and breaths in conspiracies and distorting the truth. you watch that and you realize he s attacking people whose served this country and the broader as well. to what end? well, i don t know what end. clapper s got a book out there now, he may trying to be discredit it. i have shared editors with mr. clapper, i don t know him for myself, but wonderful talks from the editors how fine he was. he wrote the book only because of of the way this presidency was run. the president is also still attacking james comey, watch this. i think james comey s got a lot of problems. we re not undercutting we re cleaning everything up. this was a terrible situation. what we re doing is we re cleaning everything up. it s so important, what i m doing is a service to this country. and i did a great service to
harris: the bar is different, though. so if you or are were tipped last summer, because this information was out pretty widely, other journalist knew about it. i was in wausau, wisconsin, and i heard about it. tickle your cut husband is sitting husbanding sitting member of congress, so i m sure you get that. my point is the onus falls on that intel agency to look at it differently than you are i would look at it even in the media. the vetting progress process that they go through, clapper s has to be different head i hear what you are saying, oh it was just kind of out there. julie, if we went based on what is out there and we didn t vet it in such a gentle way or we ve added it into gentle away, this is what you get. so my question for james clapper is, when did you find out a that it wasn t true, be that it had been leaked, and see that you may be needed to tell somebody before it hit the incoming president. julie: may i answer? first of all, he hasn t said if you look at this,
political juice to say, look, we ll try to get you something in return. maybe some protection for your minority status. maybe some kind of electoral change, some technical things they can get. they re going to have to get something, those separatists. russia clearly has the cloud to make a move. i want to throw up a graphic. it reflects what you were talking about in terms of those staist isistaist ittics. you ve got finland, 100% of its gas from russia. so there certainly is a level of affection tation in terms of levera leverage. can russia itself afford to get involved in an outright conflict in ukraine? well, that s no, i don t think so, because i think the economic stakes for russia are much too high. by the way, another statistic is hungary, it s 85%.
basically said he was trying to do to putin what senator widen had done to america s intelligence chief james clapper before all of the snowden documents came out. clapper was asked during a congressional hearing does the united states gather data on millions americans and clapper said no it the snowden documents proved that was not true. so snowden s question ran parallel to widen s. but putin s answer wasn t anything like clapper s. i ask you your reaction to this snowden question. how about the u.s. intelligence communities reaction? what do you know about that? i actually know a bit about it firsthand because i ve been getting e-mails from people would read the story we had in the post. they re very angry with snowden. they believe this was a case where he was he was a stooge or a patsy for putin and maybe even asked a question that the russian leader scripted himself. i think that s unlikely, but he did certainly sort of play into
let s talk about mr. clapper s views. what do you think on this debate? i feel like if edward snowden lost sean penn, he has to many can be hasn t lost me. any concerns? i don t know what s in his mind. i don t know what he s doing now. he might be in a hot tub with two russian strippers named i want to drink a lot. he s done some service, getting us to at least debate the issue and as far as stuff gone on the last week or so with the european allies being up sit, i can understand if they felt their personal cell phones were being tapped. but on the other hand, they should really climb a little bit. it s been 60, 70 years since america defended allies, especially in europe. we liberated europe twice in the