He writes trumps conversations with xi, referring to the chinese president , reflected not only the incoherence in his trade policy also the confluence in trumps mind of his own political interests and u. S. National interests. Trump copling manied permit and national not just on trade questions but across the whole field of National Security. Im hard pressed to identify any significant trump decision during my white house tenure that wasnt driven by reelection calculations. Now, Martha Radditz with abc news has the first sitdown interview with the former National Security adviser that will air sunday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern time. Network released a clip of her interview. Here is john bolton talking about Vladimir Putins perception of President Trump. How would you describe trumps relationship with Vladimir Putin . I think putin thinks he can play him like a fiddle. I think putin is smart, tough. I think he sees that hes not faced with a serious adversary here. I dont think hes worried about donald trump. Donald trump as we say sees himself as a dealmaker. What happened to the dealmaker in these situations . The president wayofm may we a sue bush deal maker in it coming to wall street. Dealing with strategic weapons and many, many other National Security issues are things far removed from his life experience. When youre dealing with somebody like putin who has made his life understanding russias strategic position in the world against dnonald trump who doesnt agree reading or learning about these issues, its a very difficult position for america to be in. From the abc interview that airs sunday there is the former National Security adviser. President trump tweeted about the book after midnight saying this, wacko john boltons exceedingly tedious New York Times book is made up of lies. Said all good in print until the day i fired him. Disgruntled boring fool who wanted to go to war. What a dope he says and goad on to say President Trump fired him also. Bolton is incompetent. Now, npr, this morning, and other publications recording that the would us is trying to stop the publication of john boltons book. Justice Department Seeks to block it ahead of its tuesday release scheduled for june 23rd. 27page civil lawsuit timed against bolton for the District Of Columbia alleges that publication of this 592page book, rumor it happened, would be a violation of nondisclosure agreements he sign and compromise National Security. Listen to the White House Press secretary yesterday talking about this lawsuit. So that as to why they went down that particular path is the question for doj, but what i would note is this book is full of classified information, which is inexcusable. Former National Security adviser john bolton should know all too well that its unacceptable to have highly classified information from the government of the United States in a book that will be published. Its unacceptable. It has not gone through the review process and thats where we currently stand and refer you back to barrs statement. We dont believe bolton went through that process. It hasnt been completed, the process, therefore, hes in violation of that agreement that was part of his quote from monday. On this legal battle, the Washington Post Editorial Board in their editorial this morning, free speech. Not National Security. Its at stake in trumps absurd lawsuit against john boltons book and no selfrespectingorde book halted. Writing this, the official to scrub the book a process consumed four months. This review proceeded mr. Trump insisted the book must not be published before the november election. Nonsensically, all of his conversations with mr. Bolton were classified. Unsurprisingly, after mr. Boltons manuscript was strubbed, yore said further review was necessary con clutding the administration was using the process as pretext to silence him, mr. Bolton decided to public. Get to your calls. Carl in chicago. Democratic caller. What do you think . Yes. How are you doing, gretta . I know bolton is getting a lot of criticism, but what we should realize from this book is just how how bad off we are as a country. Weve got a Major Political party in this country who basically has displayed how corrupted he a eed they are. Allowed power to corrupt them. All the days they say values and principles have vanished. They dont care about any of that. We just want the power. Whether or not he testified or not, they was still going to acquit him, because all that matters is having power. They want to have power to control basically especially in the senate, to put people on the bench because they think if we can put judges on the bench, this far right, we can control the society of this country in the future. Its about naked power. I dont know where we go as a country when you have someone thats gone to the dark side like this in the future. I mean, i just dont know what were going to do. How do you make that adjustment in the future . Thank you, gretta. Okay. All right. Lester in tuscaloosa, alabama. Lester, your turn. Caller good morning, grelt grelta. How are you . Good morning. Caller funny something comes out of trump he loves to block, trying to go to court to stop it. Trump is i dont understand this guy. The American People are going to have to wake up, because if we want a dictator we should have got him in 2016. Everything he has done has showed us that hes no good for the United States. And thank you, gretta. Willie in beliveau, illinois. Independent. Willie, good morning. What do you make of the reserre in john boltons book . Caller a former employee of the government and did sign a disclosure agreement. To release