thank you very much, peter baker. >> and joining us now is john bolton.tration and bush 41 and 43 administrations. what can president biden expect to gain in this meeting with vladimir putin? >> i think this meeting is premature. i don't think biden understands what his objectives with russia are or how to achieve them. there is a long list of potential disagreements and conflicts with russia. having a meeting where you go down a list and say we raised russian hacking interference and ukraine. i think putin is a wily, experienced, well prepared leader. he will have his objectives. i am a little worried, frankly, that the biden administration is more process than substance and will leave us vulnerable. i think you can always have phone conversations. i think this meeting is probably premature. >> with all due respect, was donald trump prepared for a meeting with vladimir putin? >> of course not. he didn't prepare for meetings in any traditional sense because he didn't feel he needed to. he was good at sizing people up in 30 seconds or so and he would deal

to crush his opponents in the way that donald trump tried to crush many of his critics including john bolton i want to bring into our conversation a reporter who broke this story at "new york times," washington correspondent mike schmidt. what do you know about the review process for this bolton case by the garland justice department? >> when the garland justice department came in they sort of looked at this case as they looked at a range of other matters that the trump/barr justice department had done and sort of evaluated it. similar to the carol lawsuit decision that was made last week. they looked at the decision and they realized that a lawsuit allowing a lawsuit to move forward would -- could potentially expose some wrongdoing on the side of the trump administration and the justice department but that was no reason for essentially a meritless suit to move forward and willing to put this matter behind them and to reach this deal and the most important -- two major aspects here for the bolton. the first is that he gets to keep his money from the book. the government will not try to recou

thank you. >>> and as john bolton just told you, trump will not be reinstated. there is no mechanism. there is no chance. he's not going to be reinstated, as president. he's not even going to get reinstated at facebook, at least not anytime soon on the social network. they gave him the maximum penalty. it announced an extension on his ban, today. and of course, trump's barking up a storm about it. but does he have anything, but sour grapes? is there a fair argument, that this was the wrong thing to do? smerconish with his take. plus, new details about what happened behind the scenes on january 6th between trump and kevin mccarthy. the lengths mccarthy had to go to, to get trump to call off his mob. brian stelter has the scoop, next. hi guys! check out this side right here. what'd you do? - tell me know you did it. - yeah. get a little closer. that's insane. that's a different car. -that's the same car. - no! yeah, that's before, that's after. oh, that's awesome. make it nu with nu finish. keeping your oysters business growing has you swamped. you need to hire. i

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joining me now is former trump national security advisor john bolton.it happened." ambassador bolton, thank you for coming on the show. what do you make of this recent spate of cyber attacks? >> well, i think this is something we're going to have to get used to happening well into the future. you know, we have benefitted as a society enormously in terms of productivity increases, convenience, a whole range of things because of information technology, the use of computers and the internet. but with that comes increased risks. the more reliant you are on this technology, the more vulnerable you can be to people who want to do you harm. and therefore you have to take into account how to protect yourself against it as part of the cost of doing business. from the government's perspective i think there's obviously a much larger role. and it depends there on whether we're dealing with state actors or surrogates for states or criminals. but i think the government itself has to be much more active in combating this. this is something i tried to do when i was nat

i will speak with the former trump national security advisor john bolton. reaction also to the justice department just dropping, get this, just dropping today a trump era lawsuit against him. we are live coverage, that's coming up. , just say, "let me talk to my manager." next, carvana's 100% online shopping experience. oh, man. carvana lets people buy a car-- get this-- from their couch. oh, how disruptive. no salesman there to help me pick out the car i need. how does anyone find a car on this site without someone like us checking in? she's a beauty, huh? oh, golly! (laughter) i can help you find the color you want. that sounds nice. let me talk to my manager. (vo) buy your next car 100% online. with carvana. >>> we are getting new reaction to the summit here in geneva from former top advisors to president trump. former president trump, i should say, who have experience confronting the kremlin leader. i spoke earlier today with russia expert fiona hill. was there anything that surprised you coming from putin today, ambassador hill? >> well, i think, you k

