broadly. this is the big question now is trump only doing this because he sees russian election interference as a threat to his own presidency because he sees it as something that delegitimizes his victory or something more sinister, nefarious where he seese any attention put on rauchia is attention put on the idea he may have collaborated. i ll tell you, none of those are good. he s chief executive of the united states. he s supposed to carry out the law. asked about the president s allegation of corruption at the top levels of the fbi, director wray defended the performance of his agency. well, senator, i would say that my experience now six months in with the fbi has validated all my prior experiences with the fbi, which is that it is the finest group of professionals and public servants i could hope to work for. there are 37,000 people in the fbi who do unbelievable things all around the world. and although you would never know it, from watching the news, we actually have more
coats, a stark warning from him, the director of national intelligence who today joined other officials to testify under oath before the senate intelligence committee on worldwide threats to the u.s. when it came to the subject of russian interference, their message was clear and unanimous. russia attacked our country s election in 2016 and they will attack us again. did you hear that? they attacked us in 2016 and will again. however, as fbi director christopher wray revealed under questioning also under oath, president trump has never directed his bureau or him to take any proactive steps to confront the future russian threat. has the president directed you and your agency to take specific actions to confront and blunt russian influence activities that are ongoing? we re taking a lot of specific efforts to blunt. directed by the president? not as specifically directed by the president. well, the president s inaction in the face of russian
this isn t a drama. this is a reality. when you walk into the white house, are you under protection, i m sorry the president s under protection from the get-go. all the people who get near him have to be safe. you don t want any people in there who are dangerous, people who are spies. and that s all protected by the secret service and the fbi. they make sure it the right people get near the president and the wrong people don t. here s a guy that was the wrong person and he got near the president for a year going on 13 months. and nobody stopped him. he was looking at the most vital papers that the president sees. he was seeing them and nobody stopped him. that s the thing to focus on, chris. this wasn t just a member of the cleaning crew. this wasn t an executive secretary. this was the staff secretary who is in charge of the paper flow in the oval office conveying the most sensitive information in the government, the top secret documents and in the room where top secret meet resolut
to believe him when they only hear his story. that s why normal white houses rely on the dispassionate fbi background investigation to determine what the facts are. professionalism. that s what he appears to have happened here. how is this going to sell? kelly, can he survive having done this? the president pushes on to the next disaster. the next memo that he discharges or whatever covers up. this just becomes part of a black eye on the white house, to be blunt about it. it will be a black eye. how will it look to women and people who say they covered up for this guy who punched one wife in the eye. you see that transpartnerly. how is that politically going to be dealt with? the outcome for the white house is either chaos or chaos at this stage. there s not a good outcome here. and by the way, i think that there s one person ken mentioned him briefly we really haven t
somebody as high up as rob porter. this is the kind of person the russians are looking for, someone they can squeeze. there s so much of that going on in the white house, we don t need this one. a white house official today told jonathan swan, the fbi timeline makes one thing clear, the kelly cover-up is unraveling before our eyes. as if one schedule, anthony scaramucci tweeted this. based on the fbi testimony, chief of staff john kelly almost certainly knew about credible allegations of domestic abuse against rob porter at least six months ago. then recently forced others to lie about that timeline. inexcusable. he must resign. meanwhile sarah sanders was asked what kelly knew and when. let s watch. is the white house still maintaining that john kelly really had no idea about these allegations of domestic abuse until this story broke. i can only give you the best information that i have, and that s my understanding. did you hear what she said?