putin on. the posture you could say is further than that. just last week, for example, you had the secretary of defense ratifying a new deal with ukrainians to give 9 military support. the army and the navy will increase ukraine s navy to feel the pressure. these things are connected. yes, there s an agreed response verbally that russia should be deterred, but i think what nato is speaking about now is, okay, we re going to need to actually have, you know, join this up together militarily, have obviously, you know, nato postured and ukraine and baltic states. that s more of a russian incursion into nato territory. this will be different. it s not clear what that is and it s not clear how much it s been prepared for. we know the way militaries work.
american president who would stand next to him in reykjavík and say, i trust this guy more than i trust my own intelligence community. i don t think he imagined he would have a u.s. president that would be quite the agent of chaos and remember, that s what putin wants. he s not marching troops into times square. what he wants is chaos in this country. he wants anger. he wants to be able to point to us and say, look, these guys who hold themselves up as is the sort of salvation of the world politically and economically can t do anything. it s chaotic. and donald trump delivered that. i remember that helsinki press conference, it was absolutely stunning, frankly. but let me ask you about the most critical issues that you believe need to be addressed, and do you expect the president to confront putin on, let s say, the russian involvement in recent cyberattacks? yeah. yeah, i mean, there s obviously a lot, right? i mean, it s real hard to pick one issue. but you know, sitting as i do
the russians hacked the u.s. they, quote, would have gotten caught because they say they re professionals. trump arguing that was a good point and the account may matter to mueller because it offers clues to trump s state of mind at the very time he took another action to the probe dictating his son s misleading statement about the trump tower meeting. take this all together and let s take a breath when we do it. you don t have to be a professional investigator to see the linkages here. this new report tonight is that trump was coordinating with putin on putin s defense of election hacking which helped trump and mueller s probing that. and on the same flight trump was feeding false statements to defend a trump tower meeting with a putin lawyer offering election material that would help trump, which mueller s also probing. and since then the feds have indicted people on both sides of that trump tower meeting, the
campaign. so it s a very sinister web that mueller is focused like a laser on. look, i mean, whether it is changing the campaign platform, whether it is destabilizing nato, whether it is lifting sanctions, whether it is pulling out of syria, trump at every turn looks like he is becoming putin s errand boy to destabilize the west. when you re starting to get into we may not have proven conspiracy on a legal sense, but when you re getting into dangerous territory impeachment and indictments legally, you want to change the pieces of the puzzle, change the narrative. what trump does is keeps adding pieces in an incriminating way. you can t help thinking as you re watching this that you re watching something out of america s dumbest criminals. you would think he does the opposite but he keeps feeding
been trying to ease pressure on him from those sanctions congress overwhelmingly passed. when congress originally overruled trump on all of that it was seen as, one, a line where even normally normal republicans would confront him and, two, and this is important tonight, it was a concrete action showing vladimir putin no matter what cooperation he may get from trump other parts of the american government would stand up to him. tonight s filibuster is ringing alarm bells all through the national security community, and it comes at the very time trump s other putin interactions are raising suspicions from raising notes of their meeting to cultivating each other at world summits like appearing to give putin a fist pump at this dinner, a time when they held a side discussion without any u.s. staff. and then on trump s flight home he called a new york times reporter and said he wanted to assert off the record that putin was falsely accused of those election meddling acts in 2016 and relay