brzezinski and john bolton cold war errors. but they dealt with this guy. s almost as if he'snd talking about a member o the opposition party in the senate. they have a relationship. and he's pretty cute. he's got a lot of tricks up his sleeve. you have to watch him all the time. but he's been there for 33 years. >> he'ser on the international stage. you talk to most diplomats he does more with less than about anything. jonathan lemire, you were in helsinki. you asked vladimir putin the question. you're going to geneva. do you think when you raise your hand will he answer your question or will he throw a shoe at youe like bush had a couple shoes thrown at him? >> i'm not going to accept any russian tea while in geneva. i will be traveling with the president when he makes his first overseas in a couple weeks. they're broadcasting he'll talk tough with putin, deliver that warning to knock off, knock off the interference that donald trump never did and refused to do when i asked him in helsinki, but the message will also be not just towi putin, messaging heres

investigation, also dropped any, you know, types of censure on former national security adviser john boltonishing of his book. >> mm-hmm. >> did trump win here though? i mean clearly he was trying to stifle bolton from publishing and writing what he wrote, but did trump get what he wanted out of this? >> i don't think he did. i think when the prosecution was initiated, the idea was punitive. and there were people within the government who also felt like they had to set that precedent. it wasn't do what donald trump wants. i think he won only in the sense that some officials around him won't have to testify about what they were told and what he told them on this prosecution, but, no, i think this was a -- it's hard to look at this as anything other than a victory for john bolton, and i don't think trump would see this as a win for him. >> maggie haberman, so great to see you. >>> the new covid variant is being called covid on steroids. >> and a washington capitol police officer who says a congressman refused to shake his hand. he'll join us live. there's interest you accrue, and interests yo

>> well, you know, the truth is that -- john bolton knows this very well.he joe biden, the risks are low in a way of meeting with putin in a sense that the low bar was set for him by trump and biden by talking tough to putin's face and having that be his message clears that low bar. you know, anybody would after the summit which john bolton, if you read his account, he was trump's national security adviser and was horrified what trump did in that meeting with putin, and so in that sense it's likely to be a winner here. is there something concrete beyond that that will come out of it? >> we'll answer that question when the summit is over. thank you for your time and insights today. we will continue the conversation down the road in a few days. >>> and then solving the migration problem, and you might say it created new problems and questions for her. ok everyone, our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. great tasting ensure with 9 grams of protein, 27 vitamins and minerals, and nutrients to support immune health. ♪ 27 v

thank you. >>> as john bolton just told you, trump will not be reinstated. there is no mechanism. there is no chance. he is not going to be reinstated as president. he is not even going to get reinstated at facebook at least not any time soon on the social network. they gave him the maximum penalty. it announced an extension on his ban today and of course trump's barking up a storm about it. but does he have anything but sour grapes? is tlhere a fair argument this was the wrong thing to do? smerconish with his take plus new details about what happened behind the scenes on january 6th between trump and kevin mccarthy. the lengths mccarthy had to go to to get trump to call off his mob. brian stelter has the scoop, next. rely on the experts at 1800petmeds for the same medications as the vet, but for less with fast free shipping. visit petmeds.com today. >>> today is five months to the day since january 6th. five months to the day. and on that day, facebook has extended its ban on donald trump. stretching it to at least 2023. the explanation? given the gravity of the circumstances tha

people interview john bolton these days, you have, but it's late.nt to the impeachment proceeding. mr. mcgahn went into private testimony. he complied legally. but we never got that public video. that was part of the negotiation with the house testimony. in ways both stylistic and substantive, i think mcgahn cuts a figure of much more historical complexity. he did ultimately cooperate. of course, that's the minimum in law with mueller. did he resist the demands, as you were discussing. what does it mean when people do that for a mix of patriotism and self-interest? he went along for a lot of this ride. >> jill, bill barr, john mitchell. >> let me first say that a degree with ari on the comparison. dean lost his job before he cooperated. mcgahn somehow managed to keep his and he also never has fully divulged what he knows. his public testimony was only very limited. as to barr and mitchell, mitchell went to jail for what he did. i think that there is some chance that if we fully investigate what happened during the barr administration at the departme

