Call for your free publisher kit today . This is a special edition of c nrks nr cnn tonight. Im don lemon. The call is higher for barr to step down. Officials signing a statement calling on him to resign accusing him of damaging the d. O. J. s reputation. John bolton speaking publicly tonight saying he hopes the white house wont move to sup press his book and saying he knew what he was getting into working for trump. Federal prosecutors considering a new round of charges against Rudy Giuliani and lev parnas turned on giuliani. What does it mean for President Trumps personal attorney . The state of the race, democrats battling it out ahead of saturdays caucuses and poll numbers are rising but can Michael Bloomberg get past his stop and frisk . Well get answers straight ahead. More than 300 americans quarantined for two weeks aboard a cruise ship in japan over the coronavirus are back on u. S. Soil tonight. When we landed and got off the plane last night, we were just greeted by a line of professionals and specialists until the field and military personnel and health and Human Resources and cdc. Everyone was so warm and kind and welcoming and saying welcome home and they have signs up and it was just amazing. I had nothing but gratitude for the immense effort that was put into getting us all back home. 14 of those americans evacuated from the cruise ship have tested positive for coronavir coronavirus. We have a lot more on that story straight ahead. First, i want to get to the john bolton story speaking out for the First Time SincePresident Trumps impeachment trial. Joining me now is nick. Also, kerry who was counsel to the assistant attorney general for National Security and chief washington correspondent for po politico mr. Ryan lizza. John bolton was asked why he didnt speak out about the moments that were central to President Trumps impeachment and he said the threat of possible legal action by the executive branch. You buying that . No. What possible legal action could there be unless hes talking about his book and concerned they will continue to hold up this book . Other than that, i dont though what possible action they could take. He could have spoken out at any point. He could have told exactly what happened. If trump really had an executive privilege to assert, he could have tried that. But i dont see what john bolton would have said that would have in any way impugned executive privilege. What they were talking about is criminal activity. It was an extortion, bribery scream relating to ukraine using taxpayers money to try and get the ukrainian president to announce an investigation into joe biden and his son. That was illegal. Privileges are broken when you Start Talking about illegal activity. So i think that is a bogus excuse. Ryan bolton was also asked if he agreed with trump describing that that july 25th call that he described as perfect. Here is his response. He said youll love chapter 14. Its all about selling a book. It sounds like it. It under cuts the previous statement that his fear was legal action. First of all, so what if he was going to be the subject of some legal action when youre weighing the importance of the impeachment proceedings and telling the truth and something as serious as what he was in the middle of, a lot of Public Officials would risk a lawsuit or some legal action and then he follows that up with a frankly, a marketing tease about the book. It just is a reminder of how bizarre the impeachment process was when some of the key witnesses actually never told what they knew and were going to be finding out about it in dribs and drabs for god knows how long starting with this book. Kerry, i want to bring you in. Bolton said for all the focus on ukraine and impeachment trial, there are portions of the manuscript that deal with ukraine. I view that as sprinkles on an ice cream sunday in terms of the book. This issis an effort to write history. Sprinkles on an ice cream sunday. Will we learn about more core rum corruption here . I think its possible. It part of his book tour strategy for more people to buy his book when it is cleared for publication and comes out whenever that is. Look, i think we all know john bolton had an opportunity to do the right thing and it was back when the house of representatives was conducting it investigation. The House Intelligence Committee, which has the capacity to receive information close f classified was leading the hearings. I have a real hard time believing that had he wanted to communicate the Important Information that he knows that he couldnt have found a way to do it particularly with the House Intelligence Committee leading that investigation. He chose not to. He chose to threaten litigation and then of course, it was left to the senate which voted the way that it did. But this is obviously his effort to try to play both sides where he looks like its administration thats keeping him from doing the right thing and at the same time getting all the benefits of his public tour. Yeah. Nick, i want you saw in your shot i was reaching for this letter, right . Sure. You signed. Bolton is clearly out of trumps inner circle but one of the few people in is attorney general william barr. You signed on to this letter of resignation you wanted to resign calling for it. What brought you to the design decision to sign this. It wasnt just the roger stone situation. It wasnt the fact he actually caused four prosecutors to leave because he wound up trying to put in a lower recommendation to the court. But if you go right back to the Mueller Report, i mean, he was basically putting a spin on that that was absolutely a major falsehood trying to make it look as though trump was exonerated when in fact that Mueller Report is absolutely damming of trump. The fact that he is gone all over the world trying to investigate and undermine the two indictments that have been brought by Robert Mueller against 22 russian Intelligence Officers. One for breaking into the Democratic National committee, the other for using social media to suppress and micro target clinton voters and suppress the vote. Hes going out there with this crazy Conspiracy Theory it was ukraine that broke into the Democratic National committee. I mean, i never heard of an attorney general doing his own investigation like this. Youre very passionate about this. Im wondering, do you think these are alumni, right . Yes. Do you think youre speaking for many people inside of the department . Absolutely. Absolutely. I think people there have got to be. I mean, the moral has got to be extremely low with this attorney general. It not just these cases. Its flynn he tried to undermine. He tried to undermine the whistle blower complaint going to congress. He refused to open a criminal investigation into what trump did with ukraine. He is basically made himself out to be nothing more than a Political Tool for donald trump to be his roy so this speaking out about mr. President , youre making it hard for me to do my job. You think that the smoke and mirrors . Hard to do his job to undermine these various cases because trump is