and customer, the president. that s right. i mean, the disconnect here between the president of the united states and what is the reality on the ground is something we haven t seen in a long time. and these sort of attacks at the intelligence community make it really hard for the leaders of those agencies, you know, who represent large workforces around the world and they have to maintain credibility with that workforce. you know, donald trump has never led a large organization and had to have develop trust and credibility with people who work for him and he s not making their job any easier. you know, matt, you reminded us of one of the most, really, heinous tweets that this president has sent and he sends a lot of ugly things. it was comparing the intelligence community to nazis. yeah, look, one of the things about this attack. there it is. i m sorry. anyone in their car, the president tweeted this, intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to leak into
had a private meeting, there was no readout afterwards. we know about later that fall, he met in vietnam briefly with putin, and most famously in helsinki where the two met for two hours and to this day it s one thing that the media doesn t know, the voters don t know what was discussed. members of the president s own government do not know what was discussed for two hours. not 15 minutes. two hours. and that is something that people in the intelligence community, you know, people who have deep ties in washington, into the national the security divisions and community are deeply concerned about as to what possibly was discussed there. and we have seen time and time again that following one of these meetings, suddenly the president comes out with some sort of surprising remark and as pointed out there in that discussion in argentina, both leaders are really anxious for yet another meeting. but there is, you know, president who is basically curtailed most of his international travel
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his friends say he doesn t read. that s not a dis. if he said five and now it would turn out six interactions with vladimir putin, do you think putin s talking to him about his take on world events? well, yeah, and i think, you know, even prior to him running for president, there was things that he came up with, including the birther issue, that almost look like they were russian talking points, you know, somebody s been in his head whether it s through media or something worse but we saw, for example, when he talked about how dangerous monenegro was right after montenegro joined nato, you know he heard that from putin. different people speak to him and he sort of parrots what they say and frankly when it s people from russia and our adversaries, it s dangerous. he can t nail an appearance at hurricane stop. he can t get that right. but he nails the soviet spin on the afghan invasion. yeah, he seemed familiar with the russian talking points and we ve seen this time and time again
with their own workforce and it s better to quit, frankly, than to embarrass yourself publicly and lose your legacy. do you think gina haspel did herself any damage to people inside the intelligence community who spoke out about the president s, you know, seemingly bizarre but maybe not when we get to the end of the story, comments really taking up the line that the saudi royal court was putting out over the line from the cia. i mean, have there been flash points that inside the cia or the intelligence community have rankled the workforce you talk about? well, it s got to be hard because she, again, she represents that workforce and she has to be credible to them and so she has to be seen to be providing, you know, truth to power. that s what it s all about for the organization. doesn t mean they re not they re right all the time, but she can t be seen to be skewing intelligence, making intelligence political, and so she s in a tough position. if the president continues to push b