a book right before the election is interfering in the election. Okay. Willie, from illinois. You voted for the particular ed in 2016 . Caller no, i didnt. You didnt . Why not . Who did you vote for . Caller neither one. I didnt vote for anyone. I stood out. I stood beside. How will you vote in 2020 . Caller i havent made a decision yet. Do you like what, some things that President Trump has done while in the white house . Caller some things, yes. Uhhuh. And what are they . Caller oh, how hes cracking down on the illegal trade with china. How hes trying to get businesses started back up in america. Thats basically it. Willie, did you read this part of the book . The New York Times features in their papers this morning . Mr. Bolton also adds a striking new accusation by describing how mr. Trump overly, overtly linked tariff talks with china to his own political fortunes asks president xi jinping to buy american agriculture to help him win farm states in this election. Mr. Trump pleading with xi to ensure hes win, mr. Bolton said, mr. Trump stressed importance of farmers and creased purchase of soybeans from china in the outcome. Wall street journal able to do an interview with President Trump yesterday. His reaction to this book, the wall street journal notes in the interview with the president mr. Trump didnt deny he agreed to lift penalties on two Chinese Companies seeing favor with president xi. As said in the book. Read more what the president had to tell the wall street journal going along here this morning. Also i want to share with you on this china trade question that the president s trade negotiator, mr. Lighthizer, up on capitol hill yesterday testifying before a House Committee and a Senate Committee about trade policy. We covered both hearings. If you missed it, go to our website. Cspan. Org and find it there. Here are headlines from the Washington Post on his testimony. Trade representative defense china deal, trump dislikes. U. S. Trade representative robert light housor expects china to fulfill its promise to buy an additional 200 billion in American Goods and services over the next two years despite its slow start to placing new orders amid the coronavirus pandemic. Light housor saidoe housesor said he intended to comply with the trade deal signed with President Trump in january. Elaine, hagerstown, maryland. Rb. Good morning. Caller good morning, gretta. Ill try to remain calm. From my experience, working in a classified area, any book, manuscript, that that is known to have classified information it n it has to be reviewed thoroughly. Word by word. Phrase by phrase. Sentence by sentence. And theres no way that this man should have ever released this manuscript or the book being published or whatever it was, because he has committed treason. The same thing as with Hillary Clinton doing with her server and her, in her basement or bathroom or wherever she had it. Elaine, do you recall how long the scrubbing process takes from your work . The Washington Post says that john bolton went stlu four moss of scrubbing with the National Security council and then it was later on that the white house and they argued in an attempt to stop him from publishing the book said more review was needed . Caller perhaps they found there was classified information that shouldnt have been released. Thats all. Thats all im saying. Because they have a set of reviewers where i worked, that we reviewed these books, an u scripts as i said, word for word. Because just because and by sentence. And they usually in the margin will denote what classification it is. If any. So thats what im saying, and this man has committed treason, because if anybody else did that kind of stuff, what he has done, they would, yes. Thered sign a disclosure statement, yes, to begin with. Okay. Elaines thought in maryland. To north carolina. Charles, gastonian, north carolina. Democratic caller. Caller how you doing . Well. Who do you think of the book . Caller i think the book is truthtelling because most everything came out piecemeal is coming out in the book. A shame he didnt testify about it, but now its going to come out, and i think the going to really hurt in the elections. Just to hear what this lady just said, classified . Thats nothing but the truth. The truth has come out. You cant keep hiding and lying and going on. The truth is out now. Its been out. Bolton just, you know, just released it all of it can be actually told the way it really was up in there. And donald trump is not going to be president ever again. Because we dont need this. The man lying ever since hes been up in there. Its time for him to go. We need a new president. We dont need another liar sitting up in the white house trying to get a way with the things that he has gotten away with. Thats all i got to say. Thank you. And more comments from our viewers on facebook. Heres morgan logan. I never liked him as an ambassador to the u. N. Hes a warmonger. Never trust him. Trump made mistake keeping him on. You have pigpen writing, very disappointed in john bolton. He knows better, mrs. Takenly thought he was an ethingiccal honor an e able man, and also boltons book shows us what we dont care about trump. Hell go to any length to win. Imagine if the book was an a democrat biden . Also, being a day late a dollar short does not make bolton any kind of hero. Many knew trump was a dangerous fool but stayed silent like mattis, kelly and others. All weak and pathetic. Unpatriotic. Jerome in washington, d. C. What do you think . Korea good morning. Caller good morning. What do you think of the book . Caller i keep repeating even from yourself john bolton made this and that