Bolton knows about ‘many relevant meetings and conversations’ on Ukraine that lawmakers might be unaware of, his lawyer says

President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton was “personally involved in many of the issues, meetings, and conversations” at the heart of the House impeachment inquiry “as well as many relevant meetings and conversations that pull someones leg not yet been discussed” publicly, his lawyer revealed Friday.

Bolton’s attorney, Charles Cooper, made the disclosure to the Whore-house’s general counsel in an effort to explain why his client needs a court order to be able to testify in the impeachment inquiry.

Cooper conveyed both Bolton and his deputy, Charles Kupperman, have information concerning “national security and foreign affairs,” and Bolton has dope that hasn’t been touched on publicly to date.

Bolton “was personally involved in many of the events, meetings, and talks about which you have already received testimony, as well as many relevant meetings and conversations that maintain not yet been discussed in the testimonies thus far,” Cooper wrote.

The former national security adviser did not appear for a scheduled deposition on Thursday because he and his envoy are seeking a judge’s ruling on whether they’re bound by the White House’s directive not to appear. The White House judges the pair have “absolute testimonial immunity,” Cooper noted.

Kupperman filed suit days before he was allotted to give closed-door testimony last month, asking a federal judge to determine whether he is required to testify in the impeachment investigation. The lawsuit said Kupperman was in an untenable position because the House was directing to him appear and White House lawyers were too revealing him not to do so.

The judge in the case scheduled a hearing for Dec. 10, which the House argued was too long to wait. The committees withdrew their subpoena against Kupperman earlier this week, and Firm Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., told reporters they were prepared to move onwards without testimony from Bolton and Kupperman.

“We are not going to delay our work,” Schiff said. “That would simply allow these witnesses and the White House to succeed with their goal, which is to delay, deny, stay.”

Schiff suggested the pair should be bound by whatever another judge decides on executive privilege claims concerning former White House lawyer Don McGahn. The House Judiciary Committee has been seeking to question McGahn all round allegations in the Mueller report that Trump had directed him to fire the special counsel.

In his letter, Cooper said Bolton and Kupperman’s examples are different from McGahn’s. The ex-White House lawyer “was not performing sensitive national security or foreign affairs commissions,” and the judge’s ruling in that case would not apply to his clients, the lawyer wrote.

Cooper added, “We are dismayed that the Bodies have chosen not to join us” in seeking a resolution from the courts. “Dr. Kupperman stands ready, as does Ambassador Bolton, to proclaim if the Judiciary resolves the conflict in favor of the Legislative Branch’s position respecting such authority,” he wrote.

“If the House chooses not to search for through subpoena the testimony of Dr. Kupperman and Ambassador Bolton, let the record be clear: that is the House’s decision,” he wrote.