ok so the meeting with reporters just wrapped up john bolton the u.s. national security adviser taking a number of questions he had just finished he has confirmed a five hours meeting with nikolai patrushev the his russian counterpart just going through a little bit of what bolton say will go through more detail in the coming hour but he did say that they made a lot of progress considerable was a word he used as well after about number of issues the start treaty being deployed strategic nuclear weapons he also said he spoke to donald trump just after the meeting concerning what was spoken about as well ukraine and of course syria as well we'll try and get a bit more detail. in the next thirty minutes or so we'll see what else comes out of that meeting between at john bolton nicholai patrushev all right let's get a check on what else we're covering this news hour here in r.t. international facebook has upped the ante in its crusade against fake news it's not bound hundreds of pages it claims are linked to a round in russia for allegedly trying to sway po

for talks in geneva but one issue seemed to interest journalists more than others when john bolton addressed the media afterwards whether you ever concerned that iran's president faces security threats of course not i mean it's a silly question. u.s. democratic party cries foul over another suspected attack but the answer turns out to have been much closer to. facebook bans hundreds of pages of groups and counseling to iran and russia for alleged political meddling. or broadcasting live there across that is a moscow this is r t international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now the u.s. national security adviser and his russian counterpart have held more than five hours of talks in geneva but john bolton didn't give much away to reporters at a short news briefing afterwards. i think we made

house oversight committee have written a letter to the white house asking for documents related to john bolton'searance for his white house job. they want to know whether bolton disclosed if he ever had any contact with butina. >> we need to know whether he reported that, first of all, and then we can determine how damaging his contact with that russian spy might have been and may still be detrimental to the united states. >> reporter: bolton had done work for the nra at the time he appeared in that video. butina allegedly tried to make inroads with the nra. but the video is not the nra's. the roundtable in which the video aired was sponsored by a group butina led called the right to bear arms. >> i'm a representative of russian federation here, and i am a chairman of the right to bear arms. it's a russian non-profit organization. >> reporter: even though the video is not the nra's, butina's lawyer told cnn bolton made the appearance in the video at the personal request of former nra president david keene. keene has not responded to cnn's requests for comment. eric o'neil, a former fbi counterin

unknown factors in this equation and by his own statements yesterday especially with regards to syria john bolton hasn't helped that future those future dealings with russia that today may have actually for. saluted you mention iran and bolton did say that russian the u.s. agree that their troops remain in troops should leave syria and he said that they had discussed a variety of ways that might happen how do you what do you make of how he answered that question was it invasive or diplomatic. yeah of course people would say that actually they're both the same he's being diplomatic and divisive he doesn't want to discuss in detail what was said even less what was agreed even if anything was agreed but certainly i think putin and hopefully there will be a meeting between a summit between protein and trump themselves in a small in the very near future based on this meeting that there is some scope for maneuver on both sides of course russia has made it clear that it wants and of course syria and iran would make clear to you that of course they want american troops illegally occupying them some two t

national security advisor john bolton says iran will face yet more pressure over its nuclear plans and syria he spoke a short time ago after three days of talks in israel. consequences of the reduction in resources available to the regime we think is already manifested in some extent in constraints on the could force in. in syria and iraq and perhaps also in its assistant to the who tees in yemen and that's very important and we're going to do other things to put pressure on iran as well beyond economic sanctions are a force that joins us live now from west jerusalem so harry john bolton is in the region of the moment and very much applying the pressure on iran diplomatically that's certainly the message he's been trying to convey that the decision by the united states to pull out of the iran nuclear deal this year has had success both as you heard there in terms of restraining some of iran's military activity in the region but also he was talking in that news conference about protests across the country against the regime and of course that is very much the same kind of message that i

route his three day visit to israel one issue has dominated john bolton's discussions iran it was the main subject of his final news conference before leaving the country dream change in iran is not american policy. but what we want is massive change in the regimes behavior the iran deal is defective to that end he said donald trump's withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal and the reimposition of u.s. sanctions had begun to some extent to constrain resources available to iran's military and spur domestic protests against the iranian government it's just regular people saying they're fed up with the government. in small towns and cities it's not the educated elite in tehran it's farmers and workers and small shop owners who are shouting death to the regime at death to america death to the regime iran's president was this weekend to demonstrate a very different narrative that of a well funded military unveiling its latest fighter jet the kind of strength he said that continued to deter u.s. aggression john bolton's hosts this week the immediate priority is addressing iran's presence in s

