ambassador to the united nations, fox news contributor john bolton.mbassador, good to have you with us. this is, i guess, reasonable to have expected on the part of the administration that turkey would not intervene in the fight, but why then are they in the coalition if they will permit 200,000 people to be simply executed, massacred? >> well, it shows both how complicated the situation is in the region and how ineffective is the obama administration's leadership. you know, honestly here, turkey doesn't come to this problem with clean hands. they allowed a lot of the jihadis to go through turkey into syria to participate in the opposition because turkey would love to see the assad regime overthrown, and let's face it, turkey has a real kurdish problem of its own. if there became an independent kurdish state in northern iraq and syria. lou: but these are all -- >> the pressure to lead as well. turkey is hardly the hero. lou: we give into explaining the complications of a complex region of the world why, in the hell do we get involved in the messes and

john bolton, former u.s. ambassador to the united nations, fox news contributor and senior fellow at the american enterprise institute joins us now. ambassador, turkey, a nato member will not arm the kurds or let us arm them. you can ask what side are they on? >> well, they are on their own side, and i think that's the most important point in feeling with everybody in the middle east is to ask what their interests are and then ask what's america's interests. turkey in many respects fears the kurds and the threat of kurdish independence from iraq, from turkey itself, from syria, more than they fear isis. let's face it. many of the jihadists now fighting with isis, turkey knowingly let's slip through their territory in order to engage in the civil war against assad. so why have the turkish armor and other personnel stood by and watched isis and the kurds fight it out? because from turkey's point of view i think they are nearly indifferent as to who wins so even though turkey is a nato ally under erdogan it's ab

ambassador john bolton joins us. good evening, sir. >> he certainly has a big picture view of this.is not just looking at the fight in isis or hamas. >> i think that's important because there are a number of threats in his region that he has to priority advertise. so it's really not surprising that the iranian nuclear weapons program is still threat number one. not only for him but for us as well. he sees it but not enough people see he it headline, a threat that has to be removed but ultimately the country or the terrorist group that has nuclear weapons is the one you have to be most worried about. >> we're going to come to this point, november 24th i guess would probably be the point when this negotiation is supposed -- we are supposed to have something or not have something. the united states has always indicated that it would consider letting some enrichment for peaceful purposes. prime minister netanyahu has always said it's got to be zero. at some point we have in the to come to logger heads on this big time. >> i think there is a very real risk that the administration will ag

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ambassador john bolton, always good to see you. >> eric, russia saying it has pulled more than 17,000 troops away from the border of ukraine. the kremlin says the troops were there for drills but ukraine and its allies accused them of helping insurgents leading the west to put sanctions on russia. pro-russian separatists have been battling government troops since april. russian president vladimir putin has announced similar withdrawals in the past but nato says the troops never left. >>> a haunted hay ride accident has happened in maine. it killed one rider and injured 22 others. the person killed was a 17-year-old girl. the teenage boy and the hay ride's driver are reported in critical condition. the sheriff describes how this tragic accident took place. >> the vehicle was traveling in this direction coming out of the ride, going downhill around a sharp curve, and he missed the curve and went into the wood line. and it looks like the trailer jackknifed and hit a tree. >> when we went down there it was just -- there were a lot of people just laying around. >> police say a mechanical p

with us is john bolton. what is stopping turkey from saving kobani?s have mixed motives. many of the isis fighters involved in syria and iraq got into syria in the first instance by winks and nods by the turkey. it is preventing the struggle from coming into turkey. they don't have interest in defending the kurds. they have had a long difficult relationship with the kurds. they don't mind they are going after each other. it is a demonstration of how complex the environment is there and a nato ally like turkey can have its own interest first than the over all interest to stopping the isis terrorist. >> and in truth, the turk irk kurds trying to separate from turkey? >> many of them are. the iraqi kurdis stan is the te factor independent and worry about the immri kagdzs for turkey. the notion of counting on turkey asa a nato ally or we come to turkey's defense. it is a mistake and turkey comes with unclean hands. >> why are they in nato. they have a huge military and$b ambition and jets et cetera, and so if they are not doing anything for nato and liter

