his communications have been within reach. and let me just ask your reaction, ken, to the declaration in the manafort case by mueller s prosecutors that they assess that kilimnik didn t just have historical ties to russian military intelligence, or the kind that you first reported back in 2016, that he used to tell people that that s where he developed his language skills, that that s how he sort of explained where he came from when he was first working in american circles in the 1990s. but they re saying they assess him to have russian intelligence ties to be tied to russian intelligence agency as recently as 2016. what s your reaction to that? i mean, that was quite revelatory, rachel, because we had done extensive reporting on konstantin kilimnik, including with stringers in kiev who knew him and who had interacted with him over the years. and it was always kind of a mystery. how much of this is braggadocio? it s sort of like the roger stone syndrome. you keep building yourself up
screw-you, i do me kind of ilk. so there is an attraction to what he associates with braggadocio and bravery and radical free thought. however, you re wearing a maga hat. we didn t do that, though. we still say f the police, my president is black. he tried to clarify. to make myself clear, of course i know slaves did not get shackled and put on a boat by free will. my point is for us to have stayed in that position even though the numbers were on our side means we were mentally enslaved. the reason i brought up the 400 years point is we can t mentally be in prison for another 400 years. we need free thought now. even the statement was an example of free thought. it was just an idea. so he s backtracking.
individuals. i m in favor of dueling as an alternative. i m being serious. i have been stuck in some stupid libel suit in the district odistrict of columbia x years. i would much rather have had pis tolls of dawn over that if they were in favor of sword fight i would be in favor of reintroduction of dueling. if one is going to go in for male braggadocio. trump is harder to do than most people think. it requires a lighter touch and there is something rather heavy-handed about all his i have been in more i have been in more locker rooms. i have had more i have been around more guys. i m around more ugly so it requires that kind of male, take it from an aforeign that kind of male requires a lighter
military conflict is through an interpretation about what your adversary s intent is or what set of facts has occurred. when you have a president like this who seems to show such blatant disregard for the facts, it makes it even more likely that there s going to be a miscalculation when you get into that muddy area that begins to occupy the beginning of military hostilities. that segue way to last night s missile test from the north koreans and you spend time thinking about and working with foreign relations on the committee, what is your takeaway from what happened last night? my takeaway is that the president s strategy has not worked and his strategy has been to throw a lot of braggadocio and rhetorical bluster at the north koreans without much of a true pathway to diplomatic talks. and if i m the north koreans and i m watching the president desperately try to pull out of the iranian nuclear agreement, it gives me absolutely no confidence that were i to start
that muddy area that begins to occupy the beginning of military hostilities. that segue way to last night s missile test from the north koreans and you spend time thinking about and working with foreign relations on the committee, what is your takeaway from what happened last night? my takeaway is that the president s strategy has not worked and his strategy has been to throw a lot of braggadocio and rhetorical bluster at the north koreans without much of a true pathway to diplomatic talks. and if i m the north koreans and i m watching the president desperately try to pull out of the iranian nuclear agreement, it gives me absolutely no confidence that were i to start talking to the americans or the chinese or a group of multi-national nations that any agreement i made would be held to, so i just don t think the president has a credible pathway to get to a deal with the north koreans and i think they may see that which is why they ve restarted these missile tests.