Reach to change what for them was an exercise in arousing their own base so they could say we impeach donald trump. The democrats can pursue whatever policy they want. They dont dictate to me how best to bring us to the attention of the American People. But you can understand why your critics say why didnt he come forward before . Why is he making a profit on this now . It is nothing to do with making a profit. It is every thing do with making sure that the Constitutional Responsibilities that are accorded the different branches of government are carried out the right way. Host john bolton on abc news last night about his forthcoming book, the room where it happened. Again it is released martyr john bolton on a media tour this week expected to then Good Morning America this morning and other interviews throughout the week. Just another one posted last night at 10 p. M. Eastern just after that abc j news interview aired. This of usa today. It is their lead story today. Describes pinball machine white house come former top aide is unapologetic medicine inside and outside the circle. Just the lead ofe the story i susan page. If he had been a senator during President Trumps impeachment trial, john bolton says he probably wouldve voted for a conviction. Beginning of the story in usa today. One of the headline from the New York Times today, exaide scathing words trump poses a danger for the republic if reelected. Headlines about it, plenty of the Cable Television shows throughout the evening and this money where asking for your thoughts, what you what you think. Want to hear what you think. Jane is up first this morning out of brooklyn, new york. What did you think about the interview . Caller i thought it was unbelievable and shocking at the same time. Bolton shouldve done this before but nownk that he has doe it, lets ride with it. Bar, i think is totally wrong about everything that he said, and trump is just unbelievable. He doesnt even know countries. He doesnt understand anything about our country it sounds like. Another thing that is annoying is that whyhy cant he just do e right thing for the American People . Host you say he should of done it before and why cant he do the right thing . Are you saying hee should have testified during the impeachment trial, john bolton, in that interview last night saying he doesnt want President Trump to have a secondp term, doesnt think that d is capable of the b of being president ofof United States but doing it in this form, putting that in public in the book, that he is doing get, said thats the more effective way of ensuring that the second term doesnt have it. What you think about that argument . Caller i think its a good argument but at the same time i also think that if he had spoken sooner, the American People wouldve had a much better idea of what this president is doing in our white house. We deserve better. Host thats jane in brooklyn, new york, this morning. Or from john bolton about President Trumps fitness fort office. I think he was so focused on the reelection that longerterm considerations fell by the wayside. There was considerable emphasis on the photo opportunity and the press reaction to it, and little focus on what such meetings did the bargaining position of the United States. Are you saying that all decisions the president made were driven byt reelection . Thank you very much, el paso. They give very much. I didnt see anything whether wasnt the major factor. Th a lot of people have complained is a short Attention Span and he doesnt focus. I want to see what comes to reelection, his Attention Span was infinite. Its just too bad there wasnt more of that when he came to National Security. You described the present as erratic, foolish, behave irrationally, bizarrely. You cant leave them alone for a minute. He saw a conspiracy behind rocks. He couldnt tell the difference between his personal interest in the countries interests. I dont think is that for office. i dont think he has the confidence to carry out the job. Host from abc news last night. John barbican the c27 National Security adviser on april on april 9, 2018 picky says he reside. President trump says he was fired. The book about that time as the National Security adviser comes out tomorrow, getting your thoughts this morning of the washington journal. Bradenton, braden ten florida, good morning. Caller good morning. Host go ahead. Caller the reason why im calling is i i listen to you evy morning. I like the news get from you. But my question to you is, actually two. One is why we do listen to the news of fox . Seems like their all for trump. And the second is, why cant they eliminate the electoral vote . [inaudible conversations] stick around and we will talk about voting in this country in our 8 a. M. Segment of the washington journal. Emily will be joining us to talk about her new book, what you need to know about voting and why, a professor out of the university of maryland baltimore county. Dating that conversation in our 8 a. M. Our the spinning this first hour talking about john bolton, former u. N. Ambassador come former National Security adviser, that interview last i is getting a lot of attention. We will stick with calls on that just for thiss first hour this morning. Mark is next out of tennessee, a republican. Good morning. Caller yes, good morning. Host go ahead, sir tragedy yes. I just think the the president s been treated very unfairly. I watched the entire speech and i thought was pretty good. You know, im a republican and i just think that he has been treated very unfairly by the press. I mean, its just my opinion, you said you watched the speech. Did you watch the interview with john bolton on abc news last night . Caller yes, i did. John bolton is, you do, i think he is 70 years old and is probably washed up like the president