'You've really insulted me now by calling me naive,' said the U.S. President's former National Security Advisor in response.

The decision from U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth is a victory for Bolton in a court case that involved core First Amendment and national security concerns

Pompeo and his deputy Stephen Biegun held closed-door talks with the Chinese Communist Party's top diplomat, Yang Jiechi, at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu.

At a summit in Japan in 2019, with only interpreters present, Xi gave Trump an explanation for the Chinese camps for Uighurs, who are ethnically and culturally distinct from the country's majority Han population.

The accusations are part of a book that the U.S. government on Tuesday sued to block Bolton from publishing, arguing it contained classified information and would compromise national security.

The complaint is the latest salvo in a contentious relationship between Trump and the hawkish Bolton, who was abruptly forced from the White House in January after repeated disagreements on national security matters.

The cold open, titled "The trial you wish had happened," parodied a trial where witness testimony and new evidence were not voted down by the Senate.

Republicans who control the Senate said there was a chance the trial could end on Friday with Trump's acquittal, leaving him in office and rendering moot the articles of impeachment.

The question-and-answer session, expected to last two days, will allow the lawyers on both sides to make their final points before two major votes.

The White House action could delay the book's publication if Bolton, who resigned last September -- Trump says he was fired -- is forced to revise his draft.