FORMER DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY
ADVISER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA.
HE IS AN MSNBC POLITICAL
ANALYST.
I WANT TO GET YOUR REACTION TO
WHAT YOU HAVE READ SO FAR AND
WHAT HAS BEEN EXCERPTED FROM
THIS BOLTON BOOK.
>> WELL, LAWRENCE, AS YOU SAY,
IT IS A CONFIRMATION OF WHAT WE
HAVE SEEN.
DONALD TRUMP PUTTING HIS OWN
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL INTERESTS
ABOVE ANYTHING ELSE, RIPE WITH
CORRUPTION.
WHAT STANDS OUT TO ME IS HE HAS
SOUGHT FOREIGN INTERFERENCE IN
THE ELECTION OBVIOUSLY FROM
UKRAINE BUT THE BOOK ALSO
SUGGESTS FROM CHINA.
SOMETHING THAT STOOD OUT TO ME,
LAWRENCE, IS NOT ALL VIEWERS MAY
KNOW, THERE ARE A MILLION YUGERS
IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
AMERICA IS A COUNTRY THAT USED
TO LIBERATE PEOPLE FROM
CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND WOULD
STAND UP TO REGIMES THAT PUT
PEOPLE IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
DONALD TRUMP TELLS PRESIDENT XI
THAT HE FEELS IT WAS A GOOD IDEA
TO PUT THESE PEOPLE IN
CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES SEEKING CHINESE
INTERFERENCE IN OUR ELECTION ON
HIS BEHALF AND HE WAS OKAY WITH
PUTTING A MILLION PEOPLE IN
CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
SOMETIMES YOU ARE NOT SURPRISED
TO LEARN THESE THINGS, BUT I
THINK WE CAN’T NORMALIZE THEM
BECAUSE THE EXTREMITY OF HOW FAR
THE PRESIDENCY HAS FALLEN IS ON
DISPLAY IN THIS BOOK AND FRANKLY
AS YOU POINT OUT ON DISPLAY IN
BOLTON’S CONDUCT HIMSELF.
>> YEAH.
LET’S LISTEN TO WHAT CONGRESS
ADAM SCHIFF SAID ABOUT THIS
TONIGHT.
ADAM SCHIFF SOUGHT JOHN BOLTON’S
TESTIMONY AND JOHN BOLTON
REFUSED TO TESTIFY EVEN THOUGH
OTHER PEOPLE WORKING IN JOHN
BOLTON’S OFFICE DID TESTIFY.
LET’S LISTEN TO WHAT CONGRESSMAN
SCHIFF SAID.
>> I HAVE SEEN REPORTED ABOUT
THE BOLTON’S BOOK AND IT WAS
CONSISTENT WITH WHAT WE
PRESENTED DURING THE IMPEACHMENT
TRIAL, IS THAT THE PRESIDENT
INSISTENTLY PUTS HIS OWN
PERSONAL INTERESTS, HIS
POLITICAL INTEREST ABOVE THAT OF
THE INTEREST OF THE NATION.
WE SAID HE WOULD DO IT AGAIN.
CLEARLY HE DID DO IT AGAIN
REPEATEDLY AS PART OF A PATTERN,
AND THAT’S THE MOST SERIOUS
INDICTMENT AND THAT’S WHAT
JEOPARDIZES OUR COUNTRY WHEN YOU
HAVE A PRESIDENT THAT HAS SO
LITTLE REGARD FOR THE BEST
INTEREST OF THE COUNTRY AND WHO
CONSTANTLY PUTS HIMSELF FIRST.
>> AND, BEN, OF COURSE DONALD
TRUMP IS SAYING THAT JOHN BOLTON
IS A LIAR.
THAT’S HIS RESPONSE TO ALL OF
THIS SO FAR.
BUT JOHN BOLTON IS KNOWN TO HAVE
TAKEN NOTES IN THE ROOM ALL THE
TIME, WHICH WAS, NEEDLESS TO
SAY, UNSETTLING FOR A LOT OF THE
TRUMP PLAYERS.
>> YEAH.
I MEAN, JOHN BOLTON CLEARLY WAS
GOING TO WRITE A BOOK, CLEARLY
WAS GOING TO CASH IN.
BUT YOU MADE THE CENTRAL POINT
HERE.
JOHN BOLTON IN EXPLAINING WHY HE
DIDN’T TESTIFY BEFORE THAT
IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY BLAMED THE
HOUSE DEMOCRATS FOR LIMITING THE
IMPEACHMENT INQUIREY TO UKRAINE.
HE INTERFERED IN CORRUPTION
INVESTIGATIONS IN PLACES LIKE
TURKEY IN WAYS THAT POTENTIALLY
SERVED HIS OWN PERSONAL
INTEREST.
WHAT IS SO ABSURD ABOUT WHAT
BOLTON SAYS IS THAT IF HE HAD
EVIDENCE THAT THERE WERE OTHER
INSTANCES LIKE UKRAINE OF TRUMP
SEEKING INFORMATION FROM FOREIGN
COUNTRIES LIKE CHINA, THE PLACE
TO PUT THAT THRARD WAS IN THE
IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY ITSELF.
I DO THINK WHAT’S PARTICULARLY
RELEVANT HERE, LAWRENCE, IS
CLEARLY DONALD TRUMP IS GEARING
UP TO RUN AN ANTI-CHINA
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.
HE’S SAYING JOE BIDEN IS WEAK ON
CHINA.
HE’S THE GUY THAT’S STANDING UP
TO CHINA.
THE CHINESE WANT TRUMP TO WIN.
WE NOW KNOW THAT TRUMP HAS ASKED
CHINA FOR ASSISTANCE TO HELP HIM
WIN, THE EXACT SAME THING HE WAS
IMPEACHED FOR BY THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES WITH UKRAINE.
I DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH MORE
EVIDENCE THAT WE NEED THAT THIS
PRESIDENT IS CORRUPT, ENGAGES IN
CRIMINAL CONDUCT AND MAKES THE
FOREIGN POLICY OF THE UNITED
STATES AN EXTENSION OF HIS OWN
PERSONAL POLITICAL INTERESTS AND
IS WILLING TO GO AS FAR AS TO
SACRIFICE THE MOST BASIS
AMERICAN VALUES THAT PEOPLE
SHOULD NOT BE THROWN INTO
CONCENTRATION CAMPS TO SEEK THAT
FOREIGN INTERFERENCE FROM CHINA.
I THINK THAT THE SPOTLIGHT ANY
TIME DONALD TRUMP SAYS ANYTHING
ABOUT CHINA, WHAT WE CAN DO IS
TAKE FROM THIS BOOK THE VERY
CLEAR ACCOUNT THAT THE OPPOSITE