attempts on misguided piles life when it came to the iranian sanctions in the iran nuclear deal john bolton unequivocal who saying that the will be sanctions put in place against iran on doing business with iran and that the sanctions all coming into november and he's in the russian side didn't ask for any exemptions during the meeting today and that the u.s. side on expecting to gave many exemptions at all i think this whole notion that sanctions also are a weapon and the how we as a country americans i can't you know threatening even more severe sanctions and i think that's the wrong way to go i think sanctions are an early rehearsal for war i think people have been just blown away on a proposal. they also talked about a rainy in troops in syria mr bolton saying that he wanted to see both as he put it regular and irregular rainy in troops removed from syria pulled back from syria the russian side going into this it already said that they were in support of this but that this wasn't something that was going to be happening immediately as with any of these meetings when it comes to senior f

route his three day visit to israel one issue has dominated john bolton's discussions iran it was the main subject of his final news conference before leaving the country dream change in iran is not american policy. but what we want is massive change in the regimes behavior the iran deal is defective to that end he said donald trump's withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal and the reimposition of u.s. sanctions had begun to some extent to constrain resources available to iran's military and spur domestic protests against the iranian government it's just regular people saying they're fed up with the government. in small towns and cities it's not the educated elite in tehran it's farmers and workers and small shop owners who are shouting death to the regime at death to america death to the regime iran's president was this weekend to demonstrate a very different narrative that of a well funded military unveiling its latest fighter jet the kind of strength he said that continued to deter u.s. aggression john bolton's hosts this week the immediate priority is addressing iran's presence in s

i am worried about another part of this, and that is that at the same time, john bolton and presidentrump have been very negative about the iran nuclear agreement. and the two really play off of each other, because if the united states cannot live up to agreements that it has made, and talks about tearing them up, then, in fact, it undermines the negotiation and the credibility that the negotiators need to have in order to say that something that's agreed on will be carried out. so this is very complicated, and i think that it's troubling that we have problems in the middle east and in north korea, but they are related in terms of these nuclear agreements very specifically. >> and now can i ask you a slightly off-piece question about personal and context. president trump was really very angry and in front of a group of generals as they were discussing their syria policy this week, he was furious and venting about the fbi raid on his lawyer's office, mike cohen. all about this potential money that was given to the adult film star, stormy daniels, or not. or maybe it was something else.

. >>> john bolton is meeting with his russian counterpart this morning in geneva. we have cnn's fred pleitgen in moscow with the latest. hi, fred. >> reporter: good morning, christine. one of the things that is apparently on the agenda according to john bolton, he said this at the press conference yesterday in israel, is election meddling. we have been monitoring the russian side about all of this issue. we are hearing from the kremlin that they say several irritant was the u.s. and russia are on the table. possibly sanctions and russian meddling are topics that will be discussed. the russians are taking interest in the president having said a few days ago he would be willing to discuss sanctions relief for russia if russia works with the u.s. in syria and ukraine. they want more information about what the president means, but syria is one of the major topics which is very important at the talks. one thing john bolton said yesterday, he said he thinks the russians are stuck in syria. russians are taking issue with that. that is one of the major topics. christine. >

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on election meddling, national security adviser john bolton has been tough on russia.e consider him to be a russia hawk. he has spoken out harshly against russian bad behavior many, many times in the past. when you get him in this kind of scenario, they are in geneva, he is with his russian counterpart, you feel certain he is going to raise it, he is going to say something like that. and he made it pretty clear that he said, it's not going to be tolerated. we're going to do something about it. do not mess in our elections. >> of course not. that's a silly question. i just spoke to him literally a few minutes ago. we have performed here in exactly the way i think the two leaders would have expected us to. you know, honestly, have a little faith in the american people who elected him president. >> reporter: that sound was in response to a question from a bbc journalist at this press conference where they asked if president trump is a security risk. you heard john bolton there say, you know, no, have faith in the american people, they know how to pick a president. that's

classified information, i think people will be able to determine. >> sandra: national security advisor john boltonbrennan misused classified information after president trump revoked his security clearance last week. joining me now is john sununu, former white house chief of staff to president george w. bush and former new hampshire governor. good morning to you. there was a suggestion on the part of bolton there, correct? >> well look, let's put this in a context that everybody understands what the security clearances are for. it's to be to the benefit of the government, not the benefit of the individual who has left government. and brennan loved to imply, when he was being interviewed, that he knew more than the interviewer about the issues and he knew more than the public and he implied that he was using what he had gained as a director of the c.i.a. as the basis for his claims. so john bolton was absolutely correct in suggesting that the suggestion of the problem came from brennan himself. >> sandra: brennan is making it very clear why he is speaking out on this. here he is on "meet the press"

