i think there is a lot to be done and john bolton knows that very well. i have the sense he's trying to burden the thing with missiles and other issues, which obviously we need to get at. i am not sure if this is an achievable objective as he describes it. >> we'll see what secretary pompeo comes back. ambassador christopher hill, thank you for joining us. >>> just before we go, the white house says that president trump has had a half hour phone call with mexico's president-elect. he said they had quote, a great talk about border security, trade, and nafta. so we'll see where that relationship goes from here. and that is it for our program tonight. thanks for watching "amanpour" on pbs. join us again tomorrow night. >> you're watching p >> you're watching "beyond 100 days" on pbs. the global tide of populism sweeps up mexico in a landslide election. >>ers dealt a stunning blow to the country's established political parties. >> this is the new president. he is left wing, in favor of redistribution and against donald trump. >> the new project the nation wil

strong words from john bolton. we are getting used to that. is this to president rouhani? he has to gauge how strongly the european union will come out fighting and it will be tricky for the european union to stop getting what it wants out of withdrawal so he needs to understand how we are they to do things and how far we how we are they to do things and how farwe are going how we are they to do things and how far we are going to match up in the us. the european leaders were quick to respond when the us pulled out of the deal, emmanuel macron, angela merkel and theresa may. trying to persuade donald trump not to pull out. how important is the relationship? it's very important. it's seen as being one new market for european business and really showing the european union union union has some cloud in the world so the europeans didn't have much option, and whether they can do that isa option, and whether they can do that is a practical matter. they are hoping this relationship can continue. total, airbus, other big players who want to do business

trump will be joined by secretary of state mike pompeo, national security adviser john bolton, and chief of staff john kelly. >> good to see you. >> thank you. >> before heading to helsinki, comes to talks with mr. putin, he has low expectations. >> i go into a meeting like that never with high expectations, but maybe some really good stuff can happen. >> not high expectations. you're just -- it's a one-on-one conversation. >> whatever it is, i'm representing our country. i want to do great for our country, and i'm sure he wants to do well for his. but that doesn't make it mutually exclusive. i think we can do something that's good for everybody. >> reporter: last friday, special counsel robert mueller indicted 12 russian military intelligence officers for their efforts to undermine the 2016 presidential election. putin has denied ordering the interference, but national security adviser john bolton today called foul. >> i find it hard to believe, but that's what one of the purposes of this meeting is, so the president can see eye to eye with president putin and ask him about it. >> the r

course said that let me quote him there when chart is over well to hear from john bolton about we can't that is something you know that is going to you know you know what that tells me and tells me that john bolton loeb's. power he wanted for the key because you know you want to try new things not going to be over anytime soon it is the one straw that the u.s. democratic party has to let you know eighteen months after the election they're still argue with the referee this is a suicide note on the table one of the things gentlemen i keep saying this and maybe this is going to be my signature comment for the year ok try this mitt putin campaign promise kept ok check done let me go back to charles in london i think all of us took a look at this article in the spectator and there's no author attached to it trumpet trades the elites a sense that the u.s. always is a peer in democracy loving you know it's really quite interesting because the authors of this article essentially say that trump is the first post exceptional as president to be united states that's a remarkable characterization go

but we have to remember this about john bolton. when john bolton was auditioning for a position in the trump administration, he went on fox news, and that's how you do audition for positions in the trump administration, and he suggested that the russians may not have hacked the dnc t krchc that it may have been a false flag operation by the obama administration. i mean, that i think for conspiracy theorists, even they looked at that theory and said, wait a minute, i don't even get that. but that was what john bolton was putting out when he was seeking this position. so the fact that he would now call it a witch hunt is distressing but not at all surprising. i think the back and forth on a future summit between putin and the president shows now just how much putin feels he's in the driver's seat with this president. he can essentially throw cold water on his coming to the white house, something that any other world leader would rush for the opportunity, and suggest, no, donald trump, you come to me, you come to moscow. it's a power

