yet, trump pulled us out of the nuclear deal. forget jason born. forget the spy movies you ve seen. steve here can tell us the main job these intelligence agencies is to find out what is going on in the world and tell policy makers so they can make decisions and give them the information they need. so the president and his policymakers aren t listening to information, what information are they listening to? is there any information they are believ believes? what kind of message is a disconnect between the president and intelligence committee send to adversaries like put snn. it s a really bad news message for our allies and actually, that was eluded to in the introduction to the written statements that were made by the leadership of the community. the concern that, you know, this administration s policies might be distancing ourselves or itself from our allies, which
gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands and, you know, dozens and dozens of senators saying that the president shouldn t have met with president putin. and i guess i wonder because if somehow we have become sidetracked by partisanship because in the past president obama met with putin, george bush met with putin. the question i have is if we re entering a naive time thinking unless someone is a perfect jenniferian democrat we won t meet with him. we have people saying he should have shook his fist at him and called him a murderer and a thug. do you think there s a possibility to have a relationship and still also sit down and attempt to have diplomacy and channels so we don t escalate things? do you think it was a right idea for president trump to meet with president put snn. i think you asked two questions and yes to each of them. i think we can accomplish that.
know what happened in the one on one meeting in helsinki. did the president personally debrief you on this conversation or are you 100% confident that you know everything that president trump discussed with president put snn that s an easy yes or no. yes or no? i m very confident i received a comprehensive debriefing from president trump. good. okay. now, do you know for a fact whether president trump or president putin discussed any investments in trump properties or any trump projects such as the previous attempt to build a trump real estate project in moscow? senator, again, i m going to try to stay out of the political circus. no, but were you tasked with that? you gave us a list i came here to talk about american foreign policy today. all of these business interests are intertwined, sir, with our foreign policy. yes. foreign policy that s led to a
president, particularly some rank and file members, even some in difficult re-election races like congressman kauffman of colorado and raised questions and said the president should not go through with the second summit. i think the first summit was a terrible mistake. i think the second summit would be equally bad. the fact is that the president went to europe and i think he was strong coming to talking to the allies and weak with putin. reporter: do you think he was played by put snn. absolutely. no question about it. reporter: so tomorrow, wolf, our first sense of exactly what happened behind closed doors. mike pom peo coming up to testify. we ll see if he gives any information of what happened but i can tell you talking to republicans and democrats a lot of members want the know exactly what was discussed behind closed doors, what agreements the president may have made with vladimir putin. we ll see if pompeo sheds light
and he said nice things about me. he called may genius. if he says great things about me, i ll say great things about him. do you respect put snn. i do respect him. putin s a killer? a lot of killers, got a lot of killers. you think our country is so fairness? in all defense to putin, saying he s killed people. i don t know that he has. have you been able to prove that? put season a nicer person than i am. this week the person, vladimir putin, took extraordinary steps to bar his only really truly well-known and serious opposition challenge exalexei navalni. you ve probably heard of the opposition and the consequences facing. here is rachel maddow on this in february. he s a smart, charismatic