for the fbi investigation by james comey decided that this sort of investigation was necessary must have meant there was enough evidence for them to want to go forward with it. ali, i think we should all be heartened that the counterintelligence investigation was up and running because, you know, for the last couple of years we ve seen what at least to my eyes as a career former career prosecutor to be collusion with russia in plain sight. i mean, we have a president who add best has this strange afaint for putin and for russian positions and at worst has been conspireing and doing russia s bidding all along to the detriment of america. and, you know, you had a great run-up of everything that demonstrates that. one other thing i would add, ali, when james comey and clapper and some others gave the president and his team after he had been elected the first national security briefing and told them, you know, mr. president-elect, russia hacked
we have a president who refers to judges as so-called judges. we have a president who add myers foreign dictators and say that the way that things are done in places like russia or north korea is better than the u.s. of course there are many reasons for concern. and yet has he really done anything to erode our democratic institutions? i mean, he may tack a big game, throw out a lot of threats, tweet at people these attacks, but at the end of the day he largely hasn t been able to dictate his agenda. isn t that a sign of democracy working. well, the fact that he hasn t made policy i don t find all that reassuring because what mr. trump has been able to do is change the nature of government. we no longer expect that the federal government will make policy. what we expect is aconstant treem of more or less artificial emergencies. what we spend our time doing is getting excited by this foreign mnl, this domestic crisis, this violent use of words. we re getting accustomed to a new polit