sought to determine whether or not he was knowingly working for russia. an inquiry that according to the times was handed to rothenberg mueller upon his appointment of special council back in may of 2017. where mueller took that inquiry is of course the million dollar question. but given the president s well documented putin apologizing f.b.i. bashing, nato attacking, and mueller under mimining behavior, i don t know what is more disturbing, if he is an agent or if he isn t. we were going to try to boric a former cia chief and former defense secretary and a former white house chief of staff, luckily we got all in one. joining me is leon pinetta. he also served as white house chief of staff to bill clinton among other positions. also with us is evelyn farcus,
investigation. also that story that he leaked into new context. there was a lot of serious allegations. there is no good explanation. the horrifying explanation is that the president is an agent of russia. it is a term that has been used by trade and crafts. i think the troouth is probablyn between. you always get a sense that there is a kind of intimation of fear. that someone has something on him and she not sure how we should behalf at any given
nick, and, also an msnbc contributor. all right, is there is there, should we give the president the benefit of the doubt, is that just the way he speaks? i think this is a man who has not shown much conviction about lying or making things up. i can t believe on this important question it s the one thing he wanted top dodge on if is strange that he answered a question that wasn t asked. i will say i m glad that he did read the article. this questions that been dominating this presidency since basically day one. is he a russian agent? what is going on with russia? we re 270 something days in and we have not answered it. i think it is tap danced around when there are questions
let s say you re israel, our secretary of state doesn t know but the israelis can do it to brock mail president trump through say jared kushner. and just to go back to the campaign, part of what piqued their interest, he called on russia to find hillary clinton s e-mails, and he denied he was joking, and he had a campaign manager who had very deep ties to a politician in ukraine with very deep ties to the russians, to the kremlin, so all of these questions surfaced but we rr not getting any real answers about an investigation or how serious the committee was taking this until after the election. and it seems that we re getting more and more information as the administration goes on. if the president was being
my name is mike, i m in product development at comcast. we re working to make things simple, easy and awesome. have you now or ever worked for russia? i think that is the most insulting question i have been asked and the most insulting article written. some white house aids expressed regret about the president s perform. specifically that he didn t outright deny it. joining me is brett stevens. we have a former contributor to hillary clinton, and a new york times political reporter,