ambassador john bolton, also the author of "the room where it happened." for joining us again. you're seeing the big lie is already tainting the electoral process for the upcoming midterms and the 2024 presidential election. if so many people mistrust the results of an election, how do we preserve this democratic republic? >> well, i think it is important to have people have confidence in elections. and i must say, the polling i've done asking people, particularly republicans and republican voting independents, do you think your vote will be fairly counted in the next election, overwhelming majority say yes. so i think as time goes by, there's a process under way by which people adopt an understanding that in fact trump lost in 2020. there's still a lot of people that don't believe it, i acknowledge that. i think it's the responsibility especially of republicans to clean that up. but i also think it's very important for faith in democracy not to exaggerate the extent to which people still believe in the big lie. >> but, i mean, just to be clear, this is a

kennedy: do you agree with john bolton? the un like john bolton, we don't see eye to eye on much, even reasons for hating the rent but here he's all in. got to admit the pakistani government is not the epidemic of stability but if they were to fall in any militants proper hands on pakistan's nukes, it would be afghan, it would be the pakistan taliban when america has troops in afghanistan or not wouldn't make a difference there. in fact, when barack obama launched a drone war against al qaeda pakistan in 2009, there were only about 20 -- 30 al qaeda guys (including but not according to the former cia officer, john kerry but in launching the drone work, they took al qaeda the local pakistani taliban according to rate pakistani journalist in the into radicalizing the pakistani taliban making them much worse and probably making them a greater danger to pakistan and they gave rise to isis k is a caller in afghanistan were refugees from the drone war in pakistan flecked to the afghan side and prayed at that problem the. kennedy:

yvonne: that was john bolton, former security advisor, speaking with bloomberg earlier.d a pretty busy day. we have the aussie gdp numbers of the second quarter showing how strong the momentum was in the recovery of the economy just before the outbreak we saw in new south wales. i guess it is a good sign that perhaps may be the whole tapering debate could still be something they are thinking of right now. but the third quarter will still be a question mark. david: to your point, it does underscore the momentum behind going into the lockdown. in a lot of ways, it justifies the rba's stands in not wanting to head into the taper process. numbers still coming in above estimates. we got a revision upwards for the first quarter numbers. it also guides into this hot housing market in australia. yvonne: heart property market, 11 straight months we have seen records? so it is looking pretty good there at the moment according to the data we got today. let's do a quick check of the headlines. china evergrande says it risks default if its efforts to raise cash for short as it explor

john bolton, thank you very much. appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >>> we turn from the chaos of the trump white house. look, politics is dirty. john bolton is right. ambition can often come first. but, look, this time in our life is going to be remembered, all right? politicians are loose with the truth. not like trump and his crew. people play dirty. not like what you're seeing right now with milley, okay? they had to know or had reason to know that they were chasing him for going rogue when they had reason to know at least that he didn't go rogue. and you're going to have a guy who was a sitting secretary of state say, oh, yeah, this is bad, you got to look at it? think about what that means. the arrogance that he had to know what was going to come out that he was told, and he played milley that way anyway? that's who we are now? the trump white house is one thing. president biden is now there and he's got problems, especially with his economic agenda. afghanistan is in the rear view mirror. that's not going

the again, i spoke to people like john bolton and they're really, really worried. i can't overestimate that about where relations are going right now between the united states and its traditional allies. global affairs analyst, michael both are you speaking to us from new york city, michael? always good to talk to you. thank you. thank you. now thousands of professors in argentina have been marching in the capital, been as iris, demanding jobs and an increase in social aid. there is anger of a rising poverty and high inflation. the government of president alberta for none this has been blamed for failing to deliver on promises to improve living standards . it suffered a heavy defeat in sundays, made the term prime reelection traceable, has more now from what a virus well, there's thousands and thousands of people that have come to the center of what site is, where the ministry of social development is located there. marching for jobs, their margin for more government system, many of the people are coming from some of when a site is poor as terry. as most of the one

john bolton is "outfront" now, former security adviser to president trump.cause i know that you have come to milley's defense amid accusations that he overstepped his authority. tell me why do you support what general milley did? >> well, i know general milley. i have faith in him and his professionalism. of course, 99.9% of the people commenting on this book, i haven't read it yet, we're relying on press reports. so i take it at the outset with a certain amount of salt. but let's tyklook at what the b does say that prompted milley with mark esper, according to other press reports, to approach the chinese in the first instance. the book says that he had intelligence that the chinese were concerned that the situation in the united states might put them in danger, might lead to a wag the dog attack. leaving trump out, if senior decision makers see that kind of intelligence, they recognize that there's a possibility of chinese miscalculation. so the notion of communicating to the chinese in that circumstance, or the russians or other potential adversaries, is j