national security advisor john bolton says washington will impose more measures besides sanctions on tehran but in says regime change is not his policy. zimbabwe's opposition heads to court in a bid to overturn the presidential result that it says was riddled with ford. and i'm glad to have putin lashes out at u.s. plans to impose more sanctions on russia describing them as senseless. so u.s. president ronald trump has gone on the defensive as legal problems pile up around him he's described the trial of his former campaign chairman paul manifold as a witch hunt despite my efforts conviction on eight counts and he accused his former lawyer of making up stories about him to secure a plea deal on choose to anybody who cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges two of them campaign finance violations admitted to paying two women to keep silent about their alleged affairs with donald trump and he said the payments were made by the orders of trump himself indicating the president in criminal activity well this was a response on twitter he said if anyone is looking for a good lawyer i

finally, i've asked general john kelly, secretary james mattis and ambassador john bolton to represent my administration that

president the north korean leader whether that will happen is unclear but also when we hear john bolton speak we have to remember that this is also a man that has called for a preemptive strike on north korea so certainly there is a feeling of nervousness in all of this in underscoring all of this because this is a man that has a timetable an agenda and maybe even pushing the trying to administration along so certainly this is something that is very notable the fact that john bolton has said this and to watch very carefully whether or not this secretary of state entertains this idea of another trip to north korea ok emily alkali for us in washington d.c. kimberly thank you let's pivot back to iran now and exactly who trades with iran according to the international monetary fund figures from last year about nineteen point five percent of iran's total tree is with china the second biggest partner is the united arab emirates with about sixteen point eight percent and a very close third the twenty eight nations that make up the european union totaling sixteen point three percent of trade ir

john bolton meets today with israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu.rÈs is live in jerusalem. >> that's right, dana. the national security advisor for president trump john bolton is meeting with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in israel. ultimately this was an opportunity for these tutus discuss their shared opinion that the iran nuclear deal pave the way for tehran to create a nuclear bomb. their decision to withdraw made it less likely for tehran to obtain this type of weapon. now fulton and netanyahu are calling for them to put pressure on iran to ensure the regime is not capable of developing this sort of arsenal. listen to what the israeli prime minister had to say regarding this issue from jerusalem earlier today. >> i frankly believe that all countries who care about peace and security in the middle east should follow america's lead and ratchet up the pressure on iran. >> again, those comments made along side john bolton. now bolton will be meeting shortly with president rutland of israel and paying a brief visit to the u.s. and to see

present national security adviser john bolton and marco rubio, a top member of the senate intelligence and foreign relations committee. bolton and marco rubio only on "fox news sunday". then a federal judge blocked a texas activist from putting blueprints online to make plastic on some 3-d printers. cody wilson joins us to explain why he thinks it's a good idea. >>> hours after this - - >> i do not feel the media is the enemy of the people. >>chris: president trump bashes journalists again. >> what ever happened to fair press? what ever happened to honest reporting? they don't report it. they only make up stories. >>chris: we will ask our sunday panel about the trump family divine. all right now on "fox news sunday". hello again from fox news in washington. top national security officials say the threat from russian meddling in the upcoming midterms is real.

here's kellyanne conway and john bolton earlier. >> i think the president's entire point is this. do have a news media that includes some reporters. it really refers to those who aren't always telling the truth and are giving emotion over information. >> i think the issue of press bias has been around for a long, long time. there is press bias. people get stories wrong and people are called out for it, and we should be called out if we make a mistake. cause war, sick, this is taking it to a completely different level. >> that's the president's view based on the attacks that the media have made on him. >> we have a lot to get to this hour. this breaking story with a number of reporters, and we'll start it all off with msnbc white house correspondent kelly o'donnell covering the president in new jersey today. kelly, first, reaction from the president to that new report by the "washington post," and he's had a lot to say so far. >> reporter: well, richard, remember, he's on vacation, part of an 11-day working campaign vacation, but nevertheless supposed to be taking it easy. not so a

