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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keane Jailey.

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Speaker 1: We bring you insight from the best in economics, finance, investment,

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg dot Com, and of course on the Bloomberg. We

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Speaker 1: are thrilled to bring back John Bolton. He appeared with

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Speaker 1: It's just a few weeks ago with his wonderful book

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Speaker 1: The Room Where It Happened. It is a controversial book.

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Speaker 1: I guess you know. I sold twelve copies, Abassador Bolton,

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Speaker 1: but I think you did out of the box seven

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Speaker 1: eighty thousand copies of your book. Did that statistics surprise you? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I thank you very much. I was surprised at it.

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Speaker 1: But but I think you know, this is a year

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Speaker 1: when trumps a lot is needs book sold even more.

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Speaker 1: Bob Woodward has a book coming out in September, and

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Speaker 1: there have been plenty war besides, so there's there's obviously

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Speaker 1: a big demand. But it was an enormous number. I

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Speaker 1: was very very happy with it, that's for sure. In

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Speaker 1: your book, I want to get to Belarus in a moment,

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Speaker 1: which is the topic of the hand. But there is

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Speaker 1: and the reason you came on with us today the

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Speaker 1: legacy of Brent Scolcroft. I had a chance to interview

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Speaker 1: him a few times. What a gentleman, what grace your

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Speaker 1: study of that great moment where Baker and Skocroft assisted

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Speaker 1: President Bush and getting to the end of the Cold War.

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Speaker 1: What did the late General Skulcroft accomplished? Well, he was

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Speaker 1: an amazing figure. And I knew him during the Bush

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Speaker 1: forty one administration. I didn't didn't know him during the

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Speaker 1: Nixon and uh and Ford administrations. But but he was

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Speaker 1: really a dominant figure in policy, uh you know, beginning

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Speaker 1: with Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in and liberation of Kuwait,

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Speaker 1: the breakup of Yugoslavia, the breakup of the Soviet Union,

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Speaker 1: the collapse of the Warsaw Pack, the end of the

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Speaker 1: Cold War. I mean, it was it was busy back

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Speaker 1: in those days. And uh, you know, he was a

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Speaker 1: very level headed guy. And I think obviously somebody that

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Speaker 1: George H. W. Bush knew very well, which is why

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Speaker 1: he made him National Security Advisor. Are you confident that

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Speaker 1: either party can get back to the grace of Brent

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Speaker 1: Scocroft after a given length of a Trump era. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think it's gets harder and harder to do, which

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Speaker 1: is one reason why, you know, for the first time

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Speaker 1: in my adult political life, I'm not going to vote

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Speaker 1: for the Republican nominee for president. I think we can

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Speaker 1: correct what's happened after one Trump term. I'm very worried

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Speaker 1: that two it might might not be possible to correct.

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Speaker 1: He's not the only cause of the lack of civility,

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Speaker 1: although he's made almost every aspect of it wars and uh.

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Speaker 1: I just don't even know how how Brent Scocroft would

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Speaker 1: react to the way it is today. Does Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: need to do to make it a one term Trump Well,

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Speaker 1: I think he. You know, I'm not going to vote

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Speaker 1: have discussed before, but I think I think if he

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Speaker 1: uh in the remaining days of the campaign project projects

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Speaker 1: even handedness, steadiness, UH, courtesy, a sense of humor, a

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Speaker 1: lack of indictedness, you know, being a normal guy, would

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Speaker 1: would go a long way. I really do think people

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Speaker 1: crave that, and I believe that even if many Republicans

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Speaker 1: with whom I've spoken who will vote for Trump because

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Speaker 1: they fear the left wing of the Democratic Party. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's they're they're not happy about that either. And I

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Speaker 1: think many of those people might yet vote for Biden

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Speaker 1: if he if he simply says, you're my ideas, but

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna pursue them in in what we

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Speaker 1: used to think of as a as a more civil fashion. So, ambassador,

