that that s what the russians do all the time to gather intelligence. you know, remember when we i was in the government when we arrested the illegals back in 2010. there was about a dozen of them, russians, living as americans. and everybody kind of laughed about it. they re like, oh, they didn t do anything, they didn t report. well, that was a giant investment by vladimir putin and the russian government to play and wait to see what might pay off in the future. and when i look at this constellation of actors, that s exactly the game plan i see. on the american side, i see naivety, i see incompetence. even on the trump tower, like, you know, i know a little bit about how business deals are done in moscow from my time working there. if i were advising somebody about how to do a big business deal in moscow, my first instinct would not be to call blindly mr. peskov who works for vladimir putin. his spokesperson. so i see a lot of people kind of experimenting and trying to cash
shortage of that? yes, and i want to pick up the spaghetti metaphor for just a minute to remind our viewers that that s what the russians do all the time to gather intelligence. you know, remember when we i was in the government when we arrested the illegals back in 2010. there was about a dozen of them, russians, living as americans. and everybody kind of laughed about it. they re like, oh, they didn t do anything, they didn t report. well, that was a giant investment by vladimir putin and the russian government to play and wait to see what might pay off in the future. and when i look at this constellation of actors, that s exactly the game plan i see. on the american side, i see naivety, i see incompetence. even on the trump tower, like, you know, i know a little bit about how business deals are done in moscow from my time working there. if i were advising somebody about how to do a big business deal in moscow, my first instinct would not be to call
anything, they didn t report. well, that was a giant investment by vladimir putin and the russian government to play and wait to see what might pay off in the future. and when i look at this constellation of actors, that s exactly the game plan i see. on the american side, i see naivete, i see incompetence. even on the trump tower, like you know, i know a little bit about how business deals are done in moscow from my time working there. if i were advising somebody about how to do a big business deal in moscow, my first instinct would not be to call blindly mr. peskov, who works for vladimir putin. his spokesperson. so i see a lot of people kind of experimenting and trying to cash in on the notoriety of mr. trump, and remember, almost all of them never expected trump to win. so they were trying to use a moment when they could to advance their own personal interests.
believe. as russia reached out to his campaign and the campaign accepted, didn t report and lied about the russian help and even as this was happening while he troofs w was trying to close a business deal with russia, he insists there is absolutely no collusion and nothing to prove otherwise. with us to weigh in on all of this now, cnn legal commentator and former white house attorney jim schultz and federal prosecutor remembnaldo. as of right now, mueller hasn t shown evidence of collusion on its face but cases are presented every day without a smoking gun. is that the evidence out there damming enough? well, there is certainly a lot of evidence. you ve done a very nice job laying all of that out, anna. there is more out there that you didn t layout. you had a few minutes to do it.
jury, he would be convicted in 30 minutes. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle pummeled the white house last week for not including haspel in a khashoggi briefing with secretary s pompeo and mattis. the cia believes saudi crowned prince mohammed bin salman gave the order to take khashoggi out. a finding president trump disputed. they did not come to a conclusion. they have feelings certain ways, but they didn t report. the president s assessment backed up by the defense secretary on saturday. we do not have a smoking gun that the crowned prince was involved. president trump is worried that isolating bin salman will drive saudi arabia into the arms of russia. this scene from four days ago at the g-20 seemed to prove the president s point. some of the president s republican colleagues believe bin salman is toxic. if the saudi government is going to be in the hands of this man, for a long time to come, i find it very