we know that john bolton is going to seat russians later in the week. oing to ukraine second is also a smart move. bolton will be literally sending a signal that he stands with ukraine and against russia's illegal activities in crimea and eastern ukraine. he could announce something like more defense sales to the ukrainians to really show solidarity. finally, he's going to geneva where he'll see a man that has been in meetings with. the last time bolton saw the russians is to prepare for a summit. my gut is that he is going to take a play from putin's playbook and try to distract bolton from a really complex agenda and point to domestic political tensions in the united states and even things like brennan's politicalization supposedly of intelligence to distract from russian misbehavior and focus him on other threats (this week, of course, the big news is president trump revoking this security clearance that john brennan, former cia director, had you worked with john brennan. you say this move actually helps putin. >> most definitely. i mean donald trump

democrats are demanding the white house released documents relating to national security adviser john bolton's past work with a woman accused of acting as a russian agent maria bush in the who was charged with working as an unregistered foreign agent is the founder of a pro-gun group in russia called the right to bear arms. given the alarming and unprecedented nature of these revelations and the high level position of trust mr both the no holds we request that you produce documents relating to whether mr bolton reported his previous work with this alleged russian spy on his security clearance forms or other white house vetting materials prior to president trump appointing him to his current position the program gun group founded by bush in the back in two thousand and thirteen released a video featuring john bolton who at the time served as the head of the n.r.a. subcommittee he was asked to record a video to promote gun rights in russia where the russian national government to grant a broader right to bear arms to its people it would be creating a partnership with its citizens that would bett

national security adviser john bolton pushed back on that just a short time ago there was no u.s. government involvement in this at all just within the past couple of hours i've spoken with our charge a in caracas the head diplomatic official down there he and his staff are up much of the night making sure that americans in venezuela are safe as of now now with respect to what happened last afternoon look it could be a lot of things from a pretext set up by the majority in itself to something else. that was u.s. national security adviser john bolton now let's take a look at how that alleged attack on foldit as venezuelan president was speaking at a military parade in caracas. by. in full flow suddenly cut short. this footage broadcast live on state television shows the moment when an apparent explosion rocked the military parade sending hundreds fleeing on foot. the government declared it in assassination attempt. on a mommy stage which i don't want to see on the explosions were heard which we have established as coming from multiple drone idea. of the fact the one of the order th

counterpart for talks in geneva but one issue seemed to interest journalists more than others when john bolton addressed the media afterwards. whether you ever concerned that iran's president is a security risk of course not i mean that's so of course. the u.s. democratic party cries fall over another suspected hack but the answer turns out to have been much closer to home. and facebook fans hundreds of pages groups and a counseling to iran and russia for alleged political meddling. this is art international coming to you live from the russian capital with your live news update this hour welcome to the program the u.s. national security adviser and his russian counterpart upheld more than five hours of talks in geneva but john bolton didn't give much away to reporters at a short news briefing afterwards. i think we made a lot of progress we identified certain areas where lines of communication could be restored there were some where the areas of disagreement remain we didn't see. much utility in resuming discussions there are going to be some things where we're going to consider inside the uni

actually, you just mentioned john bolton and you did actually tweet about john bolton.urse, he's the bet to the north koreans. he was prominent, he was in the meetings. he was at the table. you can see him at one point talking to president trump and even to kim jong-un it looked like when they were standing in ehud l. you have said presumably if kim does not disarm, presumably that would require hawkish officials like bolton to call for a tougher stance. do you worry about that? the question is what is -- what will happen if he doesn't go and do the things president trump has assured the world he would do? >> well, so that goes back to the other question that i didn't end up answering, which is how much does personal rapport matter in a context like this. you know, i think you are absolutely right that when two leaders share a common vision, then they have the political will to push past the obstacles so that's a good thing. the thing that worries me is we've seen that president trump is -- well, you know, he changes his mind. if february 2017 justin trudeau came to the

and russia when it came to the iranian sanctions in the iran nuclear deal john bolton unequivocal who saying that the will be sanctions put in place against iran doing business with iran and that the sanctions are coming in november and he's in the russian side didn't ask for any exemptions during the meeting today that the u.s. side aren't expecting to give many exemptions at all they also talked about a rainy in troops in syria mr bolton saying that he wanted to see both as he put it regular and irregular rainy in troops removed from syria pulled back from syria the russian side going into this it already said that they were in support of this but that this wasn't something that was going to be happening immediately from the u.s. side they certainly seemed to be wanting to push that. through a little quicker than they were hearing from from the russian side but as with any of these meetings when it comes to senior figures within the trump white house and within the trump of the trumpet ministration there were questions about russian meddling and this quote this time well it was no d