the trump administration said this had some national security information that was leaked out by john boltonthis afternoon that they feel that the ambassador bolton is vindicated. i want to read part of a statement they say this is a repudiation of former trump's attempt under the pretext of protecting classified information first to suppress the book's publication and when that failed in court, to penalize the ambassador. bret, you know that this case deeply peeved the former president donald trump. he has yet to make a statement. but, of course, he is following this and we'll follow to see what he says about it. >> bret: david spunt at the justice department. thanks. federal reserve officials are signaling they may raise short-term interest rates by a half percentage point by late 2023. that would be in response to recent concerns about higher inflation. and the central bank may pull back on its $120 billion in monthly bond purchases meant to keep longer term rates low. that sent stocks down today. the dow lost 266. the s&p 500 was off 23. the nasdaq fell 33. up next, the taliban are alrea

reportedly told aides that he hoped the coronavirus would kill his ex-national security adviser, john boltonly, bolton had the wisdom to grow his own n95. he hasn't even had a cold since the 90s. that's right, former president trump reportedly told aides that he hoped the coronavirus would kill john bolton "oh, he was much more proactive with me," said mike pence. chairman of the joint chiefs, general mark milley, yesterday, criticized republicans who opposed the u.s. military academy teaching critical race theory, and said, quote, "i've read mao zedong, i've read karl marx, i've read lenin, that doesn't make me a communist. that's true. but it does make him really annoying at college parties. republican senator john kennedy, yesterday, criticized president biden's plan to address rising crime rates and said, quote, "why is it safer to walk down the streets of mogadishu than new york city? well, that's easy, mogadishu doesn't have revel microsoft, this week, became the second u.s. company to reach a market value of $2 trillion. but, remember, the first was gamestop president biden traveled t

very 1st scene in india and protested in brazil at demanding the impeachment of president john bolton are over. his handling of the pandemic. hundreds are out on the streets of rio right now. demanding more. corona barnes vaccines as well. the president has repeatedly played down the threat of the buyers and has now killed nearly half a 1000000 people in brazil. that's my lot for to day moline will take you through the next 3 hours on al jazeera. next, it's the stream i was going to have on washing and asia and africa. there'd be days where i'd be shooting and editing my own stories in a refugee camp with no electricity. and right now where confronting some of the greatest challenges that humanity is ever faced. and i really believe that the only way we can do that is with compassion and generosity and compromise. because up, the only way we can try to solve any of these problems is together, that are so important. we make those connections the i, me, ok, welcome to the screen. today we are going to be joined by the right tab mas. let me get, stay. we will be talking about how writing

john bolton and people are appalling for someone like me. ok. that's why i was very disappointed here. but let me go back to david. i mean, the interesting thing about donald trump, other than being an amazing messenger, is that he does my move, everything around him in positive and negative ways, just him in the public. and on the, on the public sphere it's, you know, people react, going back to what you said earlier about who voted for home. is that, you know, when he throws his hat in literally, or metaphorically, he's going to stir up everything. is that a good thing for the republicans? i mean, it, it's great for cable tv and for people like me. but is that good for the republican party? is it good for the body politic david? you know, for 4 years, every time i read a report or writing about some grand strategy, some donald trump strategy, i laughed to myself because there is no strategy and he's instinct. he says there's no filter they are. he says exactly what is reeling at that moment. sometimes it is consistent with the body politic oth

noted to help contain the buyers in protest as in brazil or demanding the impeachment of president, john bolton are over. his handling of the pandemic. hundreds of people out on the streets of rio diginero, these live pictures, in fact, demanding more corona virus vaccine. they see the weak, comfortable scenario was fined for not wearing them off, get a rally and apollo presidents repeatedly downplayed the threat of the virus that has killed nearly half a 1000000 people in brazil. moscow's registered a new record for code 19 infections for the 2nd day running more than 9000 cases were recorded in the last 24 hours. the mail saying that the search has being driven by the contagious delta vary and 1st identified in india, restrictions including a ban on large gatherings, have been extended in the city. but as soon as economy appears to be climbing out of its coven, 1900 plunge its finance as it faced problems even before the pandemic. if things like people's preference for paying in cash, which her tax revenues that though looks to be changing, without any reports from this vegetable market in th

