representatives of the russian government to discuss dirt on hillary and sanctions against wealthy russians. i didn t learn about that until i was firmly retired. but what i did see as dni is that the russians and the campaign seemed to employ strikingly parallel messaging in social media posts and public statements, effectively complementing each other to great effect with no attempt to hide it. that come buned effort appeared to go well beyond candidate trump s calling on a foreign power to find 30,000 missing e-mails belonging to his political opponent or his praise for wikileaks. on a routine basis, whenever the campaign published an allegation that hurt clinton, the russians would repeat, amplify and embellish that campaign. when the russians promulgated a conspiracy theory about her, trump would repeat it at campaign rallies and on twitter. whether secretly coordinated or not, whether there was actual collusion or not, this parallelism constituted a punitive team effort by the ru
is sort of understandable to people in those kinds of countries, autocratic countries, because he in personality is very similar to those autocratic leaders. he s very much like them than he is what the rest of the world sees as the typical american president. do you think that s fair to say? i think that s fair to say, joy. of course, the problem is he lives in a democratic society that doesn t quite mirror the societies those authoritarians live in. for me the texts to study are his tweets and what psychologists say about narcissistic personalities. and i see a parallelism there. in all of his tweets, he s eager to take credit for anything that appears to be successful, and when psychologists, and i m not one but i read what they write, when at the talk about the nine characteristics of a narcissistic personality, very high on that list is a belief that you are special, that you are unique, that you can do
has given so much money. they have to be ready for an answer to this. we see every day double standards. but an honest and dependable politician will stand up. the parallelism to the extent it exists between weinstein and ailes is power structures who protect people who are widely rumored to engage in incredibly creepy, ugly behavior. it is difficult to nail down because of things like paying people off and silencing. they have horrific abuses for a long time. it is a no-brainer. when you hear something of this magnitude where people are
general flynn and vice president pence. but i do know that this country is safer with general flynn as national security advisor then we would be without general flynn as national security advisor. broadly speaking for all americans say, do you then support the idea that there should be an investigation, at least clear up this issue for the sake of americans? no. i would not put this into some area of investigation anymore than i would do, you know, an investigation of kellyanne speaking about ivanka, you know, in a very light hearted fashion are these the same, do you think? do you think there s parallelism? i don t mean to say that, i m saying people jumping and using words like let s investigate this or that. these are internal matters between the president, his staff, i think it should stay right there, there s no need for any kind of investigation when it comes to the president and the staff that he relies on and the interworkings within the staff. understood.
i m embarrassing him with his military record because it s germane to our conversation. general, having been raised in a place we were told by presidents who insisted on it was a shining city on a hill, we ve never heard language this dark from a president, say nothing on super bowl sunday. what do you think is going on here? i have no idea. i think it s appalling. look, i m a career soldier, as you know, brian, and the son of a career soldier. my son is a career soldier. who s he talking about when he talks about killers? you know, is it the 60,000 killed and wounded protecting the country since 9/11? he was going to central command. general joe votell, special operations command, general tony thomas, these commands have been at war for the better part of darn near a generation. when you throw in the bosnia operation. so, you know, it was just unbelievable parallelism to suggest that trump and respected a man who has stood behind assad