putting the spotlight on him. Yeah. Ryan, Lindsey Graham seems happy about barrs actions or with actions, this is what he said at fox news tonight. Theyre looking at flynn to see if he was really fairly treated. I hope they will see the plea. They will make sure roger stone is not persecuted but simply justice is delivered senator, the median time in jail for rape is 4. Two years. Seriously. Bill barr stepped down and stopped what i thought was an unjust senate enhancement and people want barr to resign, we know your agenda. Youre not trying to uphold the rule let me ask you this. You hate trump. Im sure with time in jail for rape has to do with any of this. Listen, that the a telling comment about what the goal is here. Well, of all the harsh sentences that have been handed out in america in the last few years, it is very interesting sean hannity and Lindsey Graham re decided that the rodger stone one has them woke on criminal justice reform. What is really kind of unusual about this is the whole point of the mueller investigation, which basically now is a slow moving reversal of the mueller investigation, right . These were mueller cases. Mueller was appointed as a special counsel because they wanted an independent actor to prosecute these cases away from political influence of the president. That entire process is being reversed. Trump has barr in there now reviewing what was supposed to be independent decisions and by the way, one of the hallmarks of the rodger stone case was his insi posting online pictures of her in cross hairs. What message does that send the Justice Deputy artment is interd in roger stone as a victim . Im not going to comment on whether his sentencing was too high or low but poll lit siziti these cases supposed to be taken out of the hands of political appointees is unbelievable. When you talk about the judge, kerry. The judge in the stone case, Amy Berman Jackson called a conpranco conference with the attorneys tomorrow. Will she ask prosecutors why they resign . She wont be speaking to the prosecutors who resign from the case because shes out of the case. Shell be speaking to whoever the new prosecutors who have been assigned to the case. Perhaps that will be the acting u. S. Attorney for the district of colombia and i would certainly expect she will ask what in the world is going on . And shes the judge in this case. She can request to hear information from whoever she thinks is relevant to her Decision Making and understanding of the process. So whether thats the acting u. S. Attorney himself, whether thats the attorney general or the Deputy Attorney general that she just wants to hear from either in written format or in a conversation, i think she is going to try to understand whats going on and whether or not the process is legitimate and credible because thats really what this is about. This is about the credibility of the Justice Department and the credibility of the attorney general in front of judiciary at this point. Nick, does this all come down to President Trump worrying that stone could turn . Absolutely. I mean, trump is not known as the great humanitarian. I mean, his tweet may have said that this was a terrible injustice and thats what hes trying to cure but the fact of the matter is, rodger stone is right in the middle of this entire russian investigation. He was supposedly fired by donald trump in june of 2016. Or 2015. I mean, it was all to put him undercover so he could do what he did interacting with those who had access to the stolen documents. Hes the only person in america that spoke to gussifer 2. 0 and to wikileaks which mueller identified as sitmply a cutout for the russian government. He was right in the middle of the use of these stolen documents during the election. I mean, he spoke to donald trump at least 20 times during that period of time. He spoke to rick gates on manaforts Deputy Campaign manager. He spoke to the Campaign Manager. Stone and manafort go back for years. From Connecticut Business partners together. They know each other really well and both right in the middle of this. Gates put manafort right in the middle of this whole business with kilimnik, the russian Intelligence Officer providing polling data to okay. The russians in st. Petersburg. I get it. A lot of connections and you could go on. I could. We only have so much time. Nick, thank you, ryan, as well. Thank you. The sdny is looking at charges against parnas and inching closer to giuliani himself. How worried should the president s personal attorney be right now . In august 1619, a ship appeared on this horizon, near point comfort, virginia. It carried more than 20 enslaved africans, who were sold to the colonists. No aspect of the country we know today has been untouched by the slavery that followed. America was not yet america, but this was the moment it began. [sfx typing] with td ameritradehe tools, and help from pros. Its almost like youre training me to become an even smarter, stronger investor. Exactly. rocky theme music fiftysix straight, come on thats it, left trade right trade. 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People familiar with the investigation tell cnn prosecutors in the Southern District of new york are considering whether to add additional charges against parnas and a Business Partner for misleading investors in a Company Called fraud guarantee. Thats the same Florida Based Company that paid giuliani half a million dollars, the same time as parnas and his associate igor were helping giuliani arrange meetings in ukraine to dig up dirt on President Trumps political rival former Vice President joe biden. E went fri went from being a dorner to becoming a close friend of Rudy Giulianis to eventually becoming his ally and asset on the ground in ukraine. Reporter the continued scrutiny of fraud raises questions whether giuliani played any role in the marketing. The former new york mayor never diskilszcussed investor pitches. Parnas said his arrest publicly turned on giuliani and in turn ghoiuliani railed against his credibility. He was someone i was close to, obviously i was misled by him. I still feel sorry for him. Im not going to respond to him for each and every one of the misrepresentations hes made because there are so many. Reporter in the meantime, federal prosecutors in manhattan have spent months investigatini his efforts to oust yovanovitch. I forced her out because shes corrupt. There is no question she was acting corruptly in that position and had to be removed. She should have been fired if the state department werent part of the deep state. Reporter giuliani has not been accused. Investigators are pressing for more information and yovanovitchs name appeared inquiring about giuliani and parnas a source tells cnn. Its unclear whether parnas and associates could additional charges but the trial is slated for october, which means we could get new information, new testimony about those in the final weeks of the 2020 campaign. Back to you, don. Sara, thank you very much. Joe biden facing tough questions in nevada. 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