it again, didn t touch it. so, jeff mason, did you get any sense afterwards talking to your sources around the president, talking to people in the white house that this went badly? i mean, may not listen to people in the press typically but they do listen to fox news. they do listen to republican leaders. do they know how bad this was yesterday? i think so. i mean both jonathan and i were in the pool yesterday with the president, so we flew back on air force one. we did not have a whole lot of interaction with white house officials on that plane. the press is in a cabin towards the back. we saw two white house aides. neither of them when they came back were chatty. so i think that s a sign that upfront in the plane they were working on damage control. and i suspect that that s what we ll start seeing today and going forward the rest of the week as the white house figures out how to move on. i mean, this has the potential to be a charlottesville in terms
power that s making a political statement and that s resignation. we heard from dan coates before and after this summit rebutting the president s case. we ll see if anybody else follows. onthan and jeff asked clear direct questions of the president of the u.n. yesterday about russian meddling. let s listen some more how the president took it with his answer. it was a clean campaign. i beat hillary clinton easily and, frankly, we beat her and i m not even saying from the standpoint, we won that race, and it s a shame that there can be even a little bit of a cloud over it. people know that. people under it. but the main thing and we discussed this also, zero collusion. it has had a negative impact upon the relationship of the two largest nuclear powers in the world. we have 90% of nuclear power between the two countries. it s ridiculous. it s ridiculous what s going on with the probe.
a former kgb agent who is now a president of russia who kills journalists and political opponents that he disagrees with he doesn t give up compromising information simply for a positive press conference. he holds it for something much bigger. when he cashes it in, he ll get much more for it. katty kay, in great britain, of course, you have the prime minister, the prime minister s cabinet and the shadow cabinet. it seems a bit foreign to americans. may not understand what that looks like or at least it used to. now we know exactly what that looks like, because the president s own cabinet, the president s own foreign policy team, has turned into donald trump s shadow cabinet. he makes a statement. and then his own cabinet agency heads and his foreign policy team says just the opposite to
that trump has gone well beyond what was seen as acceptable. do you take it in any way he was made nervous by the mueller indictments, the specificity about the gru. that s a good question. the intel community did an excellent job not just tracing forensics but doing it in a manner that won t compromise collection methods. it sends a signal to putin. you think you re good at cyber we re better than you are. i wish that trump would say, you try to rattle our case again and we ll rattle your cages beyond what you even thought we could do. we need to make it clear to mr. putin he can do this and get away with it. that s why dan coates and others need to be on top of their game and speak truth to power and make sure trump doesn t get away with this. director, brennan thank you
other seemingly hyperbolic but now totally data-driven point i would make is that when john brennan made that statement yesterday about it meets the definition of high crimes and misdemeanors, with all respect, i would say actually what it, the definition it meets is the first word of the impeachment article in the constitution, which is, treason bribery at high crimes of misdemeanors. has the president of the united states now in a sufficient way shown that he s given aid and comfort to an enemy? and that s the question that the congress of the united states without looking at their polls, without getting their briefings about what their base thinks, they actually have to, at this point, live up to an oath that they took. yeah. they certainly do, and, willie, you know, if you look at what donald trump has said over the past week, it s not just that he has given vladimir putin