where does that leave our country? russia you should know is already interfaring in the 2020 election by among many other things, amplifying comments of republican lawmakers like kennedy pushing claims of ukrainian interference. why should this trouble all of us? i spoke to law enforcement officials, intelligence officials, welles lawmakers in both parties. i asked if the election is safe from russia and others today. all of them have said no. jim, thank you very much for all of that explanation and explaining how we got here. we will dive more into senator kennedy s comments and what he says he s basing them on coming up in the program. meanwhile, the president heads to london this morning for the nato summit. as some key allies give him the cold shoulder. we have a preview of what to expect next. your mouth any differently? listerine® completes the job by preventing plaque,
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yench yes, it really was. there were emotional scenes in both london and cambridge where there were commemorations for the two victims 25-year-old jack merit and 23-year-old saskia jones. it s not just the raw emotion at those vigils that strikes me. i think this is the most raw and sensitive and divisive atmosphere after a terror attack that i can remember. as you mentioned, it s because of a political row. jack merit s father appealed to politicians not to make political hay. but boris johnson the prime minister decided that it was absurd that convicted terrorists should be released early and decided to do a media blitz about that. that media blitz was covered by the newspapers and i ve got a
they ve done in syria have purchased a russian air defense system that has also roiled the alliance. and there is great anxiety about whether president trump will further roil the waters with comments he might make in london about defense spending, which has been an issue he has seized on throughout the years as president. the british were also on the ground in syria without any publicity. we are the air support. we are the supply line. once the u.s. withdrew, they couldn t stay. and the medical evacuation and the logistics. we are the backbone of that operation. to simply walk away from it and to walk away from our kurdish allies is a signal that will haunt u.s. foreign policy for decades. nato is present as an alliance in afghanistan so there s great concern about what the president might decide about
ukrainian trying to raise alarm bells about donald trump. that s not even remotely the same thing as a top down kremlin organized pew lynn led effort to fundamentally interfere in a u.s. election. what you re seeing more broadly is an effort by republican lawmakers to throw as much chum in the water as possible here and just bog this process down in counter measures and counter charges and complaints about one another and other countries here that republicans don t have to win these arguments. they have to make them confusing enough that people just tune them out. i think that s what you re seeing from republican defenders of the president in this stage of the inquiry. to jeff bennett at the white house, here s the president on his way to a summit complaining that the impeachment is muddying the waters and it shouldn t be taking place on wednesday, the same time as he s at a summit in london. he s tweeting about all of this himself in route to london