Something isnt to happen. Thats all true about this white house but none of that apparently applies when it comes to trump talking to russia. In that case, notification comes from moscow. The last time trump talked to putin, which well, at least as far as i know, was november 21st. The first notification there was of that in the english language that trump would be speaking to putin that day, first english language notification is when reuters translated a notice from a russian based news agency that reported trump and putin would be speaking that day and it was the first any of us in this country heard of it. Two weeks before that the Big Asia Trip where the people of United States of america learned the president would be meeting on the sidelines of the asian summit with vladamir putin, and we learned that from a kremlin staffer and american reporters took that information and asked and before that the Oval Office Meeting with President Trump and Russian Foreign minister and Russian
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leadership. and that leadership can only come from the president. let me ask you about that. chris wray when he was testifying said, look, the fbi is taking a number of measures to try to prevent interference from russia in the next election, as are other agencies of the u.s. government. but the testimony has always been that the president himself has not directed specific actions. why is that so critical? if individual agencies are acting on their own, why does it matter if the president has never held a cabinet level meeting to oversee a, kind of a overall strategy from all the agencies? well, exactly. as director ray testified, director of nsa testified, and today or yesterday, i guess, whenever the secretary of homeland security testified, and they re all apparently working things in their own lane.
putting their heads down, continuing to do their jobs and considering for the first time in your adult life, your life s work is under attack by the president? well, i definitely felt mike s pain. you know, this job is hard enough when there is a plan, when there is a policy. when there isn t one, it s near impossibility. the challenges are many. i think what you saw here in his testimony is a frustration he feels in terms of what he can do, what he can t do. the fact that some of it probably is having some good impact, but there are more things that can be done but there s got to be a whole government approach to this and that s not happening. philip rucker, i wrote this on the air when you wrote and i m going to read it again. trump has never convened a cabinet level meeting on russian interference and has resisted to hold moskow to account such as additional penalties imposed
i m going to read it again. trump has never convened a cabinet level meeting on russian interference and has resisted to hold moskow to account such as additional penalties imposed last august. there has been an unspoken understanding that the president would see raising the russia matters a personal affront. philip, in your view is it getting harder and harder to say nothing to see here? absolutely. this is why you saw admiral rogers at the capitol testifying putin has little price to pay here for the interference is very likely to do it again because the president of the united states, donald trump, is unwilling to engage in this topic and fully and forcefully acknowledge that russia did in fact interfere in our elections and unwilling to direct his administration to take actions. remember congress passed