joining us is the former united states ambassador to the united nations, john bolton, who is with us, every sundays, about this time. good morning, ambassador. >> good morning, glad to be with you. >> eric: six years since the u.n. security council demanded iran stop the uranium enrichment and mahmoud ahmadinejad and the mullahs, are not listening. what does it mean? >> well i think this speech today is a prelude to the negotiation with the iaea that you mentioned. i think it makes clear what iran's position is. and, i think it torques up the position, that we'll give away more and legitimize more of iran's nuclear program. and, from mahmoud ahmadinejad's point, why not? it has always worked in the past and perhaps he opens it will work this time. >> eric: and, when they start the meetings tomorrow in vienna, it may not be working? >> i'm afraid for some including the obama administration it will not get through. in the media today there are stories written by commentators and others basically describing, this is a done deal. the iranians are going to given their enrichment to 20% of

ambassador, john bolton, who is also a fox news contributor. good morning, ambassador. >> good morning, glad to be here. >> eric: good to see you, this head of the iaea, he has been tough on the iranians, what do you expect could come of the meeting. >> the press speculation is that he'll go to seal a deal with iran, not that it achieves anything substantive, but sets up a work schedule for iran to resolve the many, many questions the international atomic energy agency has outstanding. that, i think is intended to be a prelude for the perm-5-plus-one, to go this week and, they are likely to agree to some kind of essentially false deal with iran in order to avoid the possibility of an israeli strike against iran's nuclear weapons program. >> eric: what type of false deal, as you say, feenpotential could that be. >> all the indications are the obama administration an european negotiators are prepared to accept iran enriching uranium to reactor-grade levels and they want iran to stop to enrich 20% of the u-235 isotope which is going on at the ford

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ambassador john bolton joins us, former u.s.r to the united nations and a fox news contributor. thanks for being with us. senator john mccain over the weekend was pretty stern in his criticism of the president. he said it is a feckless foreign policy and he said that he is abandoned real leadership. in the context of syria, does he have a point? >> well, i think, i think he does have a point. i think the administration has essentially relied on the united nations, kofi annan, the former secretary-general's mediation mission, an effort at sanctions in the security council and it has all come to nothing. the russians, the chinese, have blocked sanctions. kofi annan's cease-fire plan failed utterly. he is back there now. i don't see he will much more success this time. in the absence of the united nations doing anything, which is hardly a surprise, we see the slaughter continue. >> right. >> while people can disagree how to handle syria, just empirical reality demonstrates that the obama policy has failed. gregg: mr. ambassador, ru

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. >> and john bolton. >> our vice president made some news in the past couple of days when he said the there was virtually no international pressure on iran. >> i think vice president biden should stick to gay marriage. the fact is there were successes, security counsel resolutions, including after i left the job imposing sanctions on iran. >> we could have a literally a secretary state john bolton -- [ screaming ] >> the building in new york has 38 stories, if you lost 10 stories today it would not make a difference. >> yeah that building is not the right height apparently. >> won't someone stand up for the dick? really? >> get behind that dick. >> kids have a happy mother's day weekend, i want to thank steve again for sending me the squirrel singing walking on sunshine. >> that's so strange. >> yeah. it is awesome. [ applause ] >> okay. that is it for us. john fugelsang and i will see you tomorrow night in indianapolis for sexy liberal. tickets going fast. john is at the barrymore tonight with his one man show. >> thank you, stephanie. >> thank you john fugelsang, i'll see your sexy

ambassador to the united nations, john bolton. ambassador, thank you for being with us tonight. >> glad to be here. >> we want to gain perspective on the importance of the sunday meeting. with the urgent u.n. meeting and stronger words from the white house and state department yesterday is the united states likely to get more involved in syria? >> it is not clear from simply having this meeting although obviously it is unusual to have it on a sunday. the british and french wanted to try a stronger press statement. the russians and chinese objected and that is why the discussion went on for as long as it did. this statement certainly condemns the shelling by the syrian government but doesn't condemn the execution style killing of dozens of those casualties that you referred to because the syrian government accuses of opposition of having done that. the russians carrying water for the syrian government basically made sure the statement was ambiguous on that point. it is not at all clear whether the council is going to do more than c

