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reality for the foreseeable future? i think this is the reality because the president has shown himself incapable of separating the national security threat to the u.s. from the questions about his own ledgitimacylegiti. it s more than just cognitive dissonance, it aamounts to what is undermining one of our greatest weapons in this struggle which is the opportunity to publicly shame and confront the russians and putin. the president far from doing that, from from in helsinki saying we know what you have been doing, we are aware of it, we will responsibility not only with sanctions but with our own measures, he goes out of his way to say well, he denied it and therefore i have no way to solve the truth of this so we give away, surrender one of our greatest weapon which is is the opportunity to call out what is being done and to confront the
sophisticated, using vp yns. facebook has detected it, the national security agency detected it, dan coats said they re meddling and will continue to meddle and we can count on them picking up the pace. you have to believe the intelligence community. the president is sounding deranged at these rallies. i don t know what he really believes but this is not a hoax, the russians are coming after us again and americans better pay attention and they are managing, by the way, to divide us and they will continue to unless there s a strong reaction from this administration. the five we heard from yesterday, in some ways you could make the case they are becoming more blunt and forthright in their assessments. we are hearing stronger language from secretary nielsen than we had a few weeks ago. don coats clear on where he stands. how much do you think that could
so many members of congress said it was unacceptable to not have anyone in the meeting and yet they have blinked at providing real oversight. but have been no consequences imposed for the behavior in congress and the president reads that as they will accept whatever he dishes out. it s fascinating because we did hear i wouldn t call it push back but john bolton trying to clarify and he said well meddling was the first thing the president brought up in that meeting. we don t know what that means. was this hey this happened. was it something forceful? molly, is there a chance that maybe there was something forceful that happened that maybe, just maybe, the president figured out the best way to deal with vladimir putin is not be forceful in public but he thinks he s playing him well behind the scenes and maybe we re reading this wrong? we have no indication that that s the case.
president of russia about these activities. there s also a question about another important institution and that is the democratic process here in the united states. so we ve hearing from dni coates coats that this will be a top security but molly is this destined to be undermined. as you said the disconnect isn t new but there are a couple things that are new. the volume of the warnings from numerous officials in the administration, clearly they have stopped waiting around for the president to show leadership on this issue and they want to send this message to the american people and to the russians that if the president isn t doing something about it, there are still american officials who are concerned and do plan to do something about it and the other thing i think is new is the level of the threat. these officials and officials in the congress and others and even local election officials are saying this is intensifying,