glad bolton. thank you very much for joining us on bbc news.- bolton.ning us on bbc news. glad to be with ou. joining us on bbc news. glad to be with yom you _ joining us on bbc news. glad to be with you. you have _ joining us on bbc news. glad to be with you. you have heard - joining us on bbc news. glad to be with you. you have heard these - with you. you have heard these statements _ with you. you have heard these statements coming _ with you. you have heard these statements coming out - with you. you have heard these statements coming out of- with you. you have heard these - statements coming out of washington, london, berlin, paris from all of israel's allies around the world. describing what happened in the early hours of sunday morning here in israel as a success for israel. as israel has told the world, 99% of those drones and missiles were shot down. would you say israel's deterrence failed? why do you say that? ~ , deterrence failed? why do you say that? y , , deterrence failed? why do you say that? y , ., ._ that? when somebody shoots that ma

i think the idea that michael michael bolton or john bolton or any of the boltons will move a lot oft criticizing paul, i said, the idea -- of your point is that the cross-ideological thing is about a chorus. and if you look at republicans, it's not about one specific person or another specific person, it's that he's part of a chorus and some of these people sing base and some will sing baritone and some will sing soprano, but the effect of the left, the center, and the right, in kind of looking like, we are the world campaign against donald trump, is a powerful thing. and i think you're right that it -- all of them will reinforce one thing, which is how the sanders and trump thing worked with hillary clinton, and to some extent other people. which is, hillary clinton is not changed. she's the establishment, we want change. and all of them, bernie sanders' critique was the same. and you'll have across the ideological spectrum saying, unfit for office, danger to democracy. whether bolton thinks it's existential or just dire, no real voter cares about that. but hearing the chorus and a

and the more i thought about this, wasn't michael bolton. it was john bolton. john bolton. john bolton. oh, my. i wish it were michael. maybe my life would have turned out much more differently. but the more you pushed me to remember what i was doing in those early days when i started getting wooed by right wing interest groups more, i was thinking, oh, wait, no. this is not necessarily a story of someone who, like, bred to be hateful. this was a person who was looking for a place in her and this world and met a whole bunch of other like 19, 20, 21 year olds who were searching for that same to and it happened be at these essentially right wing summer camps funded by conservative billionaires to breed the next generation of republican leaders. and these are groups over that i started realizing over time have their roots in the sixties and the fifties they've created it. people like mitch mcconnell who was one of the first young people graduate out of the leadership institute in the sixties, is now old. but the group that but the people that made him just created this massive

position of the hawks, both in america and in israel, well, also the half-crazy statement of john boltoniran, you can laugh at such statements, but i once talked with john bolton back when there were entire previous governments in iraq and... many laughed at him, said, what is he like, looking for weapons of mass destruction in iraq, calls to a big war, this will not happen, but it happened in 2003, and the consequences are the saddest, iraq over the past many years has been just a hotbed, a breeding ground for new terrorist organizations, a refuge for old ones, they have barely begun to deal with this problem now , so i would... take such hawks and statements with complete seriousness, especially since what john bolton says coincides with the desires of benjamin netanyahu, as soon as the pressure on benjamin netanyahu increases, as soon as there is talk about early parliamentary elections in israel, they will start talking again, so we can expect another escalation, don’t go to a fortune teller, there will probably be one. i was very surprised by the former director of the cia, david pe

ask for a former us senior security official, john bolton's calls to targeting to renew nuclear facilities. he is a famous person at one time he was in the diplomatic service, but he did not become a true diplomat. this is his mentality. he does not rely on diplomacy, but on the use of force. in this case, such statements are precisely an attempt to rely on forceful methods, which i repeat, could lead to complete chaos in the middle east. these are irresponsible and extremely dangerous statements, although, to be honest, i know bolton a bit. i met him personally many years ago, but he is such a person. being a diplomat, i probably shouldn't talk about hypothetical scenarios, but i will refer to and a rainy and military statement that iran knows where is really military facilities are located and will take appropriate measures. if something like this happens, that is almost a threat to respond in a similar way for the region. this could mean a severe radiological disaster and a major war. but it is better even not to discuss such scenarios. let's just hope and pray. they never materialize.

