davidson: well, i think john bolton summarized the threat. that did not get mentioned is china. china is very instrumental in cash going into afghanistan by mining operations, not just rare earth minerals, but copper. you look at their one belt, one road initiative, it goes through pakistan. the nexus could involve iran. we really have to be focused on our actions there. we should not be doing things that strengthen iran, like this administration has talked about, who should be focused on our adversaries, and iran, china, pakistan, they all run through that area. we should be focused on making sure there are no sanctuaries for terrorists. let's not forget when we found bin laden in 2011, he was in afghanistan. tom: warren davidson, thank you. of the eighth district in ohio, just west of ohio. right now we change gears. we have been speaking with ambassador bolton and congressman davidson from ohio. now, lisa abramowicz has been so good about this, we speak of the need for nato. we are joined by secretary-general. his affiliation is with norwa

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john bolton is scheduled to be with us for an hour -- in an hour.ry, are we on good terms with any part of pakistan? >> complicated question. we talked about this yesterday. at the moment it is not so much good terms. president biden has yet to even call his counterpart. there is a lot of distrust between pakistan and the u.s. this stems following the capture of osama bin laden. i believe the new york times reported that when the taliban came to kabul and went to the afghani central security intelligence the language spoken was not pashto, it was another language, and many believe it was pakistani intelligence along with the afghans taking those details. tom: speaking back to the partition of india and pakistan. my head is spinning with all this history. the president today, does he articulate our future and central asia -- future in central asia or does he focus simply on the exit we made yesterday afternoon? >> i imagine that when he takes the podium around 1:30 d.c. time he will talk about the americans left in afghanistan. you heard general mcke

book, the very conservative john bolton who saw trump up close and personal said that in the context of his kind of law enforcement and in his kind of abuse diplomatic our, he basically said the trump seem to commit of obstruction of justice as a way of life. another example of the lustful use is the parking power work trump use this power promiscuously and not in obvious ways illegally but certainly abusively, there's not been present has come close to using the pardon power and self-serving ways to help them to pursue political agenda and help himself. in the way the truck didn't some presidents presidents had done some of that in the past but that was exceptional and trump made it the rule. so these were all that i would call serious abuses of power and amazingly, not necessarily illegal. some might've been illegal in software the most of these abuses of power, were for various reasons not law, there were certain. norms of the expectations of behavior that we have for presidents that aren't necessary are enforceable by law they don't have a penalty illegal diligently and you can e

he is john bolton, national security advisor, the former president, donald trump, and former ambassador to the united nations, where the president, who actually launched the war on afghanistan 20 years ago, george w bush. and he's the author of the room where it happened. a white house memoir, ambassador bolton, thank you so much for joining us today. as we get started, i want to play a clip from president joe biden. what he said about afghanistan in april will not conduct the hasty rush to the exit. will do it will do it responsibly deliberately and safely and we will do it in full coordination with our allies and partners who now have more fortunate ganna stand and we do. and then this from his secretary of state anthony blinking in june. whatever happens in afghanistan, if there is a significant deterioration. insecurity, that could well happen. we discussed this before. i don't think it's going to be something that happens from a friday to a monday. so i wouldn't necessarily equate the departure of our forces in july, august or by early september with some kind of immediate deterior

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host: this is an opinion piece from the wall street journal by john bolton. russia and china eye a retreating u.s.. america's retreat from afghanistan is ending tragically and has sweeping strategic implications. one of the major -- one major misjudgment underlying the ending endless wars mantra was that withdrawing affected only afghanistan. the departure constitutes a major and regrettable u.s. strategic realignment. china and russia are already seeking to reap advantages. john bolton also writes in the near term responding to menaces and opportunities emanating from afghanistan, china will seek to influence -- increases influence over pakistan. both will expand their middle east initiatives, often along with iran. there is little evidence that the white house is ready to respond to any of these threats. in maryland, thomas is calling on the republican line. caller: i am grateful i got in before the hour closed. i have been in iraq three times. i am a special forces and psychotherapist. i want to say that -- there is a quote. a centurion cares not for the p

john bolton will join us i believe in two hours.heck fitzpatrick with bloomberg government to get out in front of ambassador bolton. jackie, ambassador bolton is completely focus on pakistan. watch will be the new united states relationship with pakistan? jack: you could argue the relationship of pakistan is even more important given the instability in the takeover of afghanistan by the taliban a little hard to predict exactly what that relationship will be and a number of countries are looking at afghanistan as a significant unknown. i think that is something the executive branch in congress will have to debate over the next few months as the president tries to outline a long-term vision and secretary of state tries to outline a long-term vision for what this all means. this changed more rapidly than the president expected in terms of the taliban takeover, so there will have to be sort of a almost a rethinking of how quickly the u.s. adjusts expectations for what the middle east is going to look like. tom: the middle east but also

