horrible morning of death to innocent young people. peace can never take root in an environment where violence is tolerated, funded, and even rewarded. eric: that was president trump on his meeting earlier this morning with palestinian leader abbas. that as news broke of the horrible attack in manchester that has killed so far at least 22 people and so many of them children. the president in his meeting reinforcing that middle eastern nations and the u.s. have a common objective to wipe out terrorism. he met with the leader whose very own organization is paying terrorists and their families with hundreds of millions of dollars for those acts. john bolton joins us, former u.s. ambassador to the united states nations and chairman of the gate stone institute in new york. how can terrorism end when the palestinian authority shells
the bureau. eric: john brennan threading the needle carefully there. he said russia was aggressive in the election interference but when it comes to the potential gaition of collusion with the trump campaign and the russians he wasn t able to pin it down. indicating that the russians tried to reach out. perhaps tried to influence u.s. persons, as he said the allegation one of those u.s. persons was former general mike flynn. he denied any wrongdoing. but there is adam schiff. let s listen to what he has to say. are you aware of any efforts the president has made to enlist the support of intelligence community personnel to push back on a narrative involving the collusion issue that mr. rooney was asking about? i am unaware of it. i want to ask you about the allegations concerning the president s meetings in the white house in the oval office .
do you believe that one of the things you talked about was exploit. you said that even though the election is over, putin and russians are still exploiting us. what did you mean by that? i mean that again this has been a pattern of russian intelligence services to try to take advantage of the openness of western societies, free press and other things, and political parties and systems to find opportunities and vulnerabilities that they can use to advance their interest. they ll continue to do this. i think they re probably taking some lessons from this past experience. i don t believe that this is goind not engage in these types of things in the past. i think what they will do is to further refine their tactics so that they can be as successful as poibfutu eric: the key point of that is mr. brennan not able to confirm there was collusion between donald trump himself and the trump campaign with the russians saying that he did see
reaching out to the muslim community. at the end of the day, the solution lies with them. they have to step up to the plate and clean up their own religion, which has been perverted by this radical islamist terror. so i think it was a profound meeting the president had with the saudis. then to go to israel and then to the vatican really looking at the three major faiths in the world stemming from abraham trying to reconcile the three religions so we don t have this terror. unfortunately, eric, in our lifetime it won t end. this ideology is way too strong and we ll see more attacks in the future. we had the minnesota stabbing attack just last year. quickly we re running out of time. what do we do? i think we make sure that these as we squeeze the caliphate and foreign fighters come out of the region, we ensure they don t get into the
intelligence and law enforcement communities. eric: former c.i.a. director john brennan testifying saying, for example, that potentially the president could have violated some intel rules if the press reports are correct about his meeting with the russians, also talking about the russian interference in the presidential election. he also offered words of reassurance to our country in the wake of the attack in manchester, joined now by texas congressman michael mccaul chairman of the homeland security committee and foreign affairs committee. thank you for joining us. after the horrible events. i mean, it can happen here. go to the airport, you stand on the sidewalk before you get to the security. look both ways and wonder. you go to the mall. you stand in line for a show. that s the soft area target where this apparently happened. can we better protect ourselves from an occurrence of this here in our country? we are, eric, we can t stop