee. adam schiff. good morning, mr. chairman. >> good morning >> brennan: the "wall street journal" wrote, unlike past impeachment debates with nixon this covers no common ground between the two parties. what do you think this impeachment accomplished? >> what's remarkable is you have republican senators coming out and saying the house proved its case. the house proved the corrupt scheme that they charged in the articles of impeachment. the dollars to coerce the ally to help him cheat in the next election. that's remarkable when you have senators on both sides of thsthould the president be removed from office because h

bolton a lot of people are frustrated by this. he side stepped questions about whether president trump's call with zelensky was perfect. saying instead you know what, you have to read my book, chapter 14. and said he could. have answered -- he couldn't even answer the question if he wanted to. what do you make of that, the fact that he's kind of dodging the question promoting his book and saying he can't talk about it. >> i think he's hampered by the fact that the white house is continuing to review the manuscript and saying there are parts that contain top secret information. that said, i have been talking to trying to sell a book and gin up excitement about the book and he's worried about his legacy and his reputation. he is one who wants to, some think, go into the speaking circuit, continue to be someone who is liked by conservatives, who are very close to trump or are supportive of president trump given that many republicans voted to acquit him, all republicans in the senate. so what you have is john bolton walking a line. he

giuliani, who was also a part of the meeting according to bolton, is calling it a lie. the former new york mayor has also said that bolton was very aware of his efforts in ukraine. norah. >> o'donnell: all right, weijia, thank you so much. well, hours before the president took off for florida, there was a wild chase not far from his mar-a-lago resort. police say a woman who may have been impaired drove through security checkpoints at high speed on the road that leads to the resort. u.s. secret service opened fire on her car, hitting it several times. the woman, who is 30 years old, was arrested after she tried to flee. there's breaking news tonight on the coronavirus. the federal government has declared a public health emergency and is taking an historic step to try to contain the virus. u.s. citizens who flew from china are being quarantined. that is the first time that's happened in decades. carter evans is outside the military base in california where nearly 200 people evacuated from china this week are being housed. >> reporter: the americans being housed at march a

that is who john bolton is.e on the show john bolton your country wants to hear from you and i would like to hear from you. if you have a story you would like to tell the people, come on the show. >> i don't like the idea of people making john bolton out to be a liar, he is not a liar so many commentators have flipped on the former national security advisor. as iowa tomorrow the caucuses, the media is worried that bernie sanders could work under win the nomination. >> right there mark joins us live in iowa. in super bowl sunday between the san francisco 49ers and the kansas city chiefs and the tragic death of kobe bryant not to mention impeachment. i am however, this is "mediabuzz". ♪ when did it become clear the impeachment will be wrapped up after the new york times got access to john bolton's manuscript after the pressure to republican senators to allow witnesses and a gop back the effort. everyone knew his game over. the president and democratic leader reflected in the media coverage are going impeachment or

bolton's account. mr. bolton never made the call, he wrote. the president put out a statement saying he never told john bolton to do this and rudy giuliani put out a statement which denies nothing as far as i can tell. giuliani says i think he's making some of it up. he's sure making up -- well, i won't call it making it up but he's acting like a real scum bagby telling me he never objected and then telling me i was a time bomb, firecracker or something. >> hand grenade. >> it was a hand grenade. you have the president denying it. you have john bolton telling one story, the president telling another. there is a way to find out the truth. sometimes you can put someone under oath, right? the senate is not going to do that. now from a political standpoint, joe, it is interesting. there's lamar alexander doctrine now which is republican senators can say, oh, i believe all this happened. i believe john bolton's story here. i believe it could get even worse than that but i still don't think the president should be removed. i still don't want to hear

