Independent journalist and Public News founder Michael Shellenberger reacted Friday on “Jesse Watters Prime” to the FBI raid on former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s home and office.

JESSE WATTERS, HOST: This might have nothing to do with classified documents or about classified intelligence that Bolton printed in his book. Trump Justice insider, Mike Davis says “Democrats, RINOs and reporters who think this raid on John Bolton is about his book will be very embarrassed when the search warrant becomes public.” PRIMETIME is hearing Bolton was making a lot of money from overseas and may have been trafficking in Intelligence. That wouldn’t be putting America first. Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley, who we just heard from, says Bolton could be looking at up to 20 years in prison. So Bolton should take his own advice and take a big, beautiful, deep breath. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BOLTON: I think it’s important that everybody take a deep breath here. This is a very serious matter, and it would be better if we could let the legal process play out. (END VIDEO CLIP) WATTERS: Michael Shellenberger, founder of Public News, joins us now. How you doing, Mike? MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER, FOUNDER, “PUBLIC NEWS”: Good to be with you, Jesse. WATTERS: So what are you hearing about this raid? SHELLENBERGER: I was told this morning by a senior FBI official that this was definitely not just about the book, that it was about a kind of drip, drip, drip of leaks by Bolton, including after 2020 there was also a report by Jack Posobiec this morning, who said that the CIA Director, John Ratcliffe, had actually given FBI Director Kash Patel information that might have pertained to this raid. I think what’s important, I went back and re-read John Bolton’s book today, and I mean, you have to put this in some context, which is that we’re in the midst of an administration that is genuinely appearing to prosecute Russiagate. The long — the Russiagate hoax, I should say, the long, ongoing conspiracy to remove Trump from office. Bolton was directly involved in the 2019 impeachment, and afterwards, he said that he thought that the Impeachment Inquiry, the impeachment process by the Democrats, wasn’t broad enough that it needed to include Trump’s decisions that he said were made for political purposes, which is so far outlined, so far out of bounds of the Constitution. So you’ve got somebody here that was actively involved in trying to remove Trump from power and scheming in ways to remove Trump from power in 2019 and in 2020. WATTERS: Do you think this is a prelude to Brennan, Clapper, Comey, a lot of the other rap scallions who conspired to sabotage the presidency? SHELLENBERGER: I mean, look, I’ve been told, and I’m sure you’ve heard this too, is that the Trump administration is serious. The Department of Justice is serious. The FBI is serious about prosecuting the Russia collusion hoax. That is what it looks like. And when you kind of look at the whole thing, I mean, to some extent, they’re making it up as they go along. But I mean, we had e-mails, we had Intelligence released a couple of weeks ago that suggested that Adam Schiff, that a conversation with Adam Schiff where he said that they were looking for, you know, maybe not criminal prosecution, but possibly impeachment. That was way back in 2017, in to 2019 they get that first impeachment and you see Bolton again saying — he is being very creative in his book, describing all the ways in which he thought that Trump should have been charged with impeachment, or the impeachment process should have gone and criticizing the Democrats for making their scope too narrow. He wanted it to just be around a whole set of decisions that John Bolton happened to disagree with and make that the basis of impeaching the President. WATTERS: Well, I hope if they ever raid my house, I’m there and I’m not eight hours late and leave my wife there for eight hours. That’s not a good look, trust me. Mike Shellenberger, good to see you. SHELLENBERGER: It’ll be interesting to learn more about that. Good to see you, Jesse. WATTERS: Absolutely.

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