it s not just clapper that is saying the russians are trying to meddle in the elections, it s mike pompeo, dan coates, director of national security, mike rodgers. tucker: you re missing it!re i m pretending to believe it. they re republicans. tucker: i don t care about people s party i.d. there are many republicans i wouldn t trust for anything. that s up to you. tucker: let s pretend it s true. the main espionage threat is w from russia, if we really believe that, why don t we make sure only americans are determining the outcome of the election? i think we should make sure the voter integrity is as upheld as possible. tucker: democrats would freak out and call it racist? here is what you said about mr. clapper i think is not funny. your advertisers on fox news spend billions of dollars a year to move people s opinions about things, right? if they didn t think that was effective, they wouldn t spend it.he what clapper is saying is that the russians reached through
i m all-business when i, travel. even when i travel. for leisure. so i go national, where i can choose any available upgrade in the aisle - without starting any conversations- -or paying any upcharges. what can i say? control suits me. go national. go like a pro. tucker: for more than a year, the only espionage threat you ve heard about is russia, even though the worst thing anyone has pinned on vladimir putin so far is asp handful of dopey facebook ads that almost nobody saw. but just because the russian threat is grotesquely overblown doesn t mean that foreign spying isn t a problem for us. it definitely is a problem. chinese spying is the real problem. china is our main rival on the world stage. the chinese government spies on us relentlessly. on our companies, on our military, on our government.
i m all-business when i, travel. even when i travel. for leisure. so i go national, where i can choose any available upgrade in the aisle - without starting any conversations- -or paying any upcharges. what can i say? control suits me. go national. go like a pro. tucker: for more than a year the only espionage threat you ve heard about is russia even though the worst thing anyone has pinned on vladimir putin so far is a handful of dopey facebook ads that almost nobody saw but just because the russian threat is grotesquely overblown doesn t mean that foreign spying is in a problem for us. it definitely is a problem. chinese spying is the real problem. china is our main rival on the world stage. the chinese government spies on
would certainly benefit those trump properties. whether or not these two deals are linked is the question here. either zte, the chinese company that trump is supporting, has been accused of shady behavior. here s marco rubio. zte, in addition to posing a significant espionage threat, it s part of an overall history of china that deals with intellectual property. number two, they were sanctioned for north korea and tehran. and it doesn t sound like a good deal to me. joining me now cnn senior economic analyst stephen moore, a former economic adviser for the trump campaign and norm eisen, a former white house ethics czar under president obama. norm, you look at this and you say this is a clear violation of
telecommunications company that as you mentioned has two big problems. one, they violated restrictions imposed by u.s. law on trade with north korea, and with iran. and second, our intelligence agencies believe that there is an espionage threat from their products in the united states. so the united states imposed these very tough sanctions on u.s. products going to zte. the company responded by announcing that they were shutting down. and this of course happens as the u.s. and china are beginning to have a showdown over trade. and as the united states president is heading to see the north korean leader, kim jong-un, and try to get some sort of a nuclear deal. so all of these things are in conflict with one another. and the president has backed off. it makes it difficult for the united states then to go to european companies for example, and say you can t do business