>> it's worth remembering going back to john bolton, john bolton was a russia hawk. >> i'm old enough to remember months ago. >> i think what's happened is he wants to keep his job. i think the president set the tone and john bolton is following along. whether he is going to say something more definitive after the summit, but again he says the president -- president trump will confront putin and say we don't wanted meling in the 2018 election. that's going to be very hard to confirm when no one else is witnessing the meeting. >> who is the biggest loser in the report? it strikes me they went out of their way -- well, they dumped it on july 3 -- to contrast themselves with the house intelligence committee. seems as though they're saying sorry chairman nunes in house intel, you have it wrong. >> i don't know that that was burr's goal. i think burr is concerned about what happened in 2016. off lot of members of the senate who are concerned about what happened and don't want to see that happen again and are concerned about the fact that this administration appears to be complacent at best

course said that let me quote him i'm there when chart is over well to hear from john bolton about we can't that is something that is going to you know you know what that tells me and tells me that john bolton loeb's power you want to. know you want to tell you it's not going to. be over anytime soon it is the one straw that the u.s. democratic party has to let you know eighteen months after the election they're still argue with the referee look at this it's a suicide note on the table one of the things gentlemen i keep saying this and it maybe this is going to be my signature comment for the year ok try this mitt putin campaign promise kept ok check done let me go back to charles in london i think all of us took a look at this article in the spectator and there's no author attached to it trumpet trades the elites a sense that the u.s. always is a peer in democracy loving you know it's really quite interesting because the authors of this article essentially say that trump is the first post exceptional as president to be united states that's a remarkable characterization go ahead charl

john bolton is putting in place the replacements for that. it is -- he assured me that is a key issue that we need to address. in the meantime, this is spread throughout our various agencies. each one, somewhat different than the other, taking major steps, but we have fusion centers. we have processes underway. kirstjen nielsen told you what dhs is doing. defense is doing that. all of our agencies are engaged in that. this is going to continue to ramp up and it involves not just tampering with the election, but it involves putting the right defenses in place, the right strategies in place in terms of how to retaliate if necessary. it's clearly one of our top priorities. >> last week you said russia and other actors were exploring vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure and trying to infiltrate energy, water, nuclear and manufacturing sectors. these actions are persistent. they are pervasive. and they are meant to undermine america's democracy. have they succeeded? have you found penetrations in areas? >> well, sure. i mean, we see -- all y

his national security adviser john bolton told abc news' jon karl that the indictments actually give trump some leverage. >> i think the president can put this on the table and say this is a serious matter. we need to talk about it. >> reporter: and also on the table will be ukraine, likely syria, but, again, we'll learn a whole lot more in just a few hours. linsey, kenneth. >> molly hunter, thank you. abc news will bring you live coverage of the president's news conference with vladimir putin this morning on air and on abc news app. >>> we turn now to chicago and the growing outrage after the fatal police shooting of a popular barber. frustrated neighbors protested in the streets clashing with police, and more demonstrators are expected today. the chief of police looking to ease tensions has now released body cam footage of the moments leading up to the shooting and abc's lynda lopez joins us with more. good morning, lynda. >> reporter: good morning, kenneth. after protests that led to four officers being injured and led to several arrests, the police superintendent making the decis

that was john bolton. >> let me guess it was john bolton, yeah. >> yes! john bolton invited put on the the white house d. the views change or grin the teeth, bear it and make the invite the president wanted? >> we have seen a lot of grit his teeth and bear it out of the john bolton. one point few weeks ago he said he wasn't commenting on all of his previous writing. well, i can imagine why john bolton wouldn't want to comment on the previous writing. you could have reached for a great essay about how the president should go meet kim jong-un, explain to him where to mail the nuclear weapons, not getting into a lengthy conversation with him and only after the weapons were turned over to then do much. well, what did we hear from secretary pompeo the other day and the president? this is going to be a long, drawn out process. i think that's reality. but it's certainly isn't the reality that bolton thought he was signing on for. >> really quickly, shawn, before we go, angela merkel today, not only on the same page as the president on a lot of things, she welcom