accusation. What is in the book thats supports any of it that can show that its the truth, other than it being his opinion, his viewpoint . He said he said putin feels that he can play donald trump like a fiddle. Im pretty sure putin said that about every american leader. How is this exclusive or extraordinary as relates to donald trump . Okay. Irene. Red oak, virginia. Democratic caller. Irene, what its your opinion on this . Caller yes. Good morning. Im glad to be on the show this morning to talk. What i would like to say is that i didnt vote for donald trump. But i always liked him. In the apprentice. In the show. Thought he was good for that. Im originally from brooklyn which i moved to virginia. I dont think donald trump is made or has the character to be a president. But hes good to have been on television. For, you know, doing athe apprentice. Hes has not brought this country together. He always saying what he did for black people and i am a black woman. He has not done anything for me. If i get anything, i did it for myself and my family. I worked hard. I used to be a correction officer, and worked with the police department. But he hasnt done anything for me. Anything ive done for me and my children i did it for myself. But thats one thing i dont like when they says that, what do black people have to lose . We have a lot to lose. You know . But he hasnt done anything for us and on the other hand, even though i do vote democrat, a lot of the democrats havent done anything either. Okay. Irene, talking about john bolton, former National Security adviser that served in that spot 16 months. 17 months. In the trump administration. His new book is out. Going to be published next week, unless the white house can stop him from doing so. Back in november of 2019, usa today had this headline. Extrump aide john bolton deal for book that may publish before the 2020 election. In it it says that the same Literary Agency that represented former fbi director james comey and the anonymous author of a warning helped bulletin land the 2 million deal according to the associated press. Simon schuster published the book and are also publishing other books about the president. Upcoming books from the wall street journal this morning that says mr. Boltons memoir isnt the only explosive title on simon shochusters plate. These as we. Next month, the publisher release add critical account of President Trumps Family History titled too much and never enough. How my family created the worlds most dangerous man written by mary trump. Relative of the president s. Simon schuster sizz the book shine as dark light on the bright history of their family. Collins, mississippi. Independent. Hi, james. Good morning k. Caller how you doing . Doing well. What do you think of the book by mr. Bolton. Caller i think mr. Bolton is sort of like ah a split personality. On one mannhand he wants to be republican and on the other hand he, he wants to be a a person of, of of doubt sometimes. With my main point which is, this is not the only book, and the book is about the president of the United States of america. But its not justed president. Its everybody around him. Him. People are focusing on this president about what hes doing, but you u got to look at the people thats supporting him. If you look at the people thats supporting him, they already know, so you say this book is stake or whatever, everybody in President Trumps cabinet know who he is. They know what he has done. And everybody in other countries know that if the people over here that we dont understand, its time to step up and vote either democrat or everything or or independent or republican. This stuff about voting two different parties and the control, he already let you know right now that them days are over. Those days are over for saying we need a democrat to watch over the democrats. We need a republican to watch over the democrats. Look at that man from utah. Whats his name . I forgot his name, but he stood up. Mitt romney . Yes, the one thats in arizona. Those are real republicans. If you cant expose your own, how you going to talk about somebody else . I noticed how they criticized the previous president with books and other things. Now his own household, this is a part of his house. All these people that are criticizing him, these people still cant see. God is telling you something. These young people are telling you something. Hes going to a place right now where they tell him not to go to a, a have a convention because that makes sense in this book. Hes saying that the president to be reelected, now hes going to arizona or utah or where ever to have his campaign. Tulsa, oklahoma . Not to go because of this virus. Understood, james understood the point. The New York Times, nbc news, wall street journal, Washington Post, with excerpts from mr. Boltons book, able to preview it and from the New York Times, they write the president never tired of assailing allied leaders and came closer to withdrawing the United States from nato than previously known. He said it would be cool to invade venezuela. At times, he seemed to mimic the authoritarian leaders he pretended to admire. These people should be executed, theyre scum bags. When mr. Xi explained why he wanted to build concentration camps, President Trump said he should build them. He repeatedly badgered mr. Barr for talking with john kerry about iran in what he insisted was u a violation of the logan act. In mr. President s interview with the wall street journal last night, mr. Trump disputed he gave his blessing to mr. Xi to continue building f camps for muslim minorities as mr. Bolton said in the book. He had been considering