Do you see any changes in that in terms of a different relationship between the president elect and the kremlin . No i dont. The russians recently deployed their loan carrier and conducting some ops off of that. Presence sustained a of their artillery and the deployment of a very advanced their deployment air defense system. , clearly theicates russians are there to stay. They want to maintain a presence and base in syria, their only base outside of the former soviet union, the Permanent Base they maintain. I expect their planning on expanding. Russia. Ust question on the 30,000 foot question, and that is one aspect of the putin doctrine has been to enhance his own stature at home by provoking confrontation provoking confrontation with the west, by trimming for his people at home the United States the russian equivalent to the great satan. With hishe square that comments or overtures to the president elect . Kremlin words, does the needed the american bogeyman to maintain popularity at
Do you see any changes in that in terms of a different relationship between the president elect and the kremlin . No i dont. The russians recently deployed their loan carrier and conducting some ops off of that. Presence sustained a of their artillery and the deployment of a very advanced their deployment air defense system. , clearly theicates russians are there to stay. They want to maintain a presence and base in syria, their only base outside of the former soviet union, the Permanent Base they maintain. I expect their planning on expanding. Russia. Ust question on the 30,000 foot question, and that is one aspect of the putin doctrine has been to enhance his own stature at home by provoking confrontation provoking confrontation with the west, by trimming for his people at home the United States the russian equivalent to the great satan. With hishe square that comments or overtures to the president elect . Kremlin words, does the needed the american bogeyman to maintain popularity at
Impact on our election. And how Rudy Giuliani had access to that information when he did. I think the comey letter was dispositive. Should we have had more fortified to be able to with stand the hit, thats part of the after action review evaluation. We could just see it in the numbers. We thought we were like at 20 and trying to go for more. Hillary was like this in those districts. She went like that in those districts. Im talking from the stand point of what the numbers i have seen in our races. In terms of hillarys race, i think the minute he came without he came out with that letter, that was totally wrong. Thats a twopart i think everybody has to be vetted in terms of giuliani. Hopefully theyll have a vetting. As you may know, yesterday, in our previous question on the floor, we were saying, dont vote for this, let us bring up a bill that says, no lobbyist should be on the transition team. No funds in this act following the legislation thats already there, but codifying that they
Last night, Vice President elect mike pence took a break from the president ial Transition Team to attend a performance of Broadway Musical hamilton. When that show was over, one of the cast members addressed the Vice President elect in from of the audience. A portion of those remarks were then posted on twitter. [cheers and applause] you know, we have a guest in the audience this evening. Vice president elect pence, i out, but i walking hope you will stay for a few more moments. There is no need for booing, no need for booing. [indiscernible] vince, wedentelect welcome you, and we truly thank you for joining us here at hamilton an american musical. We, sir, are the diverse america who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us [cheers and applause] ourefend us and uphold inalienable rights, but we truly hope that the show has inspired you to uphold our American Values and work on behalf of all of us. [cheers and applause] a wonderful american story told b