before the withdraw. you said that biden changed in that answer in a way. what do you, i mean, he said when he was helping to confirm you at the state department, to anyone, my disagreements with you that you are to competent? i wish you were ambassador. i wish you were dumb to get a better shot at you. you're competent and honorable. what do you think the president meant by the now president meant by that? i think i took it as a compliment to sort of a backhanded compliment to be sure, but look i, i've been on the opposite side of joe biden on almost every major question in foreign policy for a long time. and i think that was a recognition. we disagreed, they didn't have the usual politics of personal destruction issues. they could go after me on so they had to try something else. i don't think he's going to appoint . you have national security adviser anytime soon. perhaps the top objective in your, in your book, as regards afghanistan, you make clear as to provide the potential resurgence of isis. just tell us what you think isis k actually is because we had cars, eyes x, y, that's minutes. roman's lucky while on the program who negotiated actually with by the in the bus, he claimed that it was trumps. a mother will bombs a, like a, was nuclear bomb that was dropped by tremble and have guys done acted as a recruitment sergeant for isis, but is that i civil rights is kay, this is complicated. these different terrorist terrorist groups. terrorist factions don't have the identity cards that they can show. i'm al qaeda, isis, k. i'm this, people drift back and forth. i think the, the main threat right now of regrouping terrorist in afghanistan is al qaeda. i think it is never really left. i think they've been embedded with taliban in their exile across the border in pakistan for the last 20 years. and i think al qaeda will take advantage of renewed taliban control to recreate the sanctuary. the rear base area that they used afghanistan before isis is a new phenomenon, but look in iraq and syria. it was an offshoot of al qaeda and isis k, which is the acronym for the isis affiliate claims to control the tip. roughly the territory of afghanistan is just another manifestation, the tragedy at the mosque. you mentioned the seller bombing occurred a few weeks ago. i c k 2 credit for both for shi masks. isis k, obviously fanatic. sunni terrorist group, but there's rivalry between isis k and taliban, but i, i could say rivalry today i could see a coalition between them tomorrow this, this is a changing environment in afghanistan, obviously, just a couple months ago they were an exile across the border. now they're in control and cobble. i expect see there'd be further developments, but i think it's hard to predict. but what i would say is that this potential for congregating terrorist from anarchic areas around the world toward a more hospitable government in afghanistan. i think it's something we should all be worth. i mean obviously say they're sworn enemies with isis k. and you seem to say that they'll kind are embedded within it. we've had the taliban on this program . there are a defacto negotiations going on between nato governments and the taliban. you mean they're kind of negotiating with al qaeda more or less? well, i think there's a danger that there's, if there's a big question, whether there's a new moderate taliban leadership or whether it's the same old crew that govern afghanistan in the late 19 nineties. i think it's still early to make a final conclusion. but i think the early evidence is not very encouraging, but moderate forces have somehow taken over with taliban. and i think it's one of the reasons why even the by the administration has been hesitant to unfreeze afghan assets, turn them over to taliban to resume humanitarian assistance. until we find out whether they're still a terrorist group as they seem to be or whether there's something else europeans through the european union have jumped in a little bit early. i think they may come to regret that a lot of money. they seem to be giving, i mean, some might say it was after all the united states and britain that were trying to overthrow outside of syria. and that meant that, of course, alliances were made with groups affiliated to i said ok and are in syria. and i mean, everyone knows the u. s. history and the history of the machine isn't. there's another case of a terrible blowback that isis k is actually a kind of descendant of british and u. s. policy in syria since 2011. well, i don't think so. i mean, i think what happened in to take it back to the iraq syria theater is that after brock obama withdrew american forces from iraq in 2011. because really what could go wrong? everything? everything was taken care of. that's when ice. this arose in western iraq and, and eastern syria. and we had to go back in to counter this new threat or more virulent form of al qaeda. so i hardly think that it was in reaction to our withdrawal that we saw isis arise. i think it was the spread of this terrorist mentality which, which was a crazy thing to read. of course one could say that then