it's hard to not find the similarities between these two as much as john bolton might like to say. >> ned, we heard that story lavrov told yesterday or so that it was america that asked for the one-on-one meeting, not the russians. we haven't confirmed this on our end, but is this a precedent for these one-on-one meetings where there's only interpreters involved? also, is there an advantage for that from a diplomacy perspective? >> so there is one precedent, one and only one precedent during the obama administration. that, in fact, was with this same vladimir putin, the president of russia. president obama in the final weeks of his administration had a brief, heavily scripted, highly choreographed, well-rehearsed one on one with president putin as the intelligence picture of russia's meddling in our election was coming clear. this was in china on the sidelines of the g20. president obama took vladimir putin aside on the sidelines of a bilateral meeting and told him, we know what you're doing and any further escalation of this will be met with severe consequences. but again, this was p

john bolton's own words.'s listen in. [ speaking foreign language ] >> translator: come to basically discuss our -- >> a great world cup, one of the best ever, from what everybody tells me, one of the best ever. [ speaking foreign language ] >> i watched quite a bit. in the united states we call it soccer. i watched quite a bit of it. i watched the entire final and the semi-finals and they were really spectacular games. but it was beautifully done. so congratulations on that. [ speaking foreign language ] >> most importantly we have a lot of good things to talk about and things to talk about. we have discussions on everything from trade to military to missiles to nuclear to china. we'll be talking a little bit about china. our mutual friend, president xi jinping. [ speaking foreign language ] >> i think we have great opportunities together as the two countries -- frankly we have not been getting along very well for the last number of years. i've been here not too long, but it's getting close to two years, but

john bolton, i know he is no friend of vladmir putin.avid: mike pompeo is another one. >> mike pompeo, nikki haley, every single one has clear eyes and are tough on russia but this nonsense of going up and flattering vladmir putin, even having a summit with him, then agreeing or saying it is a credible idea to hand over a bunch of anti-putin activists, people who worked in the u.s. government to try to contain russia is just appalling. david: bill, final question, if the white house was to ask you to come and meet with either the president or one of his assistants, either secretary of state or john bolton or whomever, would you do so now to try to clear things up? >> of course i would. i spend a lot of time in washington briefing everybody. nobody has ever asked me at the white house but everybody knows me in the senate and house of representatives and of course. i mean these people should know that vladmir putin is one of the biggest criminals in the world. he needs to be contained, not engaged. david: have you met with john bolton or m

president trump asked john bolton to invite president putin in d.c. in the fall. those discussions are underway.

national security adviser john bolton made the announcement today in this statement. "the president believes the next bilateral meeting with president putin should take place after the russia witch hunt is over so we've agreed that it will be after the first of the year."

you have john bolton who who would be delighted to rain a hail of bullets and fury. >> john bolton is the right man for the job. i would rather be in this situation than if you had hillary in this situation. it's about time we sat down and made this happen to protect the rest of the world. i'm look forward to see what happens. but he's not launching anymore missiles in the sky anymore. kennedy: what do you say about the satellite images that show the same activity and they could be expanding. >> they could be. or they could be building something else. we don't know exactly what's going on over there. we have the tough jest president and administration and we are in the right spot. kennedy: he's right about the unpredictability. that sets a non-politician apart from path presidencies. if you can't trust north korea and we haven't been able to trust them in the past. they have essentially gotten us up to this point several times throughout various broken peace processes. what do you do now? >> they lied to us many, many times before. what brought kim jong-un to the table is president tr

