did not happen in this case and as a consequence, americans civil liberties may have been violated. i also have the serious concerns with using political documents to make law enforcement and counterintelligence decisions. amid all the political rancor, we must be able to work together to ensure the fisa system works as intended and americans rights are properly safeguarded. with me now, a.b. stoddard for real clear politics. a female, welcome. great. nick comfosore and kurt bardell, a columnist for usa today, huff post and nbc s think. paul ryan is saying that the underlying decisions, the underlying documents make this very clear that this is a political issue. mark warner says he s seen the underlying documents and it s very clear it s not a political
now? joining me is kurt bardell, a former spokesman for breitbart. thanks for joining us. it is a simple question. why is breitbart posting this video highlighting a split between speaker ryan and the president? why are they posting it now? i think what you re seeing is a continuation of a long campaign that started at breitbart before president trump was elected. an objective steve bannon made very clear that he perceived paul ryan to be the enemy. their objective was to take him down. around the same time this happened, breitbart published a story alleging paul ryan was work with hillary clinton to get her elected. you re seeing a continuation with that with the purpose of setting up paul ryan to be the fall guy for when this health care plan fails. paul ryan to be the fall guy for when this health care plan fails. that s what people were looking at after the cbo report came out. breitbart posted this maybe to
trump has continued to denounce racism of any kind. to think otherwise is a complete misinterpretation of the movement that united americans from all backgrounds, end quote. now joining us now is kurt bardell. he had a former client of breitbart, and the politics editor of the atlantic. and the host of make it plain , on sirius xm radio. your view of what we see in that video, this celebration of white nationalists of donald trump as someone from the alt-right in his white house. it occurs to me that they re going to play good cop/bad cop perhaps throughout his administration. he s going to make statements of slight or meek denunciation. but his followers are still going to do this.
reports since election day, and says trump should speak out. it s not as if he hasn t found the time to comment on other things. he sent 39 tweets, and an attack on hamilton cast. and the trump transition team issued a response to that video, saying, quote, president-elect trump has continued to denounce racism of any kind. to think otherwise is a complete misinterpretation of the movement that united americans from all backgrounds, end quote. now joining us now is kurt bardell. he had a former client of breitbart, and the politics editor of the atlantic. and the host of make it plain ,