said. He doesnt have to worry about his future career because he doesnt have a future career. He just wants to make money off of conversations that he mightve had with the president or any confidential conversations. Host what did you think about john boltons appointment when he became National Security adviser to President Trump . Did you like at the time . Caller i did, yes. I actually liked his appointment. I thought he was the right man for the job, but eventually it became clear to me that john bolton had a different agenda than the president did. You know, you have to serve come in that job you serve at the pleasure of the president so host what is john boltons agenda, mark . Caller he was a warmonger. He wanted wanted to go to war with iran. He did want to pull troops out of iraq that t you want to troos in syria i mean, he just seemed to be a person that, and President Trump, he ran on pulling troops out of foreign countries. John bolton i think didnt like that very much. Host so should it not been picked for the job . Should the president have known his positions on h that issue goingue back years . Caller well, i think the president should a probably or his people read it should of research that a little more because, as it turns out john bolton was a person who does like war. Oe he likes building rockets and missiles and all of that. Hes part of the militaryindustrial system. To me, you know, he disagreed with what the president ran on. The president rant on pulling troops out of these nonsensical wars and these conflicts that we continue to get into. Host thats mark intimacy. This is tied with at a new york city, a democrat, good morning try to good morning thanks for taking my call. Donald trump did not stand up to expectations. Amanda is not a politician. He doesnt know what hes doing and you expect Something Better out of him . Its like getting a mechanic to do openheart surgery. He may be an excellent mechanic but is not a surgeon. And john bolton, you know, hes telling what we already knew about donald trump. Hes a liar. He dont believe in the rule of law. Before he became president. So now this is completely up to people. Ican we are either going to vote him back in or we are not. To use the tactics of suppressingss the vote and you e whats happening in georgia, kentucky, all over this country where they are stopping people from voting and making long lines. Its up to us and the American People to get this man out of office. We already know he is not qualified to be president. He already told us when he asked russia to helping when on national tv. So now we are surprised that ite did all of this, that he was impeached and that he should of been taken out of office back then. We can stop lying to ourselves and know that this man is not qualified here and it understand that if the devil and jesus christ was eligible to run for president , the devil would get votes. You understand . People would vote for the devil. But we as a people that understand that, its that in the best interest of all of us. Host tyrone at new york. Melba, republican, houston, texas, good morning trip to Good Morning America. This is melba from houston, texas. John bolton is totally discredited. He is an old war horse who just wants a state in the mix. Thats essential all it is. He needs to let it go and that trump do whatt he needs to do to take care ofri america. We want trump and were going to vote him in again. Thanks. Host when other headline for you, this from the front page of the Washington Times today. Too late, bolton book revelations while democrats. Some still want testimony from john bolton is a headline. Some reaction from democrats on capitol hill. First from the man who led the impeachment inquiry in the house adam schiff, chairman of house intelligence committee. Tonight he said after the bolton interview, bolton was present why didnt come forward and testify instead of saving it for a book. Bolton says it was about the cash. To quote a different opeds when youre somebody this is not about money, its about money. Some 2 million paid for john bolton to write this book, the room where it happened. Maxine waters democratic congresswomanic from californiar tweet from early in a week after the book came out when this understand that if right wing war hawk bolton turned against trump in his weekly conversation heard of trump soliciting president xi jinping to open when his reelection in 2020, that trump is worse than you ever thought, a deplorable undermining of our democracy and a traitor. More reaction from Hakeem Jeffries, one of the impeachment investigators appointed in the house. He was on abc this week and asked in hindsight whether they should have done more when it came Tojo John Bolton during the impeachment inquiry. This is part of that interview. Not at all. John bolton is a political opportunist and a profiteer. He had the opportunity to step forward and participate in the house impeachment inquiry and share any information that he had about wrongdoing by President Trump and other members of his administration, and he declined. He also couldve stepped forward in the midst of the city impeachment i trial, but he ran and hid. Thats unfortunate. At the end of the day, however, house impeachment managers proved with clear and convincing evidence that donald trump corruptly abuse his power by pressuring a foreign government, ukraine, to target joe biden, an american citizen, solely for political gain as part of his corrupt scheme to interview in the 2020 election. We establishel that. The senate committed malpractice in terms of acquitting donald trump, and now its in the hands of the American People. Host congressman Hakeem Jeffries of new york onw abcs this week yesterday morning. For his part President Trump hasnt tweeted about bolton sense that interview