mr. bolton: it is very difficult. these past three and a half, four years have evolved, for them to be as independent as i think many of them want. a lot of people who are never trumpeters say the republican house and senate leadership are complicit. i do not agree. the fact is nobody wants to be the subject of a donald trump two minutes hate, to use george orwell's idea, on twitter. i think we will have to have, within the republican party, a significant conversation after november 3, especially if trump loses, which is at least a 50-50 possibility at this point, about the future of the party. that is one of the subsidiary purposes of my book in my mind. i don't -- i want to make clear trump does not represent the republican party. i will not vote for there are -- for the republican nominee because he is not true to our party. i think a lot of people -- lisa: the polls contradict that. the polls show that the republican party, by and large, has overwhelming support for trump and that is the reason why the republican

it seemed to me that mr bolton. male come to the white house with the idea of a cup yes we taking down there are things that he heard during his in stem to the white house so that when he exits that famous building he could make a lot of money and i found it. a bit disturbing. i think he shared with the world much more than. people thought he should have sharon so that's one impression another impression was that. the book is very long on detail short on reflection so it's all about dialogues it's all about he said he is such a. human presence. but it is certainly a little reflection about the momentous changes to happen a within the united states within the city of washington i want to add that almost every self respecting american politician or our official has a book or few under his or her bow but what this is indeed so striking about this particular. book is that it comes at a very high stakes time for the united states the pandemic is not over yet the economy still bogged down the products are still going on t

it is so i decided that last question mr bolton bulldog. yeah when reading a book it seems clear that you are against. trump's re election why is that as bob had the local. football betting that you. well i don't't think they deadd trump iss a coconservative repubublican thas not to sasay i think he's a liliberal demococrat i don't thk he hasas a philosophy i thihink he's for donald d trump and ii think hiss. . rsonalizeded viewf the world his transnsactional approach is lack of strategic thinking. really his lack of ununderstatanding of mucuch of t the restt of thee world. facacen a daily basis m makes it hard to protect a americann interests. o for ththe first timee in my adut lifefe i'm not going to vote for the republican party nomominee for prpresident i'm- robot. rigt the nameme of a of someonee els- bubut it's not a happy election for thos of us who viewed nanational securitit through the ronald reagan prison and- it's going to be a difficult time for america i think whatever the outcome on election day. how you can allow me to ask y

mr. bolton: it is very straightforward.ave given it to the american people, who are the ultimate judges of donald trump's performance. because of the way the democrat advocates of impeachment in the house structure their effort, they basically made it impossible for republicans to participate in an impeachment process that might have led to a different outcome. we have a model for that, this is not a hypothesis. in the watergate crisis of the nixon administration, democrats and republicans did work together and while the and did not go through a trial in the senate, he concluded he had no choice but to resign. i don't march to nancy pelosi strong. i thought what i did was ultimately in the best interest of the country. because i was not going to participate in a completely -- >> i have to jump in. why was it in the best interest of the united states of america to wait to put this information in a book? mr. bolton: thank you for allowing me to speak. the fact was that the democratic leadership, the advocates of impeachment h

apart it's been mitri training director of the carnegie moscow center mr training just before the break we were talking about bolton's book and one of the most. cynical i think assertions in the book was that mr trump is so straightforward and so dump. the president of this country of logic and putin can play him like a female and the funniest part of this all is that mr bolton himself that hands up providing the music for playing because obviously any intelligence i would assume would love to have such an intimate portrait of a president to hopefully many pilate and use it or exploit it in their dealings with the person. well i don't think you can actually exploit. that kind but i think what you can do is you can understand a little bit better how those guys are dealing when no one is watching and of course you do not need to take a book trace really opens book is a political book and it's a political bombshell it's something that. was set off the best time in terms of politics in terms of the money you also was going to make and the book. deceit and the tricks your take everything it's based now you will but this t

