what about that? i mean, do you get pressure because you ve supported president trump? a lot of questions there. so i think there s always an inside and an outside question. the outside question is where these companies are doing with china, are they censoring speech , and the twitter mcconnell thing you could say it s an innocent accident or is it an intentional act of political sabotage which of the two is it and i think one of the reasons the republicans are so concept skeptical of the excuses big tech has for these repeated accidents is that the inside story is not good because on the inside twitter is not a company where you have lots of people writing checks to senator mcconnell if you had a lot of campaign donations from senator mcconnell we might say well, you might say this is a certain innocent mistake and we won t complain about it too much. that s not what s actually going
interview with president trump, peter nicholas, also, supreme allied commander, the dean of fletcher school of law and tuft s university. retired army native james stavridis. gentleman, good morning. peter, let me start with you. first of all the comment on kim jong-un. did you read that as the president had spoken directly to kim jong-un or something he put out there and put up a smokescreen afterwards to create confusion by the comment? we were quite surprised by it. the united states does not have any relations with north korea. the president is saying not only does he have a relationship, but it s a good relationship. so it begs the question, how did that come about? is anybody conversing? the outside question, we followed up with him, didn t deny it, didn t confirm it. but there was, we did get a sense there is some sort of back channel kind of communication or
somebody who is the president s personal lawyer also working on some of this. what is interesting is the crossover. one question we have been trying to nail down with anybody is when the president, when exactly without a shadow of the doubt did the president know that michael flynn lied to the fbi. the white house refers our questions to outside question. and to the other part of this that i asked about which is the scramble that appears to be going on to figure out what is their legal strategy, how is it possible eight months later that there isn t a clear plan here? it s not as though no one thought it was possible that flynn was a target here. i think donald trump would be a tough client for any lawyer in any context before he was president and since. i think there are many difficult legal questions. the strategy that this team has
how much time if they ve done something wrong, how much time or legal peril they want to face and qulornt they share anything about him. if they show or point to some connect where he knew something, it all comes back to him. i get what he s doing. he wants to distract i think ari said he wants to create the narrative and get out in front of comey if he s going to say whatever he s going to say. i get it. this is how he s operated. the question is, does this work now as president of the united states, does this work now with the senate democrat and republican looking into him? i think the person to watch for senate is one person, it s richard burr. when he changes his mind, all bets are off in terms of how the senate and republicans are going to treat him. richard burr getting famous one show at a time. burr with two rs. how come no one likes me, jim? intel does! just think of everything intel s doing right now with artificial intelligence. and pretty soon ai is going to help exe
people weren t as concerned you ask marco rubio they attack you for that too. he basically did something nobody has ever done. he was defiant about it and show cased his apparent wealth in front of people with the airplane and tv show, this huge persona independent of all of this. hopefully he does release it. i don t have a lot of faith in stock in him releasing it going forward. he didn t answer that question. who knows what it s not about if he has any holdings in russia, it s whether or not russians have any and holdings in him. told the economist magazine that he might release his taxes after he leaves office. new posture is i might do it because i m proud of them because they show how rich i am but it would be a good time to do it after i leave. that s true. with michael flynn and whomever else has to go before the senate committee, they are going to have a decision to make