it's still a descendant of u. s. u k policy because of the invasion of iraq. i mean, i, i the, the, i way with them. i, well, maybe it all goes back to british imperialism in 1000. everything does of. uh huh. know that this is more recent over the, the 2001 war i should have been before we leave. i've got the senator just quickly say you have warned that a taliban victory in gobble gives them potential access to 150 nuclear weapons. what do you mean that was misquoted from a, from an earlier interview, what i've said was, i worry that the take over by taliban in afghanistan could provide aid and comfort to radicals in pakistan, pakistan a taliban itself, other terrorist groups that the pakistani government created along with extremist in the inter services intelligence director and other parts of the pakistani military if those extremists took control and pakistan than that government would have access to the country store nuclear weapons. wait, i'm asked. so did you make that point and when you are a national security advisor and what no one listened to you, the potential for absolute catastrophe. i did make that point several times. i thought it was a compelling reason to keep american nato forces in afghanistan. obviously that was not places the donald trump and wouldn't have been persuasive to joe bud. well, it's not necessarily meaning a continued occupation. it could mean other policies, but clearly that's a terrifying prospect. i should just because we go to trial here. julia sounds good . coming up. you appointed richard grinnell is i right. yours who took over is acting national security advisor. when you know i didn't appoint 8. richard grinnell worked for me in new york and he was the spokesperson for the u. s. mission to do you and when i was you and ambassador, will you ever privy to this thing about grinnell and trump organizing in assange? pardon deal if he revealed his sources as news to me? well, i have to go to the actual bombing of syria that you are a national security advisor at the time. and some might say that also emboldened, i says, i'll kinder in syria because he would defacto defending isis al qaeda in syria. what did you, what do you, how do you look up on that attack on syria or in 2018? we certainly weren't defending isis or, or, or anyone else way would have seen it. that was, well, they would be wrong to see it that way. what happened was the syrian government used chemical weapons, probably chlorine based against civilian targets in and around damascus. almost exactly one year earlier in april 2017. the syrian government had done same thing, us had responded militarily and clearly and had not been deterred from engaging in that kind of conduct again. so this was actually started my 1st day in office, april 9th, 2018. it was a busy week, but the british and french came together with us. we did another retaliatory attack in response. i don't think that deterred assad either, but to me it was, it was evidence that the, that the danger of the anarchy we saw in syria with presence of ryan's forces, has both coming over from lebanon to support the sab regime. the accumulation of chairs forces in and around it was a compelling reason to keep us in nato forces. in northeastern syria says another place trump wanted to withdraw from. so this was part of the complex a dealing with in the trump administration to maintain stability, which was n u. s. interest rather than withdraw and see or return either to terrorist control or iranian back control. yeah, you didn't mention, you mentioned the regional allies, they didn't mention russian troops. you don't think it was compelling when mad. dog, mathis from the pentagon, said if that missile strike, it killed russian soldiers. it would have been war with moscow. i don't know when, when mad has said that, but i can do this if it's in the he, it's in the context of that that the joint chiefs of staff chairman joe dunford, called his russian counterpart shortly before the strike and syria, as he had done the year before, to, to say, look, you see what's happened here with chemical weapons attacked by the assad government and just want you to know that we're not going to sit idly by so that you know, you need to look out for your russian forces. we understood fully and i think that's what madison is saying, that if we were not careful that there might be a collateral damage, which we didn't want. this was not in any sense and that russia was aimed at the aside regime. all be of, of you said the person was lying about it not being a chemical attack. you also say in the book that actually didn't. that's right. that was the russian position. and that was incorrect, isn't it all the evidence indicate? yeah, obviously very controversial. but you do mentioned in the book of antonio, terrorism slammed the strike for not having un security council approval. it was being ridiculous, kind of symptomatic of the fact, the lack of authority of the un, like the general in the u. n. now you famously said it can demolish a whole lot of flaws in new york. it doesn't make any difference. i think the