Bolton’s Bombshells
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4.0 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Michael Isgov, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News. |
| 0:03.1 | And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News. |
| 0:05.4 | And a quick reminder that you can follow us at SkullDuggeryPod. |
| 0:09.9 | And by the way, if you've got any questions, thoughts, ideas you want to share, |
| 0:14.1 | tweet right at us. |
| 0:15.6 | Now let's get on with the show. |
| 0:20.6 | It's been a running theme of Donald Trump's presidency. |
| 0:24.2 | Those who go to work for him and who are closest to him have a falling out. |
| 0:28.7 | They quit, or are fired, or just walk away. |
| 0:32.1 | And then inevitably go public, describing the president as impulsive, irrational, ignorant, and unethical. |
| 0:40.4 | But nobody has spoken out with more force and with more shocking examples than John Bolton, |
| 0:46.5 | who for 17 months until September of last year served as Trump's national security adviser. |
| 0:52.8 | His long-awaited new book, The Room Where It Happened, |
| 0:55.4 | provides the most damning portrait yet of a chief executive who's so interested in dealing |
| 1:00.6 | with foreign leaders is to solicit their help in ensuring his re-election. |
| 1:05.8 | Even to the point of reassuring the president of China that it's perfectly okay for him |
| 1:10.9 | to hurt a million Muslim Uighurs into concentration camps. |
| 1:15.3 | Now his book already shipped out, and due to be released next week has provoked an extraordinary |
| 1:20.1 | legal battle. |
| 1:21.4 | This Trump's Justice Department seeks to have it clawed back from bookstores all over |
| 1:25.8 | the world. |
| 1:26.8 | We'll talk to a veteran national security lawyer about how the case is likely to play |
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