joining me now is the former national security adviser to then president trump, john bolton, the authoru were in no way connected to this with the professor just said we would be hard pressed to find a republican that would say joe biden is the fairly elected president. i think you would agree joe biden is the fairly elected president. >> of course he is. >> so this letter from jeffrey clark, what jumps out to me about this is he wrote it down. we're talking about the assistant attorney general in the department of justice. this is a high level official directly engaged in overturning the election results. what are the dangers there? >> could we just stop a second? >> sure. >> i'm not a shrink, but a lot of people seem to want to be shrinks and analyzing what happened in the 2020 election. so, i'll take my chance at it. there's a level of hysteria from your prior guests in this discussion that i think is very unhelpful in understanding what the nature of the problem we face is. and we do face a problem. i would characterize this way, it's donald trump who is a real aberration in america

john bolton joins me now. ambassador, reaction to your. intelligence points in that direction. i wouldn't be so sure that it's going to be isis-k this time. i think you've got terrorists wheels within terrorist wheels here. terrorist enemies one day can be -- our people are in grave danger. it's a very dangerous environment. >> it's certainly a sort of -- the situation has made rather bizarre bedfellows where the taliban is now being given intelligence by u.s. forces to a limbed degree to inform them about what sort of threats they are -- the u.s. is hearing about, that they can kind of adjust the check points that they have if you can call them check points. >> well, look, i think this is reflective of the overall error of judgment to withdraw at all. i mean, right now we're in an impossible situation. so we're doing things that otherwise would not even be comprehensible or justifiable. the execution of this withdrawal has been bungled and is one reason we're in such jeopardy now. but it still points to the fundamental aspect of the error

john bolton has been wrong about the middle east at every turn.ay he insists the invasion of iraq was a success and if you're curious for his thoughts about pulling out of warzones, here's what he had to say about how he would have handled things differently in iraq on british television in 2007 >> there are two questions analytically here. the first question, whether it was right to overthrow saddam hussein and the answer to that still seems to be unquestionably yes the second question, what to do after that what i would have done differently is much earlier, much sooner after the overthrow, giving it back to the iraqis and i'll exaggerate for effect here, but given them a copy of the federalist papers and said, "good luck." >> seth: that speaks to the hubris of american imperialism, that we can force countries to change by invading them and it will work as long as they're willing to take a.p. history also, who cares about the federalist papers? if you're setting up a government, why not read something more useful? "well, we're out skim this and

john bolton writes about this that came out after impeachment.you think it would have made a difference among the republicans in the united states senate? >> it may or may not have. what's galling about john bolton's actions is that they were self-enriching and he profited from it. he got his book deal, he made a lot of money, and he saved everything he had for that story. unfortunately that's the way i think too many senior leaders behave. they don't behave based on ethics and values, they behave based on a way to enrich themselves. i couldn't live with myself if i did that. i took the actions i thought i could live, with the actions that i knew i could explain to my daughter, my young daughter now and when she gets older. in a way, this is the lesson i think i want to try to communicate to her as she gets older. i didn't start out this way. i started out maybe a bit of a rascal, a troublemaker growing up. but i formed myself into the person that wanted to be through service, through military service and this is the story i guess i'm trying to c

mcmaster was out, john bolton is an, john kelly, secretary of homeland security was very upset and emotional set in the news and intended to resign. >> mick mulvaney former white house chief of staff who up until a few minutes ago plus a special envoy to northern iowa meant, he quit. he said i just can't do it. dan: so nobody can't do it. donald trump picks diet coke instead of pepsi, everybody wants to design and get joe biden makes the single -- actually three dump decisions from about to get to this, leaving equipment behind from a three of his dumbest decisions i've ever seen, ever even read about in the history from a commander-in-chief and yet strangely nobody is threatening to resign but remember the trump administration? let's go through headlines, everybody wanted to resign about everything, almost as if it's all literal. the first one, long hours withdrawn from defense secretary express prepared a resignation letter's official site. officials always say something. they are not saying anything up. another one two top military officials tried to resign if time allows disgraced concer