we're going to do other things to put pressure on iran as well beyond economic sanctions john bolton says there's a lot more to come from the u.s. as he talks about iran and syria and israel supplies for the stranded all to start to fold but new dangers look for those caught off in a catalog. and. confusion for venezuelans as they try to work out how to use their new currency pay their way out of economic crisis. the dramatic end to two cold cases in different parts of the u.s. could put new pressure on president donald trump it could also boost the investigation into a legit election meddling virginia former trump campaign manager paul manifold was found guilty of financial crimes involving millions of dollars of foreign money and in new york his longtime lawyer suddenly pleaded guilty to a charges including paying off women who made claims about trump begin with that story and kristen saloon. he was the president's fixer his longtime attorney the man who dealt with issues before they became big problems michael cohen arrived at the office of federal investigators in new york on tue

national security adviser john bolton who didn't caleb's report they're accusing a number of countries of meddling has also come under suspicion over his connections to external influences democrats are demanding the release of papers relating to his work with foreign nationals over the past seven years one post he's been associated with is pro-gun activist. a russian national accused by the us of a speed knowledge. given the alarming and unprecedented nature of these revelations and the high level position of trust mr botha now holds we request that you produce documents relating to whether mr bolton reported his previous work with this alleged russian spy on his security clearance forms or other white house vetting materials prior to president trump appointed him to his current position the allegations relate to a video in which bolton expresses his support for broader gun rights in russia back in twenty thirteen when bolton then was the head of a national rifle association subcommittee some reports claim he took part in a round table forum on gun rights that was organized by boots i

to think of it this could be used against any country they don't want you to like it seems like john bolton has figured that out i can say definitively that it's a sufficient national security concern about cheney's meddling iranian meddling in north korea meddling that we're taking steps to try and prevent it so all four of those countries really. our intelligence shows that there are a number of others there are looking at and considering aging particularly in two thousand and eighteen of course no actual evidence is being provided but who needs evidence anymore these days anyhow now iran russia china and north korea are all plotting to meddle in the upcoming elections we shouldn't be surprised that the congress is now working on the election security bill but it's interesting to note that despite this four way pending an attack it seems like this bill will not actually include a hand counted audit but don't worry those easily hacked computer voting systems they can handle anything trump is obviously using china as sort of this target to make it the new big bad guy the big justification h

speaking on fox news sunday, national security adviser john bolton denied the u.s. behind the apparent drononblasts in caracas. >> i can say unequivocally that there was no u.s. government involved in this at all. with respect to what happened in the afternoon, it could be a lot of things. a pretext set up by the regime itself or something else. amy: a group of venezuelan soldiers calling itself "operation phoenix" claimed responsibility for the explosions in a communique posted on twitter. the group's former leader oscar perez was killed in a shootout with the government in january after he hijacked a helicopter last year and fired at government buildings. venezuelan authorities say they've arrested six people over saturday's incident. interior minister nestor reverol said two had previously detained in demonstrations over food and medicine shortages. maduro replaced longtime president hugo chavez after he died from cacancer in 2013. he was elected in may to a new six-year term in may. well for more we are joined by three guests. our video stream. alejandro velasco

dan coats says he still doesn't understand what happened between two of them, but john bolton insisted vladimir putin says -- yes, putin -- that election interference was the first issue that president trump brought up. mike rogers, i've been trying to understand how you have administration officials, members of the national security team who say one thing and president who says the other. it is as if president bush after 9/11 would have said, well, you know al qaeda threat and them attacking us again, you know, i think it's overblown. we're not sure it was al qaeda and i don't think it's a big deal. in fact, it's a hoax while the entire government put the country on a war footing. is that not the analogy that applies here. >> the russians are targeting our elections. there was a public report they're trying to get into our electric grid. they've been much more aggressive in cyberspace in a very bad way in the last probably year. they are saying we have a problem and we are telling the work forces and america we are going to do something about it. that part i thought was good. i think

