yeah. that he didn t know that he was receiving value potentially wrongly from a foreign actor, but clearly his father doesn t help that case, does he? and, chris, in legal terms he barely escaped being indicted for this. so, no, his father his father doesn t, you know, doesn t help there. okay. so there is all the campaign finance violations. look, if you re using computers, there s wire fraud questions. if you know what you re doing and interacting with a foreign government, you start getting into the realm of espionage and national security offenses and then computer hacking and other sort of computer offenses, too. so there are a lot of things that are implicated when you start talking about taking the aid of a foreign government in our federal election system. and the president s just opening the door to that. look, i d like to say it s shocking at this point. it s not shocking. be honest. it s not shocking. no, it s not. i don t know why anyone would pretend it is s
what happened in 2016 as opposition rensearch. it wasn t opposition research it was criminal activity. a number of people have been charged with computer hacking. to make any equivalency between what happened when russia was essentially hacking into the american election, both through social media and by stealing emails is completely different than what most of us would think about as traditional opposition research which is not criminal. and anne, take it bradley. we don t even have to go through episode by episode, broadly, the what i m getting is don t believe i don t want to talk about what s going on going forwards, i don t want to deal with the hypothetical even though it s not hypothetical because donald trump answered the question. we re talking about what donald trump said on tape. instead, i want to talk about almost trying to get us to not believe what the intelligence community said about what happened in the election in 2016. it feels like we re back at the beginning a
finance violations. look, if you re using computers, there s wire fraud questions. if you know what you re doing and interacting with a foreign government, you start getting into the realm of espionage and national security offenses and then computer hacking and other sort of computer offenses, too. so there are a lot of things that are implicated when you start talking about taking the aid of a foreign government in our federal election system. and the president s just opening the door to that. look, i d like to say it s shocking at this point. it s not shocking. be honest. it s not shocking. no, it s not. i don t know why anyone would pretend it is shocking. how many times does someone have to show you who they are and how they feel? let me ask you this. i need your help with this. george stephanopoulos says the fbi director says you re supposed to report it. he says he s wrong. now interesting here, though, elliot, there is no law that says you must report it, but with the cle
taped turn around. we will tell you when we know what he says. we imagine he will comment on what happened yesterday. why do we think that? because he s already writing about it extensively on twitter saying things that are not true. saying if robert mueller could have charged me he would have no. sorry. that s what robert mueller said. saying if riebld wanted to charge me or found anything he would have charged me, which is the opposite of that mueller said. and then not to harp on this, but the president did write russia disappeared because i had nothing to do with russia helping me to get elected, which, bianna, to my reading is the first time the president has said, whether he meant to or not, or admitted that russia helped get him elected. in not so many words vladimir putin said the same thing. he said i wanted president trump to win. he said i can t help it if some great russian patriots decided to do computer hacking and what have you. so in his own way vladimir putin s
track record in the british government of not releasing people to the u.s. who have been kajed just for computer hacking, which was the original conspiracy, he d been helping with tutsier hacking. so there a been questions if the u.k. about wr assanges and i wonder whether these new charges have been apolice department to hip in order to they ve reopened the case into sexual assault charges against july within sang and they would like to get to sweden to answer questions as well. there as a real are and donald trump talking about loving weather center as much as he