ambassador to the united nations, john bolton. ambassador, thank you for being with us tonight. >> glad to be here. >> we want to gain perspective on the importance of the sunday meeting. with the urgent u.n. meeting and stronger words from the white house and state department yesterday is the united states likely to get more involved in syria? >> it is not clear from simply having this meeting although obviously it is unusual to have it on a sunday. the british and french wanted to try a stronger press statement. the russians and chinese objected and that is why the discussion went on for as long as it did. this statement certainly condemns the shelling by the syrian government but doesn't condemn the execution style killing of dozens of those casualties that you referred to because the syrian government accuses of opposition of having done that. the russians carrying water for the syrian government basically made sure the statement was ambiguous on that point. it is not at all clear whether the council is going to do more than c

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ambassador to the united nations, john bolton. ambassador, thank you for being with us tonight. >> glad to be here. >> we want to gain perspective on the importance of the sunday meeting. with the urgent u.n. meeting and stronger words from the white house and state department yesterday is the united states likely to get more involved in syria? >> it is not clear from simply having this meeting although obviously it is unusual to have it on a sunday. the british and french wanted to try a stronger press statement. the russians and chinese objected and that is why the discussion went on for as long as it did. this statement certainly condemns the shelling by the syrian government but doesn't condemn the execution style killing of dozens of those casualties that you referred to because the syrian government accuses of opposition of having done that. the russians carrying water for the syrian government basically made sure the statement was ambiguous on that point. it is not at all clear whether the council is going to do more than c

. >> john bolton. listen to what he said. this is the person that mitt romney is relying on for foreign policy advice. here is john bolton. >> like the chinese military buildup, like the chinese increase in take nuclear and ballistic forces which we're not answering, we need national mice ill defense, which the obama administration has done everything they could to scuttle. and was one of the highlights of president reagan's cabinet. >> this is a very disturbing pattern, and something to keep in mind. >> it is fear mongering about it's about business. the fear michael, who is afraid of russia right now? and when we talk about china, you are talking about a fear of business, and the fact that they are taking all of our business. how does romney deal with these two issues. >> romney is also very hawkish on trade. he'll try to make distinctions anywhere he can with president obama. they are going to say, we'll be tougher on china with trade. we'll be tougher on iran. we'll be tougher on russia right? we're going to go back to 19

john bolton, the former ambassador to the united nations joins me. nt to spend a question on whether you think this is genuine. reports say this is from a british-based nuclear consultant. it could be a test chamber outer could be anything. that's helpful. >> the idea that iran has used the facility to shape charged that would compress uranium or plutonium into critical mass to set off an explosion has been around for a while. the first. you report was in the fall of 2004. paro -- parchon is the kind of place you would use to test explosives. at this point whether the inspectors can get a look at this device to get a better sense ... martha: this is a chamber you would need to conduct nuclear tests. this is what's there. the reasonable bass doer bolton is focusing on parchon is because they won't allow anyone access. iranians have been saying no. you can't come in. ambassador, how feckless is the iaea? they came out and said they still remain positive about the possible expects of getting in there. >> i want to say something positive will the iaea. un

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ambassador john bolton is here. what is the situation right now in beijing, as you see it from this side of the world? >> li think we have a train wreck in process here. the dissident is outside the american embhasesy, meaning he is no longer under our protection. he said he left because chinese authorities were threatening to kill his wife. and he now says he wants to leave china and come to the united states. the state department is denying big chunks of that. we have a disconnect between what the state department thought they were doing and what this very vulnerable chinese dissident thinks was happening. >> greta: he was in the hospital. i am curious about one thing. that's that, i had some communication from a u.s. official in beijing who has said that at no time eye tryst this affordable at no time when he's in the embassy did he ask to go to the united states. they asked him repeatedly and he affirmed he wanted to continue his work in china. so i am simthetic to the situation. i think he is saying different t

