John Bolton’s Book is Out of the Barn
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 22 June 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton's White House memoir, titled “The Room Where it Happened,” has made a lot of waves recently. Not only has Bolton faced criticism for publishing his account of his time in the Trump administration in a book rather than testifying in the president’s impeachment trial, but the Justice Department is now suing Bolton for publishing what it claims is classified information. So what is the government arguing? And, is Bolton’s book any good? On Friday, June 19, Quinta Jurecic discussed it all with Benjamin Wittes, Jack Goldsmith and Marty Lederman.
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| 1:14.3 | I'm Quintitjurethic and this is the LawFair podcast June 22nd, 2020. |
| 1:22.3 | You may have heard that former National Security Advisor John Bolton has a book out. |
| 1:27.3 | His White House memoir titled The Room Where It Happened has made a lot of waves recently. |
| 1:32.4 | Not only has Bolton faced criticism for publishing his account of his time in the Trump administration |
| 1:36.7 | in a book, rather than testifying in the president's impeachment trial, but the Justice |
| 1:41.6 | Department is now suing Bolton for publishing what it claims is classified information. |
| 1:46.8 | So what exactly is the government arguing? |
| 1:49.6 | And his Bolton's book even any good? |
| 1:52.0 | We brought together Benjamin Wittis, Jack Goldsmith, and Marty Letterman to discuss. |
| 1:57.4 | One note before we begin. |
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