and it s not glib to say we ve got to keep reminding this president that it s not good enough to not only just get all americans out, but we have to get all americans out alive, and at this point, this is a very serious problem. it s going to get worse over the next few days before it gets better and we approach 8/31, the chaos will become even higher levels, there will be pandemonium, fear, and panic in the streets and there s only going to be so much that we can do and that our military personnel can do. again, this is an operation being run by the state department. it what we need to be doing right now is reasserting our dominance, reestablishing our dominance, and then reasserting our dominance. it not only troops in the area outside of the airfield, but also giving the weapons and the tools. there s no heavy machinery, but not a lot of weaponry, that s not the sound of aircraft overhead giving close air support. there s not the home of uavs and [indiscernible] that there should be
cia. became increasingly clear that this was an operation being run by the white house while they lied about it to the public and congress. the people involved were not from any u.s. government agency, cia included. the reagan administration lies. it just didn t work. there was too much of a trail of money and documentation that very quickly led back to the white house. the scandal dominated the news for the next month. then another seemingly unrelated revelation gained national attention. it is taking shape as one of the most controversial foreign policy. it was a bombshell. reagan s first response was to deny any connection to it. a charge has been made that
rallies, sowing discord. do you think this was a shock to him or do you think that someone had to walk in and take him through all of the different times that the u.s. intelligence community and u.s. law enforcement has tried to state just this? gosh, nicolle. if this was a shock to him, that would be shocking. you would hope, you would expect that folks have been telling him this type of thing in one way or another, whether orally or in writing since he became the president of the united states. i can t go into detail and i know you can t either about the things that are in a pdb, but this is precisely the type of operation being run by a adversary, that the president should be keenly informed about. exactly. ken dilanian, i want you to jump in as part of the conversation. i know you ve studied the indictment as closely as chuck has. and i want you to we have some time now. let s hone in on what some of
operation being run by a adversary, that the president should be keenly informed about. exactly. ken dilanian, i want you to jump in as part of the conversation. i know you ve studied the indictment as closely as chuck has. and i want you to we have some time now. let s hone in on what some of the most god-smacking elements of it. to me it s the next that there were not one, not two, but three trump campaign officials who were in some sort of contact with the 13 indicted russian nationals. yeah, that s certainly one of them, nicolle . i was struck by the elements of the operation we didn t know about. we knew about the social media manipulation. but we didn t realize, i don t think, that russian agents were actually infiltrating the united states, using false identities, talking to americans, gathering u.s. intelligence on the political system in furtherance of this covert operation.
welcome back. if you re a fan of homeland, last sunday you saw this. it was a fake news operation being run by the cia heavy in the program, played by the great f. murray abraham. it s fiction, right? well, this week in a life imitating art imitating life moment, a former fbi agent told the senate intelligence committee how the russians did exactly that during the campaign putting out fake news that was eagerly if unwittingly repeated by trump. clint watts says the russians are still at it. i can tell you right now today, gray outlets that are soviet pushing accounts tweet at president trump during high volumes when they know he s on line and they push conspiracy theories. well, clint watts is currently the robert a. fox fellow at the foreign policy research institute. thanks for having me. for folks that didn t see the hearing, briefly if you could, explain the active measures that the russians are using. what they want to do is use