the justice department and its investigation into other former national securities advisor john bolton disclosed classified information. the rj has dropped their lawsuit to secure profit from the book. some are required happened was released last year in other news district. junior has made the exclusive publisher of the late literary archive. things, strive for freedom in 1958 minutes from a new politically conservative publisher started, seasons publishing front formerly banned from in some cases, outright rejected by politically correct publisher. releasing books by former chief of staff to president trump, mark meadows peter navarro finally, other younger haven't, he died at the age of 86, the author of several books including journalist and murderer. book two people continue to bring new programs and publishing news and you can watch all of our past programs anytime cap booktv.org. >> neuroscientist and best-selling author, lisa my cost on our weekly author interview program "afterwards" where she discussed the signs of memory and forgetting. >> the reason for writing this, the in

the justice department has ended its investigation into whether national security adviser john bolton disclose classified information in his book about the trump administration, the doj dropped their lawsuit that is into to your profits from the book. mister bolton's memoir, the room where it happened, was released last year. the estate of doctor martin luther king jr. made harpercollins the exclusive use of harpercollins which published doctor king's first book in 1958. a new politically conservative publisher started all seasons press founded by kate hartson and louise burke, publishing with simon & schuster announced the start of their venture saying the company is open to welcoming authors being attacked, bullied, banned from social media and in some cases outright rejected by politically correct publishers, they are releasing books by former chief of staff to donald trump letters and donald trump's former trade advisor peter navarro. author and new yorker staff writer janet malcolm died at the age of 86, author of several books including 1989's the journalist and the murderer. bo

the biden justice department announced a decision concerning donald trump and john bolton. attorney general garland closed a criminal investigation into whether or not bolton's book about the trump white house illegally disclosed classified information. the trump administration sued bolton to try to stop publication of the book. it was back then we also learned the former president pressuring investigators to prosecute him. tonight bolton celebrated with a swipe at the former boss. >> trump used the question of classified information purely as a pretext to try to suppress a book he didn't want to come out before did november 2020 election. my book did go through a prepublication review process. it was clear jd the decision by the justice department is a vindication of the rule of law of another abuse of power by donald trump. >> with that let's bring in the leadoff guests on this wednesday night starting with jonathan lemire. he was among those traveling with the president during this foreign trip. just got often air force one to join us by phone from the tarmac. claire mcc

john bolton, who has butted heads with the former president, says he's's prepared to believe the worstven't gotten any calls from apple yet, so we'll wait and see. i i'm prepared to hear the worst, that trump used the justice department for his own political needs. we need to get to the bottom of it. >> reporter: another source tells cnn that jeff sessions and rod rosenstein had no knowledge of the subpoena for mcgahn's data from apple. the speaker of the house finds that hard to believe. >> this is about undermining the rule of law, and if these attorneys general, or sessions, to say they didn't know anything about it is beyond belief. so we will have to have them come under oath to tell about that. >> well, this news over the weekend preseeding planned meeting between cnn, the "washington post," and merrick garland. the goal there, john, is to try to convince doj to not just do a memo change but actually do a policy change that would give more freedom of the press tamp-down on things like this. the big question now, john, is who's next. >> that's a fair question. how much wider does

of what biden said there defending his trip with the views of the other nato leaders i talked to john bolton, of course, was donald trump's national security adviser. he laid out the trip as it is being too early. the argument is biden has not thought through what he wants from the meeting, but putin has thought through what he wants from biden the question is is this too early in the term? this is the live picture of the president with the prime minister of belgium and king philipe there as they put on the masks and take the photo op. this is what you do day in and day out on the trip. leader after leader after leader we saw president biden meeting with a group of the baltic state leaders yesterday. now meeting with the belgians in brussels here today. we expect to see this continue into today to extend american warmth in the relationship to europe biden views this as a moment, brian, where the united states is reemerging on the world scene from the america first policies of his predecessor this personal diplomacy. you see the hand pat on the back all of that designed to show the european a