to ladies and gentlemen, john bolton, i was a national security advisor. i was brief diagnose, i was very concerned about it. i, i did that and do now think that there's a very likely some hostile adversary behavior here, whether it's russia trying and maybe somebody else, but more than likely russia joining us now to discuss all of this. i'm so sorry for laughing, george of some welly, he's a senior research fellow at the global police policy institute officer of the book, bombs for pace, nato's humanitarian war on yugoslavia and just the fact that i showed you john bolton, probably just ruined your day. but what do you make of this whole, 16 minutes story? and then the fact that cnn follows it up with all i know will interview john bolton, and he'll confirm it for us. what a great get as well, like you. i was also under the impression that the havana syndrome story was just dead as a dodo and then you will open quietly for golfing. and now it's suddenly come back. and so i was trying to figure out what's behind list. and i have to think that this is all

plus former trump national security adviser john bolton and what now with tensions in the region soaring out of control, fears of a larger conflict in the middle east are now front and center sure. can further escalation be avoided. our panel breaks down what to watch next >> cnn breaking news hello. i'm jake tapper in washington with the special live expanded edition of state of the union, where the state of our union is bracing for what's next new this >> morning out of the middle east, israel's war cap i'm going to use meeting this hour to decide how to respond. >> that >> iran is unprecedented overnight assault. that's according to israeli visually, israel says that israel and other nations intersect that. did it 99% of the more than 300 missiles and drones fired by iran directly from iranian soil during its five-hour strike on israel. over the us intercepted more than 70 of those attack drones and at least three ballistic missiles. according to officials, president biden is set to convene a meeting of the g7 today to coordinate what he calls a united diplomatic response to iran's br

. >> john bolton has a megaphone, he is someone who people listen to.here saying this man poses a threat to democracy but then not being willing to double down on that and say that is why i'm going to hold my nose and vote for the other option, who, yes, i have many differences with ideologically but fundamentally, if what we are deciding is an axis of good for democracy, but for democracy, potentially and of democracy, that is a very clear binary. >> it is a very clear binary and the reality of it, here's the thing folks really i hope people appreciate, and they need to is that guys like bolton and others they have, they have been brought up in this political system. they haven't got up inside the gop and we all know the person who says i vote for a republican or if i vote for a democrat, my mom will never forgive me, my dad would turn over in his grave. there is this baked incense that i cannot move outside of my tribe. the problem is in voting for joe biden, it is voting for a democrat. that is the help that this fight has to be fought on. for those

s. foreign policy hawk john bolton, he's pushing for those very facilities to be had. he alluded to an a legit nuclear weapons program. that's around house, repeatedly denied pursuit. i think among many targets these real should consider, this is the opportunity to destroy iran's nuclear weapons program. and i help president biden is not trying to dissuade prime minister netanyahu from doing that . well, uh is rid of ways it's response to last weekend's retaliatory large scale drone and rocket. a sold by around town has warned against further escalation the it's really prime minister insist his forces will hit buck when and how they deem fit across in the us. some lawmakers i've called on washington to help israel palm around, but that position is not sufficiently shared by the white house. but let's take this further with that, i guess on a strategic offers expert side mohammed ali. you're most welcome to the program. not following to drums, retaliation for the deadly bombing of bits. consulate in syria on april 1st is realize no setting it sites on the run itself. co

as you know, there's no greater hawk in america then john bolton. and because of that, u. s. media outlets love him because they love wars. he loves wars, they love word, so therefore they love him, right? it's like an end to mind. he is there, go to expert on all things related to military foreign policy politics despite the fact that he, john bolton, never thought, nor does he seem to know. squat about geo politics is a man who, at one point or another has suggested that we go to war with russia. china then as well, iran too, but just to name a few. so in case you didn't know that with that said, watch this breaking news on c m m. when i ask him who he would vote for for president. and you've said you're going to write someone in in november. that's what i did in 2020 and i'll do it again. this november. who did you write in? in 2020. you've never revealed that before. well, i'm, i might as well say it. now. i voted for dick training. wow. and i'll vote for dick cheney again. this november perfect. exactly, because that's what we need. the guy who took us to war and iraq