it's in the voice of john bolton. bolton was the emissary on the invitation and notable they are using the language that the president we can rip it from his twitter feed and put it on this official statement from the white house. we will find out more as this develops. but it is sthif kipt because there was the plan and my phone is ringing. i am going to hope that source will hang on. >> take the call. take the call. tell us what you get. >> so that's -- it's bolton in that sense that we were expecting this putin meeting. now we know it will be delayed. when and will it happen next time? we don't know. it certainly is a measure of the price politically that the president, the white house thinks they are paying for the president's interaction in helsinki and to some degree what vladimir putin may be thinking as well. of course, they have their issues with the ongoing back and forth about the offer as it was described that putin made to try to have americans interviewed for things that the russian federation thinks the

because they believe john bolton will be tougher on russia than president trump would.ntence that john bolton said we asked the kremlin about this earlier today, and they seemed pretty happy about the whole thing. they say, look, they say they can see now that the political will has finally prevailed, meaning president trump, and now the understanding that such points for discussion should not be an obstacle on the path of repairing and expanding the bilateral dialogue. obviously what the russians are trying to do and hoping to do is sort of exclude that whole topic from any sort of negotiations to make sure the americans don't press things like the issue of crimea and try to get other concessions from the u.s. in the process. it's something that they say this they have been wanting to do. then they were also very clear going further on that call saying look for the russians crimea is not up for negotiations. they say crimea is theirs and the u.s. is going to have to accept that fact, jim. >> you might then ask what has russia conceded to the u.s.? hard to so what's on

i want to play you a clip and this is from john bolton he was a snow event a year ago in july and he was having cold iran freedom gathering in paris in france and this is where before a jump ball to became president trumps national security adviser look what he had to say about iran a year ago. the president's view should be to determine that the ayatollah khomeini's nine hundred seventy nine revolution. in till its fortieth birthday. is the central problem in the middle east there's no fundamental difference between the ayatollah khomeini and president rouhani there are two sides of the same coin. because there are so many domestic issues that iran is grappling with right now and then you add additional pressure from the till it's already been negotiated with the u.s. saying this is not good enough new sanctions i'm just thinking well where is the focus of iranians right now are they saying this is to do with preston trump all of this is because president rouhani failed us. i think both of course it depends on who you ask going to iran but there is still this feeling that the majori

>>reporter: john bolton, john huntsman. he was an ambassador to singapore back when he was in his mid-30s so he is well steeped in diplomacy and can give the president a real perspective on how to deal with a character like vladimir putin. chief of staff kelly also involved in the conversations. the president likes to say he's spent his entire life preparing for conversations like this but he will need every piece of dealmaking talent to do something with vladimir putin because we know this guy's history. and while they have met before, he is looking for something here and he believes that he holds a lot of the cards in this deal so we'll see where it goes. >> you mention the fact he's met before and that is the case, twice and they've had numerous phone conversations. eight, as many as maybe 10. do you get a sense of how the president sizes him up? >>reporter: as john bolton said, no one in the white house is overburdened by nacvetc. they know who vladimir putin is. they know his history. they know how he operates. how he

if you're in this cabinet or national security adviser john bolton, why do you stay? dan: i would say there's a high-minded reason and not--high-minded reason. the high-minded reason is the belief they're sving their country. somebody like secretary mattis, lifetime career in the militaryr duty, h country, they believe in what they're doing and they believe when the president ask s them tove, they should serve. i think they suspect or they believe that they areinact, providing at least some guide rails, that they are, in some way or anoth, being able to reassure allies that there i-- that the is a government that can function effectively. i think the less high-minded reason is that some people are attracted to power and it is very hard t give it up when you have it. and once you get to those positions -- and i'm not ascribing that to any particular individual, but to humantature, that takes it difficult to step aside. nabert: you've spent time interviewing nat security adviser john bolton in the past month. he seemed to try to navigate that, sometimes uneasily, with y