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former national security advisor john bolton spoke to jim acosta about this on sunday. here is his take. >> i'm prepared to believe the worst. i think we're operating in a -- >> what does that mean the worst? >> that trump would attempt to do things for political purposes and subvert the course of justice. we're still operating in a large fact vacuum here. >> reporter: democratic lawmakers are calling for the top justice officials to come to the hill and testify. they want to hear from attorney general jeff sessions, rod rosen stein. they want to hear from bill barr and head of the national security division john demurs. they can make requests for any of the officials. former and current to come and testify voluntarily. if they refuse, they could issue subpoenas, though in the senate it would likely require the support of at least one republican on the panel. but if any of these officials refuse to come with the subpoenas, they need to make a decision about whether they want to go to court to compel the testimony. there's currently an ongoing office of inspector general

i had john bolton on earlier and he said that netanyahu is out but not necessarily down, that netanyahuomething that our u.s. audience knows all too well when it comes to leaders leaving power. do you believe this is the end for benjamin netanyahu. >> no. he's -- judging from the speech he gave today as opposition leader after 12 years as prime minister he's not going to go quietly into the good night. i don't think it is so much the situation as the united states. it is a parliamentary situation in israel. not unyeesh for the former leader to go into the opposition leader's position. he made it clear, et cetera going to work to be a loud and strong opposition to this coalition. >> what is going to hold this new government together other than a disdain for benjamin netanyahu? >> i think there's a common goal to move beyond the years of netanyahu to focus internally on some of the problems facing israel, whether economic, social, religious strives between the secular and the ultraorthodox there, i think he has a real desire, netanyahu has gone a good job in terms the abraham accords, bri

now earlier today our colleague spoke with former national security adviser and ambassador john bolton. here was his take on all this. trump would try to subvert the course of justice. we're working in a large vacuum here. >> now democratic lawmakers are calling for top justice officials to come to the hill to testify. in the wake of of this news and the fact that the justice department also made a secret demand and reporters and at least two democratic lawmakers. >> is d.o.j. saying anything else tonight? like you said, it really means the top officials at doj didn't know about how significant the collection of information of the president's white house counsel he is time, the fact that these lawmakers, their information had been turned over. even if d.o.j. went to apple and that was their information. and they kept going back to get these gag orders. what are your sources saying about this idea that rosenstein and sessions are all claim theg do nothing about this. >> there are certainly sources and to me, highly unlikely that deputy attorney general had no knowledge of this. and ther

the justice department dropped their lawsuit against former trump national security adviser john boltondministration. he disclosed classified information. putin says he didn't feel any pressure, so did president biden make any progress? we'll be right back. you need an ecolab scientific clean here. and you need it here. and here. and here. which is why the scientific expertise that helps operating rooms stay clean is now helping the places you go every day too. seek a commitment to clean. look for the ecolab science certified seal. keeping your oysters business growing has you swamped. you need to hire. i need indeed indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a shortlist of quality candidates from a resume data base claim your seventy-five-dollar credit when you post your first job at indeed.com/promo 76% of 23andme health customers surveyed reported taking healthier actions. because they know health isn't just a future state. health happens now. this father's day, get $50 off health + ancestry kits. hey lily, i need a new wireless plan for my business, but all my emp

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both sides tweeted out including john bolton, saying that trump was standing up for america. u just aren't seeing photos like that emerging from this summit now that president biden is here. but john, i do think it raise as question of substantively what's going to be different because, it's not just the diplomatic speak, it's not just the warm language, do things actually change? they have key differences still among these world leaders. they had their first session earlier, another one tonight. the queen is present for the dinner later on tonight and all of this is building up to that high stakes summit with the russian president later on next week, and we have been hearing from sources, john, we should note, that right now we are not currently expecting biden to hold a joint press conference with putin after that meeting ends. >> that's a disappointment. although i guess i could understand both sides perspective but that's a disappointment from our perspective. kaitlan collins, grateful for the live reporting. back into studio with our panel, and kaitlan raises key points,