i want to turn to john bolton. >> john bolton used the ukraine as his own piggy bank.ined president trump as national security advisor he took a payment from an oligarch who was a contributor to the clinton administration. so he had his own finger in the pot. but inherent in these leaks about the bolton nsc is you see an nsc that wasn't following its job. if the president tells you to do something unless it's illegal you should do it. this entire scandal is more about the bad conduct of the nsc and the state department than it is about the president's conduct. lou: talking about the whistleblower and one of his friends. the idea that they were plotting openly in a large meeting assumes they were amongst friends. and that's suggests the problem is vast in the national security council. robert o'brien has been trimming it. but the idea that they could discuss that openly in the white house in a national security council staff discussion is stunning to me. >> it's the same sort of arrogance and anti-trumpism you saw in the peter strzok-lisa page. i think the bureaucracy s

things are not going well with john bolton.e screwed up venezuela. >> ambassador bolton looked pale, ijtd kaitd with body language there was nothing much he could do about it. and in the course of that discussion said rudy giuliani was a hand grenade pat was going to blow everyone up. trish: meanwhile, sean misko, an nsc aide alongside john bolton joined adam schiff's committee staff in august a. august. the same day the whistleblower submitted his complaint. the same day the whistleblower met with adam schiff's staff. then the alleged whistleblower filed a complain. the whistleblower report goes public. and adam schiff does his victory lap. >> what we have seen already is damning. i found the allegations deeply disturbing. and i found them very credible. i want to thank the whistleblower. this whistleblower has already had a tremendous impact a exposing wrongdoing by the president of the united states. we have note spoken directly with the whistleblower, we would like to. trish: only one problem. >> we have not spoken directly

i believe john bolton, even a president trump denies this. >> laura: what is presenting john bolton fromiving an interview with jake tapper? they seem like they would agree on a lot and he wasn't in the white house for the entire saga. >> the john kelly thing is hilarious to me. why all of a sudden is john kelly the authority on impeachment and removal? he couldn't even be a fact witness and as we've talked about several times on this show, they didn't want to call john bolton as a witness in the house. they didn't even subpoena him. and when it looked like the judge was going to make a ruling on the case, which bolton said i will follow, they withdrew the subpoena. i'm not sure why they did it but i will tell you something about whether or not it's legitimate. just like nancy pelosi says, he is impeached forever, he's acquitted forever and i want to point out one other thing that's incorrect that is being said repeatedly. the democratic senators are saying that there has never been in impeachment without witnesses. that is not true. the very first impeachment ever in our history had no

john bolton will not be heard in the senate. all eyes had been on four moderate republicans but the democrats' hopes of witnesses first dimming when tennessee's lamar alexander said he'd vote no on witnesses but saying what the president did was inappropriate but not impeachable. but maine's susan collins voting yes, along with mitt romney of utah. both wanted witnesses. then alaska's lisa murkowski who kept everyone guessing, voted no. she says she has concerns with the whole process, saying congress has failed. 51-4inprot vid oennog t set to acquitted of abuse of power and obstruction of justice. and mary bruce tonight on when that acquittal will likely come. >> reporter: tonight, democrats' hopes of calling new witnesses in the impeachment trial, shattered. >> ms. murkowski. no. >> reporter: moments later the top senate democrat speaking out. >> it's a grand tragedy, one of the worst tragedies that the senate has ever overcome. >> reporter: just hours before "the new york times" published new allegations from the man democrat

or not subpoena john bolton.ided in discussing this with the speaker is we were going to try the case, we would conclude the trial and we would consider what next steps we should take afterward. so at this point no decisions have been made about that. i can tell you that after the senate voted not to hear witnesses, after they voted to be the first impeachment trial in history without witnesses, we did approach john bolton's counsel, asked if mr. bolton would be willing to submit an affidavit under oath, describing what he observed in terms of the president's ukraine misconduct, and he refused. so for whatever reason, he apparently was willing to testify before the senate but apart from that seems intent on saving it for his book. he'll have to answer for that. but at this point we have not made a decision about whether or not to move forward with the subpoena. but certainly it is something that we will be discussing. >> you also raised flags in a couple of public interviews and during the trial. what struck me a

