i should clean this up. i ll get the dustpan. behind the golf clubs. get to know geico. and see how easy homeowners and renters insurance can be. we re talking about a concerted ef-effort by president trump and others that maybe george orwell would recognize. he s amping up for what all intents and purposes is a deception campaign, branding a confidential fbi source who reportedly contacted three figures in this campaign to assess any russian efforts regarding the election as a deep state spy. directed a to the campaign. the associated press reporting that he chose spy deliberately because it suggested something nefarious was going on. in fact, there s no evidence there was or that this asset was anything other than the kind of individual used all the time in counterintelligence investigations. late today in the situation room, outgoing senator jeff flake was asked what he was thought about these attacks by the president and tomorrow s meeting. well, i think that that is comple
mcconnell in particular. who was expressing some discontent. i mean the idea that this information would only be in the hands of devin nunes, to be presented to the american public in whatever way, only he was going to decide, was so clearly going to give a skewed view of what happened, that i think everybody in both parties quietly behind the scenes said uh-uh, we re not going to do it that way. carol, these two meetings were the big story of the day. but the extended damage done to the institutions being represented here, at these briefings, the fbi today, but the c.i.a. in the background, the national security agency, the constant damage being done to the institutions by the president s clearly intended deception campaign has got to be taking an enormous toll. this is the question is what is the long-term damage to these institutions, not just the fbi and the justice department. and the cia, but all sorts of institutions that the president has decided he s going to
casualties in war, lieutenant. there will always be death. lee understood that it wasn t just about hardware, that it wasn t just about numbers. it was about knowing who was up against him. and if he knew who was up against him, he could beat them. commence firing! ready! fire! [ gunshots ] lee knows that mcclellan won t attack without an overwhelming advantage. fire! so the wily rebel general launches a deception campaign, spreading out artillery and marching his soldiers in loops to make his army appear larger, completely fooling mcclellan s spies. well? how many are there?
casualties in war, lieutenant. there will always be death. lee understood that it wasn t just about hardware, that it wasn t just about numbers. it was about knowing who was up against him. and if he knew who was up against him, he could beat them. commence firing! ready! fire! [ gunshots ] lee knows that mcclellan won t attack without an overwhelming advantage. fire! so the wily rebel general launches a deception campaign, spreading out artillery and marching his soldiers in loops to make his army appear larger, completely fooling mcclellan s spies. well?
told were true were true. the government perpetrated a massive deception campaign on us. but as long as those who were wrong about the iraq war, as long as those who did it can count on us not being blunt about that, as long as we as a country avoid coming to terms with what happened then, not only do you mr. it was the right decision get to run for president, but you get to pick this guy to be your top foreign policy aide while you re rung. his top foreign policy aide was dan seymour. how do you fail up into that job? not only do you get to make that guy your national security expert, but the two foreign policy speeches at the republican national convention in 2012 get delivered by senator we will be greeted at liberators and by secretary of the smoking gun might come in the mushroom cloud. those are your two foreign policy experts? those are your two foreign policy speeches? ten years out there was a major effort under way right now to make the war in iraq seem like it was a reas