ambassador john bolton, and former u.s.assador to russia, michael mcfaul, who was with biden for his 2011 meeting with vladimir putin. >> so, david ignatius, i saw an op-ed yesterday in "the wall street journal" that was basically saying that biden was all talk and no action. brought up things like ukraine, georgia, you go down the list. and of course it was all the list of terrible things that vladimir putin has done since 2008. no american president has really had the answer to georgia, what we do with crimea. they threw in south china sea, just sort of little garnishing there. a lot of difficult issues here. not just for this president but for any president. what do you do with a problem like vladimir putin? >> so this has really devilled american presidents. putin is a tough customer to deal with. he doesn't want predictability. he wants volatility. he's a little bit like donald trump in that way. he likes to throw a grenade and see how you react. he's got a chip on his shoulder that now must weigh a couple tons. you ca

department announced a major decision concerning donald trump and his former national security adviser, john bolton. attorney general garland has closed a criminal investigation into whether or not bolton's tell-all book about the trump white house illegally disclosed classified information. exactly one year ago, the trump administration sued bolton to try to stop publication of the book called the room where it happened. it was back then we also learned the former president was pressuring investigators to prosecute him. earlier tonight, bolton celebrated the decision with a swipe at his former boss. >> trump use the question of classified information purely as a pretext to try to suppress a book he did not want to come out before the november 2020 election. my book did go three a pre publication review process. it was cleared. this decision by the justice department is a vindication of the rule of law against what was another abuse of power by donald trump. >> and with that, let's bring in our lead off guests on this wednesday night, starting with jonathan lemire, white house reporter for the asso

really good point pp i was just on the phone a couple of minutes ago from here with ambassador john bolton who of course was donald trump's national security adviser during the trump administration and he had his own difficulties with president trump. he said the key here for biden in meeting with erdogan is just to keep turkey in the alliance, nato alliance, overall because you do point out that there is the sort of autocratic tendency in turkey versus the democratic majority in nato but from a military and strategic perspective the democracies will probably want turkey in the alliance rather than out of the alliance even though the turkish government does seem to be playing footsie if nothing else with the russian government in terms of some of the weapons and some of the strategic alliances that they've -- strategic choices that they've made. so the question there is how do you keep turkey in when they're going in such a different direction politically, ideologically and the like that's the challenge for the president in this meeting we just saw maybe we'll hear him momentarily explain

. >> you also, damian, in the book talked about how john bolton would get covid.as this just a disparaging comment? what is the context there? >> what happened was there was a meeting at the white house and larry kudlow was there and he coughed and he was the council director who had been in poor health during the pandemic and everyone kind of froze when he coughed and the president didn't know what to say so he tried to lighten the mood. he turned dishingly serious and this was when he trashed president trump and he said i hope covid takes him out. say something behind his back and he just really hated that and so that was a signal to his aides that loyalty was more important than anything else and that put a dark cloud over the response at a time when they needed to be focused on the science and doing what was right and not necessarily listening to what the president was saying or his whips. >> there's of course, the mask controversy, and it has become one of the issues that really divided the country and caused some to get sick and die. yasmin, what did you rep

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the justice department has ended is investigation into whether former national security advisor john boltonormation it in his book about the trump administration. the doj is also dropped a lawsuit that attended to secure profits for the bucket into the memoir, the more it happened was released last year. in other news, stated doctor martin luther king jr the exclusive publisher late civil rights leaders literary archives and collins published his first book strikeforce freedom in 1958. and also in the news, and politically conservative publisher is been charted all season press printed by kate carson and elyse burke both publishing veterans are needed and at the start of their adventure saying that the company is open to welcoming those authors were being attacked, bullied and banned from social media and in some cases, outright rejected by politically correct publishers. all season press will be releasing books to president trump in medicine and president trump former trade advisor peter, and finally author and new yorker staff writer jenna malcolm has died at the age of 86. she was the au

we're joined now by the former national security advisor to president trump, john bolton.he former u.s. ambassador to the united nations and author of the book "the room where it happened, the white house memoir." thank you so much for coming in. take a look at the pictures, some of the leaders at the g7 summit today. it was a pretty stark contrast to what we saw during trump's summit with these leaders back in 2018. you were there. i was covering it. what do you think? >> i think trump obviously didn't enjoy these gatherings. he didn't much like meeting with allies. >> why wouldn't he like meeting with allies? didn't he realize how important the u.s. alliances, nato, the g7, the eu, all those alliances are? >> well, i wouldn't put the eu in that category, but i think trump looked at germany, france, others and saw u.s. trade deficits. that's how he saw international relations. and he didn't, frankly, see what much donald trump got out of g7 meetings and that is the fundamental measure for him of nearly everything. so i think biden has done and will continue to do here wha