sanctions for his treatment, more than a million had been detained without trial for years. But mr. Trump didnt want to upset trade negotiations mr. Bolton said. Thats not true, mr. Trump said, b about the description of his conversation with mr. Xi. Mr. Trump then pointed out he signed legislation earlier on wednesday calling for sanctions on china over the camps. I could have kill ed that very easily, mr. Trump said. Shelley in spartanburg, south carolina, republican, what do you think of this book . Well i dont think very much of it. In fact, i would say we dont have to worry about the russians or the chinese destroying the United States because our own citizens are going to do it for us. Thank you. James, bristol, tennessee. Democratic caller. James, good morning. Yes. I believe every word thats in the book even the fact that i havent seen it, but i do not believe john bolton belongs in jail because hes not just a disgruntled employee wanting revenge. Hes just an old man wanting all the money he can get. Hes not no better than anyone else. As a matter of fact, like i say, i believe everything i hear about the book and because im sure its all true. But this old man, he should be put in jail because he should have stood up during the impeachment. Okay. All right. Well take a look at the reaction on capitol hill from lawmakers. The minority leader for the democrats, chuck schumer, in the senate. It was clear then and couldnt be any clearer now. The vote to convict and remove donald trump from office was absolutely the right vote. The revelation of o boltons book makes Senate Republicans craven actions on impeachment look even worse and history will judge them for it, he writes. Gregory meeks, democrats, encouraged the concentration catches and insisted on letting americans know whether hes fit for the title. Bolton sat on that information to get a book teal. No heroes in this story and bill pascrell, trump spit in the face of america to flatter the worlds leading dictator. Trumps hatred for democracy is revolting and threatening to the way of life for all of us. Its also an extension of his party ee partys growing liberalism and representative debbie blanking on how to pronounce her last name. The congresswoman writes whether its waivering on venezuelans seeking democracy or entertaining deals with foreign advisories, the pattern is clear. Trump stands with dictators and authoritarians and deserves to be b one. Now for republicans, doug collins writes 2 million. Apparently, thats all it took for john bolton to sell off what little credibility he had left, referring to his book deal and rand paul of kentucky, if nothing else, donald trump deserves a gold medal for exposing the war kau led by john bolton. Always a very stupid and dangerous idea. Some reaction on capitol hill. Now on this idea of testifying in the impeachment proceedings, mr. Bolton writes in the excerpt on the wall street journals website, this is not in the hard copy this morning, he says this. That these and innumerable other conversations formed a pattern of unacceptable behavior that eroded the legitimacy of the president. Had advocates not been so obsess wd the ukraine blitzkrieg in 2019, had they taken the time to inquire about the president s behavior across foreign policy, the impeachment outcome might well have been different. Randy, broken arrow, oklahoma, republican. Randy, your opportunity to tell washington what you think of this book. Its just more trash against our president. Since he, since he was legitimate president , you guys have come after him about everything. If you think this book is a bigger deal than people taking territory in seattle then whoever picks your stories and news stories should really examine their bias. Even something about our president , every morning ive listened to you since my kids were little and theyre all grown. Two served in the marine corps. Now what i have is a news agency in cspan, cnn and, msnbc, even fox news is getting on the band wagon. Everybody is slandering this president. Every day. Pick something thats positive about our president or maybe you could do an expose on joe biden. Maybe you could look into the fbi scandal that you guys just once trump was acquitted, you guys just drop it and pick up the next hateful thing you can find about our president. Its shameful and you ought to be ashamed of yourself. God bless america and ill be in tulsa on saturday. God bless america. Randy, for you and others, this book is dominating the national newspapers. The Decision Makers in washington are talking about it. The president has acknowledged it and put out tweets, did an interview with the wall street journal. Giving his side. And his reaction to this book. Were letting you know all of that and then only here on this program do you get to call in and tell washington whos chatting about this, what you think of it only here on this show. So thats why we do it and why were having this question this morning. Mike, oak grove, missouri. Independent. Hi, mike. Good morning. Good morning, greta. Ive already ordered my book. It will be here the 25th. A shame its a book about, written by a scum bag about a scum bag. But you know the book shows how political bill barr is trying to help donald trump stop it. Theyve been going over it for four months to try to find anything that shouldnt be there and they cant find it. Donald trump says any con v conversation he has with anybody is classified, which is you know, we all know thats bs, and i think it makes all the republicans look bad that voted not to impeach him. As far as randy goes, the last caller, begging to put something good about trump on television is