Put what on the president . This idea that you just said the the New York Times is reporting that the president approved either wrote or approved the that is not an outlandish suggesting. I take the the New York Times reporting on its face and why wouldnt a father thats president of the United States want to have a say in what his son was putting out that involves him and his presidency. Seems like a legitimate thing thats why i asked. 39yearold son whose running the Trump Corporation and the trump organization, so he doesnt need to be looked over the shoulder by his father. Heres what i think we need to really focus on and obviously i appreciate you having me on. I need to be clear about three things here. Number one, the president was not aware of the meeting, did not attend the meeting and was only made aware of the emails very recently by counsel and not seen the emails. In fact, you know, i didnt see the email until yesterday and im one of the lawyers. So there you have it. Okay.
why? because that is what everybody is asking us right now. thank you for the question, i ll let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figured that out. i have not ruled out anything at this point. we continue to assess every threat, potential threat unknown that approaches north america with the attempt to identify. tucker: it could be aliens, so here you have three unknown objects in three days. if these things are extraterrestrial, what we are seeing are an alien invasion. that means at some point they are probably going to demand to be taking to our leader and what we can say then? this is kamala harris, but now she runs our country because her boss is senile, that is pretty embarrassing. thankfully it doesn t look like that is going to happen. privately the u.s. government does not believe that these things came from another planet. whatever they are they were
upon which and i could say it again, i don t have to bore you with it again, it s the same statement and that is the basis upon which the special counsel was appointed was based on leaked information by the former director of the fbi based on conversations he had with the president of the united states. that s not completely accurate because we noel the doj was looking at it before he did that. that s the counterintelligence community is investigating and looking into the russia situation. that s different than the special counsel s job. i want to be clear on that. of course they re different jobs. even on the face of it, we ve been hearing nothing from the people around the president except we never met with any russians or think about meeting with the russians. time and time again that has proven to be not true. most recently with donald trump jr. who if nothing else showed a willingness to meet with somebody under exactly those circumstances. right, okay. so clearly there
russian operation was 1% successful, this by definition is probably one of the worst counterintelligence a failures this country ever experienced. those people in the counterintelligence community are demoralized. this is something when you think of an investigation, by starting by saying this is a failure, you then have the opportunity to find how to fix it. we ve heard 2018, 2020, the russians will come back, but frankly, they never left. they re still here. until we fix that exploit they ve used, the 2016 election, those 17 intelligence agencies assessed was something they were trying to do, that exploit remains open. it is shocking. so morale is low. the president wants to go to the fbi, that s wonderful. but what the counterintelligence folks need is leadership. they need funding. they need an acknowledgment that this is important work. jack, i wonder if you feel the same way or what you re hearing is the same about morale at the f bi right now. pete williams said it was somethi
a judge says no go to monitoring trump tower. they go back in october. they get a fisa granted. wiretap going on and moniring of computers they believe tied to russian accounts. by all accounts they don t come up with anything in the investigation. the investigation continues. we don t know it. on november 11, 2016, days after the election, two separate sources with links to counterintelligence community have confirmed heat street that the sought and granted a fisa warrant giving intelligence permission to surveil those tied to trump. first request which say were denied in june but the second was drawn more narrowly and granted in october when evidence was presented of a server possibly related to the trump campaign and alleged links to two banks. svb bank and russia s alpha bank. a fisa was granted to look at documents relating to a u.s.