last night on abc news but has tweet quite a bit about john bolton in the past couple of days since the details of his book the room where it happened started to leak out in the press. Heres one of them from late last week. Boltons book which is getting terrible reviews is a compilation of liza made up stories all the didnt make me look bad. The president saying last week many other ridiculous statements here trivets to me were never made. Pure fiction, just try to get even for firing him like the sick puppy he is. Thats the president in one of that ten tweets about john bolton 1 last week and some of e republican reaction. This amio yesterday evening. If as john both supposed implies in his book, writes Thomas Massey of kentucky, he says rand paul convince President Trump not to make john bolton as secretary of state, then rand paul deserves a Nobel Peace Prize and to thank you from the president. That is from the republican cogs and from kentucky. One more from congressman doug college of georgia focusing in on that 2 million payment number saying apparently thats all it took for john bolton to sell off what little credibility he had left. Giving the reaction this morning in the first hour of the washingtonth journal. Phone lines split up by Political Parties. Sophia out of the bronx, republican. Good morning. You watch . Caller yes, i did. Good morning,f john. Thank you for letting me say something. First, i wanted to say you dont sound like pedro. You dont look like pedro. [inaudible] so joseph cspan because pedro broke one of the leading from one american news, and so, but anyway, i want to leave it that way and youve been handling it perfect. Back to bolton. I will not buy his book for 29. 95. He ruined the conservative party. Donald, President Trump is not a conservative or republican or democrat. I dont know what he is. He had his chance to do something aboutth it, not only impeachment, but bob mueller, which i 50 page. He couldve the only one saved just aav little bit was mt romney. Thank you for visiting to my opinion. Host this is a win out of detroit. Democrat, good morning. Caller can you hearca me . Host yes, man. Caller okay. Its good to see you, john. Host good to hear you. Go ahead. Caller i think that john bolton, he didnt bring his book, i mean, he didnt talk before congress during the impeachment because he already knew that no matter what his book said, that the senate was not going to confiscate and everything and it would still event the same result. They just were not going to do anything. Host do you think it makes more of a difference now this book just months on election day in this country with everything it has in it . Caller yeah i do. I think with everything going on with his book coming out it is more proof, and the people, we already know. We have seen, we have heard, we know what the president has done, you know, and we know that he is unfit for the office. I think that the best way to get trump out of there is to have this conversation that he needs to resign. So if there needs to be pressure on trump to resign because he is unfit. He has not held up his responsibility of being a president. He has divided the country. He has our allies, you know, he has torn down our relationships, and we see over and over again all the people that he said he is going to impact he would bring people, they said that he is not fit. Host before you go, do you think theres a lot of people out in america who are still waiting to be convinced on whether President Trump is fit or unfit for office . Whatever side they fall on come to think theres a lot of people left that this book will convince to the unfit category . Caller i think its not the book. But the book adds to the conversation. Its a lot of people, even trumps people, they know he is unfit, they know that but they just like you. They like the entertainment. They like that he is supposed to be wherever he is and that he disrupts the system. They know he is unfit. They know that they are hurting and everything, but the people who want to make a change, like the protesters out there. I mean, people need to call their congressman. They need to push this conversation. There needs to be signs out there with the protesters. Trump needs to resign. The people need to rise up and called her congressman, send letters and push for him to resign. This conversation needs to be out there because nothing else is going to get rid of them because the senate will not do it. Host went out of detroit. Jenna alis, trump 2020 Campaign SeniorLegal Advisor will be joining us for conversation and a conversation with you our peers as well so stick around for that at 90 yen. In about an hour half or so. About a half hour left in the segment of the washington journal to get your thoughts about the john bolton interview last night. Phone lines split up by Political Parties there calls on the line to text. Alan in washington, republican. You are next. Caller yeah, thank you. Well, its simple, theres no mystery why he didnt testify before congress. He wouldve been under oath, and when his lies come out and they have challenged him, he could have been charged with perjury. He is inclined to to jail turkeys going to take the book, and all you people who dont figure that out, thats the dumbest thing ive ever heard. Host a question for you. The move to try to block the release of this book claiming that there was classified information in here, and a judge saying that the book could go forward said that john bolton may well have released classified information and could be held responsible for it. What do you think the Justice Department was concerned about if you think it was all lies that john bolton has put in this book . Caller well, they have had months. He didnt want to be under oath. You can write a book and you never have