know these are now liers and couldn t trust anything in new york times anymore and think about crucial bits of information they withheld from russia investigation to the trump spy gate situation. i mean, how do we know they re not withholding information about everything they run against the republicans? that s right jesse it reminds me of a friend of mine who works in tech who said if there s ever a story in the new york times, that you actually know about personally if you know the people involved or the business involved whatever. it is bound to be wrong. and we re seeing that. day by day baa it is worse than wrong and you know the editor let s flip the real agenda. couple of month ago when he was speaking to an internal meeting. and he said look we tried with russia. we tried. to get trump with russia and now we re going to move on at the time it was racism and it shows this agenda just permeates
people were all on comey s side. but slowly, as the drama started to unfold and more information was getting out, people started to turn on comey. i don t think he has the support of some of the high-level people that he once did at the fbi. even the rank and file. i think people were very upset he did this the way he did it. in comey s mind, and this is comey, he has a history of doing this. he felt he couldn t trust anybody. he couldn t go to anyone in the administration about this, at the department of justice. jeff sessions was the attorney general who he didn t trust. he didn t trust rod rosenstein who was the deputy attorney general at the time. he couldn t raise these concerns to anyone internally. his ultimate goal was to get a special counsel appointed. so he does this, he gets this out there, he gets this information out into the public sphere. and then what does rod rosenstein do? immediately turns around and appoints a special counsel. so i think looking back, i think peopl
sam might be right, this could very well be a publicity stunt, a way for president trump to signal an openness to talking, but at the same time this is how president trump operates. he actually would prefer that he be the one being on the phone with his counterparts, having those conversations and frankly i wouldn t be surprised if the iranians felt like they couldn t trust back channel negotiations because a lot of times people behind the scenes in this administration cannot speak for the president and i think they are aware of that just given the fact that past that past experiences with this have proven that that s how they operate, but, you know, our reporting right now is showing that the president s frustration with bolton, you know, sam is right, he could just talk to john bolton, but in almost every case where he has been frustrated with his advisers, you know, thinking back to rex tillerson, it is expressed through his conversations with his friends, it s expressed on twitte
ways trying to have it both ways disputing the premises of the story or describing what the president might have done by saying he was simply trying to protect the confidentiality of his conversations because his administration at the time was dealing with so many leaks. at the same time, if these notes exist, does that make it more likely that congressional democrats can request them and have other people now subsequently seen these notes. i think there are a lot of questions to be asked to drill down further about what s going on here. the white house s position is not actually necessarily that the president didn t do this but rather that if he that when he did do it, the reason he did it is because he was concerned that simply he couldn t trust the people in his administration at the time. now, that was certainly true at the beginning. particularly around the time that he was at the g-20 and met for putin for the first time face to face. they were dealing with an
a great irony of john papaul ii s papacy is while he tried to boost papal authority, at his death, despite the millions at his funeral, papal authority was lower and respect for the papacy was lower than at any time in recent history. he was a rock star, but even people who respected the papacy knew they couldn t trust it anymore. it took his successors to finally say, we must deal with this. despite all he accomplished, john paul ii s successors are tasked with renewing the world s faith in a broken church.