at the center of all this-- national security advisor, ambassador john bolton. i spoke to him ashort while ago. >> schifrin: ambassador thank you very much. what is the goal of the sanctions that are snapping back ty >> well, we believe that the government of iran has not given up its intention to get deliverable clr weapons so by abrogatek the iran nuclear deal which we feltwas numently flawed, this enables us to put sanctions back on and re-create the pressure thawe think will be necessary to get the regime to change its bevior. we've been in consultation with our ally beings this. we're a of a mid we don't want iran to get nuclear weapons but i think we aliz recogn that the iran deal didn't cover ballistic missile development it didn'cover iran's terrorist activity. it didn't cover iran's we lige rant military activity in the middle east. we think all of those issues need to be on the table to talk to in about. >> some of those activities that you mentioned across the mid e8 east are fundamental to iran's regime and fundamental to iranian behavior. are you ac

john bolton said today no date had been set and positions need to be clarified.t's a success. one official told me after the meeting that sure there's progress. the progress was in the meeting. everyday we bring you reporting for all over the world. from geneva, singapore brussels and westminster and from washington. next will bring you fresh developments from uganda concerning the opposition mp. it's just received international attention because of allegations that he was beaten in custody. it's also sparked protest matches in uganda but earlier in london. due to appear today in a military court and the charges were dropped. minutes later though — he was charged with treason in connection with election violence. catherine byaruhanga reports. this was his first public appearance in ten days. and it was visibly overwhelming. the terry courtjust set him free. you are accordingly set him free. you are accordingly set free unless being held the charges. his injuries from his time in custody were visible. he cannot walk or stand by himself. soldiers are accused of him

i know john but i don't know him well enough to really answer that question i think bolton believes that in the long term he will be able to influence policy in a good direction so i suspect that he is going to stay there he's a very tough bureaucratic infighter and if i were secretary of state pompei oh i'd be very concerned if i had to say all these optimistic things in public because i'm sure that somebody in the west wing there is actually writing all this stuff down and memorizing it said bring it out at a later date gone we always love talking with you thank you so much for your time today thank you larry a large part of the tub ridge of donald trump's tuesday rally in temple beyond with the president said about his plans and policies was the hostile reaction to members of the press by mr trump's supporters for his part the president doesn't seem to be tempering his and the media rhetoric is this part of the trunk show or is this something much darker happening here this talk was so manu's covered d.c. for several decades and over friend bill press for aggressive commentator author

national security adviser john bolton. ambassador, good to have you with us. >> glad to be with you, lou. lou: ambassador, start with iran. have you made it clear, the president has made it clear, that this is going to be stern stuff, your policy toward the -- against iran. these first sanctions, however, are not as powerful, one could argue as the second set, which would come with the november 4th. your judgment. >> well, the purpose of the phased impact of the sanctions is to provide a fair winddown period for companies that relied on the deal made in 2015. but i think the effect of the sanctions has already been felt in iran. the currency since the president announced our withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal, the iranian currency has decreased by nearly half. we have scene millions and millions of dollars in currency leaving iransa the elites move their assets out of the country for fear of this, and seen a continuation of demonstrations and riots in towns and cities across iran, as the economy has gone into a tailspin

. >>> john bolton is meeting with his russian counterpart this morning in geneva. we have cnn's fred pleitgen in moscow with the latest. fred, good morning. we assume election interference at the top of the show, but one would hope? >> reporter: i think we are assuming correctly. not sure if it is on top of the agenda, but john bolton said it will be on the agenda as far as the american side. we have asked the russian side as well. they have been less specific about the topics discussed or this topic in particular. they are saying irritants in the relationship with russia and the u.s. on the agenda. one thing the russians want to speak about is not just election meddling, they probably don't want to speak about that, but sanctions relief for russia. not too long ago, president trump said he would be willing to discuss sanctions for russia if russia would help in syria and ukraine. syria, dave, is one of the major issues on the agenda. something that john bolton has been building up to as he has been on the trip in the middle east. he has said recently he believes r

congressman dr ron paul welcome to the program now john bolton there was pretty tight lipped after the meeting but what were you able to read into about how the meeting went with what he did put forward. well i thought it was terrible all we did was threaten people and assume that we control the world and we control everything one thing that caught my attention was getting rid of getting iran to take out their troops now that's a reasonable request as long as the request is any foreign nation that has troops in syria that have been uninvited should all leave together that's what the problem is this picking and choosing that we decide and say yes he can have troops in there not the other ones but no i think that threats and intimidation and the sanctions it's just a penalty on the people they never hurt the government they just give incentives to the government so i think i think this whole notion that sanctions also are a weapon and how we as a country americans have come you know threatening even more severe sanctions and i think that's the wrong way to go i think sanctions are an ear