organization is grin locked in and it's political institutions, sad and say, largely a failure. if we've gone to the security council, i think we almost certainly would have faced stay russian and chinese veto. the administration had not gone for security council approval in 2017 and i did the british, nor the franchise felt there was any need for security council approval. so i think we were well was in our rights said to conduct the strike with without reference to the security council. i master boldness, stop you that more from the 27th national security advisor of united states up to this break with what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it creed, even foundation, let it be an arms race is an offense, very dramatic development. only personally and getting to this i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk with at states. it has to be reps to be able to afford enzyme in front of the luxury that for sure, despite having the most expensive health care system in the world, we have poor life expectancy. we have higher infant mortality. we have more deaths from treatable causes. so americans are suffering every day from it. it's as if these people don't count. i saw how you can choose your customers and dump a sick. also a to satisfy their wall street investors. no parents should have to see what i saw. if you're denying payment for someone's care, your make life and death decisions and determine who gets to live and who dies to me, that's best getting away with murder and endangering, shaped bankers and things with . there's things we dared to ask in a welcome back. i'm still here with before the u. s. embassy of u. n. and the 27th us national security advisor, john bolton, quite a lot of us subsidy to the you and i know that under trump, you got out of unesco. biding took you back in. did you advise of national security adviser that some of that us subsidy, g u. n. g reduced i belong, shall. based on my tenure in new york is un ambassador and other positions i've held that the u. s. money is, is wasted in many respects misspent in many respects. and my, my overall reform proposal for the un is to abolish what are called assess contributions, which are essentially mandatory. the u. s. pays around 2022 percent of the budgets and most agencies i make all contributions from national members of the you and i'd make all. busy contributions, dubois, but i mean, there must be people all over the world. do you believe that would agree with all this? why did you get nowhere with all of this, the notion to make contributions, voluntary, unfortunately didn't have agreement all around the world. but i think if it did, it would be like a su nami, sweeping through the halls of the us. the un security council of co is rather fi than the u. s. a. j. c. b o. a. what prospects do you think? i mean, what's the delay since biden go back in of the iran nuclear deal? i know you're, you're an opponent. i don't know whether you think you think the option is to attack iran militarily. i'm not sure what your view is of iran u. s. relations in by the administration for all. busy public purposes remains committed to trying to get back into the deal and to get to run back into the deal . i think the deal was fatally flawed when it was great in 2015, it has gotten any better with age. i think the regime in tara is committed to getting deliverable nuclear weapons. it's never showed any evidence, whatever views your views are well known about what, what should the policy be? now, the best step forward given how unpopular the karen regime is inside afghanistan, is to find ways to split the top leaders in the revolutionary guards and the armed forces and to reflect what is the wide spread view among the population out. plenty of places where there aren't western reporters reporting how unpopular that regime is and see if it can't be overthrown. give the government to the people of iraq using the title of that. i thought it is quite popular in afghanistan and iran is obviously taken then maybe a 1000000 refugees there. and iran has been linked to the talks. i mean, obviously the new afghan talks happening in most regime in iran did the unpopularity the regime in iran. i think that is that it's, it's only through regime change in iran that you're going to get a strategic decision. they're not to pursue nuclear weapons. but obviously the last time there was a successful regime change by the u. s. was against the democratic lead. most of dec, bernie saunders fond of talking about that. isn't that how you got into this mess? i know douglas has a big hero of yours. he actually seeing that with with the president for sure. i should say we did it with the british, but it was actually most of back who had violated the iranian constitution at the time. and i think it was, it was far more elements of popular opposition to most dec support for the shot. it led to it led to the islamist revolution of $979.00 now and then it followed it best. you're, you're engaging and a post hoc air go back, found it. now i've, i lived in iran. i got to tell you. and sanctions