almost moot because of his connections to the oligarchs that we have heard about and really anybody that is against the magnitski act is pro-kremlin, pro-putin. lastly, i would say when dana has concerns about this guy, then there is probably something to be concerned about. whether he s a former intel officer or not is almost irrelevant. even house republicans joke about his connections with russian. that lobbyist denies any connection to russian intelligence as of course he told the washington post. you say there is no doubt in your mind that he is. why? oh, he is. i mean, the fact that he works out of moscow essentially, represents russian interests, was inviting to this meeting with donald trump jr., all these connections. let s don t forget that russia is a security state. and if you re dealing in high level politics in washington, you go back to moscow or dealing
say conflicts with that not negotiable support of israel. what have they done? former intel officer. you really listen to what s unsaid. look at what s not done he we get a lot of benefits working cooperatively with the israelis on antimissile systems, et cetera. that s cheap relatively speaking. what s expensive, what s risky, what s politically tough is the kind of support israel needs to survive. and what the israelis need is for the u.s. to finally establish red lines. for president obama to man up for just once and say if iran crosses this thrern hold we threshold we would act with israel or independently to stop nuclear program including using military force. again, for washington, for this administration, israel is a bother. he they just wish it would go
energy on both sides of the aisle over this thing. megyn: mike, you re a former intel officer. i talked about this earlier in the program. a lot of folks looking at intelligence community, the cia in particular, they are known for leaking. they did it a lot under president bush. a lot are asking whether they re doing it under this president, for whatever their motivations may be. do you see that as the most likely source? i think it is hard to tell who the sources are. an awful lot of these ones at new york times are most likely politically motivate the. we have an election obviously this year and the political decision was made, we re going to do these kind of leaks. the danger with this stuff as the general alluded to, the sanction leaks. but you have the said credit trust between sacred trust between people in the security services and wikileaks. one person making a decision they will share all this information and then you create all the problems we ve had with that all sorts
reporter: the other man, frederick deminguez, said the plan was to keep people out of islamic lands, so they wouldn t kill muslim and they had their own headline, and, three males walk into a tsa building in washington and gun down everybody, not creative but scary, heather. heather: but now it says foiled. bill: maike barrett is a former intel officer, and, good morning to you. good morning. bill: these are guys without a criminal record, homegrown terrorism and how difficult is it to stop something like this. we have to rely on layers of defense, we have an alert citizen and vigilant on the part of the american public and they notify the authorities and the fusion centers process the information and the fbi and jttf, joint terrorism task force takes them down and this is a case where the system works and we have to support these kinds of efforts by both the american
i said the word would instead of wouldn t. the sentence should have been, i don t see any reason why i wouldn t, or why it wouldn t be russians. president obama, along with the whole group on television, probably getting paid a lot of money by your networks, they knew about russia s attempt to interfere in the election in september, and they totally buried it. laura: bingo. that last point, of course, has gotten much hysterical coverage of the controversy these past two days. i ve never seen anything like i it. but can president trump successfully quell the rage from its critics? some on the right and the left. he is a russia expert, director of the wilson s center institut institute, former intel officer, along with doctor, a fox news former affairs analyst. great to have you on.