eric: 10 minutes from now we will have an insider investor john bolton awake me if it falls.hannon: president obama getting a cold shoulder from a lot of democrats, especially those in red leaning states. the president traveling more often now to democratic strongholds like new york and chicago but does the strategy help or hurt the most vulnerable candidates? one williams the fox news political analyst. gentlemen, good to see you both this morning. start with you, face value, are their spots the president can be helpful to democratic candidates right now outside of arkansas, alaska and the likes? >> i think you hit on it, shannon. democratic strongholds in new york, illinois, california, but the way he is being upheld in terms of fundraising democrats have been externally well in this cycle, but he is really a negative. his numbers are below 40, and so what you have is a situation where it is anti-obama animating the republican base and for democratic candidates they don't want to stir the republican base, they want to get their voters out and are staying away from president

this reveals an essential truth that democrats can't grow mustaches, when you look at stosle's or john bolton's, axelrod's was like a soggy miniwheat. and i love the fact that he had that removed. >> the -- just one point about this, i agree that these policies will win this election. when you're at 40% in the 308s, it's generally a good idea not say, i'm at 40%, i'm not on the ballot, but put me on the ballot. >> before we go, "saturday night live's" cold open highlight what is we talked about last monday, the softball interview 60 minutes delivered last weekend. >> do you think you underestimated the threat of isis? >> without question, yes, and obviously my entire administration shares the blame about that, but first, can i throw one particular person under the bus. >> sure, go ahead. >> jail clapper. >> you made the point that's s isis and the claumic faith has no can beation. >> do you know that the first i in isis stands for islamic? i mean who knew? >> yeah, all right. well the other parts of it are very funny. i don't know, we have played it all day. it's keeping me awake and going. it

ambassador john bolton joins us.od evening, sir. >> glad to be with you. >> i don't know if you are a real big fan of the u.n. typically, but this report is pretty comprehensive and pretty terrifying. >> well, it is. it's very interesting. it's compiled by a group of experts for the u.n. security council pursuant to previously adopted security council resolutions. and it intends to survey where terrorists are coming from and what their strength is. and you mentioned some of the key points. 80 different countries. and specifically, i think what's of most interest here is that they estimate that something like 15,000 terrorists from europe and the united states and the west are fighting now with isis in iraq and syria. now, these are estimates. it is a u.n. report. but these are numbers significantly higher than the obama administration or western european governments have used. and it leads to the question: what happens when these people reoperate themselves back to their home countries. and those kinds of numbers, th

john bolton is standing by to go "on the record." also new developments right now in the disappearance of university of virginia co-ed hannah graham. "on the record" takes to you charlottesville just moments away. plus, now it's senator john mccain's turn. he is making a big modify to try to free our u.s. marine jailed in mexico. what is senator mccain doing? that's straight ahead. [light instrumental music] ♪ female announcer: recycle your old fridge and get $50. schedule your free pickup at: people worried about the terrorist threat making and that's losing perspective. you don't want to overstate the threat but you don't want to understate it. what he is saying is just simply wrong. number one, it's premature. today is terrorism and existential threat? not yet, but the whole point is we are worried that as it metastasizes, as it gets nuclear weapons it will become existential threat. >> i agree the whole alarmist thing is bad. i worry are we properly warning people or scaring people unnecessarily. i don't know which. the lack of s

ambassador john bolton joins us. good evening, sir. >> glad to be with you. >> i should add that this memo i got from catherine herridge, the headline i got is it from the dni colon vital commitment. like rah rah rah to people who works for him. >> the conclusion of the memo basically is nobody could have seen. this we were out there doing our job but we didn't fail because nobody could have understood the threat that isis posed or the weaknesses of the iraqi army. and that's simply contradicts what were public statements on the record by military and diplomatic officials as far as away as 12 months where they were basically saying this threat is growing and the iraqi army is probably not up to it. the director of the defense intelligence agency, for example, said that, clapper is walking a fine line. not ducking the president saying jim clapper made the mistake. trying to tell his people we were doing the job but nobody could have done it. it was beyond human comprehension and that's simply not true. >> just as a po