and there is that kind of hawkish, john bolton, mindset in america. now that says, look, what bite has done is take us back to pre 911 and set us up for potentially something not dissimilar to 911. well i would say the threat has exponentially increase we saw in recent history when we pulled. ready out of iraq precipitously and prematurely that, that allowed for the caliphate to take hold. and we saw that this not only chair i, people within the lead export, or at least certainly support the followers and other parts of the world in europe. and in se, se a launch pass. and of course, we know we're all here in the united states, in particular, very clear on the history of 911 and provide. and let me just say a rule that can stand allowed for a sanction or from which i was able to plan, organize and train in a way that allow them to attack us on the the events in the last several days have certainly increased the risk of that reoccurring, as well as potentially a re emergence, again, other terrorist entities using as a sanction, or do you think in the w

john bolton says he is concerned the u.s. may have slipped ba

and john bolton's room where it happened with the 679,000 copies sold. one of the soon-to-be released books about donald trump's bob woodward's third on the 45th president. this may kick week it was announced the book will be titled however the transitional period between the trump and biden administrations. the book cowritten with mr. woodward's washington post colleagues, robert kostas drawn from over 200 interviews and 6000 pages of transcripts. it will be released on september 21. also in the news according to npd bookscan, print book sales were down 8% for the weekend ending august 7. book tv will continue to run your new programs and publishing news. you can also watch all of our past programs anytime @booktv.org. >> on her weekly author interview program, after words, retired lieutenant colonel wayne phelps offered his views on drone warfare. >> one of the biggest changes we have seen in drones is that mental transition occurs on almost a daily basis. in particular in the force where they are flying remotely piloted aircraft near las vegas. that m

year such as mary trump's too much and never enough that has sold over 1.2 million copies and john bolton's room where it happened with 679,000 copies sold. one of the soon to be released books about donald trump is bob woodward's third on the 45th president. this week it was announced the book will be titled peril, and it will cover the transitional period between the trump and biden administrations. the book, cowritten with mr. woodward's washington post colleague robert costa, is drawn from over 200 interviews and 6,000 pages of transcripts. it will be released on september 21st. also in the news according to npd book scan, print book sales were down 8% for the week ending principle august 7th -- you can watch all of our past programs anytime at booktv.org. >> in our weekly author interview program "after words," retired lieutenant colonel wayne phelps. offered his views on drone warfare. >> guest: so one of the biggest changes that we have seen with the employment of our own drones is that lethal transition occurs on almost a daily basis. particularly within the airports where they're f

mcmaster, john bolton, some of these people were really stupid people. i mean, bolton was involved with getting us in with bush in the middle east, but you rely on people, fortunately, whether it is fauci -- i don't listen to other people if i think they have bad ideas, but we have a lot of very bad -- the only way i can think, not very smart people giving advice. but we were set up, and it didn't have to be hasty. what i said is exactly right, because we didn't have to go quickly. because we had them frozen in place. they weren't going to move. and abdul, as i like to call him, abdul was just going to wait on us -- he was going to gn and he was going to be fighting. now i told you numerous times, the afghan military was paid a lot of money by the united states -- both soldiers were among the highest paid soldiers. they weren't fighting for their country. i remember when mathis was saying "sir, they are fighting for their country." they were fighting because they got paid a lot of money. why do soon as that's big it, they turned, and that was the end of

joining me is arkansas senator john bolton who served in afghanistan. what can you do to demand accountability on behalf of the vast majority of americans who are disgusted by the past few weeks. >> i share your sentiment my patience is tapped here, the last two weeks my office like so many congressional offices was focused on trying to get american citizens out of afghanistan. president biden broke that promise, promised the taliban the 31, stay together not, kept his promise to the talent, broke his promise to america, not all troops are out of afghanistan it is time to demand answers, told accountable all those officials who created the terrible conditions we have seen in afghanistan the last several weeks, so these things are simple questions to which there are knowable answers, what did the military recommended president biden about bagram airbase, who decided close bagrammer base, what were the arbitrator troop numbers capped that led to the closing of bagram airbase, there's a lot of very simple but critical questions to be asked and the answers

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but he stayed quiet, just like john bolton, lawyered up and seemingly twisted in knots. with the benefit of hindsight, mr. rosen has now come forward and offered hours of testimony to the justice department's inspector general and to congress. from "the new york times," they write this. jeffrey rosen, who was acting attorney general during the trump administration, has told the justice department watchdog and congressional investigators that one of his deputies tried to help former president trump subvert the results of the 2020 election. that's according to a person familiar with the interviews. he had a two-hour meeting on friday with the justice department, and provided closed-door testimony to the senate judiciary committee on saturday. jeffrey clark is described as trump's man inside the doj working to overthrow the will of the people. "the times" adding the investigations opened after an article that detailed efforts by jeffrey clark to push leaders to falsely cast doubt on the electoral college results. that prompted trump to consider ousting rosen, and installing

