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As President Trump's national security advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room

where it happened, which also happens to be the title of his new book, The Room Where It Happened,

A White House Memoir. In the book, he shows a President, addicted to chaos, who embraced our

enemies and spurned our friends, was deeply suspicious of his own government, and for whom getting

re-elected was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant endangering or weakening the nation.

Almost from its inception, the book touched off a war of words between the President and his

former advisor, with Trump denouncing Bolton as a traitor, threatening to throw him in prison,

and alternately claiming that Bolton's memoir is full of lies and or classified information.

But John Bolton says, the facts speak for themselves, and today Ambassador Bolton joins me on the show

to reveal what he witnessed during his 17 tumultuous months in the Trump White House.

We talk about President Trump's bizarre obsession with authoritarian strongmen and his overall

lack of interest in advancing freedom and human rights. Bolton reveals how he reacted to Trump's

eagerness to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, why the second North Korea summit was

put together so hastily, and what took place behind closed doors in Trump's infamous one-on-one

meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki? He says, the President rarely ever reads,

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