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ambassador john bolton is here after the break. while millions of americans cannot find work. are openings at some of washington's biggest agencies. why have these watchdog positions gone vacant for years. 5-hour energy? when i'm on overtime. when i'm in over my head. when i have to be sharp... no matter how many time zones i've crossed. when i'm on my feet for hours. when it's game time. when the day's only half over but my energy is all gone. when i need the energy to start exercising. every day. every day. every day is a 5-hour energy day. 5-hour energy. every day. megyn: fox news alert. in just last hour, new developments on a threat of contempt of congress charge for attorney general eric holder. as republicans suggest attorney general eric holder is stone wall their investigation in a gun running scheme. and there is ongoing fallout for the administration in terms who authorized it, how it happened and why at least the two of guns that walked in that operation ended up at scene of a border patrol agent's death in america. speaker john boehner wrapped up a news conference

ambassador john bolton joins us.uld we spend $00 million to study this if the pentagon says no? >> the republicans are frustrated that president obama basically doesn't believe in national missile defense at all. he gutted our capabilities even from the limited bush administration plans. i think they are trying to do something that would provide some missile defense protection for american civilians from missiles launched from iran. it is only a piece of the puzzle and what is shows really is that you can't run national defense policy from congress. >> greta: i tell you what, i'm all in favor of being safe. i don't want to not be safe. tehran is short with their latest missile. they are short 5,300 miles so quite a distance out with technology and gentlemenning a missile here. you have got this vote on capitol hill by this committee to vote to expend -- spend $100 million just toed it did i and both republicans and democrats vote on it. this is an election year so i think it is because everybody wants to look tough o

worked for john bolton. john bolton accepted him. george w.you know, it's not the republican party. i as the first openly gay candidate was welcomed by pree vis in his office, the vice chair chief of staff before i filed a year ago in washington, the state parties, county parties have welcomed me. i want to stick up for the republican party because they have been very gracious to me and certainly to ric grenell and other openly gay republicans. it's these bullies from the american family association, tony perkins from the family research council, these are the danger for this country because they have a tremendous amount of intimidation, a lot of money and a lot of clout. if fisher, who's attacking him regularly anyway -- so we have to draw the line in the sand and stop these groups and cut them off. >> independent republican presidential candidate fred karger. thanks for taking time. >> thank you. >>> it is okay to say gay in tennessee. the controversial don't say gay bill will not become law. it died when the state's general assembly adjourn

am bass store john bolton is the former ambassador to the united nations and a fox news contributor.artment says major powers put forward a detailed proposal including confidence-building measures and prior to today they said the talks would foings confidence building measures that iran is only pursuing peaceful nuclear program. how are they going to build our confidence about that? >> this is a trap that we have fallen into before with iran. and what's surprising here is that we are proposing the trap. iranians would love to suck the united states and others into an endless display of negotiations. during which time they will simply continue to make progress on their nuclear weapons program. megyn: it seems like we are saying convince us you are pursuing nuclear efforts for peaceful purposes. when you say that is ignoring reality. we already know it is not for peaceful purposes. >> reporter: if anybody thinks this is for peaceful purposes there are a lot of bridges for sale in new york. so this is a charade i think driven by the obama administration's need to find something to use t

. >> eric: ambassador john bolton in los angeles this morning, ambassador, thank you and we will certainly look forward to the day, august, 2013 when he is no longer in power there. thank you. >> jamie: president obama is definitely coming out swinging as he has officially kicked off his re-election campaign, the president launched his bid for a second term, with stops in swing states of ohio and virginia this weekend. he's taking direct swipes now at presumptive gop nominee, mitt romney. >> president barack obama: now after a long and spirited primary, republicans and gong have found a champion. they have found a nominee for president, whose promised to rubber-stamp this agenda, if he gets a chance. but, virginia, i tell you what, we can't give him the chance. >> jamie: joining me, national political reporter for real clear politics. great to see you this morning. >> you, too, thank you. >> jamie: i think the president has probably, most people would agree, been campaigning for a while. but, now, it seems that he has elevated mitt romney to a direct opponent. do you see it that way? >> i