and john bolton on any day will tell you the is roshan straw. he runs nuclear program, and now he just sees an opportunity to basically add legitimize his cause. and you're saying that it is what is what it was in people, as we've mentioned, lucky html, bank, video minister of public security and events and how smart judgments responded saying that, you know, we have to sort of the gloves off and how, what proportionality, we basically have to go crazy in the words it's been real, but again, these pottery maniacs have been saying the same thing for years. they just trying to catch it on his latest opportunity that's. there's very little evidence that is ro, could actually do the damage to arouse nuclear program with a kinetic attack. the people that jump, bolton arguing, and we've talked about cyber attacks, that was the stokes and that virus which was allegedly created bodies writers and americans, which set the reading a nuclear program at least as far as the kinetic strike would have done. it arrives nuclear program is not like the rocky nucl

just listen to john bolton, who used to be uh, president trump national security adviser, speaking on a us cable tv station. a way to pin that down uh is for israel to go after a ron's nuclear weapons program, which i think it can destroy or disable and very substantial parts. if israel is prepared to go after and ron's nuclear program, the united states should proudly join them. what do you make of that robot as well? what i make of it is people who have been saying the same things we use using and you still have current events to say the same thing they've been saying for years. and john bolton on any day will tell you the is roshan strong, she runs nuclear program, and now he just sees an opportunity to basically legitimize his cause. and you're saying that it is right. that's why we're seeing people. as we mentioned, lightweight html bank video minister of public security efforts. and those smart judgments responded saying that, you know, we have the front of the gloves off. that's how, what proportionality, we basically have to go crazy in the words has been real. but again, thes

and then if i didn't see and then follows it up with, oh, i know well, interview john bolton and he'll confirm it for us. what a great get as well. like you. i was also under the impression that the havana syndrome story was just dead as a dodo and then you will open quietly for god. and now it's suddenly come back. and so i was trying to figure out what's behind list. and i have to think that this is all part of the revival of russia gate. and there's plenty of evidence that russia gate is being revive, you know, rosters interfering, and all the election. russia was trump bag. and the somehow it is to do with the chrome, if they can show that with a some reality, you can do this around a syndrome or hoops. and the trump didn't take it seriously. trump didn't do anything to show a man or a diplomats and intelligence people who are being bombarded with these horrible raise them and you would like us to just show, well, this is to this evil person from once again, he was doing hooton's bidding. so it's kind of a double whammy you get the blast russia and at the same time you blast the fo

john bolton added that what iran did was the most striking action was. that from his soil directly. he fired at israel. the communication and information center of the ministry of roads and urban development announced the return of ticket fees for passengers of canceled flights from the morning of april 26 until the end of the aviation warning period. this center announced that due to the cancellation of domestic and foreign flights at the airports in the western part of the country, the cost of tickets purchased for flights in the morning of april 26 will be reduced until the end of time. removal of flight restrictions will be returned to passengers without deducting the fine. according to this announcement, passengers must purchase their tickets from the place of purchase, that is, agencies or internet platforms should pursue the return of their ticket fees . those who have acquired a skill before military service will be deducted from their service for one month. the commander of the armed forces central skill training base said that last year, 237,000 personnel acquired skills d