president putin allegedly told mr bolton that back in 2014 when the ukraine crisis was at its peak that president obama promised putin to limit the damage to the u.s. russia relations if russia wouldn't go beyond crimea and that conversation between put in a vault and reportedly took place in samarra for 2018 when the miller investigation was still ongoing and i thought that it was very curious because it puts all the allegations against truong it makes all the allegations against trump look like a child's play because if true some think with to come out something similar with to come out from trump's ears from times mouth rather he would be accused of treason do you find they believe a bowl and if so why do you think the russian president would spill the beans at such a sensitive. the moment well president bush was not spilling the beans he was talking privately to high official of the united states the kremlin doesn't leak mr putin said. yes mr putin said it publicly that she will mark. the information that his colleagues share with him privately that's that's a matter of principle wi

mr. bolton where he said that we should bomb the you know what out of them.et me ask you,, looooking forw, to the u.s. presesidential election. what will a victory for biden, what will that mean for u.s. policy in iran? benham: a joe biden administration w what had - -- d have to be carefeful. there would be a temptation to reverse 180 from president trump and rejoin v various multilaterl agreements, be it arms-controlol oror environonmental things thae trump p administration has left. but to do it for domestic polilitics would lead will --- uld leave e one clear winner. the clear winner would be the islamic public of iran. . a unilateral embrace of thehe jcpoa, while iranian bad behaviorss increasing, would ononly reward that bad behavavi. and f forget that amemerica wors best when itit has its partner behindnd it, as part of aa concerted series ofof escalating pressure. i think if there is a biden administration, they n need to rebuild the coalition, they need to capitalize on the track -- from the t time that trump took, and had this maximum pressure campa

trump of a litany of incompetence and obstruction of justice mr bolton is my guest this week from washington how much damage have trumped al bolton done to america and the rest of the world. john bolton welcome to conflict zone i'll be with you thank you for having me when you became donald trump's national security advisor you wrote that you thought you knew what you were getting yourself into it's not true why work for and give your loyalty to a man labeled as a serial liar. well i viewed the loyalty that i owed and i tried to live up to to the constitution in the country you know we're not a medieval society you don't have a legal order that you personal loyalty to it's not a mafia or something like that and the fact was in my view the country faced some serious challenges i think a number of. national security policies during the obama administration had been misguided there was a chance to make a contribution and. certainly went in with my eyes open but i believed at least at that time that we could have a more regular process a more typical if you

mr. bolton. mr. o'brien announces he has the coronavirus.mportantly, you wonder how that will fold into who has been with him over the last number of days. i want to set up the markets as we go to jonathan ferro in the open. i am thrilled paul sweeney will be with me on bloomberg radio. 13, they were up 17 earlier. , dow jones 26 390. fixed 26.36. -- the vix. in the bond market it is not as grim as it was an hour and a half ago, but nevertheless compressed yields with the .58 on the 10 year yield. i would note the inflation-adjusted yield, extraordinary. yield.e .92 on the real oil has done nothing. 19.58 and ounce. it is down $10 from where it was two hours ago. gold up $33 per ounce. an extraordinary statement. twitter with a great chart overlaying the real yield of the 10 year in gold. it is amazing the lockstep field we have heard from so many people. we have a busy day for bloomberg. lots on politics. look for david westin and balance of power. we will have perspective on the grocery industry adapting to this pandemic. stay with us thro

it seemed to me that mr bolton. male come to the white house with the idea of a cop yes taking down everything that he heard during his unstamped at the white house so that when he exits that famous building he can make a lot of money and i found it. a bit.

response to the downing of the american drone late last summer well i'm just thinking of the from mr bolton were he said we should bomb but you know what's the let me ask you looking forward to the u.s. presidential election what will a victory for joe biden what will that mean for u.s. policy in iran. well and joe biden administration would have to be particularly careful because there would be a temptation of course to reverse $180.00 from president from and reach a point more very small to lateral agreements be it arms control or environmental the trump administration has left but to do so only for the purposes of domestic politics would yield only one clear winner not republicans and not democrats the clear winner there would be islamic republic of iran 'd because that unilateral embrace on its face of the j.c.b. away while the running violations are increasing while iran behavior is increasing would only reward that behavior and forget of course that america works best when it has its partners behind it as part of a concerted series of escalating pressure so i think if there is a biden