it was pulled off the books by john bolton because he had concerns about this call.ded back on because of machine nation, end runs directly to the chief of staff mick mulvaney. i was apprehensive because of all these factors but as soon as -- >> what do you mean by that it was off the book, initially supposed to be private. >> no, it was initially canceled. pulled off. it wasn't approved for execution and then some folks that were involved in orchestrating the quid pro quo, the -- >> back on the agenda. >> exactly right. >> and at that point was it just immediately as soon as you heard the words that it sounded like a quid pro quo. >> i knew it was going to be a difficult call because the president sounded very, very reluctant and then all the words coming out his mouth were geared towards applying pressure. everything ukraine is failing to do. everything the u.s. has done for ukraine which is actually a lot but all that gearing towards putting a pressure on selenski. he asked for javelins to defend ukraine. that's what the president chimed in with i'd like you to do

i asked the former secretary of defense, leon panetta, john bolton, former national security adviser'll ask the same to you. what was your biggest miscalculation with afghanistan, what in hindsight did we get very long that you didn't see in the moment? >> that's interesting. there were things we wanted but didn't get like more economic aid. well, when gates took over secretary of defense and came out with general pace and general eikenberry what we needed in troops, i think we underrated what was still needed or what we were about -- when i left, i said we were not losing yet but could be in a year. i don't know that there were so many -- a lot of things in the field where you can argue this or that was a mistake, some of them are things where the mistake is not to learn from what you're doing rather than to condemn everything was a mistake. >> sometimes there's a broad brash, it was all wrong or all right. >> that's one of the issues that everybody is talking about almost universally wrongly, that we morphed into building a modern democracy. what you had is, we had three administra

the john bolton book had been leaked that morning and spent a few minutes responding to that.don't think i don't get the sense to call me in, the mood struck him and spent an hour going back and forth and that was the big news from the interview where he claimed that juneteenth -- he made juneteenth famous. >> yes, i remember. in tulsa rally. that may have played a part, trying to get ready for first rally in months, maybe trying to -- wide range of interview with different topics and, you know, it was -- he told me that he made juneteenth famous but pushed back the rally after a black secret service agent told him that how important juneteenth was to the black community and he had been personally offended by, you know, holding a rally in the middle of the civil rights protests on juneteenth in tulsa of all places and it can be revealing interview when he wants to be. >> i should note, let's see, it's 7:30 and we are going to go in about 5 or 10 minutes, i guess, the viewers should know i'm going to start to take a look at the questions that you are sending in for michael bend

the media, and especially the right-wing ghouls who got us into this mess - the karl roves and john boltonsthe world have been doing donald trump himself, the guy who negotiated the deal with the taliban to release prisoners and withdraw by may, has been on tv claiming he would have handled the situation better and, for some reason, he's been going out of his way to compliment the taliban on their fighting and negotiating skills. >> taliban, great negotiators, tough fighters, great negotiators. the taliban, good fighters i will tell you they're good fighters we have to give them credit for that >> seth: no, you don't you don't have to give the taliban credit for anything! they're the taliban! it's especially insane to call them "good negotiators," like they're trying to talk down a used car salesman. "this car has a lot of miles on it, but it runs like a champ!" "give it to me for free, or i'll murder your family." "oooh, all right, tough, but fair, mr. taliban! let me talk to my manager. and he's dead. i'm gonna get you the keys!" [ laughter ] does trump think if he's nice to the taliban,

in the last few days i've had former ambassador john bolton who work for donald trump as national securityinsurrection and the activity. but doesn't think calling it a coup was appropriate. and we just had attorney general alberto gonzales who agreed. in their framing the institutions held. we should be relieved that the institutions held. how do you feel about that? >> i agree that we should be very great that the institutions held john. there were some real profiles in courage here. the acting attorney general enlisted the top leadership of the department of justice on his side. and probably only their determination to hold those institutions and uphold the rule of law preserved our democracy at that critical moment. there is a lot here in our investigations continue very aggressively. my hope is that jeff clark will appear voluntarily along with others in the trump orbit. including possibly members of congress who had a role. >> finally, overnight, a key procedural vote you got 18 republicans as part of the bible bipartisan infrastructure deal. how concerned are you that when this goes