>> bolton is 100% wrong there. all that would do is probably push iran into a nuclear weapons program. more than that then it would put our troops at risk in iraq and syria. iran has said they won't attack our troops unless we participate in something that's going up on north and i can't imagine israel attacking those nuke facilities without our help. if that happens, then all of a sudden our troops are at risk there. those same drones that israel shot down with ease our troops can't because we don't have that kind of air defense capacity over all these sites. we would be at great risk of having our own troops attacked if bolton got his way. >> harris: we aren't getting hard numbers out of the pentagon anymore as it was 25 or 30 strikes of the proxies via iran had hit our military in the middle east. but it is north of 200 now and you have to bet that would be tougher on our men and women who are serving. colonel, always great to have you. start out the hour with you. thank you very much. republicans are going afte

nuclear holocaust history will know who to blame >> so it was just to be precise, i'm ambassador bolton. you're recommending that israel launched an airstrike to try to destroy whatever nuclear capabilities the iranians might have. is that what i'm hearing? >> right? i think they should go after the nuclear fuel cycle activities that are well-known. their locations are well-known. and i think that would be the appropriate target because right now, iran has demonstrated it is not restrained by any concern about a direct attack on israeli territory from its attack, it has by its own admission, fired ballistic and cruise missiles >> and the only, the >> only thing that has saved israel is this amazing technology next time if the attacks come from a different location containing nuclear warheads, israel might not be so lucky. this is not time to play academic gains and message and signal. this is a question of power. people say they're concerned about a wider war. the wider war began on october the seventh. that was it's not an israeli war against arabs are palestinians, are gazans. it was

ambassador bolton, thanks for being here. >> glad to be here. you heard liz cheney is message in that op-ed she wants the justices to really view time as being of the essence here because if they don't rule quickly, the american people won't have the benefit of hearing the evidence in this case. >> is she right now? i think she's exactly right. in fact, the briefing schedule the court said was kinda disappointing. i think they could have moved moved this more quickly. they have and carpels circumstances. so i do think speed and coming to their conclusion is going to be very important. obviously, the substance of it's gonna be very important, but i think for the country as a whole, it would benefit from them making this their top priority for the rest of the term. do you agree with her assessment that it's likely that most of the justices, perhaps we'll say this idea of blanket immunity is nonsense. >> and if so, is it even justifiable that they didn't just issue an earlier ruling on the subject. >> well, i think the court has to opine itself. i

these are the responsible and extremely dangerous statements, although, to be honest, i know bolton a bit. i met him personally many years ago, but he is such a person being a diplomat, i probably shouldn't talk about hypothetical scenarios, but i will refer to and a written in military statement that iran knows where is really military facilities are located and will take appropriate measures if something like this happens, that is almost a threat to respond in a similar way for the region. this could mean a severe radiological disaster and a major war. but it is better even not to discuss such scenarios. let's just hope and pray. they never materialize. it is, and that is where we leave things from the news room here in law school for now. but there's plenty more ahead this our own r t c was showing wherever you are today. in moments, goodbye the . the russian states never is as tight as one of the most sense community best. most all set and set up the same assistance must be the one else holes. question about this, even though we will then in the european union, the kremlin mission

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bolton talking about wiping out their nuclear weapons program, that is a mouthful because it simply istrikes and troops on the ground. it won't happen otherwise. let's remember that if we want to support israel and we do, escalating right now is possibly the worst time. there are threats not just for iran but the militia groups, hezbollah, houthis and others. they are also trying to dismantle hamas at this point in time. you're going to put israel at a very untenable position if you're talking about a full- fledged war. right now, the first task at hand for the u.s. congress is to pass the senate bill which will help two international crisis with both have strategic and more reasons for our support. >> do you expect speaker johnson to bring that particular bill or perhaps when the focuses exclusively right now the timing of his real to the house this week for a vote? how would you feel about that exclusive one, just focusing on israel? i know you have spent a lot of time in ukraine. >> i just came back from ukraine and this is my third trip there during the war and the time has passed

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these are irresponsible and extremely dangerous statements, although, to be honest, i know bolton a bit. i met him personally many years ago, but he is such a person being a diplomat, i probably shouldn't talk about hypotheticals.