it was a criminal probe and a civil lawsuit together against john bolton.ve to clean house and really look under the hood of each thing that was done previously and decide whether it has merit or not? >> yeah. i think that merrick garland has their work cut out for them. here is one where we really knew the story in advance because, if you recall, something that got very little attention was something that i thought was quite explosive which was a very respected lawyer in d.c. represented the woman in the white house who was in charge of the classification review, and she submitted an affidavit to the court many months ago laying out what was, frankly, quite salacious where she said we did all of our work, we were quite rigorous, and i cleared the bolton book for publication and then the white house political people got involved and essentially pulled that all back. it is really hard to see how this justice department reading that objectively would think that it is appropriate to go forward with a criminal or civil case because it really wreaks of political

we had john bolton and others on the u.s. as a world leader. tonight, we have two special guests.ho better than to discuss restoring trust me presidency than a former president of the united states and a former vice president. webb always look to our chief executive to inspire trust in government, confidence in our institutions and national unity when it comes to our freedoms and security. today, it is no secret that we live in a deeply polarized nation. january 6, the u.s. capitol was attacked and seized by a mob who questioned the results of the 2020 election. they questioned our institutions and our election processes. there were those who even this last week who suggested that perhaps, there really wasn't an insurrection on january 6. how can this or any president for that matter govern in this kind of divisive political climate, lead the world, confront crisis, and restore trust in our democracy? that is just one of the questions we will explore tonight with our two distinguished speakers. i want to extend my deepest thanks to both for joining us for this lecture. let me begi

. >> john bolton was trump's national security advisor. >> if he could convince people that what he wanted it. >> and the weeks before he took office donald trump would launch the phrase he would use to get away with almost anything. >> you are fake news. >> with those two words, donald trump had told his supporters they no longer needed nor could trust the institutions, the official accounts, the news outlets that dedicate themselves to present actual facts. from now on, it was trump who would tell them what to believe. >> a few days ago, i called the fake news the enemy of the people and they are. they are the enemy of the people. >> he would lie about anything. >> just remember, what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening. >> he could have told folks that grass is actually blue and the sky is red, and he would have had some segment of his followers believe him. there is a cult-like phenomenon as it pertains to trump. >> somebody had to do it. i am the chosen one. >> this might sound extremely strange to a lot of your viewers but i feel like he was anointed by god.

of john bolton.hat's dealing with how the disclosure of documents related to the mueller investigation. you've seen the justice department having to still be the justice department and still clean up these issues that were left over from trump. and not everything that has come out of that has pleased the left or has pleased regular sort of government critics and such. whether it's the issue that you were pointing out on the insurrection or issues related to these document fights over the mueller investigation and what is going to come out about that. and what you see is the justice department grappling with how much sunlight to shine on these things like documentses that would explain how bill barr decided to say whether donald trump broke the law or not. and the institutional prerogatives of justice department lawyers to have discussions about how they make decisions. and not all of that has been satisfying to folks that want more and more information and more and more accountability coming out of t

his -- something viewed as one of the more political moves he made, the criminal prosecution of john boltonappened" i think was the title. his doj and people who were still there, national security posts and others are now under scrutiny for the perception that donald trump's enemies list happens to coincide with the list of people whose e-mails and phone records were seized and spied on. who wants bill barr? >> well, the fact of the matter is, nicole, and i agree with the other commentary on here, all of these people stood by and they were supportive of this man getting another four years in the oval office. that is something that shouldn't be lost on anyone. they went along with this along the way. they watched the dangers that happened along the way. they knew that donald trump was calling for the insurrection act. all of these stories are true. they have been lived firsthand by many of us who served in this white house and saw all of this happening firsthand. these are people who were in very senior roles, in cabinet-level positions where they could have made a greater difference along