Would think you would have criminal problems, i would hope so. Good afternoon i am bob costa, a National Political reporter at the Washington Post. Today i am joined by ambassador john bolton, the former National Security advisor and he is the author of the room where it happened, white house memoir. Investoambassador bolton welcom. To keep her happy me. Lets begin with opening of your book, detailed recounting of how you join the Trump Administration. Why did you join the administration in the first place given what you wrote in the book about the president s behavior largely know beforehand. I had the honor of serving a prior republican ministrations at the state department and Justice Department. I felt it was a time of great challenge for the United States, i thought the prior eight years of the Obama Administration had seen a lot of misguided policies and had weak interNational Security posture and i hoped i can make a contribution, i was obviously aware of many things that had be
The l. A. Times, covering the trial for king, and then the o. J. Simpson case. I was dazzled by his writing, he was able to take complex events in a courtroom, and summarize it concisely and clearly. He always wrote amazing speed and great delegates. I got to know him, in another capacity in the late 1990s when he was covering, i was then sharing the elected commission in los angeles, to revise the charter. I saw them that he had this he was amazingly a talented, but also had lots of integrity. At one point the Los Angeles Times was not nearly showing enough tension to try to reform, but according to los angeles weekly, he quit his position at the los angeles time, to protest over this. He put his job on the line, because he believed in the importance of the story. He is then law, and because of that the Los Angeles Times decided to change its approach. Id like to believe that the charter approach, succeeded because of his actions. He was planning some taking some time off from the l.
Good afternoon, im bob costa, National Political reporter at the Washington Post. Today im joined by ambassador john bolton, President Trumps former National Security adviser, and he is the author of the room where it happened, a white house memoir, ambassador bolton, welcome. Thank you, thanks for having me. Lets begin with the opening of your book. It has a detailed recounting of how you joined the Trump Administration. Why did you join the administration in the first place given what you wrote in the book about the president s behavior who was largely known beforehand . I had the honor to serve in prior republican administrations in state department and Justice Department and i felt that it was a time of great challenge for the United States. I thought that the prior 8 years of the Obama Administration had seen a lot of misguided policies that had weakened our National Security posture and and i hoped i could make a contribution. I was obviously aware of many of the things that had
The cracks in europes foundations. Corona recovery deal and the e. U. Rebound thats our title. And its a pleasure to welcome our guests eric is an american journalist who has written for the los angeles time amongst other Media Outlets and he says the summit exposed once again how much disunity there is in the European Union. And were very glad to have with us public talk of tomasky he took us to excuse me he is a polish economist and senior associate at the German Institute for international and Security Affairs he says we must reform the Member States now or will face the same problems again with less time and fewer instruments. And great to have with us once again. Casting emily and she is Deputy Editor in chief is the Parliamentary Bureau of the german newspaper sayto and she says the deal is far from perfect but it is a signal that multilateralism is still alive. And let me start with you cast him and ask for your take on the big picture there are a lot of superdelegates being thr
Council, this is 30 minutes. It is wonderful to have this opportunity it is wonderful to have this opportunity at the time of the alliance is facing a large array of challenges from china to cyberattacks and Climate Change and the pandemic what we need to make today is ensure there will be relevant and effective over the coming decade. And then to begin from the secretaryg general. Working with the alliance for securing democracy will moderate a conversation with the secretarygeneral. At a time when we are looking for leadership where the secretary general is my pleasure to welcome the secretarygeneral to the stage. Mr. Secretarygeneral over to you. Good afternoon from brussels and good morning and welcome to all of those on the line. Asking me to make the Strong Alliance even stronger. To make sure we are affected and then to tackle the challenge challenges, and it is our opportunity where we see the reliance ten years from now and how that will continue in a more uncertain world. I a