john bolton visiting with key u.s.in the middle east and president trump's national security adviser greeted to warm welcome in israel where he broke bread with benjamin netanyahu, more on what to expect from today's meetings. >> president trump's national security adviser john bolton arrived in israel where he then had dinner with prime minister netanyahu and to hold series bilateral meetings and exchanged pleasantries and calling bolton true friend of israel. visit of bolton is important and he had a number of topics he would like to discuss mainly iranian aggression in the region. during dinner israeli embassador to the u.s. ron and talks between netanyahu and bolton will allow to dive deeper into reconstruction process in syria and rising tensions with iran. it's important to look at the timing of the meeting between bolton and netanyahu because following his 48-hour stop in israel bolton will head to geneva, switzerland to meet with russian couldn't part, nikoli, conversations about future of leadership in syria.

because it seems like john bolton knows what went down but dan coats doesn't. >> john bolton is kind of on the horns of the same dilemma. you see john bolton come out and try to, you know, rattle the saber yesterday and talk about everything they're doing to attack russian interference. in a statement last week, he put out a statement last week, calling the investigation a witch hunt. again, john bolton is in the same place that sarah sanders is. trying to say it out of one side of her mouth. but the administration is getting serious about interference in elections. out of the other side of her mouth, call the investigation a witch hunt. everyone in this administration has this problem. you cannot do both of those things at once. >> ron, how damning is it for our country that the president is not on the same page as his national security team? and what does it do to them? if you think about when gary cohn finally said enough is enough, it was when he realized he couldn't help the president on trade and tariffs. because the president was never going to listen. >> he's listening to pet

john bolton said stop buying their oil.t was stolen by the mullahser sent t hezbollah and other terrr groups. >> it seems that iranian people are saying to europe, stand with us, not those opressing us, to democrats and liberal left here, you, stan with the people in the streets of iran not nose those opressing us. and president rouhani saying they cannot talk to u.s. while under sanctions. >> what is means of negotiations when you impose sanctions attime same time, claiming we should be talking and negotiations. liz: your reaction? >> come on, rouhani is a thug, bottom line is we don't have a lot to talk to him about. all decent people should be standing with citizens of iran, they want to stop being, have their money stolen and used for terrorist as opposed to giving them a decent standard of living, obama administration decided that iranians were a partner for peace. they were wrong, now that reality hassett back -- setback in, and we can flip that back on its head. liz: john bolton explaining what it would take for a de

john bolton with me now from the north lawn.n. >> glad to be back. >> bill: thank you for coming back with us. i have a lot to go through. we'll see how much we can cover in the next couple minutes. what will major economic sanctions do against the iranian regime? >> when they come back into effect tonight we've really already seen some of the implications. the pressure on the iranian economy is significant. the value of its currency is going through the floor. we've seen public reporting of massive flights of capital out of iran. the elites are getting nervous. demonstrations and riots in cities and towns around iran showing the dissatisfaction the people feel. more sanctions come back in in another 90 days. it's an indication of how strongly we feel that the iranian nuclear weapons program, ballistic missile program and support for terrorism, its belligerent activity in the middle east have to stop. >> bill: i know how you feel about this regime. let's call it what it s. you are trying to break the regime's back economically,

national security adviser john bolton he's in jerusalem put trying iran as a threat as he put it to the u.s. and europe saying that he is pleased with the profound negative effect of u.s. sanctions on iran. talking about how shop owners farm as a coming out and shouting death to the regime instead of death to america how he falls that joins us now from west jerusalem we know. he's that ramp up the pressure against iran these therefore i think three days but what do we expect to come out in terms of new steps or new policy is there any indication of that. not so much that it is this is that the last of his of his three days here and it's very clear that both he and the israeli prime minister the israeli government sure are almost in lockstep on their view of the iran problem is benjamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister continues to outline it particularly in terms of the rejection of the obama nuclear deal with iran it's deleterious effects as far as both men are concerned and the need for continued pressure for the sanctions of the united states have imposed to be shared and endorse

he has met with the russian president several times on this and now we know john bolton will be meetingcounterpart. will they stick to the line and keep iranian backed forces out of israel's harm? >> that is one of the key items on bolton's agenda. infinitely he will meet with the ukrainians in kiev to ensure that waste continue to support them. encourage them in their territory. but if you are assad and you survived this near-death experience, you want a sugar daddy to surprise. our national interest after the death of isis in syria and iraq is to limit their ability to spread terror around the world and the extent we can cooperate with russia and israel has shown it can cooperate with russia. that is good. we want some things which makes you wonder why we have the sanctions on autopilot getting worse and worse by the month. eric: what putin has done. that's why. >> it is. for example, we increase sanctions on russia because of their attempts to assassinate two people in britain not because they attempted to kill them, but we would feel much better if they'd been stabbed or pushed out