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Speaker 1: give us just your sense of kind of where the

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Speaker 1: whole feeling of internationalism is. It served the United States

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Speaker 1: whether it's NATO or the Transpacific Partnership or other just

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Speaker 1: partnerships around the world. What's your sense of where internationalism

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Speaker 1: even within the Republican Party. And one of the reasons

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Speaker 1: I'm confident the damage he's done can be corrected is

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Speaker 1: but it also means it's it's easier to to police

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Speaker 1: bafter there's just one idiosyncratic response after another. I would say,

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Speaker 1: in fact that even under Obama there there was a

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Speaker 1: fair amount of isolationism. I think Obama was was overfocused

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Speaker 1: got to pursue its interest. I think the right way

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Speaker 1: in a Reaganesque kind of way of peace through strength.

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Speaker 1: Where do you think the biggest security issue is for

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Speaker 1: I think existentially China is the main threat we face

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Speaker 1: throughout the twenty first century. I think Russia is also

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Speaker 1: a strategic problem because of its nuclear capabilities. I think

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Speaker 1: biological weapons, UH and international terrorism. These are problems we've

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Speaker 1: had now for twenty years. They've changed their manifestations but

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Speaker 1: they remain threats to the United States, and I think

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Speaker 1: the people ought to understand that as they as they

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Speaker 1: look at this presidential race and the race is for Senate.

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Speaker 1: Now is just your US worldwide? John Bolton with us

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Speaker 1: the room where it happened to White House Memoir, his book. Uh.

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Speaker 1: He joined us a few weeks ago, where thrilled he

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Speaker 1: could come back and visit in remembrance of Brent Skullcroft.

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Speaker 1: The script changes, Ambassador, and it changes to Belarus. You

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Speaker 1: did what you do, which is you showed the flag,

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Speaker 1: you attended. It makes that horrific Holocaust Memora one of

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Speaker 1: met with the leadership of Belarus. Folks. This is to

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Speaker 1: get the map out. You go to Berlin, you go

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Speaker 1: road to Moscow. Ambassador Bolton, how important is that piece

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Speaker 1: extremely important. I went to Belarus. I was the highest

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Speaker 1: I did it not because I loved Lukashenko, the president

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Speaker 1: see Belarus reabsorbed by Russia into a into a latter

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Speaker 1: how important Belarus is, the Poland in Ukraine. And I

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Speaker 1: What would you advise Secretary POMPEII or even the President

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Speaker 1: to stay out of Belarus is very very important. Ambassador.

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Speaker 1: of which is the continuing concern about Russian interference in

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Speaker 1: Trump accepted them easily. He accepted them, kind of complaining

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Speaker 1: would be radically different than Secretary of State Pompeille. What

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Speaker 1: is gonna have some hard choices to make. Ambassadors, Thank

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Speaker 1: it happened, John Bolton, thank you so much. Right now,

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Speaker 1: we turned to the markets and there was some really

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Speaker 1: good research. You know, so Michael Schoel, he's a market

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Speaker 1: do you just extrapolate out that this nation at some

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Speaker 1: many ways, we probably might already have more, because it's

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Speaker 1: difficult to measure excess deaths. The deaths that we have

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Speaker 1: the meantime, good Morning team. Answer. In the meantime, we

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Speaker 1: how long the protection lasts. That will have to continue

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Speaker 1: for how long. And frankly, I mean the rollout strategy

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Speaker 1: be hopeful. What should the rollout strategy be? Should it

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Speaker 1: to stop the transmission to kind of cut that path. Yes,

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Speaker 1: so you will need to identify the highest risk populations

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Speaker 1: to produce the number of doses of the vaccine that

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Speaker 1: I are likely not going to be vaccinated until the spring,

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Speaker 1: perhap summer, but we're hoping that the vaccine will be

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Speaker 1: thank you so much, greatly appreciate it. With Duke Martinous

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Speaker 1: center there on health policy this morning. Thanks for listening

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