trump campaign might respond. how would that work exactly from the russian side? yeah, no, you re right. almost every current and former intelligence official i have talked to about this sees its the same way. they say this is right out of the russian playbook. using a family member who has a relationship with the russian business man or the pop single emin agalarov and his father who is an oligarch. so they re play on that familial connection and they offer a promise of some information and then you know the russian lawyer may or may not have been involved in that. her story is she came to talk about the sanctions and this russian adoption issue. see may have been a she may have been a dupe, but they send her in there to see whether i m just repeating the theory that i have heard from many current and former intelligence officials to see if the trump campaign would be amenable to this gesture. and donald trump jr., you know, not only was he amenable. he took the meeting, brought
maybe they wanted to talk about how we could have space cooperation, something like that. there are a lot of areas we can cooperate with the russians. that s what i m all ashlt. i think we should instead of talking about russia as in it s still the soviet union we should find ways we can use them defeat radical islamic terrorists. cooperation rather than hoz tillity i believe is best for america. i ve been called a soviet dupe for that. yes, you have. and i want to ask you about that before we go. ok. le. the washington post recently obtained a recording of kevin mccarthy and he was talking about you and trump and putin. he said there s two people i think he pays. roar backer and trump. he later tried to say he was joking. what do you even yeah. even say about you? let me ask you this. did you hear the tape? we have not heard the tape.
connections between trump associates and russia. they want them to ask questions about who is leaking information to the press, who in the obama administration may have been unmasking the identities of trump campaign officials. pushing that does not make this story go away in part because, as we mentioned earlier, trump himself continues to talk about this on twitter. when we were traveling abroad he talked about the leak of classified information to the russians that came from israel. even if the white house tries to institute a policy where they re not asking questions and trying to push the congressional questioning in a certain direction, as long as the president himself continues to weigh in on this, this is going to make this much more difficult for them and it s going to continue to stir controversy. mike barnicle, you hear devin nunes talk there and he s parroting what donald trump s says. he s being a dupe for donald trump who keeps going back to,
thus far. look at the split there. he was jovial, happy, beaming, through the entire russian meeting. we didn t have to pick a frame. the whole time he was smiling like a dupe for putin. and then merkel, our most important ally right now, most critical economic ally now, the center of europe right now, he won t even shake her hand. she has to whisper, do you want to shake hands? and he ignores her. joe, i ll reiterate the words you summed up. follow the money. the money is in the top half of that frame not the bottom half of that frame. by the way, vladimir putin smiles more in photos with european leaders than president trump did yesterday. he was happy in saudi arabia. you said he was probably happiest in russia. sawed a arabia trip where he was feeded the way he was, they projected his face on to the side of his hotel. he was embracing their human rights. he was very happy there.
you ve got carter page showing up on stage. that was someone who had been targeted by russian intelligence. paul manafort. didn t they call him the dupe, dumb guy, easy target. as soon as any of these connections are found out they try and distance themselves and play dumb to it. this person they did the same with manafort during this time period. i m sure director brennan had also seen flynn show up in rt. you ve got roger stone confirming tweets coming out with the releases of wikileaks right when the democratic national convention is happening. what was that? i m sorry, what was that? roger stone confirming, i ve had contacts with wikileaks throughout this. i know about these releases coming out. you re talking about four to five different connects all hitting in july and you ve seen now that brennan actually coacterussian fsb and said you need to knock it off. we re not going to put up with this. that was happening in july and august. this is well documented and out there