The Transparency Project: John Bolton

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🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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As part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, all this week we’re publishing key interviews conducted as part of the reporting for The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden, a two-hour documentary special about the major-party political candidates. The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden airs on PBS and online Tuesday, September 22nd. Read more about Frontline’s Transparency Project at frontline.org.

In this episode, John Bolton is interviewed by FRONTLINE’s Gabrielle Schonder. Bolton served as national security adviser to Donald Trump from 2018 to 2019. He was previously the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and is the author of The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir. Bolton shares his observations about President Trump’s approach to national security, including his unusual lack of interest, for a president, in receiving intelligence and other information.

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0:24.4	or slash cancer well it to me it just felt like continuing chaos that there was no
0:31.6	structure there was no structure,
0:33.0	was no effort to say what are the priorities here.
0:38.0	It was a stark contrast to other Republican presidents.
0:42.0	John Bolton served as national security advisor to Donald Trump from 2018 to 2019.
0:50.2	He was previously the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and is the author of The Rumor
0:55.9	It Happened, a White House memoir.
0:59.0	As part of Frontline's Transparency Project, all this week were posting key interviews from the Choice 2020
1:04.7	and the run-up to the release on September 22nd of that two-hour documentary
1:09.7	about the major party presidential candidates.
1:13.0	Interviewed by Frontline's Gabriel Shander,
1:15.2	John Bolton discusses President Trump's approach to national security,
1:19.5	including the challenges of working with a president
1:22.1	who distrust experts and says he follows his own insight. the the Abrams Foundation, committed to excellence in journalism, and by the WGBH catalyst fund.
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