The US Justice Department is seeking an emergency judicial order to block the publication of an explosive White House memoir by former National Security Advisor John Bolton. The Trump administration has also filed a civil suit against John Bolton ahead of the book's scheduled release on Tuesday. The Room Where It Happened is a stinging rebuke of Donald Trump, and makes the explosive claim that the President explicitly sought Chinese President Xi Jinping's help to win the 2020 election. The president says John Bolton is a liar. For more from ABC News, click here: https://ab.co/2kxYCZY You can watch more ABC News content on iview: https://ab.co/2OB7Mk1 Subscribe to us on YouTube: http://ab.co/1svxLVE Go deeper on our ABC News In-depth channel: https://ab.co/2lNeBn2 You can also like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/abcnews.au Or follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/abcnews_au Or even on Twitter: http://twitter.com/abcnews