bolton.orter: tonight republicans voted down four more democratic attempts to subpoena witnesses and documents. >> the yeas are 51, the nays are 49. reporter:fter final debate early next week, presint trump is expected to be acquittaled on wednesday. i'm nick schifrin. udy: weur turn to lisa desjardins and yamiche alcindor. lisa, withol in now 51 against witnesses and 49 for, tell us about those swing senators we were watching and their decisn to swinggainst this. what went into their thinking? >> in the end, the two decisive volts for the president were those of senators lisa murkowski and lamar alexander and if you dig deeper into the statement, nick posted some good pamplets those. you'll see that they had very serious problems with the house process. lisa murkowski wrote -- the whouls house chose to sends articles of impeachment that are rushed and flawe it has also been colleen clear that some of my colagues intend to further politicize this congress and drive the supreme court into the

bolton was a private citizen, could have done it.lton decides from out of nowhere, i'm willing to testify in the senate trial, he was pretty sure he wasn't going to have to. here's what he said tonight about the ukraine issues. this is as far as he would go. he said, for all the focus on ukraine and the impeachment trial, and all that, for me, there are portions of the manuscript that deal with u crane, i view that like the sprinkles on the ice cream sundae, in terms of what's in the book. ben, this is the book tour for the book that doesn't exist yet. >> yeah. this is a guy who seems motivated above all by profit. and frankly we've seen this in a lot of trump people who have left and written books. and here's the reality, lawrence. like american democracy is on the ballot in this upcoming year, and we've had people like bolton, like rex tillerson, like jim mattis, like john kelly, who walked out of that white house, and they know a lot. they know a lot that they haven't told us yet. they know a lot that hasn't even been in the books

i want to turn to john bolton. >> john bolton used the ukraine as his own piggy bank.ix months before he joined president trump as national security advisor he took a payment from an oligarch who was a contributor to the clinton administration. so he had his own finger in the pot. but inherent in these leaks about the bolton nsc is you see an nsc that wasn't following its job. if the president tells you to do something unless it's illegal you should do it. this entire scandal is more about the bad conduct of the nsc and the state department than it is about the president's conduct. lou: talking about the whistleblower and one of his friends. the idea that they were plotting openly in a large meeting assumes they were amongst friends. and that's suggests the problem is vast in the national security council. robert o'brien has been trimming it. but the idea that they could discuss that openly in the white house in a national security council staff discussion is stunning to me. >> it's the same sort of arrogance and anti-trumpism you saw in the peter strzok-lisa page. i t

john bolton. george w. bush, let's invade everybody we love him now too. unbelievable. at the end that it's not going to change anyone's opinion, they all hate trump whatever bolton says it just can confirm their position they hate trump. kat: i am just trying to love anything is much as bolton loves bombs. the president flexes pardon power today granting. [inaudible] including bernard care, junk buying king and illinois governor got out of prison about an hour ago. here's how trump explained the last one. >> yes we have commuted the sentence of rod he's served eight years in jail. i don't know him very well, i've met him a couple of times he was on first short while on the apprentice of couple years ago, he seemed like a very nice person, i don't know him. he served eight years in jail, there's a long time to go. many people disagree with the sentence he's a democrat not a republican. kat: not everyone was happy with trumps parts in the commutations. blasted for releasing block island bernie sand

house democrats still want to hear from former national security adviser john bolton.d house impeachment manager adam schiff revealed new details about bolton's refusal to give a sworn affidavit. >> they voted down his testimony to see whether he is willing to submit an affidavit under oath that would still be valuable during trial. >> even if he is coming to testify, even if he wasn't going to testify, a sworn affidavit and he refused. he would have to explain at some point where y. he is willing to put this in a book but not in an affidavit under oath. >> he is making speeches which he drops sort of comments as well. >> yes. you know, it is fairly inkplikable. but, you know, frankly, it's more inkplikable that when he was willing to come forward before the senate that the senators did not want to hear what he had to say. and for those senators and there have been a few, we didn't need to hear from john bolton because he proved him guilty without him. and we should let the voters decide. they could in the explain why they don't want the voters to know the full facts.