didn't affect rich people in iran, your vocal supporter of sanctions. i mean, do you know how many thousands of ordinary iranians men, women and children are killed by us in nature? sanctions on iran you think it's a price? what bang like madeleine albright with the 500000 iraqi children. now it says that the sanctions have never been directed against the medicine or you know, the heights. but the effects are caused by the mishandling of the iranian economy. the corruption among even the mullers themselves who have grown there, they and their families grown. you know, the case of you except that i, you know, it's shoring up. i mean, cuba is a good example here. you sanction the country. you create support for that government, whatever the color that government is, i think cube is a good example. the islands recently been swept by anti regime demonstrations. they're primarily from young people. and this is, this is significant in the $400.00 in the streets and it's currently quiet now, thousands, thousands all over the island. i know in the book, you're concerned about venezuelan help for cuba, the washington tank cpr claims 40000 children may be killed by sanctions on venezuela. why did you not want trump to meet madura? apparently trump expressed a desire to meet madura and you treated this guy. guido is a president, is very strange anecdotes in your book about the wedding ring of his wife. you might have to explain about one another. trump project, trump and go. trump had a feeling for authoritarian leaders like bottom your food near to want asian tank chem john non douro is just part of that, that, that a group of people. and i think he decided ultimately on his own. he didn't want to do it. but the, the, the clear policy we had was to support the constitutional process in venezuela. and the, the duly elected legislature had declared bureaus, fraudulent election, invalid. and therefore there was a vacancy and the presidency, which one guy know was elected to fill. and we recognize that government, i might say this constitution was written by hugo chavez in his early days. so he always supported chavez. i know ambassador, and that's why i'm a freshman, but you don't but it subscribed to churchill. george, or maybe even trump wants to speak to madura the country with the law, just no noise reserves. why not? as his national security advisor say you set up a meeting like that kim jong? well, maybe not like the kim jong and one obviously. yeah. now look at the question is what, what is in the interest of the people who venezuela interested the united states? and i think we saw very clearly that chavez enduro had driven the country into poverty. they had, they had taken, what was you say a country less is to 40000 people not being killed by us sanctions book. and that, that is, that is somebody's estimate. there's simply no evidence for that. it is the case that the medical system in venezuela over a period of 20 years of chavez bureau rule has been, has been, has been just devastated. and as has the economy more broadly now, i know you are privy to the highest secrecy documents. you must have been because trump tried to try to take you to go for the book just to check for the 5th time letter, the 6th time, the in the any secrets. but all those documents must show that china is headed to become the most economically powerful country of this century. why? why are you against strategic arms limitation treaties given that that would arguably give china caught blows to make more nuclear warheads, more nuclear missiles than even the united states possesses today? well, we, we could talk about the, china's economic future. i think it statistics are inflated to say the least, and i think it has enormous internal problems. people don't recognize, but on the strategic weapons issue, what i've said is that i think we have to recognize that we're no longer in essentially a bipolar nuclear world. russia and the united states that was true and cold war days, there were smaller nuclear powers, china, britain, france, others. but in those days, if you are going to have arms control, it was, it was a bipolar negotiation today. and we read in the newspapers from commercial satellite overhead of chinese construction of hundreds of new ballistic missile silos, which are obviously being excavated to put in missiles carrying nuclear warheads. china's capabilities in the nuclear field are expanding enormously. so what i've said consistently when i was in the government, but before that, and since i've left, if we're going to have new strategic weapons negotiations with russia, china has to be included. it makes no sense whatsoever to pretend that we're still living in the cold war. bipolar nuclear error. exactly. except that policy has li moved to moscow in beijing together. u. s. name to a policy has moved moscow and b jane closer than ever as you know. i don't think it's us policy that's moving close together. i think they have a grown closer. i think that's moscow's choice, and i think it's a big mistake for russia. i think russia's got a lot of oil that it's happy