ed: a new push from the national security adviser john bolton to try to force relief for detained american pastor andrew brunson. our correspondent garrett tenney live in washington following the developing story. >> reporter: the white house is ramping up pressure on turkey especially politically and economically to release andrew brunson and those efforts appear to be having some effect. as turkey's financial markets plummeted to record lows, the country's ambassador to the us, national security adviser john bolton, in relation between the two countries. the white house has been tightlipped about any conversation, not clear what progress was made in the top steps. j secular oh, one of the president's personal attorney says we are working with the president, vice president and secretary of state and members of congress, and we remain hopeful that will occur soon. the first we know of between the two countries since donald trump announced plans for turkish steel and aluminum. erdogan is not backing down and accused the us of economic warfare. >> translator: your sacrificing a relationship

those on the ground has that yeah absolutely just a few days ago quite out of the blue actually john bolton said that washington would be willing to respond very strongly if it thinks that the assad government potentially used chemical weapons let's hear what he had to say we now see plans for the syrian regime to resume offensive military activities and. we are obviously concerned about the possibility that it may use chemical weapons again if the syrian regime uses chemical weapons we will respond very strongly now interestingly enough around the same time as john bolton statement the u.s.s. the solomons was deployed to the persian gulf and according to the russian defense ministry this is a destroyer class ship armed with cruise missiles and the ministry also claims that the u.s. the u.k. and france might be prepared for a strike there now it profitless what is the situation that at the moment who controls well it's the last terrorist stronghold in syria after the syrian government's victory in and around damascus they cut a peace deal where saving thousands of civilian lives but the tra

those on the ground has that yeah absolutely just a few days ago quite out of the blue actually john bolton said that washington would be willing to respond very strongly if it thinks that the assad government potentially used chemical weapons let's hear what he had to say we now see plans for the syrian regime to resume offensive military activities in. we are obviously concerned about the possibility that it may use chemical weapons again if the syrian regime uses chemical weapons we will respond very strongly now interestingly enough around the same time as john bolton statement the u.s.s. the solomons was deployed to the persian gulf and according to the russian defense ministry this is a destroyer class ship armed with cruise missiles and the ministry also claims that the u.s. the u.k. and france might be prepared for a strike there now it providence what is the situation that at the moment who controls well it's the last terrorist stronghold in syria after the syrian government's victory in and around damascus they cut a peace deal where saving thousands of civilian lives but the trad

laura: just before that briefing started, the national security adviser john bolton democratic senators who voiced their concerns about meddling. one of them was chris van hollen from maryland, and he joined m from capitol hill a short time ago. , john bolton,tien the naonal security adviser, said that the administration is doing everything rt can to combsian meddling. do you accept that?n: sen. van hol do not, and i just had a chance to review john letter, awas a litany of some of the minor steps that have been taken, which we know have not been successful. orich is why we need to do we know they are not successful because the director of national intelligce said all the warning lights are flashing red about russian interference in the 2018 electn. we know we have to do more, and that is why senatorubio and i have introduced the deter act. laura: do you think it is possible that russia cou try and target our electronic voting machines in the upcoming midterm election?n. an hollen: i think it is very possible they could try and target them' we dont know about evidence from 2016 about th

. >> kellyanne conway and john bolton were responding to the president's remarks at the rally thursday in pennsylvania. you can judge if he is talking about collusion or russian interference in general. >> helsinki. i had a great meeting with putin. we discussed everything. we got along really well. by the way, that's a good thing. not a bad thing. that's a really good thing. now we're being hindered by the russian hoax. it's a hoax. okay? i'll tell you what, russia's very unhappy that trump won. that i can tell you. >> the president's advisers point to a briefing by top national security officials. as proof, mr. trump is concerned about the conduct although he called it a hoax after that briefing. mr. trump has not affirmed that russia is continuing to interfere in elections. >>> the trump administration will explain how it will reimpose sanctions on iran following the withdrawal of the nuclear deal in may. businesses have until midnight tonight before sanctions are reinstated. gold, aluminum and steel and coal are part of it. we have our l.a. times reporting joining us this morning.