The suspect put a $300,000 price tag on your head,
what goes through your mind Ambassador hearing the details
of this plot as explained today in great detail by the US Justice Department?
>> Well, I was embarrassed at the low price, I would have thought it would have
been higher, but I guess maybe it was the exchange rate problem or something.
>> A suspect has been identified in the plot to assassinate
Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton.
And as you can see from that video, he was incredibly surprised that it
would only cost $300,000 to get someone to assassinate him.
But considering the fact that Bolton just recently bragged about
orchestrating coups in other countries,
coups to overthrow democratically elected leaders in other countries.
I don't know, I would venture to say that there are plenty of people
across the globe who would probably be willing to do it for free, and
he should be aware of that.
But nonetheless, I do wanna go to the next video
because you'll get a sense of what I'm talking about here.
So in this next clip, we're gonna hear from that interview that I
was referring to where he talked about orchestrating coups.
>> Somebody who has helped planned coup d'état not here, but
other places, it takes a lot of work.
>> It takes a lot of work, you make a lot of enemies.
A lot of people wanna assassinate you, but I'm a pro and
orchestrating coups just wanted to put that out there.
Now, let's talk about the actual suspect here, this is related to
the assassination of a top military general in Iran, Qassem Soleimani.
This happened during the Trump administration, and
that leads to individuals in Iran top level officials wanting to retaliate.
That's unsurprising,
that's what ends up happening when you assassinate officials in other countries.
Now the Justice Department alleged that Shahram Poursafi,
also known as Mehdi Rezayi, 45, of Tehran, was likely
motivated to kill Bolton in retaliation of the death of Qassem Soleimani.
A commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps,
killed in a US drone strike in January of 2020.
Just a few more details from CBS news about this suspect
who will not be extradited to the United States, cuz we
do not have an extradition agreement with Iran obviously, let's watch.
>> Today, the Department of Justice charged Shahram Poursafi,
a member of Iran's Revolutionary Guard with offering $300,000 to kill Bolton.
The FBI says Poursafi working from Iran hired operatives to track and
then eliminate Bolton.
Even texting pictures of cash promising payment for the hit.
But one of Poursafi's contacts was an FBI informant.
Sources tell CBS news another target of the Iranian plot,
was former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
>> So Jake, is it surprising that someone would wanna assassinate John Bolton?
>> No not at all, so let's go over a couple of things here.
First, this story broke before the mar a lago story,
and at the time the right wing is saying like look at these Iranians,
we gotta do something about, the FBI did a great job in foiling this plot.
The next day, they're like the FBI is the worst dismantled the FBI.
>> Defund the FBI.
>> Well, if you defund his FBI, John Bolton might be dead.
So, I'm glad that he's not, I'm glad that our law enforcement did a good job in
protecting him and we have to protect our own, etc.
Now, having said that,
is it outrageous that there would be an assassination attempt on John Bolton?
No, it's not outrageous, it's logical.
He was the national security advisor for Trump,
Trump killed the Revolutionary Guard Corps Commander, Qassim Soleimani,
Soleimani, who was basically a national security adviser in Iran.
So they would wanna do likewise, like, we have such an absurd bias in America.
You could be outraged by it and you say that's terrible and it is, right?
But you can't say like that it's shocking or outrageous,
why is it not shocking or outrageous when we kill them?
But yeah, like news anchors in America genuinely think no, no we get to kill you,
but you trying to do it to us in the same exact way.
How dare you dear sir, well, then maybe we shouldn't have killed their top guy.
So, anyways, that's point one, point two is wolf, you ask him a follow up question.
Hey, wait John, didn't you just tell my colleague Jake tapper just a couple of
weeks ago that you like killing foreign leaders.
So, wouldn't this makes sense that they tried to kill you I mean,
you bragged about doing cool guys.
You know what happens in coos, you murdered the guy in charge.
>> So you overthrow democratically elected leaders to serve US business interests.
This country with the help of the FBI by the way, has a long history of doing that.
And that leads to enemies, that leads to hostility toward the United States and
its government.
I mean, this isn't rocket science, so, look, what Jake said is correct, right?
We don't want anyone to be assassinated, we don't want anyone to get hurt.
But, actions have consequences and for far too long, I think the US government has
been under the assumption that they can go around the world doing whatever they want.
Without any hostility or consequences or calls for retaliation in return.
>> Yeah, John Bolton said, quote, I think it's quite correct to say many other
Americans are the targets of this regime, no, that's not at all correct.
You were the only target, well, that's right,
too high level officials involved in security,
just like the guy that you guys targeted that you guys killed, okay?
So he says it tells you what the regime is,
it tells you about its character, okay, that's fair on Iran.
It does tell you a little bit about their character and who they are.
What does it say about us, because we didn't only try to do that to them,
we actually did do it, we actually did kill the guy.