oligarchs, tell us more about oleg deripaska s relationship, which i think will be one of the central threads to all of this in understanding donald s relationship. by the way, i ve been saying long before andrew mccabe that the kindest thing you can say about donald trump is that he has divided loyalties and i believe that wittingly or not he is in fact a russian asset. interesting. okay. steve, why do you think this photograph? we ll put it up. why is it drawing interest frost senate intelligence committee? well, there was a lot of racy stuff going on in moscow in the 0 90s. that s pretty tame but a lot of different standards. what those are interested in, those investigating donald trump, whether the russians, specifically the fsb, was able to obtain anything along the lines of kompromat, compromising information on donald trump. it would could be anything from shady business dealings that
information on donald trump. talk about it. it seems that the president defers to trump almost pro actively, not that the prussian preside russian president is issuing orders but that he s going out of his way to involve any friction with the russian president i think because he is anticipating that the russians could have a lot. my personal feeling, it s always just my personal view here, this is primarily about his financial dealings that are deeply entangled or seem to be deeply entangled with the russians for a long time and that he fears the exposure of that information. at the very least that s how he s acting. and i found interesting your lien first the existence of the counterintelligence investigation is not scandal, indeed it would be a scandal if we found out today the fbi had not launched an investigation. explain that. it s interesting.
it is a talk radio shutdown, mika. what we are seeing is donald trump s approval ratings plummet. we re seeing the percentage of americans who actually support talk radio solutions. it ain t the 40s, that s for sure. donald trump listened to a couple of voices mocking him, ridiculing him and his numbers have plummeted even in the rasmussen poll, which is by far the friendliest poll that he has. and, mika, it only going to get worse because we re getting reports of tsa agents not showing up at work and some are having to look for other jobs so they can put food on their family s tables. some tsa lines should down yesterday, a fear that s going to get worse in the coming days
and weeks. president trump goes after his former fixer michael cohen and gets a warning from top democrats about he was trying to intimidate him. it s incredible. and a look at the top 50 moments that have defined the president thus far. goldman, a consummate showman. what does he put his number 50 to draw people in, he s like a carnival donald trump puts his hand on the orb. that s number 50. ew. see, you want to know what the other 49 are now because goldberg is such a showman. goldberg joins us next on morning joe. ext on morning joe.
the president makes policy by tweet after seeing something on television. the security apparatus are doing one thing and the president is doing another. if you re an ally, you don t trusts. adversaries look at us and say we don t know what the hell they re going to do because the president is totally unpredictable. the intelligence movement is trying to analyze our moves but they can t understand them because we can t understand them. for a long time we just looked not serious because we elected someone without i would take it a step further and say we look weak and this is the moment that anyone with ill will has to act and has been further than they are been