white house better prepared? that s a great question. i think that they didn t know. i think we had the problem going back to the campaign of a president who doesn t want to attend intelligence briefings. the intelligence community knows this was going on. they re listening in on every single conversation involved with known or suspected spies in the first place. and here we had the now attorney general meeting, again, with what they call the top spy in the united states. they should have known. they should have been better prepared, and i would say this is the issue of not listening to the intelligence community. we ve seen previous administrations having this problem. this administration is having that problem as well. shaun, there are 27 members on the armed services committee of which jeff sessions was a member as the senator. he was the only one to meet with the russian ambassador last year. why? you know what? i haven t checked their schedules does it look odd? no, ac
he s promised american ships sailing the seas, american workers building the fleets. i am calling for one of the largest defense spending increases in history. and by eliminating the sequester and the uncertainly it creates, we will make it easier for the navy to plan for the future, and thus, to control costs and get the best deals for the taxpayer which, of course, is very important. right? got to get a goo deal. well, joining us here now, retired major general mark mcconnell. thank you for coming in. he likes to talk a lot of things up. some people may accuse him of exaggerating. the increase for the military in reality, i think it s 3% more than what president obama requested for this year. many people are not happy about that, particularly the
statement that the russians had nothing to do with the general election getting hillary or hurting hillary or helping trump. he did this with a vast array of all the intelligence agencies he s put his people in for the last eight years. he made a the democrats have forgotten that. if anybody had the intelligence or had the knowledge that there was a connection between the russians and the trump campaign, it would have been obama. now we see leaks from many of obama s people. that s suspicious. i think the statement was a direct impact on the mechanism of voting. time for a break. thank you so much. thank you for being with us. next, the russian unvoi to spoke to jeff sessions is said to be a top kremlin spy. how moscow is reacting to the allegations just ahead.
diplomat in the united states. here s more on his background and the controversy swirling around him. reporter: sergey kislyak is the russian ambassador again at the is that right of damaging allegations about trump administration contacts with moscow. he s been russian s man in washington since 2008. before which he held a series of key diplomatic posts including ambassador to nato and the russian deputy foreign ministers, he was also instrumental in working out a complex arms reduction treaty between russia and the united states agreed during the obama presidency. more recently ambassador kislyak has been actively engaging the trump team. remember, it was conversations between the ambassador and michael flynn, the former national security advisor that led to general flynn s resignation after just 24 days in the post after it emerged
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