PREVIEW: #2016: #UKRAINE: From a conversation with former National Security Adviser John Bolton re his new foward to the reissue of his 2020 memoir, THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED, re his 17 months at the Trump NSC. This anecdote refers to POTUS Trump's 2019
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is John Bachelor. |
| 0:19.0 | This is John Bachelor. |
| 0:20.0 | Conversation with John Bolton, former National Security Advisor, |
| 0:23.2 | former Ambassador of the United Nations, |
| 0:25.7 | a reissue of his books this time in paperback, soft cover. |
| 0:29.1 | The room where it happened is 20-20 best-selling memoir of his 17 months as National Security |
| 0:35.7 | advisor for former President Donald Trump. The detail that John emphasizes in |
| 0:41.6 | this telling is when Mr. Trump in 2019 alleged that Secretary |
| 0:49.1 | of State Hillary Clinton's emails 30,000 plus of them, were in Ukraine or wound up in Ukraine, not quite clear |
| 0:58.0 | why, but in Ukraine, prior to or simultaneous to Hillary Clinton directing them to be |
| 1:07.7 | deleted. It was all very fast the way the president said what was going to happen but John connects that |
| 1:16.9 | with the former president Trump's ambition to invite president Selensky and President Putin into a room together to settle the Ukraine |
| 1:27.0 | dispute. |
| 1:28.0 | Again, it's not entirely logical, but John Bolton explains it's highly unlikely and it's |
| 1:35.8 | evidence that Mr Trump moves very fast and is not all that keen on the detail. |
| 1:41.6 | Here's John Bolton explaining the emails of 2016 by |
| 1:46.4 | Hillary of Hillary Clinton and the room that Mr Trump will invite Mr Mr. Zelensky and Mr. Putin to occupy with him to |
| 1:56.6 | settle the Ukraine crisis? |
| 1:58.6 | Well, he believes, and I talk about this in the book and its new paperback edition. He believes that in 2016 |
| 2:06.7 | shadowy officials in Ukraine were hiding Hillary Clinton server and were determined to defeat him in the November election. |
| 2:15.0 | Now there's no evidence of that but he believes it and everybody recalls his |
| 2:20.0 | 2019 perfect conversation with Velodemir Zelensky that led to Trump's first |
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