here is a defense attorney who has a constitutional responsibility and believes that every person has a right to counsel and defense, and yet she s a mother and lives in that area and is clearly struggling with the emotions and the extreme nature of this and the impact on that community. boy, she s in a very, very tough situation. i was really struck by her comments there. but the other thing i would make a point of, she said she talked about 19-year-olds without impulse control. 19-year-olds who live in their own universe, their own world. well, his world was kind of broken. he lost his father six years ago. he lost his mother in november. neighbors said they saw police over at the house routinely before his mother died because she was struggling to control him. that he was living in some other alternative universe in which he celebrated violence and was looking for some acceptance
said he had left the cia some number of years ago. it wouldn t have been difficult for jerry lee to figure this out. so why he came back here, i think, is one of the enduring questions that, at least in public, we just don t know yet. ned, we talk so much about spying these days and count counter spying. how does china lure someone like this? for those who are covert oper e operators and analysts, i m sure the cia works to make suregoingd in by other government. the chinese are one of the most aggressive services out there when it comes to its attempts to penetrate the cia and fbi and other parts of our national security. they ve made a point of, for example, seeding in candidates into the cia application process. there s been press reporting of candidates who were caught, directed by the chinese government to apply for
that elaine suggested because some college republicans have some unlovely tendency to equate provocation and adopt people who doesn t have anything interesting to say but provokes a reaction in their opponents, which is satisfying. and he s a lightning rod who has more enthusiasm and that s a youthful tendency than the sloughing off. and college is traditionally a time to get to a shelf life into your 20s but there is a sense among the political strategists around trump to his point of, we re not going back
the union. it s a fire point, but military judges aren t necessarily independent. part of the chain of command. for the commander in chief. that s the only thing point i ve heard john kirby and others make. your take? yeah, to me it seems inappropriate. i mean, i don t really know i don t really see the argument for him getting involved in these things, and i think the point of, you know, him talking about with the justice department stuff, the most important thing is even if he wasn t actually going over the line, which i think you chronicled pretty well that he does step over the line pretty frequently. just by saying these things, he s telling them what he wants them to do. if you re really staying out of something and letting an investigation go forward without interfering then you don t speak publicly or telegraph in any way what you want and you don t put pressure on people to do the things the way you want them done. here is a tweet from a former obama white house
investigations. you generally start with the lowest-hanging fruit. but this has been a congressional committees investigating. it will mueller investigation underway for six months. everybody with giant question marks. now at least we get the first building block of what has he been doing for six months. to point of, should you shut this down or fire him? is it money well spent. mueller actually has been quite tight lipped about what s going on. there are very few leaks from the mueller camp, which is it s actual action from the mueller campaign. i ve said all along, this investigation is going to hang over the trump white house for months or potentially years. this is not something l you lived through a couple of these before. this is not something that gets wrapped up quickly. no matter what the white house or republicans want. and you think the white house would be better served on trying to refocus on other agenda items, try to pull attention in a different direction and let t