had been doing for a matter of months before that point of view. they believed in their core of core that the president of the united states was a foreign agent, and they were going to conduct investigations come hell or high water. this provided a perfect excuse for them to do so. chris: i want to go quickly to this and move on. okay. no, and i think what you said, chris, is right. this is a counterintelligence investigation, not a criminal investigation. and if they have, had real evidence that the president is a manchurian candidate, i think they would intervene right then. i mean, we can t have that go on, an unprecedented, whatever, collusion, cooperation arrangement with one of our most important strategic competitors, russia. so we ll learn soon from mueller what s going on here. i do want to agree with karl, agree with karl and deplore the leak of information like this. and i agree with your finding about this. [laughter] chris: okay, no, we need shouting. okay, i want to m
had been doing for a matter of months before that point of view. they believed in their core of core that the president of the united states was a foreign agent, and they were going to conduct investigations come hell or high water. this provided a perfect excuse for them to do so. chris: i want to go quickly to this and move on. okay. no, and i think what you said, chris, is right. this is a counterintelligence investigation, not a criminal investigation. and if they have, had real evidence that the president is a manchurian candidate, i think they would intervene right then. i mean, we can t have that go on, an unprecedented, whatever, collusion, cooperation arrangement with one of our most important strategic competitors, russia. so we ll learn soon from mueller what s going on here. i do want to agree with karl, agree with karl and deplore the leak of information like this. and i agree with your finding about this. [laughter] chris: okay, no, we need shouting. okay, i want to m
strzok, lisa page and all others had been doing for a matter of months before that point of view. they believed in their core of core that the president of the united states was a foreign agent, and they were going to conduct investigations come hell or high water. this provided a perfect excuse for them to do so. chris: i want to go quickly to this and move on. okay. no, and i think what you said, chris, is right. this is a counterintelligence investigation, not a criminal investigation. and if they have, had real evidence that the president is a manchurian candidate, i think they would intervene right then. i mean, we can t have that go on, an unprecedented, whatever, collusion, cooperation arrangement with one of our most important strategic competitors, russia. so we ll learn soon from mueller what s going on here. i do want to agree with karl, agree with karl and deplore the leak of information like this. and i agree with your finding about this. [laughter] chris: okay, no, we
it s a very, very small sliver of people. who aligned themselves, come hell or high water, to the president. we saw the opportunity was there with the senate bill. everyone agreed on. until he heard rush limbaugh and others. so that s the voice in his head. here s what i don t get. if those people are staying with him come hell or high water, why aren t they helping him here? if i m rush limbaugh and i care about the president they told him what to do. they said, you get the wall. you made the promise. you keep the promise, all right. and the wall is the promise that was made. and that s the bargain for exchange right there. that s the whole thing. is that helping? that s my point, they re not actually helping. they think they saved him. they think they saved him from
he s always been a reluctant participant in the effort in syria. that s been clear, and your various clips from the last several months show that. keir, the response from russia so far, what has that been? what s been the response from vladimir putin? vladimir putin holding his mammoth news conference that he holds once a year this morning, and he has advocated for the president s decision. in fact, he has always said that america s presence in syria was illegal because the russians support the assad government in syria and say anyone who s there shouldn t be there. he says it s right to pull out. you know, the thing about president putin and people like president putin is that the message they try and send around the world is you can t trust the americans, but you can rely on us to support you no matter what. you know, hell or high water. the problem with the kurds with what s happened with the kurds is it sends that message if