john bolton's book, john bolton, the conservative john bolton who saw trump up close and personal said in the context of his kind of both of law enforcement and abuse of diplomatic power, he basically said that trump seemed to commit obstruction of justice as a way of life. another example on the last one, i'll use of course, is the pardon power where trump used the pardon power promiscuously and not in obvious ways illegally, but abusively. there's never been a president, no president has come close to using the pardon power in self-serving ways to help friends to pursue a political agenda, to help himself in the way that trump did. some presidents had done some of that in the past, but that was exceptional. trump made it into the rule. so, these were all what i would call, what bob and i would call serious abuses of power. amazingly, they're not necessarily illegal. some of these things might have been illegal, it's not clear, but most of these abuses of power and most of trump's other abuses of power were for various reasons not law-- and norm vie violative. norms are behaviors for

we're joined by the former trump national security adviser john bolton.hor of the book "the room where it happened, a white house memoir." ambassador, thank you so much for coming in. what do you make of general milley's saying he wasn't qualified to determine former president trump's mental health? you worked in the trump white house. you worked with trump for long time. is that something that officials like you and others actually had to grapple with? >> well, i didn't think trump was fit to be president. i have explained the reasons why in the book. and i think others could see the same issue. but i think for milley, with all due respect, i think what he did and the controversy surrounding it is kind of overwrought. i think it's actually very undramatic. the book says that, and milley said today, that he was reading intelligence that the chinese were worried that in this confusion and so on they would be subject to a wag the dog military attack or at least that was possible. now, i have to say, quite apart from donald trump's state of mind, if the stat

spoke, the conservative john bolton saw trump up close and personal in the context both law enforcementsive diplomatic power, he basically said trump seemed to commit obstruction of justice as a way of life. another example is the part of power, using this promiscuously and not in obvious ways but certainly abusively. there's never been a president, no president has come close to using pardon power to help friends to pursue a political agenda to help themselves in the way trump did. some of that in the past, trump made it into the role so these are all what i would call serious abuses of power. amazingly, they are not necessarily legal. they might have been illegal, it's not clear but most of these abuses of power for various reasons, this is the distinction we heard promote the expectations of behavior we had but they don't have a penalty that attaches to the penalty, you can't enforce them in court, personal prosecution. these are expected behaviors of those who act like what they expected to do. these norms were mostly naturally and they grew up subconsciously. presidents have compli

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

john bolton has been wrong about the middle east at every turn.is day 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 just 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

anytime during his administration and we know because of the poorly sort of president by john bolton and he had a golden opportunity and him like a 90 minute window to start a war with iran. and he, he stepped back and he was political capital for doing it. so, i mean, it shows that, you know, these institutions have very little value, if you are ideologically possessed. that's what it tells me, go ahead plan. no, i agree. and i think that this a great fair enough trunk would undermine democracy. fuel this uterus systems, which itself became a threat to democracy for me. and rosen on them is a church and it's a large expense. the result of what they referred to as a deep state. now usually people are person indeed the very something right winger and bring up all over did they simply means that you have on the like on the bureaucrats, on the like the military leaders supposed to be an instrument of elective auditions . but instead, the beginning them to function to some extent of an independent branch of power and pursuing their own agenda, which can be logical. and in this case often

john bolton told david rubenstein that essentially he does not want to touch bitcoin or crypto with 10 is 65. the people that he has famously worked with our generation that tends to dismiss it. are we starting to see older, more sophisticated investors try to get exposure to crypto? julian: for sure. you look at legendary hedge fund managers, some are big fans. but that is what makes the market. you have bulls and bears. we see that everyday. we view bitcoin as digital gold. it resonates more with millennials. even younger people brand-new to the market. meanwhile, cole tends to resonate with older investors, those of john paulson. there -- gold tends to resonate. there is no reason not to let gold to. amanda: there is some concern, even among people who believe crypto is here to stay that there are regulatory challenges ahead. bitcoin may be ticket early vulnerable, including if it ever is to become a replacement monetary currency. do you worry about that as an investor? is it too far down the road? julian: in my opinion, bitcoin is somewhat unstoppable just given the global nature.

