administration has tried to put maximum pressure on iran by leaving the deal and increasing sanctions, trying to enforce those sanctions, working with others. but in fact the behavior in the region that we are all very concerned about has not improved, it s actually gotten worse. because the really hard hard liners of iran feel they ve won, that they ve proved that the united states was not to be trusted or respected. and they feel that they can now act with impunity in the middle east. so in fact the president s withdrawal and his actions have made us less safe, not more safe. john, to the point we led with tonight which is this late report today that there s been another secret meeting of donald trump sitting down with vladimir putin, no americans present, no one who could translate except the russian translator who works for vladimir putin, this comes after a day where the intelligence agencies were already exposed to trying to
complying with the deal. but one other point about iran. the president and his administration has tried to put maximum pressure on iran by leaving the deal and increasing sanctions, trying to enforce those sanctions, working with others. but in fact the behavior in the region that we are all very concerned about has not improved, it s actually gotten worse. because the really hard hard liners of iran feel they ve won, that they ve proved that the united states was not to be trusted or respected. and they feel that they can now act with impunity in the middle east. so in fact the president s withdrawal and his actions have made us less safe, not more safe. john, to the point we led with tonight which is this late report today that there s been another secret meeting of donald trump sitting down with vladimir putin, no americans present, no one who could translate except the russian translator who works for vladimir putin, this comes after a day where the intelligence agencies were alr
clinton campaign chair e-mails and leaking them. they are all g.r.u. agents. which is the russian version of the c.i.a. they will never come here for trial. so that is interesting and we have to ask questions about that. no americans, rod rosenstein, said are suspected of playing any role in the election crimes. he said no americans were involved. none. despite this, you go to fake news conspiracy tv msnbc and there is andrea mitchell thinking this proves a nexus between trump and russia. two years in. they are still believing their own lies. watch this example of fake news. it s a month later july 27 when the president said what he said about russia. if you are listening. they already were doing the fishing operations. clearly there is a nexus
developed the expertise in american politics to have micro targeted areas of wisconsin, michigan and elsewhere? is it your theory of the case that there was some connection between the campaign and the russian operations? hard for me to believe that the russians as good as they are, sophisticated as they are, were not able to get some americans to cooperate with them, either wittingly or unwittingly. i find it implausible. i find it implausible no americans helped the russians, wittingly or unwittingly. director brennan revealed he s not been asked to testify by special counsel robert mueller but he said he would be happy to do so if asked but again the top line new that is andrea mitchell of nbc news was able to get him to break tonight, cia director during the russian attack on the election says to him it is implausible that the russians were able to do what they did in our election last year without american help.
election. watch. do you think that the russians could have had developed the expertise in american politics to have microtargeted areas of wisconsin, michigan and elsewhere? is it your theory of the case that there was some connection between the campaign and the russian operations? hard for me to believe that the russians as good as they are, sophisticated as they are, were not able to get some americans to cooperate with them, either wittingly or unwittingly. i find it implausible. i find it implausible no americans helped the russians, wittingly or unwittingly. director brennan revealed he s not been asked to testify by special counsel robert mueller but he said he would be happy to do so if asked but again the top line new that is andrea mitchell of nbc news was able to get him to break tonight, cia director