mr. bolton left the white house., what is so important to me is the dynamics here are profound and center on the gang of eight who will get a briefing today. if the white house has to explain russians giving bounties to taliban to kill marines, what will the gang of eight on the hill listen for this morning? kevin: first and foremost, they're going to listen for what would u.s. response be? secondly is that largely the way this issue has played in washington is that it has fallen along partisan lines. i will be fascinated to hear from john bolton. first and foremost, whether or not he in fact believes that president trump, despite his denials, new about this, but more importantly perhaps, if it is in fact true, what does john bolton think should happen even beyond additional sanctions against russia officials? a still, john bolton is wart in washington, particularly among certain foreign policy circles as it relates to russia and china. who in here if that worldview and is the leader of that worldview from a foreign

mr. bolton. mary trump will have your seat now. and congratulations to simon & schuster for what is amounting to a bang-up summer for people saying absolutely horrifying things about what they know about this president from close pr pr proximity to him. we're going to be joined tonight by mary trump, and you should know before she wrote this book, she was not exactly in hiding. this is obviously her debut as an internationally known person, but she has pursued a distinguished academic career including recognition as a literature student at tufts, which may explain in part why she's a notably good writer, which i think is helping sell this book. she earned her ph.d. in clinical psychology. she's contributed to widely cited books in that field, and she has been in the press in the past as a lower-profile but good standing member of the famous trump family. she was notably in the press before in an instance where something went very, very wrong inside that family, and you should know this for context. this is -- i'm going to quote thi

mr. bolton. mary trump will have your seat and congratulations for a bang up summer for simon and shuster for people saying horrifying things about what they know about this president from close proximity to him. as i mention, we will be joined by mary trump and you should know, that before she wrote the book. she was not exactly in hiding. this is obviously her debut as an internally known person. but, she has pursued a distinguished academic career, and including recognition as a literature student at tufts, which may complain why she is a notably good writer which i think is helping sell the book. she earned her ph.d. in clinical psychology and has been in the press in the past. as a lower profile, but good standing member of the famous trump family. she was notably in the press before and an instance where something went very, very wrong inside that family. and you should know this for context. this is, i'm gok quo -- i'm goi the new york daily news from december of 2007, on june 25th, 1999,

mr. bolton didn't. he waited to publish a lucrative book. i'm saying that.he late to the gathering is co-signing colonel vindman. take a look. >> in my experience with him, i think he merited promotion. his performance was exceptional. i'm sure that congress will be very interested over the coming weeks as to exactly what factored into his decision. >> what specifically does congress do now, going into the election where the american people may or may not factor any of this into it, where the doj that we've reported on and you've worked on, and these other measures through retaliation, ousting inspectors general, retaliating against these individuals until you get them out of government, what is done to stop that? if there is no punishment, isn't the other takeaway for honest people in government, stay out of the way, it's too risky, your whole career and life. >> that's exactly right. co they worked for him. they have the courage to do the right thing. to speak out. and not to make money from a lucrative book deal but because it was the right thing and the

mr. bolton says in the mass protests a year ago in hong kong, president trump's reaction was, i don't want to get involved. and at one point he even praised president xi's handling of it. where is our leverage? where is our moral high ground? we can say whatever we want here, but actions of this administration speak a lot louder than rhetoric. and then there's impunity. chinese impunity. professor petersen, you talk a lot about international forums and human rights resolutions and using our influence to try to pressure the chinese, but it seems to me the chinese have decided it doesn't matter. they're acting with impunity against the agreement with the handover of hong kong, against international law, against international pressure on human rights. what is the leverage we have got, i ask you, professor petersen, and why do the chinese operate with such clear impunity? and mr. law, you might want to comment on that as well. >> yes, thank you for that question. international law is inherently difficult to enforce. that's right. but i don't agree with you, sir, that china doesn't care at all

mr. bolton, mary trump will have your seat now. and congratulations to simon & shuster for what is amounting to a bang-up summer for people saying absolutely horrifying things about what they know about this president from close proximity to him so as i mentioned tonight we're going to be joined here by mary trump. you should know that before she wrote this book, she was not exactly in hiding. this is obviously her debut as an internationally known person, but she has pursued a distinguished academic career including recognition as a literature student at tufts, which may explain in part why she's a notably good writer, which i think is helping sell this book. she earned her ph.d. in clinical psychology she's contributed to widely-whited book ewidely cited books in that field and been in the press in the past as a lower profile but goodstanding member of the famous trump family she was notably in the press before, in an instance where something went very, very wrong inside that family and you should know this for context. i'm going