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tom: we talked to john bolton about this yesterday. you're the expert at this.blinken be on the next plane to the deli? robert: i think we need to have a lot of conversation with deli and if i were tony blinken i would be working with the indians on how we deal with the taliban and how we control isis and isis groups in pakistan that could pose lots of disruptions for india and the areas around it and could play a disruptive role in cashmere. the other interesting thing is we may have a lot of things in common with the chinese and russians. they are concerned about isis and isis-k and they want to be able to work with -- china has a border with afghanistan. they want to work with the afghani's to try to control these movements that could base themselves in afghanistan and are disruptive to the region itself. there is a -- lisa: there is a concern that president biden talks in a nicer tone towards the allies but does not act that differently than the trump administration when it comes to policies and the way things are carried out. that is one thing people have a

the conservative john bolton who saw him up close and personal said in the context of his kind of law enforcementnt and his kid of abuse of diplomatic power he basically said trump seemed to commit this as a way of life. another example and the last one i will use of courses the pardon power. trump used the pardon power promiscuously and not in obvious ways but certainly abusively. there's never been a president that has come close to using the pardon power in such self-serving ways to help friends to pursue a political agenda to help himself in the way that trump did. some presidents have done some of that in the past. but that was exceptional. trump made it into the rule. >> so these were all serious abuses of power.nd some of these things might have been illegal. but most of the abuses of power and most of the other abuses of power. the expectations of behavior that we have that are not enforceable by law and don't have a penalty that attaches to enforce them in court for the prosecution these are expected behaviors that presidents that act like presidents are expected to do and fo

tom: annmarie, we had a fabulous day of conversation yesterday with john bolton, the congressman fromo, who terrific military background and military, and on and on, and the constant theme that. this is biden alone the pentagon is not on board, the state department is not on board, many experts in the white house are not on board. is that your reporting? annmarie: the president said yesterday when he decided to withdrawal, which he also went through the timeline in terms of his options, we have to remember the prior administration, all last year, whether it was in public, reports of the trump administration dealing the taliban, he says that they were on board in terms of the execution. he went with what the military national security and state department, but of course they call that the blob in d.c., the foreign policy individuals. and that, certainly, the rhetoric from them is that there should have been a presence, and they would want to maintain a presence in afghanistan. . at the end of the day, the president also just realizes that whether or not americans agree with the hasty e

john bolton's book, who sold trump up close and personal said in the context of his both law enforcement and kind of abuse of a diplomatic power said he seemed to commit injustice as a way of life and i use this as the pardon power were trump used the pardon power promiscuously and not in obvious ways illegally but abusively. there's never been a president that has come close to using the pardon power to pursue a political agenda to help himself in the wayhe that trump data. but that was exceptional and made it into the rule. these were all what i would call serious abuses of power and amazingly it's not clear but most of the abuses of power were for l various reasons nonvolatie if. let me say a little bit about this. the expectations of behavior that we have that are not enforceable by law and they don't have a penalty that attaches. they grew up self-consciously and presidents complied with conflict of interest rules with the justice department and the like. he exposed these norms as basically useless in constraining the president. he was in different to these norms which w were import

to be calmed down by a combination of the context he gave, by strong defenses from people like john bolton other republicans that were in the room if you will. i wonder what condition you think general milley's job is in among republicans and this democratic administration? nicolle, i would urge people to re the full context in the book. page 129, for example, in "peril." this exchang is so important for the milley part of the story, what milley testified today about. when he talked to the chinese on october 30th, 2020, and thi idea of tipping off china, as our book shows, our reporting, deep reporting shows it was not in any way a tip-off of china. the next three or four paragraphs that continue the conversation which i hope get reported more, that full conversation, show exactly what he testified under oath toy, that he will have conversations with the chinese if anything escalates in terms of war,here will be phone calls, there will be mement on the seas, in the air. this is how it works in wartime. was a way of de-escating tension days before an election wh there was intelligence and a

obviously at the time john bolton was one of the people we're talk about. about where this investigation is headed? there's a whole lot of reasons why you may have started here but these are four people that are starting with. >> this shows me they are looking at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. these are people who we know and letter confirms they were this direct communication with donald trump or having key conversations in days, hours leading up to january 6th and during january 6th. the questions for mark meadows and the other folks is you walk me through january 6th, minute by minute, phone call by phone call. this is at heart of the investigation. >> i want to bring in gloria. gloria they are moving quickly. what's the reaction to this then in trump world? >> outrage. claiming executive privilege. you can't talk about my conversations with these people. we were in the white house. that's what they will say. i think they will try to stone wall it. he cites close proximity to donald trump. what they are trying to do is draw a circle here with donald trump in

trump used as control over diplomacy and law enforcement to help him win the election and john bolton who saw trump closes close-up and personal in his abusive diplomatic power he mostly said that trump saw obstruction of justice as a way of life and the last one i will use is trump used power promiscuously and not an obvious ways but certainly visibly. no president has come close to using the pardon power to help friends to pursue a political agenda to help himself in a way that trump did. some present have done in the past and it was exceptional but trump made it into row. these are what bob and i would call serious abuses of power. some of these things might have been it's not clear but most abuses of power and his other abuses of power for various reasons were certainly non-violative and this was a distinction we heard a lot. expectations of behavior that we have for president but aren't with the penalty attached to them them and he can't endorse them in court. there's no prosecution. these are rules of expected behavior that president to act like presidents are expected to end th

