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PBS News Hour - Brooks and Capehart

Capehart and Ponnuru on the FBI's raid on Trump critic John Bolton

PBS News Hour - Brooks and Capehart

PBS NewsHour

Politics, News

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Capehart of MSNBC and Ramesh Ponnuru of the National Review join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including fallout following the FBI's raid on Trump critic John Bolton, President Trump's deployment of troops in Washington, D.C., and California Gov. Gavin Newsom standing up to Trump. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

For more on the fallout following the raid of President Trump's former national security

0:05.1

advisor.

0:06.1

In the week's other news, we turn tonight to Capehart and Pannuru.

0:09.5

That's Jonathan Kephard of MSNBC and Ramesh Panuru, editor of the National Review.

0:13.8

It's good to see you both.

0:14.8

Good, Jeff.

0:15.8

So this busy news day started early this morning with the FBI search of the Maryland home

0:19.9

and Washington office of John Bolton,

0:22.3

President Trump's former national security advisor. We don't know exactly what the FBI is searching for

0:27.4

or why, but we do know that John Bolton has been an outspoken critic of the presidents. He wrote

0:32.2

that scathing book about his time in the White House. Jonathan, how does all of this strike you?

0:37.1

When I heard the news, I gasped.

0:41.0

I said, oh my God.

0:42.8

Not because I'm some big John Bolton fan

0:46.2

or John Bolton is a friend of mine,

0:48.3

but the message it sends, as you said,

0:51.0

he has been an outspoken critic of President Trump, worked with President Trump in his first administration, and has been criticizing the president as recently as last week or maybe even in some social media posts this week.

1:05.7

When you have someone who's been a critic of the president and a president who ran on retribution.

1:15.1

And this isn't the first time he's sought retribution against John Bolton.

1:19.2

He's stripped him of his national security clearance and his security detail the day after

1:25.5

his Trump's inauguration.

1:30.9

And Bolton is being targeted by Iran.

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