dana, your thoughts. >> john bolton is one. how about the president's own director of national intelligence. the president of the united states effectively just threw under the bus in favor of the russian president on an issue that has to do with russia interfering in american elections. i mean if you just kind of take a pause and think about that, and that's just one example. david gergen is right, it's almost hard, all of us speak for a living, to put into words what we just saw and how astonishing it is. i also just want to say, anderson, beforehand you were questioning whether either of these men would go after a free press. they didn't. and i think we saw -- i know we saw a prime example of how we need a free press an what a free press can do. jeff mason with reuters, the associated press reporter, they asked the questions of vladimir putin that had president of the united states failed to do. and that is something. it is really something. if there is an upside of having this summit aside from the basic idea of having dipl

the question for john bolton is, what part of that is a witch hunt?s the indictment of 25 russians, is that the witch hunt? are the guilty pleas a witch hunt? it is a completely inappropriate thing for him to say. it is functionally no different from what the president did this week. >> betsy de la vega, you worked for bob mueller. i've never seen a national security adviser in all my years in washington, they may have been on differently pages, but i've never seen a national security adviser be that political. the fact of him being this overt in undercutting the intelligence community is unprecedented. >> it's absolutely unprecedented, andrea. but from the point of view of mueller and his team, i can guarantee you that they are not concerned about all of these extraneous events. you can think of it as mueller is on really kind of a search and rescue and accountability mission for the united states. we have been attacked, and he and his team, as matt just summarized, have their hands full with existing cases, but they also have many cases still under

we know john bolton is not naive.ews contributor to know very well what he thinks about russia. he is not at all naive. maybe the president was doing salesman approach to putin but as you mentioned before, the trump supporters are sticking with him m fact it was "the today show" which had these man on the street interviews, i want to play a little bit of that, get your reaction. go ahead, play the tape. >> totally in support of him. >> why? why are you so supportive? >> because he's, an entrepreneur. he's a businessman, working class person's president. he is trying to make this country great again. >> what they have been doing in years past, being enemies with him and just not talking to hum or anything hasn't worked. so why not try something new? david: a. about, i will try to push you again on this, what effect do you think it will happen, if any on the elections in november. >> i agree trump's base absolutely sticks with him. they don't like republicans. they like trump. he is not on the ballot. i have no idea wha

john bolton, national security adviser and white house chief of staff john kelly as well. that press availability later today. we'll see if they take questions or not. so far at least in that early meeting, election meddling was not top of mind for the president. anderson? >> yeah. jeff zeleny. thanks very much. >> president trump insisted he would bring up election meddling. did he follow through and if so how? our senior diplomatic correspondent michelle co-zkosi is with me. blamed the dnc, obama administration, mueller for strained u.s./russia relations. >> reporter: yeah, this is a repeated thing, from the beginning president trump downplayed the verasty of the u.s. intelligence community. this was nothing new, just shocking that he's doing this within hours of meeting face to face with russian president putin. believes or chess straighting this attack on american democracy. even if president trump does bring it up, we already know from talking to people who xr spoken to president trump during the last few days that he doesn't take it seriously. he has told people behi

ken mentioned john bolton yesterday. senator lindsey graham was on the show yesterday saying it's no surprise, we all expect north korea to deceive, we expect them not to hold up their end of the bargain. it seems to be coming from all the people in the administration and the government except for president donald trump. the question is are -- is the intelligence community actually sharing this information with him or is he even listening, nicolle. >> it's a great parallel to what happens when it comes to russia. his cabinet goes out, think testify, christopher wray, admiral rogers, they all testify under oath before congress. they say yes, vladimir putin remains intent on meddling in our elections. they asked under oath if the president asked them to do anything. christopher wray, no, they had not. admiral rogers slumped over the table, what did we do to deter putin, nothing. we're about to face a man in a dictatorship. on the eve of a summit with vladimir putin, ken? >> not with the all all, nicole. the bizarre thing a

