animus towards the president and towards the trump organization. and i have to say there s some division within the legal team about the importance of this, but i have heard that the president finds it disconcerting. just as he finds it disconcerting that several members of mueller s team have given money to democratic candidates, and hillary clinton included. is this customary? is it customary? because we ve heard from some of our guests that, guess what, bill clinton did the same thing and tried to look into, you know, ken star s legal team and find out if they were conservative leaning. so is this just kind of doing due diligence? absolutely there s a feature of it that is absolutely due diligence and the norm. but as you have experienced in trump world there s a brashness and a direct frontal assault that s a little bit different about this. you know, there are teams of people talking about how bob mueller is engaged in a which hunt and is continuing to press on the president.
respect is important. russians have immense national pride. russia is afterall the largest country on the planet. 48 times larger than germany. it encompasses 11 time zones and straddles europe, asia and the middle east. it is also a rich country containing some of the largest deposits of raw materials from oil to natural gas. culturally it has thought of itself as the third rome, even as rome fell to the barbarians. putin understands russia. but he also understands the world. he s not foolish enough to make a frontal assault. he know s how to use power asymmetricically. he understands the internal divisions and discord and the gaping openness. he understands the fridgility of
respect is important. russians have immense national pride. russia is, after all, the largest country on the planet. 48 times larger than germany. it encompasses 11 time zones and straddles europe, asia and the middle east. it is also a rich country, containing some of the largest deposits of raw materials from oil and natural gas to nickel and aluminum. culturally, it has often thought of itself as the third rome, preserving christianity even as roman fell to the barbarians. putin understands russia. but he also understands the world. he s not foolish enough to make frontal assault on america or europe. he knows how to use power ace m asymmetrically with cyber tools and disinformation. he understands the vulnerabil y vulnerabilities of free societies, the internal division and discord and the gaping openness.
them. and he explicitly talked to me about the murders that you ve seen here, the young people that we ve lost. i know he is particularly alert to it. i believe congressman king, he called you recently and he has talked to me personally about it. i just wanted to share that point. we re seeing increase in crime, really surging crime in some of our areas like baltimore, chicago, memphis, milwaukee, st. louis and others. really a remarkable turn of events here after declining crime rates. gang violence has been in the headlines right here, long island, and we re going to see what we can learn today, i will and my team, to see if we can do a better job about confronting it. groups of murderers and rapists and traffickers and thugs are carrying out a frontal assault,
first, he d have to understand what that means and that might be a problem. he doesn t understand what it means. he doesn t get it. i m joy reed. thank you for watching t. tonight, someone wants to make a deal. the wall street journal reporting general mike flynn will talk in exchange for immunity. the reporter who broke the stoistory joins us at the top of the broadcast. working in reverse, the white house wants to show the intelligence committee some intelligence the way they reportedly did in private for chairman nunes who then privately briefed the president. and president trump picks a fight with republicans, going after the freedom caucus for not having his back on health care. how are they likely to react to a frontal assault? the 11th hour begins right now. well, good evening once again