through history, right, we talk about calls of insay btreason and thi being thrown out there and john boltonparison you can think of where joint chiefs chairman field so compelled to act to pri vevent possible war? >> the clearest example is in the letter part of watergate in 1974. the secretary of defense, so not a uniformed officer but james put out word any military order from the white house, any nuclear order would questionably be cleared with him. he was worried about an unhinged nixon trying to do something to preserve his power. the more we learn about this particular episode, i think the country should be somewhat reassured if i may because why shouldn't we be talking to potential adversaries about states of readiness. one of the things that we know unquestionably from history is that wars tend to begin by mistake. it happens again and again and again. the spanish american war and the main was sunk, it blew up. the goal gulf of tunkin is not it was said to be. what he worried about is there is some son of a b that doesn't get the word down the line as orders go. and so i look at thi

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." "oh, 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,

john bolton is "outfront" tonight. >>> breaking news in texas. 9,500 migrants and counting.ving in squalor along the border. we're on the ground with

. >> the former national security advisor john bolton releasing this statement to us saying quote, mark milley is a staunch supporter of the constitution and rule of law. i have no doubt general milley consulted widely with colleagues on the national security counsel and others during this period. what bolton says he believes happened appears to have happened from all of our reporting, 15 people on each call. a alex is live "outfront" in washington. this shows how worried esper was about trump's behavior and how far he went with chairman milley to avoid a war. >> it goes back to how unusually concerned the chinese were at the same time. we're learning from a top former senior defense official that speak with our colleague katy bow williams. mark ed enter ordered a top policy advisor to send a back channel message to beijing to reassure them. that message and order before the october 30th call that milley made to his counterpart and that, the point of this was according to this top former official a two-step process to avoid any unnecessary confrontation that could lead to con conflict.

. >> trump's former national security adviser john bolton is backing general milley.his is what he said. >> milley said today he was reading intelligence that the chinese were worried that, in this confusion and so on, this would be subjected to a wag the dog military attack. at least that was possible. i have to say quite apart from donald trump's state of mind, if the state of mind of the chinese leadership was about to make that miscalculation, it was nothing more than common sense for several communications be made to the chinese, including milley to his counterpart conversation to say, don't believe what you read in the newspapers. so those who say that milley violated the civilian control of the military, undercut the chain of command, quebetrayed the president on one hand and those who say milley saved the country from a psychopath, he did his duty. >> the hearings continue today. >>> meanwhile, u.s. president joe biden is scrapping his travel plans to stay in washington today to negotiate key pieces of his legislative agenda. the next two days will be critical

listening to the system interviewee a civil john says thank you chips to scott, his son was one of the biggest mistakes the united states is made. and bolton says, the war is only just beginning. biden's incompetence just made the taliban the most well armed tennis history. felix says that discussion should be watched by millions . best one yet. keep them coming to it's steven right degrees and says, what is to that one? great interview with top guest. and finally robin jewess says they were never a weapon to tell it, but one of mass destruction is totally delusional. to think otherwise. post covered $900.00 syndrome or long core of it, is still one of the under reported. stories of the pandemic in the 1st year, attention was understandably focused on the dramatic acute cases of corporate cry. tonight, the emergency care wars. however, it is gradually becoming understood that long term debilitation from the aftermath of the disease may be a socially and economically significant as immediate pandemic. alex to be deleting academic in the field. professor danny elfman of imperial college fest, danny elfman. thank you so much.

. >> thank you, steve. [ buzzer ] >> mike bolton is in russia. [ buzzer ] >> you heard the prime minister, you heard -- bet jao yesterday. [ buzzer ] >> johnhune, mike pounds -- [ buzzer ] >> i had dinner with jim perry. [ buzzer ] >> can it ever be like rick gates' fault? [ buzzer ] >> it's always trump's fault, rick. >> jimmy: he knows the best names, he really does. [ cheers and applause ] trump hasn't officially announced whether he's going to run in 2024, but if he does he could have competition from his former vice president. mike pence is reportedly prepping for a presidential run. team pence is hoping to raise $18 million to get the ball rolling. i may contribute just to see those two debate. [ laughter ] can you imagine? oh, i can. and i love it. i have a bit of a conflict going myself. i learned today that logan paul, you know who that is? i think he's -- he's one of two sigh he's twins. they separated them. lau [ laughter ] now they are on youtube, they punch each other. i made a joke about him that he did not like at all. >> i'm going to start with jimmy kimmel. i get it. upset with jimmy kimmel for real. you know who that is?