trump will be joined by secretary of state mike pompeo, national security advisor john bolton and chief of staff john kelly. >> good to see you. >> thank you. >> reporter: before heading to helsinki president trump told cbs evening news anchor jeff glor, when it comes to talks with mr. putin he has low expectations. >> i go into a meeting like that, never with high expectations, but maybe some really good stuff can happen. >> not high expectations, you're just-- it's a one-on-one conversation. >> whatever it is, i am representing our country. i want to do great for our country, and i'm sure he wants to do well for his. but that doesn't make it mutually exclusive. i mean i think we can do something good for everybody. >> reporter: last friday special counsel robert mueller indicted 12 russian military intelligence officers for their efforts to undermine the 2016 presidential election. putin has denied ordering the interference. but national security advisor john bolton today called foul. >> i find it hard to believe, but that is what one of the purposes of this meeting is so the presiden

and i think you know the record was made by their saw sort who commented on the visit by john bolton trumps national security advisor to law school oswalt is very concerned bolton made every sign of having to be kept in the crib didn't even use a press conference at the russian interfax news agency rather than at the u.s. embassy sat and it's kind of brought up john bolton because we all know his background and the kind of persona that he has here he was really caught flat footed in moscow preparing for this summit here i mean i think was a. month before he did your job you wrote in these i don't comment on what i was smiling the first time i thought it was. we are going to mazing but you know what that is you know i think you know i think you have to take into consideration that the men. the men from school was to. reboot in the united states a strong production you know in an industry to bring the brands back and so if it's. real and so. there has to be concurrent it's germany and china so they have to be controls have to be to be submitted and in my opinion we could have very inter

i think we're hampered by the witch-hunt going on in the united states, the russian witch-hunt john bolton is saying the indictment will give the president the leverage he needs. >> he was prepared to have it come before the meeting with putin, i would say, in fact, it strengthens his hand. it shows the justice system, the department of justice are aware of these russian efforts at election meddle and i think the president can put it on the table and say this is a serious matter. we need to talk about it. >> but democrats on capitol hill remain skeptical. >> i'd like to know the name of the president john bolton thinks he works for. he's not describing president trump. president trump went on tv after the indictment was issued and called the information a hoax. he has said that he has asked putin about meddling. putin told him he didn't do it and he believed him. it's hard to believe the president will press him hard. >> we have two reporters covering this summit in helsinki. nbc's bill neely and jeff bennet. we'll go to you, jeff, first what is the president saying? >> president trump say

course said that let me quote him i'm there when chart is all work well to hear from john bolton about retirement that is something that is going to you know you know what that tells me and tells me that john bolton loeb's power he wants very good because you know you want to try to it's not going to be over any time soon it is the one straw that the u.s. democratic party has to let you know eighteen months after the election they're still argue with the referee this is a suicide note ok one of the things gentlemen i keep saying this and maybe this is going to be my signature comment for the year ok trump is mitt putin campaign promise kept ok don't let me go back to charles in london i think all of us took a look at this article in the spectator and there is no author attached to it trumpet trains the elites a sense that the u.s. always is a peer in democracy loving you know it's really quite interesting because the authors of this article essentially say that trump is the first post exceptional as president of the united states it's a remarkable characterization go ahead charles it's

national security advisor john bolton said if iran does anything wrong, it will pay price like you countries have ever paid before. the secretary of state accuses the supreme leader of profiting from a 95 $95 billion hedge fud and president trump to fund his iranian counterpart in a tweet heard round the world. "to iranian president rouhani: never, ever threaten the united states again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before." when asked today if mr. trump was inciting war with iran, the white house press secretary said: >> if anybody is inciting anything, look no further than iran. >> what's at the present or not for the remarks throughout the u.s. plan to snapback sanctions on iran's oil empire. >> translator: do not play with the lion's tail or else you will regret it. it will bring your eternal regret. >> democrats and some republicans argue it's all a distraction to move our eyes away from russia. >> the speech that rouhani seemed to be the same speech