ambassador john bolton joins us. ambassador, nice to see you. i can't think of a more blistering attack from a former president from a current president. >> it's very stunning. not only is the analysis consistent with the critiques we have heard of the fecklessness of obama's strategy but the fact that one former president and a democrat to boot would say it about an incumbent president is really stunning. carter's criticism of obama on isis is really stronger than anything either of the president bushes have said. they, i think are adhering to the tradition that presidents really don't comment on it so when you have carter out there, that strongly, i think what it has to say obama's acolytes and the press and the alter boys who carry water for him in congress, the emperor has no clothes here to mix my medicine -- metaphors. this thing has been a complete sham and as time goes on a complete failure. we can cite jimmy carter. >> it's like i don't read this just as simply criticism like bad ideas or that was strategically wrong. he scarily lays th

john bolton is standing by to go "on the record." also new developments right now in the disappearance of university of virginia co-ed hannah graham. "on the record" takes to you charlottesville just moments away. plus, now it's senator john mccain's turn. he is making a big modify to try to free our u.s. marine jailed in mexico. what is senator mccain doing? that's straight ahead. know that chasing performance can mean lower returns and fewer choices in retirement. know that proper allocation could help increase returns so you can enjoy that second home sooner. know the right financial planning can help you save for college and retirement. know where you stand with pnc total insight. a new investing and banking experience with personalized guidance and online tools. visit a branch, call or go online today. what's in a can of del monte green beans? ( ♪ ) grown in america. picked and packed at the peak of ripeness. with no artificial ingredients. del monte. bursting with life. [light instrumental music]ients. ♪ female announcer: recyc

ambassador john bolton joins us. you know where he is, right? >> is he campaigning with president obama somewhere. >> ouch. >> we don't have a clue what the real situation is. and that's really the first point here other intelligence about north korea. not kim jong un's whereabouts is inadequate and has been for decades. the best we come from south korean speculation that he is ill. that shouldn't make us feel any better. >> i mean, what difference does it make if we know where he is? just because it's sort of a cat and mouse game and we are curious? it's still a nuclear armed country. still at war with the united states. you know, what difference if we can't -- if we don't know if he is dead or alive or in the hospital. >> well, let's assume it is a health condition. nonetheless, the fact that he has been invisible for a month now, especially on this highly symbolic political an verse searp of the founding of the north korean communist party. >> which is also a slight to his father that he wasn't there. >> right. could be an indication there is

bill: thank you, sir, john bolton, the ambassador in washington. martha: . leon panetta said this will be a three decade war. but president bush said that in the 2004. was anybody listening? bill: a new handwritten letter the police found as the deadly game of cat and mouse stretches into the second month. >> reporter: the officers are behind the house with machine guns posing ready to shoot. bill: a law was passed make it more difficult for them to fire senior officials at the va. the house committee chair said one of the executives being fired had already announced his retirement. martha: backlash from utah's governor after the supreme court rejected five appeals seeking to ban same-sex marriage. what are the conservative groups in utah saying about this? >> these five states banned same-sex marriage and yesterday the supreme court decided not to hear the case letting the lower court rulings stand, now make it legal in indiana, oklahoma, virginia and wisconsin. oklahoma's governor said the will of the people have been hijacked by unelected federal justices

. >> ambassador john bolton on the 1d most recently senator graham today in the "wall street journal" with senator mccain again making the case that this mission cannot be done from the air, and this is a quick quote from that article which, again, i just read a few hours ago: mr. obama's political goal -- this is what senators mccain and graham say -- this goal will require the u.s. to militarily degrade the assad regime, upgrade the moderate opposition, change the momentum of the conflict and create conditions for political solution and the clear implication from this is that means a much more, a much heavier u.s. presence than what is currently under consideration. and, again, this is a debatable point. others aren't so sure. i refer you to walter pincus' column which comes to a different conclusion. so this is, again, a debatable point, one worth debating. the last one is, is this a last resort? that gets a little bit to what i've already said, is this particular war of choice, these particular wars of choice -- maybe we should define it by the number of countries that we're bombi