should we follow john bolton and a couple stories off that. and this is where we have the intent to do that, and you heard carrie talk about principles and reforms, but we are not there yet. we are not there yet for a couple of reasons. and one is -- this is when i say obnoxious you can tell i am not in the military complex, and we have an aid industrial complex. this is not a bad thing necessarily, because you want to have experience and you want to have institutional memory over time, but we have a whole lot of groups in and out of government that are very invested in things going on the way they have always gone on. and it's been hard to go to the community and say we know you are constantly terrified about senator x slashing your budget by 25%, but you have to change in the fundamental ways. we have missed those opportunities time and again and we have to be honest with ourselves. at the same time, and carrie referenced this quite specifically, again, the folks in congress who have to face the voters every two or six years, you know, the f

. >> that's john bolton who is arguing that israel should have gone after iran when the new presidentfice. >> yes. >> okay. i understand. >> that's who mitt romney is listening to most. >> all right. karl frisch love ya. >> have a good one. >> all right. 29 minutes after the hour right back on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ >>(narrator) current tv presents the campaign ads that changed history, brought to you by spiriva handihaler. today's campaign ads accuse candidates of flip-flops, but back in 1952, the adlai stevenson campaign called it double-talk. >>yes...uh, i mean no. >>no, uh i mean yes. >>you're confused. >>you're confused >>(campaign ad narrator) don't you be confused! >>in a lot of campaigns since then we've seen this theme. the candidate said one thing and then did something else. >>(current narrator)flip-flop ads can pack a real punch when the candidate already has a reputation for changing his mind too often, like this 1972 nixon ad targeting george mcgovern. >>and that was effective because mcgovern changed his mind on his vice presidential candidate, and that fed into

ambassador john bolton is next.ure's fury up close where a tornado makes work of wind mills and tears through homes. what happened to baby lisa. her parents are saying there is a new lead in the case. today they were on set or an emotional interview to describe this new clue. andw what the last 7 months in their lives have been like. >> it's been 8 months since we have seen our daughter. we want answers. we are not going away until that happens. until she comes home. megyn: do you feel like they wasted time taking such a hard look at the two of you? >> absolutely. shannon: dramatic video of a tornado touching down in kansas over the weekend. you can see it ripping through that rural area, bending wind mills it also damaged several homes, ripping the roof off one of them. fortunately we are told in injuries were reported. we have new questions what in the showdown with iran over its nuclear program. the watchdog chief seen here is in tehran today in hopes of getting iran to provide more access to international inspec

joining us now former ambassador john bolton. and a senior fellow with american progress. you for being here. i think most americans will have a visceral reaction seeing this guy treated as a traitor by pakistan for helping us find bin laden. the question ambassador to you is what if anything should we have done to protect him? >> even more than that, you know, congress maine peter king has been charging that the doctor's identity has effectively been leaked by the obama administration and he's asked for an investigation of it. it's unfortunate, it has the ring of truth to it given the administration's willingness to disclose i think excessively details of that sensitive covert operation. but the united states has got to be absolutely clear with the government of pakistan. this is completely unacceptable. not only because of the injustice done to this particular physician, but because of the risk it poses for the united states worldwide. we can't protect people who help us in clandestine operations we won't be able to find people who are willing to help us. megyn: the whit

ambassador to the united nations john bolton is calling this a train wreck, referring to it as diplomatic malpractice. and some are saying that this chinese dissident was rushed out of the u.s. embassy so as not to spoil the strategic economic talks that america's having with china right now in beijing. some political writers suggesting this crisis could impact the 2012 presidential race. we'll debate that later right here on "america live." >>> new fallout, now, over how the white house marked one year since the beth of osama -- since the death of osama bin laden. we're digging deeper into a new ad challenging the president on his own ad. they feel he's taking credit for what the navy seals did. take a look. ♪ >> i said that i'd go after bin laden if we had a clear shot at him, and i did. i did. i did. i did. megyn: chris stirewalt is our fox news digital politics editor and host of "power play" on foxnews.com. chris, if you watch the full segment, it is powerful. there's no question, it is a powerful shot at president obama, and they are suggesting that he is spiking the football contra

