'I can't imagine declining to testify': Top Obama official tears into John Bolton on stage

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Former national security advisers Susan Rice and John Bolton take part in a discussion at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee: AP
Former national security advisers Susan Rice and John Bolton take part in a discussion at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee: AP

Susan Rice, a former national security adviser, has criticised John Bolton to his face over his failure to testify to Congress over Donald Trump's impeachment.

Appearing on stage with him at an event on global leadership at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, she told him: "I can't imagine declining to testify. I would feel like I was violating the oath that I took to the Constitution – to defend the country against all enemies foreign and domestic."

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