ashamed for it. and castro even saying who, of course, was also in the obama administration, that he should have spoken up and spoken out. i wonder what it how it helps him in south carolina and among other places where there are a good number of black voters that he is the defender right now of the obama legacy. well, it may help, joe, i think. it just seems to me that it s only going to take him so far. in some ways we have to understand that barack obama chose joe biden as his vice-presidential candidate precisely because coallay ahe cy any fears that he was some man churian candidate. thattio biden wasn t chosen to be the vice president for barack obama because in some ways some ewill be rate progressive agenda around race that he embraced. so i think it s important for
hon it russian market for years. so whether it s man churian candidate or this financial conflict of interest, the end result is the same, vladimir putin has leverage over donald trump and he s going to exact that in any way he can. you re in touch on a daily basis with your former colleagues. you re out there at this conference with the entire national intelligence community, some of them in exile admittedly. what is morale like hin tratd of intelligence? well, it s a good question. because i think we focus far too much on the standing senior intelligence officials. will director co, it es go or won t he some i have been in touch with my former colleagues in the intelligence community and there is a profound sense of demoralization. just as i was trying to make sense of monday s press
you only give immunity if you re going to get the big fish, and the big fish here is the president of the united states. welcome back to hardball. the big question about michael flynn and his request for immunity is whether his testimony can bring down the president of course. in his statement last week, flynn s attorney suggested his client might possess information that could be useful to investigators, saying general flynn certainly has a story to tell, and he very much wants to tell it should the circumstances permit. that s how he put it. well, does the story have to tell have to do with trump s dealings with russia? flynn s lawyer is certainly no friend of the president. according to buzzfeed, he once describes donald trump as a man churian candidate, questioned his ties to vladimir putin. flynn also had good reason to trade what he may have on trump to save himself from a potential prison term. if it s found he lied to the fbi, for example, that could
president, this just feeds the conspiracy theories that trump is the man churian candidate and there are people on the left that believe it. look at the atlantic, all about the leaks and the rest of it. this hurts the trump presidency. i think that s what putin intends to do, delegitimize it, weaken it, cause an investigation to go on for years and even dividing the republican party. i have never seen covert action like this so successful on the part of the soviet union, ever. with that in mind, who has the next move, jill? well, let s see. this is kind of like a chess game, isn t it, but i m not a good chess player. let me just point that out. nor am i. nor am i. but i think at this point, we have to we now know within a few weeks, president trump comes in. i want to see what incoming president trump says today. that would be very very
russia. but then russia invaded crimea in ukraine and u.s. emposed all of these sanctions on russia which killed exxon s dreams of expanding into russia. so, now you have tillerson and russia, they both want to work together on these oil fields. russia would love those sanctions lifted because the economy is in the tank, right? so in that sense should americans raise their eyebrows? you know all we got to do is add denzel and this is like a man churian candidate situation. that s how bad this is. i believe that the president-elect has the right to pretty much pick who he and maybe one day she wants to be in their administration. but in the wake of very clear evidence by the central intelligence agency and the frib that the russians had impact on this election were working in concert with president-elect trump it s a very bad idea for a national security to put someone who is not only inexperienced, but has incredibly close ties to the russian government as