. >> former national security adviser john bolton said george washington inoculated the continental armyl pox. neil? >> neil: i remember covering that. >> we tried to get video. >> neil: that was the best week. lucas tomlinson, great job on that. this trend to really making vaccinations a requirement is going way beyond the u.s. military. you've heard of more and more companies demanding this and school systems calling for it. the new york stock exchange announced they'll require vaccinations for everyone that wants to get on the trading floor on february 13 and beyond. let's go to richard besser, the former acting cdc director and get his take. always good having you. the education secretary today was amusing about vaccine mandates, that they would be advisable, they would also be probably necessary if they could be proven to be safe what do you make of this? this push towards requirements for vaccines? >> yeah, you know, neil, i'm a general pediatrician. so the idea of required vaccinations is something that has been part of my life, my entire career. i think there's settings where req

the john bolton book had come out that morning or a been leak that morning so we spent the first few minutes of a talking, him respond to that but it don't get the sense that was why he called in. i think it was this sort of mood struck him and we spent an hour or plus going back and forth. that was the interview where sort of big news people remember from the interview was where he claimed that juneteenth, he had made juneteenth famous. >> yes, i remember. >> before his also rally. he was trying to get ready for this first rally in months, maybe trying to sharpen up a little bit in that sense, but it was just this like wide-ranging interview that touched on all these different topics. he told me, he had pushed back the rally after a black secret service agent told him how important juneteenth was to the black community and told him that he had been personally offended by holding a rally in the middle of these civil rights protests on juneteenth in tulsa of all places. so trump, they can be a very revealing interview when he wants to be. >> i should note, let's see, it's 7:30 and are

but he stayed quiet, just like john bolton,

. >> what i was going to say to jeffrey's point, sorry to interrupt, what john bolton was telling us,ay here is that donald trump couldn't pull off the coup, right? the big thing is there is the institutions held and trump was too ham handed to make it happen. that's the glass half full interpretation of the insurrection. there's also the glass half emptied, the guy tried. he tried. he had jeffly clark the number three in the justice department trying really hard to overthrow the government. so, what are we supposed to feel? we're supposed to feel good it didn't work or should we be terrified that it really got very close, david? >> i think we can feel both. i think we have to feel both because i think the importance of this committee is to spell out how dedicated trump was to pulling this off. and what durbin himself has described as really the process of an attempted coup. but we also have to be relieved that the institutions did hold, that there were members of his own party who were breaking from this particular path by trump that the military was resisting and that even kind of s

. >> katie, for four years, we saw, you know, don mcgahn, john bolton and others drag their feet, drag it came to testifying. what should we take around rosen moving so quickly to testify? he did it so fast. it's like trump's team couldn't even block him. what does that tell you, and how nervous should trump's team be that he did testify for seven hours? >> well, i think that it's true that rosen moved very quickly. now people have pointed out it's been seven months since he left government. what was going on in the background? he was negotiating with the justice department under the biden administration to say, what can i tell investigators because, in general, former officials like jeff rosen are just not allowed to talk about conversations they had with the president. they're not allowed to talk about executive branch discussions. those things are covered by privilege. rosen did need to get an okay from the justice department. he needed officials to say, hey, listen, we are not going to invoke executive privilege, and you do what you will with that freedom. he immediately reached ou

host: this is an opinion piece from the wall street journal by john bolton.hina eye a retreating u.s.. america's retreat from afghanistan is ending tragically and has sweeping strategic implications. one of the major -- one major misjudgment underlying the ending endless wars mantra was that withdrawing affected only afghanistan. the departure constitutes a major and regrettable u.s. strategic realignment. china and russia are already seeking to reap advantages. john bolton also writes in the near term responding to menaces and opportunities emanating from afghanistan, china will seek to influence -- increases influence over pakistan. both will expand their middle east initiatives, often along with iran. there is little evidence that the white house is ready to respond to any of these threats. in maryland, thomas is calling on the republican line. caller: i am grateful i got in before the hour closed. i have been in iraq three times. i am a special forces and psychotherapist. i want to say that -- there is a quote. a centurion cares not for the policies of ro

. >> bill: john bolton writes this. russia and china, our retreating u.s.an. moscow will try in the former serve yet republicans. -- soviet republics. >> from the propaganda perspective the russians and chinese are doing donuts in leaving and losing the war. you've seen videos of the taliban fighters in celebration shooting into the air with american material war fighting equipment that they are wearing and they are driving around and some cases flying over the countryside now. it looks bad for the u.s. but these countries, russia and china, have a lot more at stake in the future in afghanistan and they were actually much happier at the end of the day with the americans paying for in life and treasure insuring a level of stability on the ground. they aren't going to start putting lots of troops there but they will have to deal with the taliban and deal with what will be an economic disaster. it won't be a strong security government at all. and that's a bigger problem for russia and china. if you go 10 years in the future and flip the script back, afghanista