mr. kevin cirilli. we will speak with john bolton. of russianic story bounties to the taliban.as struck by the viciousness of the essays by leon panetta and susan rice overnight. their vehemence was stunning to me. and,ill ambassador bolton frankly, the republican intelligence community, respond? >> let's cut through the noise. what is fascinating about ambassador bolton right now is where does his ideology go? does it go to joe biden? who has become the heir apparent to his hawkish views as it relates to russia, china? that is what i'm looking forward to hearing from the interview you will do. this will be my first question to ambassador bolton. is there any evidence president biden can bring democratic foreign policyy back to the time of scoop jackson, john kennedy, and, dare i say, barry goldwater? >> that is an obstacle for vice president biden, especially if he wants to attract more centrists and republicans. he is the leader of a democratic they that, frankly, progressive flank thought that hillary clinton was to hawkish. biden wants to move beyond clinton in terms of the

mr. snuff lost his royalties. if john bolton submitted his book to the process and it was approved, where is the danger and losing your royalties? >> what the judge said in the opinion is bolton never got that approval from ellen knight in writing. and, the judge said it's pretty reasonable for somebody so senior in the white house, so recent experience with the president and intelligence material that the government might want a second review. the justice department had to admit in the hearing last week this is the first time the senior justice lawyer could ever remember the government requiring a second review. so it's really an unusual circumstance. but from that secret hearing that the judge held, he was convinced there was classified information in the manuscript. it's hard to tell i've read about two thirds of the book and i can't see with the classified information would be. i think it is a subjective claim unfortunately by this fellow michael ellis. that shows you how messed up the publication review process is. so is it

mr. blatant, let's go back to what you originally said, if john bolton submitted his book through the process and ellen knight approved it, where's the danger in losing your royalties? >> but the problem is bolton never got the approval from ellen knight in writing. the judge said well, it's pretty reasonable for somebody so senior in the white house, so recent experience with the president and intelligence material that the government might want a second review. the justice department had to admit in the hearing last week, this is the first time the senior justice lawyer could remember second review. really unusual circumstances but from that secret hearing that the judge held the judge said he was convinced there was classified -- that shows you how messed up the publication review process. >> well, as an expert in the national security world and -- and freedom of information request, have you been surprised at some of the things over the years that have been kept out of a book. >> yes, very much, i mentioned earlier the marcete book, you can open the book and look at the layers of censorsh

adviser says he isn't fit to be president anyway in a new book john bolton a long serving big beast of the republican party accuses mr trump of a litany of things.

advisor says he isn't fit to be president anyway in a new book john bolton a long serving big beast of the republican party accuses mr trump of a litany.

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mr. secretary, we don't have to play the sound bite but john bolton essentially in his never ending media tour for his book, he said it's inconceivable that the president wouldn't have been briefed on this report about russia. your response to his continued push against the administration on these matters of national security. >> yeah, i don't want to go back and forth with john bolton other to say that much of what he had in his book and a number of the things he said in the aftermath having proven to be true. he was there and he saw this administration worked hard to make sure the president had all the information he needed to make good, sound, national security decisions and with respect to this issue in afghanistan, i can assure everyone of your viewers that this administration acted in a way to protect every american who was serving in afghanistan. we have father tell about harder than the previous administers never dreamed about fighting them and now president trump is going to protect our soldiers by working to get a peace and reconciliation deal that allows them to come home. >> l

