role. and to your point about taiwan, we predicted this. we predicted this and said that there will be a ripple effect from afghanistan in the dark adversaries particular china and the indo pacific would test american resolve in the face of a retreat and a surrender to the taliban. and that s exactly what happened in taiwan and we cannot afford to let that happen in unfortunately, i think the chinese are going to continue to be aggressive over the next three years when they see weak leadership in the white house predict. maria: i ve got to ask you about john durham, we have these handwritten notes and we do these classifieds from john brennan any clearly breeze president obama that the idea could tie trump to russia was an idea from a foreign policy advisory of hillary clinton and you declassified these notes and it is clear they show brennan telling obama that we have
some way the book that we ve produced after a year of work is somewhat of the antidote to the investigation and we have things in it mike can talk about this, too that the committee, we know, we ve learned in the last couple days has not bothered to investigate. yeah, there are details in our book that the house intelligence committee was completely unaware of, republicans, you know, said the investigation is over. they reached their conclusions. i ll give you a couple examples. george papadopoulos, the foreign policy advisor, the young kid who has pled guilty and is cooperating witness to with robert mueller. we talk about a critical march 31st, 2016 meeting with donald trump with the foreign policy advisory you said in the book it was at that meeting that papadopoulos first informed trump and then candidate s other foreign policy advisor he had contacts in britain who could arrange a summit between the gop candidate and putin. that s right. and trump s reaction was to g
october, and i was aware and other members of the campaign were aware of many of the rumors that were circulating about donald trump and meetings that, say, carter page, who was a foreign policy advisory in the campaign may have taken in europe. this was all swirling out there. we had multiple conversations about it. largely based on reporters calling us up saying have you heard this? we re trying to run this down. now connecting the dots, i suspect that it was fusion gps that was briefing those reporters which in turn was calling us. so we were familiar with this information. there are a multitude of democratic organizations on the outside, whether it s priorities usa which is an entity i happen to work for now or american bridge, any number of which, you know, if you very well may have thought it was helping and tipping off those reporters. but if christopher steele and fusion gps are briefing reporters, certainly they re giving memos to the lawyer who is paying them all this