dan coats, john bolton, john kelly, mike pompeo, you know, these are not friends of russia. these are not people who think vladamir putin is a friend. and at one point, h.r. mcmaster was quoted as having said, you know, he wants to be friends with putin, and i don't know why he would want to be. this is a consistent theme of his since he became president. he did not want to confront vladamir putin on this. take away the sentence he says was mangled, and the rest of the press conference still stands. he was offered a chance by jonathan's question to say would you condemn russia here and now for what they did? instead of doing that, he condemned the fbi for investigating it. you can see why john bolton, a long-time russia skeptic or mike pompeo would be alarmed by this and try to nudge him back onto at least safer territory. >> jonathan, let's go back to the question that you asked. did you have the sense when he answered that he had misspoken or from here, it all hung together quite well? >> certainly not. there was no suggestion that he misspoke. >> anyone talk to you on the

>> so, i'd like to know the name of the president john bolton thinks he works for.bing president trump. president trump went on tv after the indictment was issued and called the investigation once again a hoax. he has already said that he has asked putin about meddling. putin told him he didn't do it and he believed him. so it just belies common sense that the president of the united states, this president is going to sit down across from putin and press him hard on the issue of russian meddling. he knows that he benefited from it. he asked them to do it. and he knows that he still stands to benefit. what we have been told by the intelligence services in this country is that the russians are trying to interfere again in the 2018 election, and what i believe is that president trump knows ultimately that that could accrue to his benefit and to his party's benefit. he is simply not going to raise this issue as strongly as he would if at all with putin which is why many think the summit should stand down. >> what should he do? >> what he needs to do is not be pushed int

>> well, actually, i'm happy that john bolton went over there. john bolton is a very smart guy. he's very experienced. and hopefully they've talked about the issues. it sounds like from the comment this morning, crimea came up, i think john bolton gave the right answer on that. we'll see if the president stands firm on it. you need strong planning before you begin one of these meetings, but in this case, the substance really, fredricka, is less important than the context. the context of this is a year and a half into the trump presidency, he's been a major disruptive factor with our allies on issues like trade, on nato, on personal relationships. and yet, he's working to develop relationships with potential adversaries. now, it's not that we shouldn't be talking to these adversaries, but u.s. foreign policy for 70 years or more has been premised on trying to work with people that share our values. we know vladimir putin and russia doesn't -- they don't share our values. he's an autocrat. reporters disappear. they're murdered, and the opposition doesn't make it. it's not really a

do i wish president trump or more buttoned up as john bolton might? i do when it comes to putin.yle. leland: real quickly come you don't like his style, but results are there. >> were certainly no results to speak of yet. >> hold on. is that really fair? nine months about nuclear weapons without a missile test. >> in a report that there's actually an advancement in the nuclear research capabilities. i think that there's going to be allegations here are that i am unwilling to see progress. i actually was hoping for real but to read. i've been following the north korea crisis for more than 10 years on my program. i am committed actually. it's one of the main humanitarian crises we need to focus on. >> let me get a question in. in reality, president trump was able to get a nine-month moratorium on missile testing. this from a regime of president obama said was the single greatest threat to the united states when he met with president trump. how is that not an accomplishment in and of itself regards to the other issues? >> up all of a sudden the focus is who in the past said someone

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national security advisor john bolton. defending the president amid a whole bunch of criticism about the president's upcoming summit with russian president vladmir putin. john bolton goes on to say he doesn't think, quote, anybody ought to have a case of the vapors. here to weigh in, fox news senior strategic analyst general jack keane. general, what do you make of john bolton's comments? >> well, as it pertains to putin, certainly one, we should definitely have the summit. some people are concerned about legitimatizing putin on the world stage, given he has been something of an international pariah. i agree that is what is going to happen but listen, i mean the issues are just so serious, that the issues certainly are clearly far more important than putin's domestic audience here. we have thousands dead in ukraine. hundreds of thousands dead in syria. putin has his hands in both of those countries enabling in harm coming to people. meddling in the elections in europe and united states. he has been backdooring assistance t