national security advisor john bolton told major that president trump lacked an interest in intelligence briefings. >> he is just not receptive to new facts. >> reporter: mr. trump's presumptive democratic challenger, joe biden, says he is more mentally prepared for the job. >> i can hardly wait to compare my cognitive capability to the cognitive capability of the man i'm running against. >> reporter: voters have questioned whether the ages of both men will impact their work. biden is 77, and the president just turned 74. >> he doesn't know where he is, frankly. i watched his press conference yesterday, he is answering-- i mean, he is answering questions like this, from a teleprompter. >> reporter: the cameras in the room showed that was not true. earlier today, president trump also criticized new york city's plan to paint "black lives he agrees with that sentiment. but what he doesn't agree with is an organization that chants "pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon" about our police dfficers. incomer city should >> reporter: president trump also said new york city should not be spending money on the painting when it plans to slash police funding by a bil

mr. harder, president trump's lawyer who brought this suit, has been on a first amendment bashing spree, and they filed against john bolton, the justice department had done it. and it's outrageous. here, they were arguing that a 20-year-old confidentiality agreement that was part of a settlement regarding president trump's father's estate, bound mary trump from ever talking about president trump or her family or her life. it was absurd. and justice greenwald found that was an unreasonable interpretation, and the first amendment overrides any contract. and the other thing, lawrence, we argued and the judge didn't have to reach it, that settlement was the product of fraud. that president trump and his siblings had undervalued the assets that were part of that settlement, and that's how that agreement came about. so it was a very important ruling for free speech, and we're very pleased with it. >> i want to read a passage of the book about president trump's fragile ego. >> i have to say that as i've watched president trump over the years, that's what i have felt i was watching. i know you, as a litigator, you study witnesses

bolton ok now let's go some of the areas authorities arrested. his lame actually last week. jeffrey have scenes allege the neighbor in the sexual abuse case donald trump was a close friend of mr have seen the lies expect him to come out in the trial of miss macks will shoot turn state's evidence right. yeah i think it's isn't as the f.b.i. mention maxwells been slithering around all over the globe for 12 months since her buddy jeffrey epstein was arrested last summer they finally found her in new hampshire on its palatial estate that she had purchased with cash from interestingly enough a shell company that both epstein and she had set up maxwells been hit with 6 charges one being perjury for lying to investigators years ago and the rest are all related to her acting as a groomer in a recruiter for these young girls that jeffrey epstein and his powerful friends abused over the years an attorney interesting part of the story an attorney named brad edwards is spectacular attorney out of south florida has been working tirelessly on this case and this is a big step forward for him in this fight for justice for the victims but here's what we know so far maxwell has been accused of

bolton, two more questions about your interesting book. damning.e details were would any of this have happened, russians and bounties to the taliban to go after marines. would any of this have happened if mrad had his three generals in the same room? was the great tipping point for the administration when those three generals walked out the door? john: i don't think so at all. i was in the room with him a lot of times as well. he doesn't listen well. he doesn't absorb things. former secretary of state george schultz once said the importance of listening is always underestimated. even lyndon johnson said when i'm talking, i don't learn anything. those are points donald trump doesn't understand. we all made our mistakes. i certainly made my share. i tried to lay out some of them in the book. i think things could have been done better. i make that argument in the book. ultimately, trump is trump. that is the problem. this is not somebody who thinks in policy terms. nostrum aegean afghanistan. we haven't had a strategy in afghanistan with respect to russia or china or north korea. the list is long. withambassador bolton, bloomberg surveillance yesterday. viewng us now, a canadian as he watche

bolton and his book became a best seller. he lost his lawsuit against his niece and her book is on its way to becoming a best seller. mr.nt, i'm personally asking you, please sue my new children's book. [ laughter ] thank you. trump's niece actually wrote a a pretty interesting book, chapter 11 is all about his family businesses. [ light laughter ] that's right thank you. thank you. [ drum rift i owe you one. i owe you one. that's right, there's a new tell-all book and there's a lot of pretty big claims, one of them is that trump regifted a basket of food to his niece for christmas. regifted and the caviare was missing. here to talk about it is the one guy who changed his mind on trump because of this. >> well, hey there, jimmy. >> jimmy: thank you so much for being here, sir. so i hear that you've been a a die-hard trump supporter for years and after this gift basket thing you had a change of heart >> well that's right before when i thought about trump i was like, yes. but now after this gift basket thing i'm like oh, uh-oh [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: really this >> i know a bomb shell when i hear one, jimmy. and cavi