election? well, according to this bulletin, the increasing political rhetoric, there s all sorts of basically the fbi is now defining what is and what isn t a conspiracy theory. and as the race heats up for 2020, they are looking out for potential conspiracy theory type things that will result in violence. basically it really expands the ability of the fbi to monitor what people are doing. so i know one of the organizations you write about in the piece is q qanon is one of the groups. i noticed that the that last night in cincinnati there were a number of people wearing q shirts there. some are doing it as sort of a joke but others are more believing in it. so walk me through a little bit as to what would the fbi do? what sort of threshold would the
this conspiracy theory type of mindset, that sees normal opposition discourse as something much more nefarious, i think it connects directly to what we saw with john brennan, that people leaving government speaking their mind are not welcome in this country, they re defined as an enemy of the governme government. adam, great to have you with us this evening, thank you for joining us. tell me a little bit as much as you can, how did you come about to learn about this memo and it s existence? well, you know, as often happens here in this town, it was a leak, a person that had a copy of the memo sent it to me and ronan and i spent several weeks trying to determine whether it was in any way connected to a very similar
keeping from him. rob porter s job is critical to the information flow in the white house. the reason john kelly found him so indispensable and the reason john kelly defended him time and time again up until he was forced, basically, to fire him is that rob porter kept information from getting to the president. when people would slip the president articles from conspiracy theory type web sites like info wars or got news and these articles that would rile up the president, it was rob porter s job to keep those away from him and he did by all accounts a pretty effective job. so the fact he s no longer there raises questions and if john kelly is no longer there, what s going to happen? how quickly does this disintegrate. i m skeptical this was kept from the president.
former presidents to not criticize their success ares but enough is enough. a lot of people are heartbroken, sad and that want to it s time to speak up and act up and have a position. ken, what did you think? certainly he sounded presidential. he was speaking in broad themes and he went on to also lament the lack of civility and the conspiracy theory type of reporting that goes on in discourse that goes on now and that s been rising over the years. i think you can read this more broadly than what president bush as a attack by president bush on president trump for sure. he was addressing more than that. i don t think he has any problem laying a land mine here or there for president trump. he s made that clear in the past as well. he was very indirect about it if that s what he was doing here today.