reporting, as others have, on the owi the oligarch scene in ukraine and it s a corrupt country. but the idea that ukraine intervened in the 2016 election specifically is not something that senator kennedy can point to the financial times as supporting. and i m not i m not aware of any credible reporting on this subject. i think fiona hill was absolutely right when she said this is a conspiracy theory, an alternative reality that was cooked up in the kremlin and from farm to fork is now coming out of senator kennedy s mouth. wow. how striking is it for you, ed luce, to watch a united states senator actually parrot putin s talking points and doing exactly what the intel community warned him and warned other senators against doing? what does that say about where
not this guy. the president has shown time and again how susceptible he is to bad actors and bad acts. payments to the women. paying off somebody to fix polls. he would meet with vladimir putin. be secretive about it and parrot putin s talking points. that shows a susceptibility. you re up to no good and they re okay with it. it means to me that it s pretty hard to imagine that the president was just totally in the dark about what was going on around him. his son said once of his father, my father is a very hands on manager. he knows. everybody says that. he knows these things. that then has to be measured against the defies credit. he didn t know about the trump tower meeting. or writing of the false statement by don jr. after the meeting.
alliances, to satiate his own personal insecurities and ego. julia, which do you do you agree with the analysis? oh, yeah. i ve been of the school president trump knows exactly what he s doing at all times. i have never bought the bumbling fool presidency. and i think the proof is sort of in what sarah was reporting. look, it s not just that he called the new york times reporter with the russian talking points, what else is he doing on that flight? he is drafting the excuse for his son about the meeting on trump tower. now i am done in believing in coincidences at this stage. there are too many things around the first july 2017 meeting between putin and trump to have any other understanding than that the cover up becomes part of the conspiracy. in other words, they discuss what to say about that trump tower meeting, and if there is anyone who would have been i mean, i guess put it this way,
trump knows everyone believes that he s a russian asset so why are you throwing away notes? why are you not bringing others in? his lack of self-preservation makes it seem that there is something much bigger than that he s just a sort of bad politician. i mean, garrett, just to be clear, right, not only does he not want anyone to know what happens in those meetings, right? he had one without any american present, putin, trump, and the interpreter. he wanted his notes even from members of his own administration. he told the new york times, he said put also told him, if we did, we wouldn t have gotten caught because we re professionals. the times write, mr. trump said, i thought that was a good point because they are some of the best in the world at hacking.
might not ask for it. he doesn t want to set a precedent, but it would be crucial, wouldn t it, for bob mueller to know what happened to the best of his knowledge, to know what the interpreter says occurred, you know, if the president is going to leave one of those meetings and call the new york times , hey, putin is telling the truth, let me tell you why? right. burr senator burr is complicated. he s really tried to keep his head down from all of the politics going on. rereally do have to commend him on this. him and senator warren have had a united front. his statement was unfortunate. it s the best take on it. taking a step back, my sense is that the senator does not want to have a crisis over what the meaning of executive privilege is. he s probably happy to have mueller do that. there s a lane for the senate which they re doing.