and john bolton says diplomacy is about choices. sometimes they both are bad choices.h is the stronger choice for america going forward and for the world? there's a time to stand up and say, look, we're bound by debt to them. they own too much of our treasure -- megyn: how vocal can we be? >> at which point do we choose that america has to be that shining city on the hill versus we will kowtow to everyone who has influence? there's a time to project. that's important -- megyn: is this that time? the economy is really hurting. is in the time? >> sure, no the, there's no doubt most americans are concerned about the economy, but this is a lot bigger than one activist in china. human rights has been a major concern for the united states, and i think the best way for america to address it is to continue to increase its global standing in the world which it has done under obama's leadership -- [inaudible conversations] >> what exactly is global standing when you've got a fact that america is the last best hope on the markets, our economies are bound together, so it's not suc

joined by john bolton, who was appointed by president george w. bush as u.s. ambassador to the u.n. now of course a fox news contributor. good morning. good to have you here today, sir. >> glad to be here. martha: there are mixed reviews how the outcome has been from the arab spring particularly in the case of egypt where there are a lot of concerns that the muslim brotherhood may have too much power after mubarak's ouster. what do you think of president bush's comments? >> well what he's say something obviously a further elaboration of the principles that he set out in his second inaugural address and i think as a matter of high level abstraction it is hard to debate with that. the united states will not come out in favor of forms of government other than representative government and other than individual freedom but as the president himself said in the remarks you just showed how you handle that tactically will vary from case to case. there are many cases where it's not one side wearing plaque hats and another side wearing white hats. egypt is a good example of that. there are pe

one of the most interesting moments in that connection occurred during john bolton to be a u.n. ambassador and there is a certain moment with the foreign relations committee was considering the nomination and blake and again there was a republican and affection. so it was clear that bolton was about to go down. it basically turned. i'm not sure senator lugar at the moment for whatever reason quite capos going on, but biden basically whispered in his ear come you don't want to call the roll call here. you're going to lose. short-term thing would've been to let it pass then have to nomination collapsed. i think there were colleagues for the long-term and thought it was important not to hope the senator out on issues that could have been embarrassing to him. >> thank you very much everyone for being here. it's been a pleasure to chat with you and it will be very coming very interesting for everyone to see how the next couple weeks turn out in what the world looks like after they make a primary here in indiana. thank you all very much. appreciate it. [applause] >> the fact is in our

ambassador john bolton is here. good evening. your thoughts?, i think there are a couple of significant developments today. number 1; the u.n. ambassador to china said on the record that the united states had gone out and taken chen and brought him into the u.s. embassy, presumably in an embassy car other getting past the chinese security. what that does is heighten the u.s. responsibility. it would have been one thing if we had met with him outside the embassy and talked about his situation. but when we brought him into the embassy itself, we dramatically escalated the confrontation. i think that was the right thing to do. but it also then, should have had more of an impact when we decided to let him go. >> greta: it may be the right thing to do. but all the effort going in to get him and, you know, my heart bleeds for this man and all the people who suffer in china. but we stepped on dhiena's toes and we don't want to step on the toes of president bashehr. we don't want to drop food on the people he is starving. why we pick this man to get st

ambassador john bolton.e romney campaign says it is dis' pointed with the decision. >> janet napolitano says so far -- no evidence to support allergists of another stripper scandal involving secret service jeans in el salvador those claims came out after 12 agents and 12 u.s. military personnel were accused in a prostitution scandal last month. china -- napolitano says she doesn't believe there's a broader problem with the agency's culture. >>> airport screeners in new jersey made a surprising discovery in the luggage of a passenger bound for san francisco, three landmine casings, two packed with shrapnel none had detonators the passenger says she was attending an explosives demonstration and was allowed to rebook her flight, minus the weapons. >>> federal energy regulators are blaming a lack of planning for a massive blackout last fall that left millions without electricity in southern california, arizona and northern mexico. it was triggered by a workers's mistake at an arizona substation it caused a surge