This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. I'm Farid Zakaria, coming to you live from New York.

Today on the show, the Bolton bomb shows. The former National Security Advisors' new book has new revelations about the Ukraine scandal that God President Trump impeached.

I will talk to the former President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, who rarely speaks about these issues.

Also, Israel's Prime Minister, BB Netanyahu, said, if he was put back in office, he would have next parts of the West Bank. That dramatic act could happen just days from now.

I will talk to Netanyahu's predecessor, Prime Minister Ehud Elmer, who said it is proof that Israel today does not want peace with the Palestinians.

Then, a new series on GPS, best practices on beating COVID-19.

This one from an unusual location, the original epicenter, Wuhan, China.

And finally, Malcolm Gladwell on race, racism, and policing in America.

But first, here's my take. John Bolton's book tells us very little that we didn't already know about Donald Trump's foreign policy.

He paints a picture of a president who is ignorant, unaware, for example, that Britain is a nuclear power, and that Finland is not part of Russia.

Trump had few fixed foreign policy views, at times he's been inclined to invade Venezuela at other times, losing interest in the country altogether.

But Bolton does reveal, according to the excerpts and reports published so far, that the real problem with Donald Trump is not his ignorance or his policies, but his character.

President Trump has for the most part settled into conventional Republican policies. He has cut taxes for the rich, rolled back regulations, appointed conservative judges, and lavished money on the defense department.

He departs from the Reagan formula in two major areas, immigration and trade. And on these issues, he has changed much of the Republican party, which is now comfortable with tariffs and subsidies and mercantilism, as well as severe restrictions on immigration.

Now, I don't agree with many of these policies, but what has always worried me much more is Trump's character.

He is clearly a man for whom his own personal and political interests are paramount and override any other concerns, of decency, of morality, even of law.

Bolton is not the first stop aid to dissent. Rex Tillerson, James Madison, John Kelly, have all made clear their low opinion of Trump.

But he is the first to provide details, and the details are damning. The book says Trump promised to remove federal prosecutors who were going after a Turkish bank, because President Erdogan asked him to intervene.

Trump insisted that the Ukrainian government hand over incriminating information about Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden before he would release congressional approved aid to that country.

Bolton notes that he and the secretaries of state and defense tried eight to ten times to press Trump to release those funds, but Trump refused.

Now, Ukraine might be the most impeachable offense, but Trump's dealings with China are the most troubling.

U.S. policy toward China is the most important business any president will conduct. It will set the stage for peace or war, the preservation of American interests, and the security of America and its allies for decades to come.

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