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ABC’s Martha Raddatz will speak with John BoltonJohn BoltonThe Memo: Bolton and Trump gear up for book fight Bolton book to argue ‘Trump misconduct with other countries’ beyond Ukraine: report Lawyer says Bolton moving forward with book despite warning from White House MORE next week in his first interview since finishing a White House memoir in which the former national security adviser is expected to reveal aspects of President TrumpDonald John TrumpRon Perlman, Matt Gaetz get into back-and-forth on Twitter The NYT and the Cotton op-ed: Opinion or party line?  Robert Gates joins calls for Army bases named after Confederate leaders to be renamed MORE‘s dealings with Ukraine.

ABC News said the prime-time special will air on Sunday, just two days before Simon & Schuster releases “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir.”

“Bolton will provide a first-hand account of crucial moments including private meetings in the Oval Office, the Putin-Trump summit in Helsinki and the president’s historic meetings with North Korean leader Kim Jong UnKim Jong UnKim Jong Un’s sister threatens military action against Seoul over declining relations Two Koreas, two looming crises North Korea says it sees little reason to maintain ties to Trump MORE,” the network said in a statement. “For the first time publicly, Bolton will also present his account of the July 25, 2019 phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and discuss why he didn’t testify during the president’s impeachment trial.”

Bolton served as Trump’s national security adviser from April 2018 to September 2019.

The president has pushed back on Bolton’s reported allegations, arguing that his former aide is making them only “to sell a book.”

“I NEVER told John Bolton that the aid to Ukraine was tied to investigations into Democrats, including the Bidens. In fact, he never complained about this at the time of his very public termination. If John Bolton said this, it was only to sell a book,” he tweeted in late January.

Raddatz is chief global affairs correspondent for ABC News and co-anchor of “This Week with George StephanopoulosGeorge Robert StephanopoulosGOP senator says it’s time to stop naming military bases after Confederate generals Carson says arguing over Trump’s claim that he’s best president for African Americans since Lincoln ‘is not productive’ Pelosi: Presidents should not ‘fuel the flame’ MORE.” 

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