how some agencies have been doing something. the fbi might have been doing something, you may have seen the cia, et cetera. but there s no unified effort here. what needs to happen in light of what we heard this week from five members of the intelligence community, what are concrete things the federal government could and should take? one of the things we have seen the trump administration do is demote and eliminate a number of cyber security positions that were senior at the white house, at senior agencies like the state department. they are reducing the priority of the threat at the very moment the director of national intelligence says the light is blinking red. this is like when the bush administration was raising bells about counter terrorism. we are seeing that same ignoring the problem here in the trump administration. they need to re-elevate the positions to focus how to solve the problems across various
long shot bet that if they had an in, if they could get donald trump through the nomination, get him through the convention, maybe pull off a long shot victory, that this would be the hail mary that would save the business. that this would be the golden ticket, if you were the campaign chairman for a long shot republican president and he won, you were set for life. all your bills would be paid, your debts would be paid off. you would be through. and of course paul manafort did get donald trump through the very long but his problems in ukraine, his financial irregularities caught up with him before he could get donald trump all the way to the finish line. now he finds himself in the position he is in today. barbara, you talk about the judge and there are peculiarities to this district, the rocket docket district. things move fast and they have in the course of the last week. we were waiting yesterday to see if rick gates, paul manafort s
to be looking at things that are good for all people. the political conversation was completely different. at the end of the decade, you have a dog fight within the george h.w. bush administration between chief of staff john sununu and the head of bush s epa william riley who is pushing very strongly for a global agreement. modeled after the montreal protocol for the ozone layer. s sununu wins that fight. and he thwarts the effort and we re sort of locked in ever since then. i think the story also as related to me by people involved raises other issues about our a built as individuals, as democracies and really in the global order of tackling vast problems, existential problems that face us, especially when the worst ramifications aren t