but i think john bolton is making a mistake here.he underestimates how he's destroying his personal reputation through this process. his comment last night that if you really want to know the truth, buy my book and read chapter 14, screams of somebody putting profit over country. it was just last month, the entire nation needed to hear from john bolton. whether it exonerated donald trump or provided damning evidence, the calling on history was last month to speak to the senate and share what he knew. he didn't just say, no, i'm not going to do it for legal reasons, last night he admitted the reason he didn't was because he wanted to profit from his silence. i think he roundly should be condemned today. i think he's destroying his political legacy, and i think millions of americans are saying i will never give that man a dollar and buy his book. he can't be trusted in moments of crisis in the nation. >> david jolly, michael crowley and anne rumsey gearan, thank you all so much. >>> coming up next, free advice, dan pfeiffer offers his

nobody knows how bolton will react to a subpoena from the house now. during the house's impeachment investigation, he told the house that he would sue them if they subpoenaed him. he later changed his mind and said that he would testify. he would respond to a subpoena if one arrived from the senate. but in the republican controlled senate, that never happened. president trump for his part is reported to have told several reporters in a briefing before the state of the union address that he wants to try to block the publication of john bolton's forthcoming book. reporter gabe sherman from "vanity fair" said the president talked about trying to gin up some kind of criminal prosecution against john bolton as well. along those lines, you should know that today, today of all days, today the day the president was left in office by the senate after the house impeached him for trying to get a foreign country to interfere in the next election, today of all days, attorney general bill barr sent out this letter to all u.s. attorneys telling them that as of today,

bolton goes down with the book of tray towards.t's an effort to get even with a man who brought him out of darkness. you don't know go out and three months later go out and try to put a knife in his back, and that's what he has done. lou: rudy giuliani dweet tweeting about bolton. saying i consider john bolton a friend during my investigation uncovering massive democrat corruption in ukraine. he never complained to me. now he says he did to pompeo. if he did, he's a back steash. if he didn't, he's a liar. >> i would argue he may have both. he tried to put a spear in the president's back. you caught chairman of the foreign affairs committee and say investigate firing of this ambassador. knowing the president can fire any ambassador he wants to. i found this as treacherous as anything i have ever seen in washington. lou: the president described this as a happy period. president trump: we are having probably the best years we have ever had in the history of our country, and i just got impeached. can you believe these people? they impe

bolton's account. mr. bolton never made the call, he wrote. never made the call.nderstood that this was wrong. he understood that this was not policy. he understood that this was a andstic political errand refused to make the call. the manuscript portrays the senior white house advisers as early witnesses in the effort that they have sought to distance the president from, including the white house counsel. host: once again, we want to know what you think about the senate impeachment trial. remember our phone lines are open and we are waiting to hear from you. go to bill who was calling from maryland on the republican line. bill, good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. you probably have a larger vocabulary than mine. i wonder who chuck schumer was talking to. the elites i suppose would know what that word means. i have never heard the word perfidy before. this has been such a waste of my tax money. from day one, from prior to this president being elected or running for office. he is doing exactly what we voted him in for which is to stir t

what you think is the significance of john bolton tonight saint mr. impeachment power and mr.the first amendment. is it that he really wants to speak out in the trial? >> he really wanted to speak out and he made it very clear and when he is going to say presumably it's what's in his book and look, i don't want to get in the middle of the tweed storm between 270 year old men where having it out over each other but the bottom line is john bolton took a job with president trump and you take that job because you agree in general terms what the boss wants to do. you like the policies it and you make your case in private and the boss doesn't agree with it, fine, you go and follow the orders of the boss and his decision and has the right to make the decision. i asked him to make the decision and if he disagrees that he resign and you don't like to get fired, and then go out squabbling with each other. >> ed: brad, then people get upset when you leave the administration and write some sort of a tell all. we don't really know what's in the book for a number of reasons and number one,