in the middle of an interview on fox & friends and he was asked about these allegations directly. he was specifically asked did the white house freeze the account here is what the president said. no. of course not. of course not. no, i actually had a good relationship with john. we disagreed on some things and some methods, but i actually had a good relationship. but then the president did fire him or bolton resigned in september. they disagreed on several issues the tipping point was the discussion of signing a peace agreement with the taliban at camp david. and now, of course, democrats are trying to get bolton to testify about what he knew about the pressure campaign in ukraine. they asked him to show up for a deposition. he did not show up. he has not been subpoenaed though. and now democrats, of course, are trying to get him to come and testify about that. day that, one of the big questions a lot of folks are asking why didn t john bolton set up a new twit are account if he
any sense or, you know, hinted at any criminality whatsoever. so, it s not even just clear and convincing evidence. it s just there s no evidence whatsoever because i never did anything wrong. dana: the ig report comes out and shows there is malfeasance what s the next question. number one how high did this go? did we either have a rogue fbi or i can t imagine on the eve of a presidential election when you are looking at surveilling the other side s nominee that this didn t go all the way up into the white house. that has huge consequences, constitutionally. and then, you know, the other piece is the fisa process is sacred in our democracy. that s the power of the state to surveil our own citizens. and if that was corrupted in any way we absolutely have to get to the bottom of it. dana: there might be changes in that procedure at that point. michael walt, great to have you in new york. thanks, dana. dana: john bolton is back
on twitter. bolton claiming he was blocked from his personal account by the white house. kristin fisher is live at the white house. she asked him about this. what do you know? well, dana, up into a few hours ago, the last time we had heard from john bolton on his twitter account was on the day that he was fired or the day he resigned, depending on whose version of events you believe. then, this morning, a series of cryptic tweets. he said his twitter account had just been liberated. it had been unfairly suspended. and he teased that there would be more of a back story coming soon. and literally within the last half hour, we got a lot more on that back story. he is now explicitly blaming the white house. he says on twitter, quote: since resigning as national security advisor, the white house refused to return access to my personal twitter account out of fear of what i might say. to those who speculated i went into hiding, i m sorry to disappoint. now, while those first early morning t