john bolton, it's very strange. the iran deal was essentially donald trump withdrew from the iran deal just after bolton arrived a the white house. he must have been delighted by that. and now he is trapped in this nightmarish situation where trump seems to be operating on trust with kim. bolton has said for years you can't trust the north koreans. they'll lie to your face over and over. and i think behind the scenes, bolton is probably trying to convince the president this is a very dangerous game he is playing. >> gordon when he came in here actually said this pompeo trip may be make or break. if pompeo doesn't make some ground up here, there may be a problem. guys, thanks very much. gordon chang and michael crowley, thanks to both of you. >>> keeping the number of undocumented kids taken from their parents secret. when "the 11th hour" continues. when i received the diagnosis, i knew at that exact moment, whatever it takes, wherever i have to go...i'm beating this. my main focus was to find a team of doctors that

this is the national security adviser john bolton.a statement that reads "the president believes that the next bilateral meeting with president putin should take place after the russia witchunt is over." so we agreed that it will be after the first of the year. is that the real reason here for this delay or is it because putin's visit was unpopular in the first place not to mention among the president's own party it drew a lot of criticism? >> sure. i think it's the latter as opposed to the former. but i want to make the point here that fact that our national security adviser of the united states of america, the person who has the ear of the president on national security matters probably more so than anybody else in the administration is actually calling a very serious investigation into russian meddling and into our elections. russian interference for that matter. clear cut interference. a witchunt in an official white house statement is just -- you just can't believe this is actually happening. we see this time and time again. of c

national security adviser john bolton visited moscow and had talks with the russian president but as more goes to have reports next not everyone is happy about this forthcoming meeting trump is acting strange stranger than usual he's being awful nice to russia. russia continues to say that they had nothing to do with meddling now election taken by itself the coup these sensitive might rubs on the wrong way what he says next caused a storm he gave up crimea as lost. with. everything else we can preserve the gave up. that was certainly given up by. the media interpreted it as trump potentially willing to recognize crimea as russia now trump he'd be hounded out of office the same week but reacting to the summit visuals of the diplomatic. the fact the two presidents a meeting engage in insisting dialogue is something i support i believe it's time to talk to the show because to the actions of a neighbor from state to state the pundits though showed no such restraint they're in meltdown we have no idea what kind of information donald trump will say just bragging to vladimir putin may give

and this is a statement by john bolton. the president believes that the next bilateral -- what do you think about that statement. >> the russia investigation is not going to be done then. so that is fantastical thinking. secondly, i think i know why this was postponed. when the president announced that he were going to invite vladimir putin to the united states. he shocked his national director of intelligence. but who he really shocked was republican majorities in the house and senate who were like, are you kidding me. you are going to invite this guy who attacked america's election system to pal around with you right before the midterms. i am sure the congressional leadership said you have to push that back. they probably told him to cancel. and he instead said i won't cancel. and make it a holiday visit instead. >> the way he behaved and oriented himself on this one fixed unchanging issue while he goes back and forth of china and goes all over the map, yada-yada. why in your mind is he like this on this issue. >> i will

john bolton also worked with robert mueller.ring to hear john bolton, a former colleague, call his investigation a witch hunt. what corrupts all of the national security officials around donald trump or not all of them, i shouldn't say all of them. i think coats distinguished himself last week. admiral rogers has testified to being befuddled by the russia policy. what krupcorrupts so many peopl this west wing? >> if you're john bolton and you want a good russia policy, you probably don't want the next summit to come while the investigation is still happening. so to me kind of using that phrase, "the witch hunt" is maybe a way to get the president to buy into your idea of putting off a summit that you think is a bad idea in the first place. >> but you're grading him on a curve. >> but that's how -- that's how this white house works. >> that's like telling my 6-year-old eat the medicine, it tastes like cherry. >> it's the same as jeff sessions saying that rosenstein had gone to wharton. it sounds too dumb to be true but it sometim