john bolton excuse me.ght now. >> almost certainly at this point, none of those missiles contained a nuclear warhead. but you never can tell when the next salvo of ballistics missiles might contain nuke clear warhead. so he think among the many targets israel should consider this is the opportunity to destroy iran's nuclear weapons program. and i hope president biden is not trying to dissuade prime minister netanyahu from doing that. >> when you listen to the former ambassador and form national security adviser what do you think of that very possibility being entertained right now and what that might mean for the region? >> yeah, richard, thanks for having me. look, he says you never can tell if iran will launch a nuclear warhead. what you can always tell ambassador bolton and a huge bevy of hawks here in the u.s. and israel are going to be saying, the time is right for escalation in iran to full scale war this that's the consistent drum beat billion before he october 7th and april 1st israeli strike and we

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thanks for filling us in, alex bolton. >> thanks for having me on. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. .. i got from with the to proceed to close session to allow for deliberation on the question as required by impeachment rule 24. >> madam president? >> majority leader in a previous consent request we get your site a chance for debate in public the way it should be, and your side objected. we're moving forward. >> the question is on the motion to ask for the yeas and nays. >> is a sufficient second? there is a sufficient second. the clerk will call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] >> the senate croley l doug lute on senator ted cruz his motion to proceed to a close session to consider senate majority leader chuck schumer's impeachment articles are unconstitutional, deciding whether to go to close session and then after that we expect senate majority leader chuck schumer's to continue with his push to make this a speedy trial. we are here on c-span2 watching [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] >> the motion is not agree to. the

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i've known jenny for many years ambassador bolton, great to see you this morning. >> i appreciate your time as always. thank you very interesting to have a month thank you all so much for joining us today. >> this is cnn news central. now, cnn's special coverage of donald trump's immunity battle. now, before the supreme court starts, now

ambassador bolton, i heard him an hour ago on cnn, basically saying — and there were two republicans,bolton was right, that the israelis and the americans and the sunni arabs in the region need to deal with the response to the problem — that is tehran — and bolton was recommending these israelis at least the nuclear facilities. briefly, you are a state department official. what does that mean for the united states tonight? sorry, i missed that. you have held positions including in the state department, what do you think all of this means for the united states tonight? i think that there was no way out of the israeli palestinian conflict in gaza, it was, the us was a strategic cul—de—sac and now we have a bigger problem which is the prospects of a major regional confrontation which could result in spiking oil prices, plunging financial markets, and something the middle east has never experienced before and the us unlike gaza or ukraine, the us unlike gaza or ukraine, the us unlike gaza or ukraine, the us could actually on this one drawn into the fight. aha, one drawn into the fight. a

hawks on all sides, including in israel and in the united states of america, one of them is john boltonroying iran's nuclear weapons program, and hopefully president biden is not trying to dissuade prime minister netanyahu from doing so, but if he succeeds in doing so, in some future, ayatala will unleash the fact that... iran, without the help of the united states, this is impossible, strike aircraft to do this, and does not , in fact, have long-range weapons, israel does not have that many missile weapons, because it. .. and irikhon, they have a missile that hits 1,500 km, firstly, it doesn’t even reach tehran, well, that’s the second question, in fact, israel cannot do this alone, the usa has already said, we we are not participating in this, at least we heard biden’s words, so bolton can, of course, in general, say whatever you want, since he is a well-known hawk, he of course rocks the boat, but for israel, i agree with ivan alekseevich that the moment has just arrived, the understanding that the red line still exists, the red line, beyond this the line is better. don’t interfere,

but apart from the united states modeling, any countries stuck to it, the john bolton was us national security advisor for around 18 months under donald trump until the president forced him to resign. when i took the job as national security advisor, i believe that the weight of the decisions that the president had to make and the national security field, the gravity of the responsibility would weigh on donald trump and discipline him in the same way it had for 44 american presidents before him. bolton was there on the 2nd day of the nato summit when trump nearly caused the major incident. the while i was in a car over to our embassy residence in brussels, where the president was staying and he called me in the car and said, uh, i think we should do something historic today. i think we should withdraw from nato . and i said this somewhat surprised by that i said, well, let's discuss it. i'm almost there. as soon as i hung up with the president, i called the mike pompei or the secretary state and called john kelly white house chief of staff. i tried to reach matt as the secretary of de