to sell to china. it's got strategic weapons. it's happy to sell china, but i think brush is making a very bad decision by casting its lot in the future for the rest of the century, potentially with china. i think it is in danger of losing over a long period of time control over much of russia, east of the euro mountains. i mean, you've got a country with a huge population and not many natural resources south of russia, with, in that part of a lot of natural resources, very few people that doesn't speak long term strategic stability from the russian point of view. and i would just urge people in russia who are thinking about this issue to think long and hard before they get too close to china. but what would you say if you have, let me go to the national security advisor given there is a u. s. s. joint strike carrier strike fleet right now, sailing to china's maritime borders. and even boris johnson is sending their, his aircraft carrier to china. i mean, as a, as the basis increases, the number of troops increase around russia. as the navies of nato approach. china, wouldn't you me advising alliances with china? i very strongly believe that it's not in russia's long term interest to get closer to china by splitting away from, from the potential for closer relations with the west that we had after the collapse of the soviet union. i think we've lost a lot of time and opportunity and yeah, the way we were russia tried that. and as we know, the agreement with global job is broken. and we've seen u. s. policy as regards a iraq, afghanistan, and libya. syria. we've seen what nato thinks of relations with russia, a alliance nato remains the defense of alliance. and i would just say, and perhaps you and i should discuss this at greater length and in a future broadcast. i think russia's greatest security lies moving west, not moving east. i just got to find the us then, obviously about the coven pandemic. i don't know what you think the mistakes were by the trump administration, with your writing a day, maybe a sequel to this book about that element. but of course, criticism came for you. why did you abolish the national security council's pandemic response unit? just ahead of the cove of virus, the killed hundreds of thousands of americans met in the world. i didn't abolish it . i did something really bureaucratically quite responsible. i merged it with the biological weapons unit of the national security council. and in fact, if you look both the bob woodward's book, if you look at reporting in the new york times, the national security council staff, these very people in early january 2020, we're raising red flags about the dangers of cobra. they were doing exactly what they were intended to do. the problem was not a bureaucratic re shuffle within the n s. c staff. it was time on willingness to take proven seriously at the beginning because he worry, it would re, uh, re effect his re election efforts. do you see the world without a strategic arms? imitation treaty is getting more dangerous or less dangerous? well, i think it depends on what countries like russian try to want to do with their strategic weapons. i think russia and the u. s. could find an accommodation we did when i served george w bush's his under secretary of state for arms control. we signed the treaty of moscow in 2002, which reduced the operationally deployed strategic nuclear forces. both countries think that's possible again, but i think you cannot do that in the absence of having china participate. but do you think germany is your boy got no stream to i do i make a mistake? sure. i think work. i think it's a mistake to become strategically dependent on any, on any particular source of energy. and this is something that ronald reagan warren to europe about in the 198 that said, for one of your favorite shows of the last season. we'll be back on wednesday, the 12th of january, but until then stay safe. and you can watch all our interviews by subscribing to our youtube channel and falling us on all our social media. ah. join me every thursday on the alex salmon. sure. and i'll be speaking to guess what the world politics sport business, i'm show business. i'll see you then. mm. ah, it goes to chill. tristan's goal is to chill to begin with, which one is a bad though? it was just my, william, he's a curriculum left the keenest that with water with junior was, wasn't it that the appointment was trained yet. that if he's excuse you, she made it with no, i mean, unless you put that amount with ms. brown thorn with o police dogs and bathrooms deployed against the anti lockdown demonstrators in amsterdam. the cities may, i gave the order to break up the 1000 strong, illegal rally, and with the cobra cases on the rise. we look at how big pharma cashed in the big time, all throughout 2021. also from a power supply chronic trying to record migrant influx to soaring inflation at old time on this side. right. so we look at what may 2021, a tough year for the united states also in the program. 19 years 10 months and 25 days aug please.

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